Resource
Guide
Approaching galleries
Jennie Syson offers some advice on approaching galleries, through setting out the different research routes and methods you might use.
You searched for paying artists - Page 3 of 7 - a-n The Artists Information Company
Resource
Guide
Transparency template
Guidance for organisations on how to shape policy statements on Exhibition Payment. Produced in support of a-n/AIR’s Exhibition Payment Guide, which calls for organisations to be transparent in their working practices with artists by publishing clear and transparent payment information.
Resource
Guide
Quick guide to contracts
Tips on negotiating and agreeing contracts in line with a-n’s Exhibition Payment Guide.
Resource
Guide
The artist’s fees toolkit
Enables artists to calculate an individual daily rate for services they supply based upon their unique circumstances and overheads and to prepare quotes when pitching for freelance work.
Resource
Research paper
Brief history of Exhibition Payment Right
Provides a historical context of the Payment to Artists for Exhibition of Work scheme implemented by the (then) Arts Council of Great Britain in 1979.
Resource
Archive
News archive
Calls to arms
Artists and supporters of art are being rallied to support final implementation of an important Right for artists, their families and beneficiaries.
Resource
Archive
News archive
That was the year that was
“The artist has always occupied a privileged but fragile position in the public eye. For centuries, we have looked to artists across all disciplines to inspire and entertain us, to help us explore the limits of human nature and human possibilities, [and] at times to lead debate and forment revolution.”
Resource
Archive
Feature
Partners in arts
Commentary arising from research into local authority arts organisers’ needs, aspirations and modus operandi, revealing how they value and engage with artists and the approaches they take to their own professional development and to supporting the environment for contemporary visual arts.
Resource
Archive
News archive
Turning Point update
Launched in 2006,Turning Point is a national ten-year strategy for the visual arts. A network of regional Turning Point groups has since been emerging, each charged with “strengthening the visual arts infrastructure”.
Resource
Introduction
Commissioning views
Mark Gubb asks public art commissioners and consultants their views on how they select artists for commissions and what they expect artists to prepare for interview.
Resource
Research paper
Art work in 2007
Text-only version of a-n Research paper: Art work in 2007 with live weblinks.
Resource
Archive
Feature
The artist’s fees toolkit
This toolkit takes artists step-by-step through a process to calculate an individual daily rate and prepare quotes for freelance work.
Resource
Archive
News archive
In limbo
Zoë Walker and Neil Bromwich’s Limbo-Land is a multi-media installation focused around the space of oblivion, confinement, or transition.
Resource
Archive
Discussion
Editorial – 2007 February
With inflation about to hit a ten-year high1, to what extent can the practices of artists nowadays resist the pressures of the real world?
Resource
a-n+AIR February 07
Over 4,300 practising artists are already benefiting from AIR
Resource
Archive
Discussion
Editorial – 2006 November
This month’s Opportunities focus on international residencies, will sit permanently on www.a-n.co.uk1 as a signpost to regular international residencies that have regular deadlines. Artist Michael Cousin2 has researched this focus alongside his busy practice as an artist, and offers some […]
Resource
Archive
Discussion
Fees and payments
As a former teacher now working for the past five years as a gallery educator and also a freelance artist I have been interested to follow the a-n proposals on artists’ fees.
Resource
Archive
Discussion
Fees update
Paul Matosic’s letter (June issue) raises important issues for all artists for whom operating professionally is vital.
Resource
Archive
Discussion
Editorial – 2006 February
Notions of sharing knowledge and experiences – both good and bad – are inherent within those who seek continuous improvement and development in their artistic practices.
Resource
Guide
Good exhibition practice
Encouraging a consistent attitude to quantifying the value of artists across the exhibition and gallery world.
Resource
Archive
News archive
What arts officers need
Our sample survey of local authority arts officers undertaken at the NALGAO annual conference in Cardiff in May revealed that more information on good practice is high on their information wish-list. In particular, 68% said they needed advice on artists’ […]
Resource
Archive
Discussion
Furthermore
I have just read ‘More than just a residency’ in June’s issue of a-n magazine. I couldn’t agree more. Over the years I have seen an increase in public/private schools advertising for artists and really they are asking for free […]
Resource
Archive
Discussion
Residency response
As the current resident artist at Bootham School in York, I would like the opportunity to respond to a letter printed in the June issue of a-n magazine where this post was discussed. I feel that the information listed in […]
Resource
Archive
News archive
Good practice for theatre educators
Although aimed at visual artists, a-n’s Good practice in paying artists, sets out a framework for paying practitioners according to their overheads and experience, and The artist’s fees toolkit have been recommended by Theatre Education News – the quarterly magazine […]
Resource
Archive
Discussion
Editorial – 2005 March
The rolling out of a-n’s frameworks for good practice in artists’ fees and payments continues apace. Already referenced in The Guardian and Arts Professional, the fees and payments research is further endorsed by Arts Council England with Senior Visual Arts […]
