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Restore the Arts: impact, precarity, and action, in National Portfolio Organisations 2023-2028
15 years of austerity era standstill funding for NPOs is hobbling public programmes, thwarting ambition, holding back sector development and business model investment, while negatively impacting working conditions…
Artists Business Models
Helping artists, policymakers and employers understand how artists work, career development opportunities, and building equitable processes Artists and how they work are widely misunderstood inside and outside of the art world. Even artists themselves have difficulty in describing how the peculiar mix of non arts employment, artistic practice, freelance activity and funding combine to make an […]
Writing to you from burnout, about my desire and inability to stop working
I was verging on unsurprised when I read, through Industria, that the average hourly rate paid to artists is £2.60. Out of a desire not to bum…
The Gig Economy: Making It Work
This article is written following the analysis of four semi structured interviews with gig economy workers in the creative industries. Below is a word cloud of the most frequently used nouns from the interview…
Art? Pension? Trust?
Summer time is the silly season when most journalists and politicians take long vacations and news media are filled with stories that are trivial or nonsensical. During the past few months an art news story has emerged…
Faisal Abdu’allah: on money
Artist and barber Faisal Abdu’allah shares a highly personal account of his relationship with money. ‘…..For the love of money People will steal from their mother For the love of money People will rob their own…
Gift Aid: an Arts Boon?
October 1 1990 saw the start of the scheme known as Gift Aid which was announced by the Chancellor the previous March. The simplicity of the scheme and its benefits have yet to be taken…
Art and Money
Warhol's US dollar bills were sold for more than their denominational value; and Duchamp paid his dentist's bill by drawing a 400F note which was accepted in payment. What do you think of the new £5 note?…
Commercial Dimensions
The UK's creative industries currently earn £112b a year according to statistics from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, representing a growth rate of 9% annually between 1997 and 2000 (compared to an average of 2.8% for…
Fundamental Enquiries
A fundamental problem artists continually bring to Artlaw is the need for basic information and advice on how to set up and maintain a ‘business’ as an artist; it’s a question of survival. It has been the aim…
Management Of Creativity 30 Years On
In October 1976 the first issue of Art Monthly carried the first Artlaw column. Have things improved, worsened, or stayed pretty much the same over the last 30 years? From Jennie Lee’s appointment as…
Money
Income Tax and the achievement and maintenance of self employment or ‘freelance’ status is a recurring theme of these pieces; as is the link between freelance working and claiming welfare benefits (although the names of those benefits have changed…
The Tax Man Cometh
Reading last month’s Page Two (Art Monthly No.74) contribution by Jennifer Oille, reporting the apparently unfair and inequitable treatment of artists under Canadian tax laws, stimulated some comparison with our own regime; sharing these thoughts might…
Riding the D-Train (part 1)
Because of the unique nature of every practitioner’s financial circumstances, it has seemed impossible over the past nine years to address, in a meaningful way in this column, one vital issue. My failure to do…
A Tax on Art Schools
Art education has undergone radical changes in recent years not just in the content of courses but also in the funding and administration of the colleges themselves. In fact, few art schools exist as such,…
Oh! My Precious
One fine day composer John Casken arose to discover that he had won the first Britten Award for composition worth £10,000. He won the money for Golem, a work for eight singers accompanied by 11 instrumentalists and…
Taxation of Prizes and Grants
Booker, Whitbread, Turner, John Moores – are the winners of those prizes liable to pay income tax? What about other minor awards and prizes given by public and private donors? What about competitions,’buying time’ awards,…
Supplementary Benefit
Supplementary benefit is for those whose resources are insufficient to meet their requirements. Last month we looked at artists’ entitlement to unemployment benefit and their duty to make National Insurance contributions; now we must consider artists’ rights to…