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Quick guide to negotiation
Negotiation is one of the four core principles of a-n/AIR’s Exhibition Payment Guide. This quick guide offers 10 tips for better negotiation.
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Exhibition contract checklist
A best practice reference guide to use when creating an agreement for a solo or group exhibition with a gallery or organisation presenting visual arts. You can also use the a-n Contracts Toolkit to build a contract to the specific exhibition context, and this checklist will support you with this.
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Proposals: exhibitions in galleries
Proactively seeking out opportunities to realise exhibitions and projects is an important strategy in the arts. Adam Smythe, Curator at the Bluecoat in Liverpool, gives some advice on the best methods of approaching galleries with exhibition proposals for your own work or for curatorial projects.
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Approaching galleries
Jennie Syson offers some advice on approaching galleries, through setting out the different research routes and methods you might use.
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Negotiating a better rate of pay
Getting paid a fair fee is not suggestive of a revolution. So why does it sometimes incur resistance, both from those who pay and from ourselves? This guide by Rod McIntosh introduces ideas towards getting paid what you want and indeed deserve.
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How to price your work
Artists, gallerists and curators offer tips and guidance on how to price work when exhibiting in group shows, selling at open studios, or applying for open competitions.
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Commission agreements
This checklist by Sheena Etches and Nicholas Sharp covers many issues relevant to small-scale private and public art commissions, with questions to consider and further explanation of issues arising in the notes.
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If you want to go somewhere, go
Access to professional development is vital to artists’ careers, so here’s something we think will help.
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More ways to make and save money
The continued economic doldrums and uncertainty in public funding make it more important than ever for artists to find ways to make and save money. So here are some tips – old and new – from the a-n community.
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Resources, knowledge and sustainability
Current professional development support schemes for visual artists in the UK.
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Money talks!
With a-n + AIR’s recent Big Artists Survey revealing that a third of both mid-career and established artists expect their incomes to go down this year when compared to a year ago, Artquest’s new development will strike a chord with many artists as they navigate the increasingly harsh economic environment for their practice in the months ahead.
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Wage rage
W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy)
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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.”
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How to save money
In these times of austerity, a-n Magazine has compiled a catalogue of money-saving ideas for freelancers that have been tried and tested by our readers.
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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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Free labour in the arts
The issue of free labour in the arts received much-needed publicity in November, when a Reading Employment Tribunal ruled expenses-only pay was illegal.
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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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Individual subscriptions
I went to your website to join up but have not done because I see I am charged £12 extra for not being a practising artist.
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Opportunity or rip off?
Advice from artists on assessing opportunities
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a-n+AIR February 07
Over 4,300 practising artists are already benefiting from AIR
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On a-n
“The UK’s leading information and advocacy organisation for artists and their collaborators”, a-n, a newsletter and ‘artists information company’, has become so grossly over laden with the argot of management consultancy.
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Exhibiting on a pension
I’m 65, on a pension credit, no savings, and I live in a remote spot on the Wales/England border. So obviously money, and delivery problems feature. I’ve had to scale my painting and sculpture right down “can I take it […]
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a-n goes to college
Our subscription package for further and higher education institutions.
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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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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 […]
