Make full use of all the advice on offer for progressing your career as a professional artist.
Explore our top advice:
Building successful artist-gallery relationships
Establishing the mindset of a professional artist
Ways to make an income from your art
Joining a professional body or art society
The importance of collaboration in the art community
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Applying for arts funding
One Moon by Mary Branson who shares her experiences of applying for and receiving arts funding
The career of an artist involves not only creating work, but running a business to generate income and fuel that production. This might be obvious, but it is often overlooked. To help you navigate the finances of being an artist, see the do’s and don’ts of funding your practice.
How to build successful artist-gallery relationships
The Waterfront Gallery
The easiest way to explain the relationship between an artist and a gallery is to think of it like a marriage. For it to work, the key is always communication and respect.
Let Penny Harris guide you through the process of approaching and successfully working with galleries.
START BUILDING GALLERY RELATIONSHIPS
What does it take to become a professional artist?
Swell and Fold, acrylic and acrylic ink on board, (60x60cm) by Melanie Cormack-Hicks
When is the right time to think about turning professional and how should you go about it? Sarah Edmonds shares some top advice on developing the right mindset and Melanie Cormack-Hicks shares her experience of going from art teacher to artist.
Explore ways to make an income from your art
First Frosts, Way Go Through, watercolour, (38x46cm) by Barry Herniman
These days an artist with a commercial mindset and desire to succeed can maximise all the platforms at their disposal in a growth industry brimming with optimism.
Sarah Edmonds explores the ways in which an artist can make a living from painting, without compromising their passion for art, and Barry Herniman shares an insight into the various ways he works as a professional artist.
BE INSPIRED TO MAKE A LIVING FROM YOUR ART
Joining a professional body or art society
Blackshore Quay, Southwold, oil, (28x33xm) by Haidee-Jo Summers ROI, RSMA
If you are keen to advance your career, gain valuable peer support and grow in confidence, joining a recognised professional body is a worthy challenge.
Sarah Edmonds explores this challenge as she talks to Haidee-Jo Summers, ROI, RSMA.
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The importance of collaboration
Lone Tree and Poppies, acrylic on birchwood board, (30x30cm) by Alison Vickery
Collaboration within the art community is nothing new. Artists like to seek out fellow creatives, people to share studios with, grow from professionally, forming collectives with whom to exhibit.
Sarah Edmonds talks to Alison Vickery about the enormous benefits to be had by collaborating with fellow artists.
EXPLORE THE BENEFITS OF COLLABORATING
Ways to market your art
Behind the Doll Pain, oil on linen, (30x25cm) by Catherine MacDiarmid
Sarah Edmonds underlines the importance of marketing as part of your strategy to attract potential customers and talks to Catherine MacDiarmid about how she markets her work online.
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