When you’re an artist, every night is drag night
My article in the spring/summer 2019 edition of Sluice magazine.
Tag Archives: artist careers
Look clean, so you can be really filthy
My column in the spring 2019 issue of Sluice magazine.
YOU WERE ONLY SUPPOSED TO BLOW THE BLOODY DOORS OFF
The Bank Job, London.
Artists and Mental Health
Summary of my research on the mental health of artists for a-n: the artists information company.
Artists and mental health
New article for a-n News.
Artists are human too: the realist residency
Towards a fair artist residency.
Venice Agendas at Folkestone Triennial: Opportunity, Unfortunately
Folkestone, Saturday 23rd September 2017.
What They Didn’t Teach You in Art School
I contributed my wisdom (?) to this book by Rosalind Davis and Annabel Tilley. As a famous idiot once said (and as referred to on page 9 of the book […]
What is Art? A User’s Guide
Southampton City Art Gallery, Thursday December 1 2016.
SAVE £40 ON FRIEZE TICKETS
Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
… every single year, guaranteed… BY NOT GOING. I’m severely late on this one, because Frieze Art Fair [sic] was last October and at the…
“ARTIFICIAL, ESPERANTO ART” AND ITS DISCONTENTS
Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
Costumes by Vahad Poladian. Photo by Hiroko Masuike, The New York Times Some gems from Raw Creation: Outsider Art and Beyond by John Maizels. Regular…
ZOMBIE PROFESSIONALISM
Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
An interesting article by Daniel S. Palmer about what ArtNews calls the “hyper-professionalization” of some artists. I’d go further and call it something like “jobification”;…
ABSTRACT PROPAGANDA
Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
I was recently reminded by this post at Open Culture that Abstract Expressionist painting and exponents of it such as Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock…
HAPPENING EVERYWHERE
Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
About five years ago when I and a few colleagues started talking about the (mostly really shitty) economics and realpolitik of being an artist who…
NOBLESSE OBLIGE
Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
? “Unfortunately we have no budget to pay fees or expenses.” a-n the artists information company have just published their draft recommendations and guidance on…
A MESSAGE TO ARTISTS IN 2016
Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
By Martin J. Walker, 1968. Just like half the salaried people who work in arts organisations, Career Suicide has been on leave since the start…
Write about your own art
Writing workshops for artists based in Northumberland and the Borders.
DEPRESSING BUT PREDICTABLE SURVEY OF THE WEEK
Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
(Image via the sadly long-defunct http://lookatmyfuckingredtrousers.blogspot.co.uk ) Findings have just been published from a national survey about the working lives of cultural and creative workers…
DEGENERATION AREA
Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
Via artist Mimei Thompson on the F***book, news of a property developer soon to be bulldozing over a hundred artist studios near Hackney Road in…
ARE YOU VALID?
Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
Some new research on artists working outside the gallery system has just been published by Axis [1]: Validation Beyond the Gallery. As an artist who…
