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ARTISTS are generally thought of as either starving in a garret (La Boheme and all that) or jammy millionaires producing works valued at eye-watering sums (hello, Damien Hirst). But the reality of life in the visual arts is more prosaic and a great deal more worrying, as the publication of Glasgow University’s report into the pressures facing UK visual artists reveals.
The median annual income for self-employed visual artists currently stands at just £12,500, 40 per cent less in real terms than they were earning in 2010. More than half of visual artists take on additional jobs, 51 per cent of which are in non-creative fields.
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