Career Advice

Top 3 tips for emerging arts managers (from the archives)
With many in the sector working in administrative roles, we’ve asked arts leaders from Darwin to Hobart and Perth to…

20 questions you've always wanted answered by a curator
To celebrate Ask A Curator Day, we posed 20 questions to 20 curators nationally, touching on topics from ethical responsibilities…

Essential skills of a great arts administrator (from the archives)
Facilitation and strategy, nurturing artists' ideas, and examining challenges at a macro and micro level simultaneously: arts administrators are the…

Courage vs confidence
Overcoming anxiety can mean discovering your courage. Dr Jackie Bailey re-examines this sought-after quality.

Six essential videos to help you get your art online
Produced in partnership with Creative Victoria, our Artists Essential Toolkit video series covers the fundamentals of getting your work online…

Artists Essentials Toolkit #6: How to document and livestream your art online
In our final video in this series, we look at how to photograph, video and livestream your work online.

A Career Coach’s Guide to Self Care and Positivity for the long haul
Veteran Emmy and AACTA Award-winning producer Ellenor Cox is a coach and mentor. Here are her survival strategies for staying…

Artists Essentials Toolkit video #5: How to write about your art online
Writing about your art online is very different to catalogue copy. In this video we look at writing for an…

Tips for writing great arts grant applications
Applying for grants can be as complicated as the project, but Kate Larsen has some proven advice on making your…

9 tips for selling your art online
Not Rockerfeller, but want his bank account? Here are nine tips for selling your art online.