Grounding Practice: Shared Terms with Canvas Art Law
The team behind Canvas Art Law hosts Shared Terms, a Grounding Practice salon exploring the legal know-how and practical strategies artists need to navigate collaboration and respond to censorship.
| Dates | Wed 2 Dec 2026 |
| Times | 6–7.30 pm |
| Space | Snooker Rooms, New Wing |
| Price | £5 |
Part of
This event is part of Grounding Practice
Drawing on real scenarios, Canvas Art Law explore two key challenges that can arise throughout an artist’s career: working collaboratively and navigating censorship. Through an interactive format and group discussions, participants will consider questions of ownership, decision-making, and artistic rights, alongside situations in which a commissioner or institution seeks to change, restrict, or remove political, social, or personal elements of an artist’s work.
Together, we’ll work through the legal and practical considerations raised by these situations, and how communication, expectations, understanding and negotiating contractual terms, and knowing when and how to assert your rights can help artists anticipate problems, protect their interests, and navigate challenging professional relationships.
Canvas Art Law team
Fionnuala Rogers is an international art and cultural property lawyer and founder and director of Canvas Art Law. With more than 16 years’ experience, she advises a diverse range of clients including established and emerging artists, galleries and dealers, start-up art businesses and service providers, collectors, as well as museums and foundations. Her expertise includes advising on censorship and artistic freedom, particularly where institutions, commissioners or other stakeholders seek to alter, restrict or remove aspects of an artist’s work, and on navigating the legal, contractual and practical considerations that arise in these situations.
Alexia Ogden joined Canvas in 2018 as its first team member and works across all areas of the firm’s practice. She works closely with artists at all stages of their careers, advising on everything from gallery representation, commissions, and artist collaborations to exhibitions, sales and intellectual property. Alongside her work with artists, Alexia advises collectors, galleries, dealers, art advisers, auction houses and museums, giving her a broad understanding of the different relationships and issues that arise across the art world.
Ellie Fayle specialises in resolving disputes for artists, including dealing with intellectual property infringement (for instance, negotiating compensation for unauthorised use of artworks by brands or in the media) and navigating contract disputes with galleries and between collaborators. Ellie brings a unique perspective from her background in advising on privacy, reputation and data protection matters, helping individuals to assert their rights when creative and professional relationships become difficult or when control over their work is challenged.
Playwright, painter and lawyer, Suley Wellings-Longmore brings his creative and legal practices together through a shared interest in protecting creative expression and giving voice to perspectives that may otherwise go unheard. A graduate of Harvard Law School and the Royal College of Art, at Canvas Art Law he advises emerging and established artists, galleries and cultural institutions on a range of legal issues. His own creative practice informs his understanding of the practical challenges artists face when navigating collaboration, creative control and the relationship between artistic expression and the institutions around them.
With thanks to the Garfield Weston Foundation and Paul Hamlyn Foundation
