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studio space in Swansea needed
Hello, Does anyone know of any studio spaces available to rent in Swansea or surrounding area please? Thank you
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Pricing art classes and workshops – advice needed
I am self employed as an artist and art tutor. I have been teaching for quite a while but in the last three years have been doing this by myself after the local college cut all their adult education courses. […]
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Group Exhibitions
I facilitate a weekly life drawing session, in an event space in a pub and the group were considering having an exhibition. Each artist will be responible for hanging their work, looking after it and taking payment if anyone wishes […]
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Gallery in Belgium ignoring requests to return work
I am looking for legal advice on where I stand with a gallery in Belgium that is ignoring my requests for the return of work. I was represented by the gallery for 5 years and we parted company 4 years […]
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Newbie
Evening folks. I’m new here – it’s all a bit different to the old Artist’s Newsletter I used to get at Smiths.
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Self Assement Tax Returns – The black shadow by my side.
Hello A.N Community. I have been looking around the internet for some help with self-assessments and tax returns for creatives. In this day and age, I find myself transitioning from creating work to sell, working on commissions, running workshops, […]
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Day rates if you are not a graduate
Hi all, The suggested day rates are an excellent resource – very useful for funding proposals etc. However, they are based on time since graduation which is an issue for self-taught artists. I go from ‘when I decided I was […]
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New Older Artists
I am interested in hearing from artists who started or restarted their practice in later life. It is a reasonable implication that ‘new’ older artists have often had to negotiate some complex situations as they piece together their efforts to […]
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Survey
I’d like to ask for your help on a project that I am working on. I am developing some work from the piece above. It’s called Plutchik’s Dice – about the categorisation of emotions. Plutchik was a psychologist who […]
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Does my insurance cover weddings?
Hi all, I am a freelance illustrator, and have been booked to do portraits for a wedding. Does my a-n insurance cover this? Thanks
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Album Artwork Commission
Hi, I am reaching out because I have been approached to make an artwork to use on an album cover. I have never worked to comision before but my work sells for anything from a few hundred pounds to several […]
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Query re damaged art
I recently had an exhibition at an arts centre which went well. However upon taking down the work i noticed one of my paintings had red paint splatted across it and the wall below. The venue were very apologetic and […]
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Finding gallery space for hire in London
I am looking for good places to research gallery spaces for hire in London. I have just joined a new studio and we want to put together a group show. If anyone could recommend either – a likely venue – […]
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looking for venue for show during Women’s History Month 2020
Hello, I am looking for a space to hold an exhibition of my new paintings and drawings in March 2020. Ideally during weekend 6-8th March in East London. Happy to be part of group show with other ladies taking part […]
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Insurance details
Hi As a member of AN I have air insurance. At least I think that I do. I don’t remember updating it in 2019 and don’t know how to find out if it is active. The inquiry is prompted by […]
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Who holds the Copyright!
As a photographer I’ve been commissioned to take an image of an artists original artwork. Under normal circumstances the artist holds the copyright in the original artwork and I, as the photographer, hold the copyright in my image. However, the […]
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I can’t find Professional liability Insurance
Where on the a-n website do I find the downloadable professional liability insurance document? I’m running a stall in a fair this Saturday and I need proof I have it. I’ve looked everywhere on the a-n website. I can log […]
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Ageism: can we just stop it please?
Looking around a.n, I found this rather fine post from about 5 years ago about ageism. I was surprised at how little it was commented on, and how little seems to have changed. Any thoughts on this? Has it got […]
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Open submission shows
There is a plethora of Open Submission shows these days and I’d be glad to hear of other people’s experiences, both positive and negative. There’s a certain amount of posts on various sites complaining that they are exploitative and expensive….the […]
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Pop up Art Gallery
Please can you help ….this is reasonably urgent . I am about to join seven other artists in a pop up gallery from October to December. The gallery building , I think is ensured by the owner but can you […]
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Please help
Please can someone help me? Have just enrolled fo a-n insurance and need a copy of my insurance schedule to take with me to shows to prove I am insured. Can anyone tell me where I ought to be looking? […]
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Pricing artworks and getting what you want
Have any other artists had this experience? I am a member of Women’s Art Association, Wales. We regularly exhibit in a Local Authority owned Gallery.Our Terms & Conditions for exhibiting artist, re pricing of work, is: your price eg: £300 […]
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The Scream – Performance Video
I am looking for a venue to present my video performance work, The Scream. It has been nine months in the making an planning. The work is a widescreen single channel projection combined with a twin channel live stream performance. […]
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Chasing for a feature in a magazine
I’ve been heavily involved in a Living Wage campaign in London over the past 5 years and wrote an article on the impact of low pay to the creative industries a little while back. Keen to reach a relevant audience […]
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Crowdfunding for artbook
I’m thinking of crowdfunding a photo-book of paintings/drawings from my new project on Guernica. Does anyone have any tips on which crowdfunding site might be good to use, or just any tips generally? I’ve never done it before. I’ll only […]
