Artists are not properly paid even in times of relatively abundant funding, says Dr Susan Jones.Sohow can Labour and the sector address this issue of long-term resilience?
The combination of pandemic impacts on the public sector and high cost of living means that while every effort has been made to protect and stabilise arts institutions and staffers as any of a veritable glory of surveys of artists — including Industria’s expose — conclude, artists’ social and economic status is in systematic decline.
And as new published plans from the Labour Party and Contemporary Visual Arts Network (CVAN) reveal, responsibility for flourishing sustainable futures for practitioners is destined to remain firmly out of artists’ own hands
The UK government’s neo-liberal business model underpinning the arts since the Millennium — the most extreme ‘by far’ within Europe according to research by Alexander & Peterson — runs in direct opposition to social objectives to achieve human well-being, environmental sustainability and equity has consistently undermined artists’ livelihoods... Keep reading on Padwick Jones Arts.
The combination of pandemic impacts on the public sector and high cost of living means that while every effort has been made to protect and stabilise arts institutions and staffers as any of a veritable glory of surveys of artists — including Industria’s expose — conclude, artists’ social and economic status is in systematic decline.
And as new published plans from the Labour Party and Contemporary Visual Arts Network (CVAN) reveal, responsibility for flourishing sustainable futures for practitioners is destined to remain firmly out of artists’ own hands
The UK government’s neo-liberal business model underpinning the arts since the Millennium — the most extreme ‘by far’ within Europe according to research by Alexander & Peterson — runs in direct opposition to social objectives to achieve human well-being, environmental sustainability and equity has consistently undermined artists’ livelihoods... Keep reading on Padwick Jones Arts.