Should Artists Work for Free? [71]

Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers

Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan

Arts, Visual Arts

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🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week's main topic was prompted by Alice's decision to lend a painting to a leading home decor magazine. The painting appears on the front cover this month, but some people were critical of her decision to loan the piece free of charge. So in this episode, we discuss whether it's OK to work for free and what criteria you might apply when deciding. We cover loans like the one Alice made as well as charitable donations, fundraising events, speeches and workshops, and we weigh up long-term brand benefits versus short-term financial gains. In the end, each artist has to decide where he or she draws the line, but we hope this conversation helps you determine what might be right for you.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	They weren't going to link back to me, they weren't going to credit me, and they had thousands on there?
0:04.8	No, because now you're taking my work to benefit you and I don't get anything back. Hi and welcome to episode 71 of Art Juice. This is honest, generous and humorous conversations to feed your
0:24.4	creative soul and get you thinking with me, Louise Fletcher.
0:28.1	And me, Alice Sheridan.
0:29.9	So this week we have an interesting topic on whether artists should do work for free and we'll
0:36.4	explain that when we get to it.
0:38.5	But first of all, what have you been up to this week, Alice?
0:42.4	I've been doing, I'm afraid I've been stuck in front of the computer again I've been I've
0:47.5	been editing stuff I've been editing some things for the membership club which I've been meaning to
0:54.0	re-ed it for a while. We've had member testimonials come in which has been really nice to
1:00.7	watch but I've got this funny situation for a while where I've got one
1:04.4	computer that won't import files without crashing and one computer that won't
1:09.1	export files. So it's taking a while. It's really it's not very good. I'm afraid but I did I got a day last week to go to the studio
1:19.7	which was really nice and you actually traveled to the senior actually
1:25.4	traveled to the studio yeah it was just to sit in a space was so nice and I did go thinking that I would maybe start some big new paintings
1:36.5	and didn't feel it at all when I got there so what I did was I just I just started
1:40.8	actually going through reading a big book on Deepencorn, which I flick through.
1:45.4	You know when you go to a big book from an exhibition and you look at all the pictures and you read a page or two of it?
1:50.3	I thought I'm actually going to read this from the beginning and it was really interesting because it prompted me into all these ideas about Cezanne and Mondrian and Division of Spaces and I remember when I was about 17 really loving
2:04.4	Cessan and not really quite understanding why everybody just
2:07.8	talked about Picasso so much and nobody really talked
2:10.9	about Cessan and his kind of influence in the Cubis movement and I just thought
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