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How to negotiate an exhibition
A guide for artists and arts organisers to creating a mutually-beneficial relationship.
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Jayne Knight
Jayne Knight is Arts Development Manager at Suffolk County Council. She was the driving force behind Making Art Work, an ambitious and widely regarded professional development programme for Suffolk-based artists that ran from 1999 until 2006. She talks to Jane Watt about how the scheme developed, her work in a local authority and survival tips for rural-based artists.
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Creative Connections: A guide to creative collaboration for artists working with young people
This guide takes artists through the different stages of finding and creating opportunities to work with young people in a range of settings. It asks: How are artists recruited? What is the best practice? What do young people want from such collaboration? What do artists need from teachers?
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How to improve your chances of getting work
Some tips and advice on strategies and approaches.
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Linda Ball
Linda Ball is project leader of Creative Graduates Creative Futures the largest research study to date about the career paths of art and design graduates. She talks to Jane Watt about the research, her own experience of a portfolio career and the importance of having creativity at the core of professional practice.
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Yorkshire Artspace
Mir Jansen, Programme Manager of the professional development programme at Yorkshire Artspace in Sheffield talks to Jane Watt about how the studio organisation continues to support artists, the parallels between an artists and an organisations profile development, and her top five tips on making funding applications.
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Bridging gaps
Interrogation Walsall that explores the impact that one artist can make in one place in one day is part of Longhouse’s annual programme, which provides professional development opportunities for artists working in the public realm.
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Abigail Branagan
Abigail Branagan has been advising artists and makers for over a decade. She is a freelance business advisor as well as Business Development Manager at Cockpit Arts in London. She talks to Jane Watt about what makes a good advice session and how makers are weathering the economic storm.
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Career profile: Mitra Memarzia
Mitra Memarzia is a freelance artist/educator, creative producer and associate lecturer. She graduated in 1998 from Fine Art (Combined Media & Arts) at Sheffield Hallam University, where she went on to study a combined theory and practice Mphil. Focusing on […]
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Why volunteer in the visual arts?
A guide for artists and organisers, with comments from artists and good practice checklist.
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News archive
Resale right review
In July, the UK Intellectual Property Office launched a consultation to assess the likely impact of Artist’s Resale Right and the derogation for deceased artists on the UK art market.
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Creative focus
Over seventy creative and cultural industries specialists participated in CreativeAmbition 2, the annual professional development event of the CreativePeople network.
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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.
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Establishing a studio group
This guide by Jonathan Waring covers the process of establishing a studio group: from having the initial idea, bringing together a likeminded group of artists and getting hold of a space, to running the studios effectively on a day-to-day basis.
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Code of Practice – Organisations
A Code of Practice takes commonly-agreed principles of good practice and demonstrates why and how they should be applied.
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Code of Practice – Artists
A Code of Practice takes commonly-agreed principles of good practice and demonstrates why and how they should be applied.
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Art work analysed
Artist’s jobs and opportunities 2003 – 2005
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Working practice
Art work analysed: 2003 – 2005
Accompanies the ‘Art work 1989 – 2003′ analysis of artists’ jobs and opportunities. Reviews the situation in 2005 and compares findings with those from 2003. Discusses the implications for artists in 2006 and beyond.
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Going for grants
Applying for funding? Ever wondered how the experts do it? Rosemary Shirley asked a range of experienced artists, curators and arts professionals to share their top tips for successful funding applications.
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Good exhibition practice
Encouraging a consistent attitude to quantifying the value of artists across the exhibition and gallery world.
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Future forecast: Future space
Pdf laserprint quality version of Future space publication [size: 310Kb]. Requires pdf reader.
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Future forecast: Future Space
Read the Future space interviews in full. These interviews formed the base material for the Future space publication.
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Good practice in paying artists
Aimed at public sector arts employers, commissioners, consultants and arts trainers, Good practice in paying artists addresses the context for fees and payments for artists’ residencies, workshops and community commissions.
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Artists’ rates of pay 1989-2004
Provides sample historical rates of pay for artists from a range of organisations and compares artists’ rates with those of arts managers.
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Artists’ rates of pay 1989-2004
Analysis of past and current situation for artists’ fees and payments, introducing some issues for artists, employers and policy-makers to consider in the future.