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Good practice
for Organisers & employers
Whether you’re working with artists regularly or occasionally, you’ll find our good practice guides essential reading. Included are insights into what goes into a job description, how to negotiate an exhibition agreement and the fee range you should expect to offer artists with the experience level to do your work.
Why work with artists?
Find out how working with artists can benefit you; read blogs by proactive artists and profiles of artist/organiser collaborations; investigate the changing face of visual arts work.
Art work in 2007
Text-only version of a-n Research paper: Art work in 2007 with live weblinks. Read on…
Feature (resource), Research papers March 2008
Artists & businesses
Lucy Kimbell looks at how artists and arts organisations can work with businesses and the pros and cons of such collaborations. Subscribers read on…
Tour, a-n.co.uk April 2003
Collaborative relationships
Rohini Malik Okon introduces her selection of articles for the first a-n Collections. Subscribers read on…
Publication in html, a-n Collections June 2005
Artists talking
Artists talking is a new space that foregrounds critical conversations around contemporary artists practice. Read on…
Home page story, a-n.co.uk August 2008
Employing artists
Use the Code of Practice principles to guide working relationships with artists check out the current day rates, refer to our Job description and person spec when developing a community project and our guide to getting quality on a budget.
Code of Practice - Organisations
A Code of Practice takes commonly-agreed principles of good practice and demonstrates why and how they should be applied. The Code of Practice for the Visual Arts, published by a-n The Artists Information Company, draws from the experiences of… Read on…
Code, a-n.co.uk October 2003. Updated 2006.
Sample artist's day rates »
Open …PDF download of Sample artist's day rates to guide your budgeting processes. [Size 19 kb]
a-n.co.uk Nov 2011
Good practice in paying artists
a-n’s Code of Practice for the Visual Arts encourages artists and arts organisers to “contribute confidently ” when making professional arrangements. In particular it requires recognising worth and “considering the value of all… Read on…
Guide, a-n.co.uk March 2005. Updated for 2007/08 September 2007.
Quality on a budget
In an ideal world you would only embark on projects where there is sufficient funds available. This guide by Rod McIntosh outlines an approach to finding workable compromises whilst maintaining quality for times when money is tight. Read on…
Guide, a-n.co.uk May 2005
Artists' strategies
Practice-driven activities of artists operating individually or collaboratively not only provide artists with profile and development but offer insights for art professionals into where contemporary visual arts practice is going.
Negotiating your practice »
Selected texts on the approaches and strategies some artists have taken to define the environment for their individual practices. Featuring Pope and Guthrie, David Cotterrell, Graham Fagen, Gavin Wade, John Newling, Dominic Thomas, Sarah Cole and Rod McIntosh.
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Individual text only articles can be searched for by artist or writer using the ‘quick search’ box at the top of the home page.
Good practice November 2006
Artists’ strategies
Free taster of subscriber-only material held in the Artists' strategies section. Read on…
Introduction, a-n.co.uk March 2008
Engaged practice
Free taster of subscriber-only material in the Engaged practice section. Read on…
Introduction, a-n.co.uk April 2003
Self-employment
Free taster of subscriber-only material in the Self-employment section. Read on…
Introduction, a-n.co.uk April 2003
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