Below are lised all the undergraduate art schools in France. You can contact them individually about specific opportunities for visiting lecturers or artists, or ask to be informed when positions become available.

Many artists earn only a small proportion of their income directly from their art practice: but there are many different ways to finance your career.

The three main ways to generate an income are: Ask – apply for funding, ask for sponsorship or support in-kind Earn – sell work or skills, or find a job Borrow – ask for money and pay it back over time.

A perennial problem has arisen, partly because inspectors generally regard part-time teaching as a contract of service, taxable under Schedule E.

Many people and arts organisations recommend that artists assign themselves an hourly wage and then consider the total time it took to make the work to reach an artists fee; the idea being that if you add your cumulative hourly wage to the material costs you will find a price.

As well as earning a living from a job, there are lots of different ways for an artist to make a crust.

Research thoroughly how you might become more economically successful. It is beneficial to develop a commercial mindset, even if you are a fine art graduate and produce ephemeral work.