 
            
	  	  Artists are always at a disadvantage
                         
   
           
    
            Although artists’ livelihoods depend on their agency and capacity to create and capitalise on their social and economic assets, there’s an inevitable — and unenviable — struggle between the intrinsic motivations underpinning their art practices and the ‘small business’ expectations of a self-employed status.
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	  	  Art Monthly 468 — extract
                         
   
           
    
            The basis for artists’ livelihoods is holding agency and capacity to create and capitalise on their economic and social assets. But as this text shows, it’s the eternal struggle between the intrinsic motivations driving art practices and the “small business” expectations attached to self-employment status that is root cause of their continually precarious situation. 
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