Four in five visual artists earned less than $25,000 last financial year with half of those working in the field seeing their income fall, new research shows.
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The cruel blow that has left a generation of artists reeling
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Sam Jinks makes hyperreal sculptures of the human form, so anatomically correct it’s like peering into a mirror.
Each work takes months to complete: from the first sketch to clay model, from resolved maquette to hand-painted resin mold.
Sam Jinks’ hyperreal sculptures take months to complete.
Credit:Justin McManus
This month’s self-titled solo exhibition at the Sullivan + Strumpf gallery was to have been Jinks’ first in Australia in seven years, consolidating his many international successes on home soil.
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Many artists and cultural workers slipped through the cracks of Australia s early rounds of Covid-19 support measures, a new report finds.
Researchers from the University of South Australia looked at state and federal government responses to the pandemic s hit on the arts sector in 2020. JobKeeper and JobSeeker were inadequate for a large proportion of artists and cultural workers because the kinds of frequently precarious and short-term employment contracts commonplace in the sector did not meet the eligibility requirements, the working paper Keeping Creative read.
Eligibility for JobKeeper was contingent upon having had the same employer, or having operated as a sole trader, for at least 12 months.