30works30days

30works30days is a month-long project for makers, where participants are required to submit a new piece of work every day for the month of April. If they fail to submit something one day, they are out of the project.

​The project is open to everyone and any medium is encouraged. 12ø began 30/30 in 2015 to encourage making and experimentation. With the time restriction of one day you may find that the choices you make, the corners you cut, and those ideas that you couldn’t quite realise, are just as telling as the work that you produce.

The project began in 2015 with about 100 artists participating by emailing in their submissions each day. Over the years the project has grown and developed now running on a purpose built website where participants are able to submit works and see each others creations in the live feed. People have participated from 40 countries, sometimes with more than 1000 people taking part at once!

Over the years we have experimented with ways to curate submissions; in the early years people who finished all 30 days were included in a publication (2015) then an exhibition (2016) and then an award ceremony (2017). At one point we were coding a new curated selection of submissions into a digital exhibition every night of April. With different levels of funding from grants and registration fees each year we have sometimes been able to budget additional elements of the project, such as weekly artist led zoom workshops during COVID lockdowns, allowing participants to meet each other and experiments with different ways of making. Since 2020 we’ve developed a daily curatorial role, where we pay a different creative practitioner each day to select a few works from the daily feed to be shared on our Instagram feed.

Beginning in 2023, 30/30 will be hosted and facilitated by Artquest, participation will be free, and participants will also be able to access peer mentoring and network support. To find out when registration for 30works30days opens, subscribe to the Artquest email newsletter or follow on Twitter.

A photograph of two slices of toast on a white plate with a silver knife. The number 30 is scorched onto each piece of toast, like Jesus.

2022

A digitally rendered image of a translucent green plastic airfix kit of the 30/30 logo unassembled on a tiled floor.

2020

Yellow 30/30 logo outline rendered with 3D depth so it looks like the logo is made out of tortellini pasta. The logo is hovering above a distorted desaturated image of a agricultural muddy field.

2018

30/30 logo drawn in thick black markers across a lilac textured square on a white background.

2016

Digitally rendered image of a large silver stopwatch sinking to the bottom of a tiled swimming pool. Bubbles rising from just above it. The face of the stopwatch features the 30 30 logo divided by the hands of the watch which form a slash.

2021

A digitally rendered image of a lilac plastic airfix kit of the 30/30 logo disassembled and strewn across a cream carpet.

2019

30/30 logo in white as if cut out from the image beneath which is on a white background. The image is an office photocopier with a translucent orange shape like a distorted square overlapping it.

2017