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Support schemes
Artist, advisor and a-n Jobs and Opps editor Kate Brundrett draws on her knowledge of national and regional support schemes for artists. She reveals the range of business and professional development advice available. In addition, she suggests key questions and issues that an artist might consider in assessing the most relevant support at a particular point in their career.
New knowledge and skills can greatly enhance your ability to earn a living. As an artist, maker or designer, we create our own mechanisms of support as part of what we do, be it peer support through a network of artists or studio group, useful resources we have identified, databases of contacts, clients or private view addresses, and sources of inspiration and aspiration to nurture critical direction. Building on these mechanisms and finding gaps is a proactive way to forward your professional practice and increase your ability to deliver projects. Sometimes these gaps are obvious and appear naturally; otherwise a review or evaluation of practice can be useful to bring them to light. Common issues or hurdles that can hinder creative or professional development might be lack of time to focus and explore a certain aspect of work in more depth, or a gap in specific skills or knowledge on a business-related issue to take practice forward (for example finance, insurance requirements, or marketing). Finding the right support to develop your practice at different stages of your career is important – taking part in a programme that is not appropriate to the kind of development you...
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