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for Students
How do you get started in the visual arts? Read our Signpost career profiles of fine and applied artists, advice from artists and advisers on making funding applications, marketing, and becoming self-employed and use our toolkits to set out some development goals and price your services.
Being an artist
Making the transition from student to professional artist can be tricky so use our guides to raising your profile and gaining professional development and to see how other artists have navigated the terrain and how can AIR help.
Good practice for new artists »
Open pdf file …An introduction to the wide range of practical and insightful material available to new artists on www.a-n.co.uk Includes Artists’ profiles that illustrate how artists from a range of practices and disciplines have negotiated their own paths through the art world. Read the full profiles in Artists’ profiles index where you will find over 250 artists’ profiles. See Practical guides, written by artists, curators and experts, and interactive Toolkits, to evaluate and develop your practice. Download pdf [ Size 500kb].
Good practice June 2007
Artists’ strategies
Free taster of subscriber-only material held in the Artists' strategies section. Read on…
Introduction, a-n.co.uk March 2008
The artist's development toolkit
This toolkit enables artists and students to develop themselves and their practice. It provides self-reflective material suitable for any career stage and allows artists to review their position and explore ways of developing. Researched and… Read on…
Artist's toolkit, a-n.co.uk July 2004
Setting up an artist-led space
Russell Martin's guide to running your own gallery demystifies the process of setting up an artist-led space and highlights the issues to consider before taking such a step. Subscribers read on…
Guide, a-n.co.uk June 2007
Introduction to AIR Public and products insurance (PPL) to 31 Oct 2010
Outlining the free £5m AIR Public and products insurance for visual and applied artists with AIR membership 1 November 2009 - 31 October 2010. Read on…
Introduction single, a-n.co.uk October 2009
Aiming high
Which prizes and opportunities should you go for? How can you get your ideas across? What’s all this about networking?
Prizes by competition
Nina Madden gives an overview of some of the visual art prizes selected from open submission competitions. Subscribers read on…
Tour, a-n.co.uk February 2008
Assessing opportunities
A selection of artists and advisers identify the right questions to ask when sussing out the good opportunities from the mediocre and downright mendacious. Compiled by Susan Jones. Read on…
Guide, a-n.co.uk March 2007
Reflections on networking »
Subscribers open …Pdf laserprint quality version [size: 1.3MB]. Requires pdf reader.
a-n Collections March 2006
Setting up
How to set-up as a self-employed artist; calculate your individual daily rate using the artists' fees toolkit; make sure you receive payments and, when you're ready to start showing, how to set up an event or exhibition.
Self-employment
Free taster of subscriber-only material in the Self-employment section. Read on…
Introduction, a-n.co.uk April 2003
The artist's fees toolkit
This toolkit takes artists step-by-step through a process to calculate an individual daily rate and prepare quotes for freelance work. Read on…
Artist's toolkit, a-n.co.uk December 2004
Getting paid
As a professional artist you may spend a good part of your time sending out invoices, chasing payments and generally worrying about your cashflow. This guide by Alison Branagan considers different payment options and offers practical advice on managing debtors. Subscribers read on…
Guide, a-n.co.uk April 2003
Setting up an event
A guide by Paul Stone on how to successfully plan, develop, manage and promote an artist-led event. Subscribers read on…
Guide, a-n.co.uk April 2003
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