Laura Fowle: on artist opportunities
Can do / Must do : Lost in a Sea of Artist Opportunities Continuing to pursue my practice post University was a consistent challenge. I found it harder to define my work since leaving. One…
Regulating the Art Industry
Nouriel Roubini is a leading world economist, renowned for predicting the world economic downturn of 2007/8 years beforehand. At the World Economic Forum event at Davos in Switzerland in January 2015 he made a significant public…
Practice and pedagogy
How can artists earn a living? They often support their practices through some form of teaching. This could be through workshops or academic context. How can this approach to livelihood inform practice and vice versa? Members of…
Being an artist parent
What impact does being a parent have on your practice as an artist? How could the art world better accommodate those with young families? On a local, mundane level, the art world at best ignores and…
Georgia Gendall: on identity and resilience after art college
When you leave university you are left with a lack of space, a lack of tuition, a distant ache when you wake, and nowhere to go but the desk that’s next…
Sarah Roberts: on the challenges of installation art
Producing work that responds to a specific location presents particular challenges. In this article, installation artist Sarah Roberts discusses some of these. She shares her experiences after graduation on all things installation…
Alex Burgess: on managing time
I didn’t have a plan when I finished my Photography degree I took at Camberwell College of Art. And I suspect a lot of my classmates didn’t either. I did know a few things though.…
Enforcement
Henry Moore’s daughter Mary Moore together with Maggi Hambling recently attracted media attention by publicly voicing their concerns about the failure of UK based art market professionals to pay the artist’s resale right (ARR). Such non compliant dealers and…
Negotiation for artists
The value of artists labour is often unrecognised. This makes negotiation particularly important for artists. The guide below covers basics tactics of negotiation, useful in most circumstances. Artists can often fall into the gratitude trap. We are…
Small Claims
The knowledge economy is evolving into the network economy. Traditional business practices are rapidly changing accordingly. But the machinery of governments and legislatures grind at a much slower pace, often rendering business rules and regulations unfit for purpose.…
Changes to Permitted Uses
Changes to copyright law came into force in the UK on 1 June 2014, and implement policies developed by the EU aimed at facilitating use of creative works in the post digital age. UK’s Copyright, Designs…
Is it discrimination under UK law to advertise an opportunity for artists under a certain age?
An opportunity states that it is only open to artists under or over a certain age. Is this discriminatory under UK law? UK equal…
Taking Care of Business
Damien Hirst’s autobiography will be published by Viking Penguin in Autumn 2015. When recently announcing the deal, the publishers promised that Hirst will ‘lay bare the modern art world’. The book will be co written with…
The Value of Money
Artists livelihoods and value systems around money. This research from 2014 looked at how visual artists value and consider money in their practice as a measure of success. Professional visual artists operate in a complex and…
Post-Internet Art
The World Wide Web is 25 years old this year. UK computer scientist Tim Berners Lee first proposed the concept in March 1989, and by November that year he had achieved the first Internet communication between a Hypertext…
My gallery had agreed to return my work months ago but now they seem to have lost it.
Where a gallery holds works that are owned by the artist, the gallery holds them as a “bailee” under what is known…
Suing Art Experts
Last month’s consideration of art after death suggested that artists might adopt straightforward and sensible practices to authenticate and inventorise their works, to avoid difficulty and complication after death as well as during their lifetimes. This month…
Selling work 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? These…