Getting Paid: How to sustain your practise as an artist:

Thursday 13th October, 6.30- 8.30pm

Joined by Emily Speed and Rob Turner

£5/ £9.50 DIY Member. Book your ticket in advance here

This talk shall explore the artists role outside of the commercial gallery world and how to find a sustainable practise through commissions,  funding and education .
Part of the Nuts & Bolts Series of talks at Core Gallery which tackle the challenges of navigating the artworld and sustaining a living.

Getting paid will cover the following subjects: 
How do you start and what do you need to know- what resources are there?
Where to seek funding/ commissions/jobs
How to write budgets and funding proposals and how you decide to fix a fee for yourself for these projects
Artist's contracts. 
How to apply and carry out art commissions in the private and public realm.
How to start off as a workshop leader/ creative practitioner and work in the arts.
How to keep your audience, students, stakeholders happy and therefore build up your portfolio and client base.
how  can your 'art job ' fuel your own practice.

About the Guest Speakers:

Emily Speed is an artist based at The Royal Standard in Liverpool. Emily’s work explores the temporary and the transient through reference to architecture and the body. She started her award winning blog ‘Getting Paid’ out of frustration from constantly accepting bad working conditions or working for free and because this state never seemed to be questioned. The blog became a way to start a conversation with other artists about the financial side of the artworld as well as a starting point to pool experiences, resources and effect change. www.emilyspeed.co.uk

Rob Turner Rob Turner is an artist who works in the public realm. Rob Turner works with many partners including foresters, performers, town planners, architects, gardeners, educators and community leaders in true collaboration. He studied fine art at St Martin's School of Art in London, graduating in 1984. After exhibiting his paintings in a number of high profile galleries he joined forces with another artist in 1990 to form Wallscapes, a very successful public art partnership. Over a 25 year career, Rob has explored his own creativity and engaged directly with the changing relationship between art and society through the creation of well over 100 public and community art works across the U.K. His blogs on a a-n have been highly commended winning many choice blogs award, including joint 2009 a-n, blog of the year award. http://rob-turner.blogspot.com/