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Structurally F–cked

An inquiry into artists’ pay and conditions in the public sector in response to the Artist Leaks data.

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10 years of Artist Support at SPACE

10 years of Artist Support at SPACE summarises how SPACE, London, has supported artists through its tailored professional development programmes.

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International Connections

A report highlighting the impact and challenges for the visual arts sector in the first year of operations following the UK’s departure from the EU.

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The chance to dream: why fund individual artists?

Susan Jones explores the contribution Arts Council England’s Grants for the Arts programme has made in sustaining artists’ individual practices, and argues for a new, more nuanced and localised approach to direct funding in the future.

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The Market for Craft

Craft Council’s third historical analyses of the market for craft, commissioned in response to increasing intelligence that the market was expanding and diversifying.

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The Wide Revolution: reflections on the history of political art

Dave Beech explores how art, artists and arts practice participate in a wider revolution, and the inter-relationships between art’s political, activist and socially engaged practices and the institutional and infrastructural politics of art itself. Commissioned by a-n Artists Council as part of its one-year research project Artists Make Change.

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Artist as Active Citizen

Ellie Harrison discusses how arts skills and strategies, built over the course of a career, can be applied to ways of making change. Commissioned by a-n Artists Council as part of its one-year research project Artists Make Change.

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Covid-19 impact survey

Drawing on the findings of a-n’s survey and reflecting the views of over 4,000 members, the Covid-19 impact survey report provides robust insights into the emerging impacts of the public health crisis with 93% of respondents reporting that their practice or career has been affected by the outbreak.

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Pivotal moments in artistic practice

Sonya Dyer considers the key challenges facing mid-career artists and makers in this essay written in response to Pivotal Moments, the conference she organised in September 2018 in collaboration with the SPACE-led professional development programme London Creative Network.

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Artists practising well

Nicola Naismith’s report, undertaken as part of her AHRC funded research supported by Gray’s School of Art, Robert Gordon University, is concerned with the issue of affective support that artists working in health care settings are currently able to access.

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Possible Utopias. Totally, sometimes.

Steve Dutton discusses the outcomes of a-n’s Artist-led Bursaries, awarded to six artist-led groups in 2017 to explore how artists and artists’ groups adapt to navigate turbulent cultural and political landscapes.

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Research Education

Primary Colours

Report on the decline of art education in primary schools in England with recommendations for action.

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Livelihoods of Visual Artists: Literature and Data Review

As part of a large-scale national study of the livelihoods, careers and needs of visual artists in England conducted in 2016 by TBR and funded by Arts Council England, this report provides a summary of the first stage of the research, a review of existing literature and data to inform the study and subsequent primary research.

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