Davide Meneghello: art professional or professional artist?
Since moving to London, like many who come here to pursue their artistic ambitions, I have tried to balance my art practice and my professional working life. Looking back, I remember emailing tons of …
Mark Gubb and Angela Kennedy: the money problem, or, how artists could be paid more than £10,000 a year
Without artists, there is no art world – no Frieze or commercial galleries or arts-led regeneration. Why are we paid so badly, and what can we do about it? http://soundcloud.com/artquest/system-failur …
Georgia Gendall: what do artists do all day?
I have Weetabix every morning (although I did recently dabble in Country Crisp in an attempt to spice up my life but it didn’t spiced up my life so I swiftly returned to the trusty ‘bix). When I first …
Hunt & Darton: on earning a living
Live art duo Hunt & Darton address the question of how artists (without an easily sellable output) might earn enough to live and support their practice without spending all their time working for mone …
Sarah Roberts: on the challenges of installation art
The Albatross of the Installation Artist //Doesn’t Everyone Dream of Making Small Work?? It’s 7.30am and I’m waiting for the loading bay to open at Victoria House for the setup of Saatchi New Sensatio …
Anonymous: Pay them the money
When I first started leading a publicly funded visual arts organisation in the late nineties my priority was to do everything I could to pay artists fees for making artworks. This could be a residency …
Anonymous: Ignore this at your peril
We hold low status. Outside the institution our experience is dismissed. Inside the institution our experience is increasingly dismissed. We are artists and we work in gallery education. We work hard …
Anonymous: Shut up and sell out
Buy an artist a drink, and the chances are you’ll be rewarded for your generosity with a well-worn conversation about money. How can I sell without selling out, how can I work while still making work? …
Brixi: selling in independent shops
You might be keen to sell your work – crafts, editions or the like – via independent shops, but do you know how ‘Sale or Return’ works and how much commission is the norm? Emy Gray, the founder of Bri …
Michael McManus: private commissions
Painter Michael McManus writes about his experiences undertaking his first private commissions. Michael was awarded the LIFEBOAT residency 2012 During the course of the lifeboat residency I developed …