When you’re an artist, every night is drag night
My article in the spring/summer 2019 edition of Sluice magazine.
Tag Archives: artist livelihoods
YOU WERE ONLY SUPPOSED TO BLOW THE BLOODY DOORS OFF
The Bank Job, London.
Artists are human too: the realist residency
Towards a fair artist residency.
AWARD YOURSELF
Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
“Everyone’s a winner, baby, that’s the truth.” (Henrik Ibsen Hot Chocolate). Henrik Ibsen painted by Henrik Olrik, 1879. From the book Creators: From Chaucer and…
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…
NEO-THOREAU
Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
Discussions of economics and making a living from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden (1854): SELLING AND AVOIDING THE NECESSITY OF SELLING “Not long since, a strolling…
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…
SAINTS AND MARTYRS
Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
Two posts from other sites about audience entitlement, the apparently growing resentment towards any creative person who dares to try making a living from giving…
