Features
Keep the work rolling in: How to survive as a performance artist
Nearly half of those working in the UK performance industry earn less than £6,000 per year as performers, or within…
Art and Money: Strange Bedfellows
“A starving artist…sacrifices material well-being in order to focus on their artwork. They typically live on minimum expenses, either for…
Ghosts of Cité Soleil: This ain’t no Hollywood movie...
Danish filmmaker Asger Leth travelled to Haiti in February 2004, just as the Aristide government finally collapsed. Ghosts of Cité…
Career profile: Maeve Davey, communications and co-ordination at The Beat Initiative
Meabh Ritchie talks to Maeve Davey who works for The Beat Initiative, co-ordinating community and carnival arts production in Belfast…
How to write a best seller: An interview with Rusty Young
What does it feel like to write a best-selling book? Rusty Young published Marching Powder in 2003 and its ingredients…
Interview with Walter Keeler, Welsh Artist of the Year
Walter Keeler has been a potter for over forty years and has just been made Welsh Artist of the Year.…
Career Profile: Nick Hennegan, theatre producer
Nick Hennegan set up Maverick Theatre in Birmingham in 1994 with composer Robb Williams - on the eve of their…
Changing face of music
The digital revolution might be putting high street retailers out of business but it is a blessing for any artist…
Career Profile: Graeme Walker, artist, writer and country
Graeme Walker is an artist who studied at the University of Northumbria, and has worked in the UK and the…
Stars leave the ‘Wasteland of Hollywood’ for the bright lights of London
There is something very tangible about being in the presence of your favourite pop or screen star. It’s as if…