The crisis of a career in culture: why sustaining a livelihood in the arts is so hard

<https://theconversation.com/the-crisis-of-a-career-in-culture-why-sustaining-a-livelihood-in-the-arts-is-so-hard-171732>

"In the arts in Australia, precarious employment, unpaid work and short-lived
careers are the norm.

Many artists and arts workers have “portfolio careers”, piecing together a
mixture of jobs while competing for limited funding and career opportunities in
the arts.

COVID-19 shone a glaring spotlight on this precarity, exposing the lack of
permanent jobs in the sector. Some 81% of artists work as freelancers or on a
self-employed basis, without access to sick leave or other entitlements many
Australians take for granted.

But the unsustainability of creative careers was already well known to artists,
academics and governments."

Cheers,
       *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/            Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics