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Journey to self employment
So two weeks ago I decided I had had enough and decided to quit my day job and give being a full time artist a go, I now have two weeks left and I am both excited and scared! I […]
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Self-employment in the arts: the good, the bad and the future
Since 2000 there has been an unprecedented surge in self-employment. According to the RSA, there has been a 40% increase in micro-businesses and one in seven of the workforce are now self-employed. I recently joined the UK’s freelancer community and […]
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Self-Employment and diversity
Preparing all my equipment and materials ready as I am looking forward to a great time in my studio tomorrow, it will be a big session of organising items for storage. And creating space for some works for the Open […]
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Introduction
Self-employment
Introduction to our resources on self-employment.
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Getting back into being self employed
I have been away from working on my own work for awhile and a lot has changed plus the issues due to the pandemic
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Employment tribunal rules that National Gallery educators were not freelancers
The group of 27 artists and lecturers who collectively worked for the National Gallery for over 500 years has won the case it brought to tribunal after a successful crowdfunding campaign.
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Hauser & Wirth launches new non-profit foundation; Labour shadow minister says arts funding ‘should be conditional on ethical employment’
Other News In Brief: Minimalist artist Robert Morris dies aged 87; Louvre launches free admission night in order to attract low income and younger visitors; young boy in famous photo is not Vincent Van Gogh.
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National Gallery educators’ crowdfunding campaign half way to raising £65,000 for employment tribunal costs
27 educators and artists claiming unfair dismissal have raised over half of their target, and as a thank you to supporters will run a free drawing event this Friday in London.
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Making Tax Digital: how will government admin reforms impact self-employed artists?
Artist Catherine Bertola is concerned that HMRC’s new ‘Making Tax Digital’ proposals, which the government claims will make tax administration more efficient and easier for taxpayers, will result in additional administrative pressure for many artists and self-employed freelancers with low and erratic incomes.
Research
Creative Industries
Creative industries: focus on employment
DCMS official statistics providing economic estimates to measure employment in the Creative Industries and Creative Economy in the UK up to 2015.
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Guide
Becoming self-employed
If you are an artist or arts organisers who earns income from a variety of sources, self-employment is usually a good option as it enables you to work for many different people and perform more than one type of work. This guide by financial services experts Counterculture explains what self-employment means, how to register as self-employed, and how and when you will need to pay tax.
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Changing face of artists’ employment
Explores the affect of the economic recession on the livelihoods of artists in terms of access to employment and career opportunities and raises concerns about how artists’ practice is likely to fare in this period of arts austerity. [HTML format]
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AIR activities
Employment status
Last month, as part of gathering evidence to support future art and design courses and government job creation programmes, we asked AIR members to respond to a survey about their employment status. As a result, we now have firm statistics to take back to HE and Government.
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Artists, tax, and self-employed status
The recent coverage in a-n publications on good practice and rates of pay for artists is very useful, but I think that an important issue has not been covered.
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Introduction
Self-employed artist
Linda Ball explores how self-employed artists operate and how an artist-run business can work.
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Quiting my day job
For the last year I have been working as a healthcare assistant at hospital, but due to a number of reasons I have become very unhappy working in that job, to the point that I was always miserable. So I quit my day job and am now on the journey back into self employment.
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Getting paid
A practical guide for artists on different payment options, sending invoices, chasing payments and dealing with debtors.
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Can artists levitate?
Lloyds Bank recently bought a double page spread in the Guardian weekend magazine (18.11.17) “Spread your wings with a portfolio career”. This advert, written like a magazine article, contains all the usual elements and advice about starting a portfolio career; […]
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Studio Visit: Dovile Bertulyte: Skilled and Defined
The Postures of Making project is moving forward, with the production of prototypes and other large scale experiments. Essential to the development of the visual work is gathering further source materials to work with. At the end of November Val […]
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Looking awkward but feeling comfortable
For the second Postures of Making Focus Group at the National Centre for Craft and Design in Sleaford a group of 6 makers came armed with enthusiasm and sets of intriguing tools from their workshops and studios. Working in a […]
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Studio Visit Polly Cruse: Balance and Flexibility
Visiting an artist studio is always a privilege – in fact I think that of any workspace, whatever the context. The attention I give to work and workspaces comes from an extended fascination with how we spend much of our […]
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reflection #5
another conversation with the office of the accountant today. further claification of the hobby senario. further thoughts about the ongoing status of the self employment. this morning i’ve seen mark carr’s blog for the first time. i’ve not […]
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Artists Guides
Collection of self employment guides.
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Untitled blog post from "On receiving an Arts Council Grant for “A Thousand Sheep”."
The children’s first day back to school_ Back home_ I’m picking left over bits from a christmas cracker, finding appropriate space for the new toys, other than the middle of the kitchen floor or the overcrowded breakfast bar. Still looking […]