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Guide
Artist’s Resale Right: The legal perspective
Guide to the Artist’s Resale Right Regulations 2006.
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Guide
Community Interest Companies (CICs)
A purpose-built legal framework and ‘brand identity’ for social enterprises that want to adopt the limited company form, the Community Interest Company organisational structure has also proved popular in the arts and charity sectors.
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Guide
Applying the age discrimination law
An overview of the current Age Discrimination law in Great Britain under the Equality Act 2010, followed by a set of action points for arts employers, and guidance for individuals who might want to challenge a decision or a practice.
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Guide
The artist’s development toolkit
This toolkit enables artists and students to develop themselves and their practice. It provides self-reflective material suitable for any career stage and allows artists to review their position and explore ways of developing.
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The contracts toolkit
This toolkit is an introduction to the contractual process, enabling artists to assess contracts and to build their own.
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Resources for tutors
My selection of resources on a-n for artists and other tutors developing and running professional practice modules and events for art and design students.
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Paying artists
Collected resources that aid good practice and terms of reference for valuing artists’ contributions to the arts within society.
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Good practice portfolio
Key resources and tools from across this site that talk about the principles and practical application of good practice
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Tips and guides
Guides from the a-n resources that I regularly refer to.
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News story
Free download: Making Your Life As An Artist
A new publication by US-based choreographer Andrew Simonet is a call to action for artists to harness their creative know-how to create an economically sustainable lifestyle.
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Artists and exhibitions
How do artists fare when they show work in publicly-funded galleries in the UK? Research in 2013 led by AIR – Artists Interaction and Representation as the first stage in the Paying artists research and campaign presents some thought-provoking data […]
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Education
The lay of the land
Reviews approaches to teaching professional practice within fine and applied arts programmes and identifies the role a-n and other professional development organisations can have in supporting student learning in the future.
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Making funding applications
Fundraising is a competitive activity. This guide by Lisa Le Feuvre introduces the main funding sources and offers guidelines to help make winning funding applications.
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Setting up an organisation
This guide by Nicholas Sharp looks at the different types of legal structures that can be used when setting up an organisation, and the implications of each.
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Guide
The Code of Practice for the Visual Arts
The Code of Practice for the Visual Arts and how to use it. Includes profiles and negotiating advice from artists, a guide to working out what to charge, plus links to other useful resources.
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Guide
Pop Up People
Video and links to reports on outcomes of Pop Up People, an action research project developed by artist Dan Thompson and the Empty Shops Network, giving insights into starting your own pop-up venture.
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Working practice
Big Artists Survey 2011
Summary of key findings of the 2011 AIR artists’ advisory group and a-n survey of its 16,500 membership to better understand the conditions and concerns of artists.
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Art and ideas – what does copyright law recognise as art?
Artists sometimes report their work has been seemingly ripped off and used in other ways without their consent – but what is actually covered and protected by copyright law? Artist Simon Faithfull talks about some of his experiences, and what he can do to protect aspects of his work.
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Guide
Site Specific Art
Artist Susanna Heron talks through her experiences of being commissioned on public art projects, the pitfalls she encounters and how to get around them. Includes an overview on the rights, roles and responsibilities of commissioners and artists.
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A Cultural Commons
Ben White and Eileen Simpson created the Open Music Archive to distribute music that no longer has copyright protection. Their project looks at ways you can distribute your work but still control some of its uses.
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Gallery deals
Art dealer René Gimpel of Gimpel Fils considers the relationship between artists and galleries, including contracts, gallery responsibilities and what commercial galleries do for artists.
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Art and appropriation
When does artistic freedom become copyright infringement? Artist David Mabb considers works in his practice, including a run-in with Magnum Photos and appropriating the work of William Morris.
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Social media: Twitter
For this video guide, Katy Beale and Charlotte Frost discuss micro-blogging with particular reference to Twitter and how it can be used for research, marketing and collaboration, plus a look at how artists are using Twitter in innovative ways that connect with their practice.
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Social media: Blogging
For this video guide, Chris Unitt of Meshed Media talks to Charlotte Frost about different blog platforms, getting the most from a blog, and some of the creative and innovative blogs around.
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Archive
Feature
Artists and Curators Talking
A-n and Axis are launching a new programme of dynamic, practice-led discussions on hospitality, space and contemporary art making, researched and directed by artist, curator and writer Sonya Dyer. Here, she sets out her thinking for the programme.