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The crisis of a career in culture: why sustaining a livelihood in the arts is so hard
In the arts in Australia, precarious employment, unpaid work and short-lived careers are the norm.
Many artists and arts workers have “portfolio careers”, piecing together a mixture of jobs while competing for limited funding and career opportunities in the arts.
- Kate Power
- The Conversation
COVID-19 shone a glaring spotlight on this precarity, exposing …