It is always not easy.

Dear angels : could you tell me tell me how can it be easy for artists and art administrators?

It is always not easy.

It has been quite for a while since June this year. We did get some “OK” sale on July and August, but it come back to quite again.

I have heard from my supervisor that two ARIs of this building will move out soon.

I attended their final warfare party the week before and we have a brief conversation about what their will do in the future. They actually have a lot of experience to work with art market, so they possibly will focus on art and crafts market rather than stuck themselves in one place. The other artist is original from Brisbane and after her partner pass way in this state, she might plan to move back to Brisbane. I have been told the two space of these ARIs might be rented as a commercial store. The government is happy with this result that pop up project does work on bring people back to this building. When the people are back and the business is back again. If shops are open, the building will not look terrible at night time and it might come with its security issue.      

 Sometimes I was wondering how could art really survival by itself? After one week off ARI, I am starting to think about my future. If we really want to do art administration, the best option must be looking for a job in museums or state galleries (not for profit gallery). Running a non for profit organisation is very hard because you hardly got a stable income for the organisation. Regarding to artists, selling their artworks might not actually make any profit for them and support their life. From my observation, If artist sold some work, they are happy to do some voluntary work. However, if it is not, they might unwilling to do some contribution with the shop. As an artists run initiatively, artists need to look after themselves and responsible for their sale. For example, if their works is hardly to sell, they need to think about the reason (maybe too expensive?)and then fix it. In this situation, artists also need to take a risk if non of their works have sold,but they still need to do the compulsory work once per month. Despite it is not easy for ARI, the museum and state gallery is hard to get in as well. For the youth, there is not a lot of opportunity for them to work in museum. they are mostly looking for the people who has Phd degree.