Survey
Visual Arts Work is a research project that aims to strengthen the sustainability of the Australian visual art industry. We know incomes are low for artists and arts workers, and this research seeks to develop a clearer understanding of the diversity of arts careers and career lifecycles. To do so, the research brings together economic data on artists and arts workers’ careers, alongside new social, policy, and artist led research to address the question of why incomes are declining and what we can do to improve economic conditions in the sector.
 
This survey is now closed. Please email us at visualartswork@rmit.edu.au with any questions, or sign up to our research contacts list if you're interested in being interviewed for this project in future.
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Eugenia Lim, performance documentation from The People's Currency (2017), Federation Square, Naarm/Melbourne.
Commissioned by 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art for AsiaTOPA 2017. Photo by Zan Wimberley, courtesy of the artist and STATION.
Visual Arts Work acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nations on whose unceded lands we conduct our work. Visual Arts Work respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. Visual Arts Work also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we live and work. ​
This research is supported by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council's Linkage Projects funding scheme (project LP200100054). The views expressed herein are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of the Australian Government or Australian Research Council.
​Updated 13 December 2022