Sarah Thelwall, Author at a-n The Artists Information Company

Sarah Thelwall is a strategist, consultant and researcher. Her area of expertise is the structure and development of business models in the Cultural and Creative Industries. Her work takes the shape of consultancy projects with individual organisations and companies, workshops designed to improve understanding of how the financial health of an organisation is connected to its ability to achieve its core creative ambition and research into the business models, their evolution and the impact of changes in the funding of and investment into the Cultural and Creative Industries. In 2007, she set up MyCake to provide book-keeping and benchmarking services to creative entrepreneurs and in 2010 added a second benchmarking product for non-profit arts organisations.

Resources (2)

Resource Research paper

Artists’ fees and gallery budgets: a discussion document

by Sarah Thelwall

Commissioned as part of Paying Artists research portfolio, Sarah Thelwall’s report explores how public sector galleries can think differently about budgets for artists’ fees.

Viewing Platform: a workshop for artists to map their art world.

Resource Introduction

Art markets

by Sarah Thelwall

Sarah Thelwall reveals that there is not one art market but several different ones. These markets are very different in terms of the artists, gallerists and collectors who participate and develop them. This Art market tour articulates the main markets and looks at what drives them.