TY - JOUR
T1 - Multiple job-holding and artistic careers
T2 - Some empirical evidence
AU - Throsby, David
AU - Zednik, Anita
PY - 2011/3
Y1 - 2011/3
N2 - This article focuses attention on a somewhat overlooked component of the career portfolios of practising professional artists, namely their non-arts work. Although it is widely known that artists hold multiple jobs for a variety of reasons, there is little information on which jobs artists take on, whether they can make use of their creative skills in these jobs and how far artists doing non-arts work are different from artists who don't. We focus on two aspects of artists' non-arts work. First, we consider artists' working patterns in non-arts areas in general, looking particularly at the factors that influence artists to take on work outside the arts. Second, we analyse the extent to which artists are able to apply their creative skills in industries beyond the core arts, interpreting these results in the context of the concentric circles model of the cultural industries. Data used in this article are derived from the authors' recently completed survey of practising professional artists in Australia.
AB - This article focuses attention on a somewhat overlooked component of the career portfolios of practising professional artists, namely their non-arts work. Although it is widely known that artists hold multiple jobs for a variety of reasons, there is little information on which jobs artists take on, whether they can make use of their creative skills in these jobs and how far artists doing non-arts work are different from artists who don't. We focus on two aspects of artists' non-arts work. First, we consider artists' working patterns in non-arts areas in general, looking particularly at the factors that influence artists to take on work outside the arts. Second, we analyse the extent to which artists are able to apply their creative skills in industries beyond the core arts, interpreting these results in the context of the concentric circles model of the cultural industries. Data used in this article are derived from the authors' recently completed survey of practising professional artists in Australia.
KW - Careers of professional artists
KW - Concentric circles model of the cultural industries
KW - Multiple job-holding
KW - Non-arts work
KW - Portfolio careers
U2 - 10.1080/09548963.2011.540809
DO - 10.1080/09548963.2011.540809
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:79951985586
SN - 0954-8963
VL - 20
SP - 9
EP - 24
JO - Cultural Trends
JF - Cultural Trends
IS - 1
ER -