Alistair Gentry

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Tag Archives: artist livelihoods

When you’re an artist, every night is drag night

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My article in the spring/summer 2019 edition of Sluice magazine.

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Art, Myself, Writing

YOU WERE ONLY SUPPOSED TO BLOW THE BLOODY DOORS OFF

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The Bank Job, London.

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Art, Myself, Writing

Artists are human too: the realist residency

November 28, 2017by Alistair

Towards a fair artist residency.

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Art, Writing

AWARD YOURSELF

April 18, 2016by Alistair

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…

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Career Suicide

HAPPENING EVERYWHERE

February 1, 2016by Alistair

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…

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Career Suicide

NOBLESSE OBLIGE

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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…

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Career Suicide

NEO-THOREAU

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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…

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Career Suicide

DEGENERATION AREA

August 6, 2015by Alistair

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…

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Career Suicide

ARE YOU VALID?

July 27, 2015by Alistair

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…

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Career Suicide

SAINTS AND MARTYRS

December 27, 2014by Alistair

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…

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Career Suicide

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Career Suicide: Ten Years as a Free Range Artist

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Uncanny Valley: Collected Short Stories

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