The lives and artistic prospects of many artists improved during the pandemic, writes Susan Jones, which offers clues to the shifts needed to sustain the sector.
The government and Arts Council England’s exclusive and short-term emergency arts funding schemes for freelancers failed to address visual artists’ livelihood needs and allowed the majority to fall through the cracks.
Evidence from a new qualitative, longitudinal study that surprisingly demonstrates how the lives and artistic prospects of many artists positively improved in pandemic conditions offers clues to the infrastructural shifts needed to honour and sustain the talents and vibrancy of the diverse artists’ constituency in the future.
Resolving artists’ poor economic and social status has bedevilled arts policymaking in England for decades (Jones, 2019). Despite strategic national schemes such as Exhibition Payment Right running 1979-99 and Year of the Artist in 2000 intended to effect substantial and lasting change, artists’ incomes have remained uncomfortably lower than average national salaries...Keep reading on CAMP.
The government and Arts Council England’s exclusive and short-term emergency arts funding schemes for freelancers failed to address visual artists’ livelihood needs and allowed the majority to fall through the cracks.
Evidence from a new qualitative, longitudinal study that surprisingly demonstrates how the lives and artistic prospects of many artists positively improved in pandemic conditions offers clues to the infrastructural shifts needed to honour and sustain the talents and vibrancy of the diverse artists’ constituency in the future.
Resolving artists’ poor economic and social status has bedevilled arts policymaking in England for decades (Jones, 2019). Despite strategic national schemes such as Exhibition Payment Right running 1979-99 and Year of the Artist in 2000 intended to effect substantial and lasting change, artists’ incomes have remained uncomfortably lower than average national salaries...Keep reading on CAMP.