Arts funding

1980 — artists’ data

This audio of a pre­sen­ta­tion by Susan Jones at Work and Art, CRATE, UCA Can­ter­bury, March 2015, con­sid­ers the cli­mate for visu­al artists’ prac­tice and their abil­i­ty to make a liv­ing. Ref­er­enc­ing evi­dence and data from arts and cul­tur­al sources over the last thir­ty years and con­sid­er­ing insight from future fore­cast­ing, it iden­ti­fies the pre­vail­ing issues sur­round­ing sup­port to artists and their liveli­hoods with­in the pub­lic sec­tor. It con­cludes by artic­u­lat­ing some of the inher­ent issues and chal­lenges with­in the cur­rent and future ecol­o­gy for artists and the con­tem­po­rary visu­al arts to be addressed by pub­lic fun­ders and the sec­tor alike. 

Read “Ways and means: livelihood strategies 1984 to 2014” in full

Art won’t look after itself

A debate insti­gat­ed in the House of Lords that put a spot­light on the artists’ role act­ed as cat­a­lyst to dis­cuss the impli­ca­tions for future sup­port for artists through arts policy.

Read “​Art won’t look after itself” in full