7 Steps to Business Start-up
This guide discusses the main points you should consider in the early stages of starting out as a self-employed art practitioner, designer or creative business. This is an original work devised by Ali… Continue Reading 7 Steps to Business Start-up
VAT
VAT is charged when a VAT-registered business sells to either another business or to a non-business customer; when VAT-registered businesses or self employed individuals buy goods or services they can… Continue Reading VAT
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… Continue Reading Mark Gubb and Angela Kennedy: the money problem, or, how artists could be paid more than £10,000 a year
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… Continue Reading Hunt & Darton: on earning a living
How to negotiate
Everything is negotiable they say, and they’re mostly right. Learn the best way to negotiate in any circumstances and create good working relationships. Artists can often fall into the gratitude trap… Continue Reading How to negotiate
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… Continue Reading Anonymous: Pay them the money
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… Continue Reading Anonymous: Ignore this at your peril
Anonymous: A chasm of carelessness
As Claes Oldenburg once wrote, “I am for the art of conversation between the sidewalk and a blind-man’s metal stick”. The practice of constructing dialogues around the everyday, with a wide variety of… Continue Reading Anonymous: A chasm of carelessness
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?… Continue Reading Anonymous: Shut up and sell out
Pensions for self-employed people
Kay Linnell and Nick Wilson of Accounts Action Ltd shed some light on the different pension options available. There are many different pension scheme variants, but they fall into two main categories… Continue Reading Pensions for self-employed people