Supporting the Self-employed Artist as Citizen

Learning from the USA and Australia about entrepreneurial solutions to support artists
working in participatory settings.

This report covers findings and subsequent recommendations arising from Susanne Burns’ Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Travel Fellowship supported visit to the USA and Australia to explore entrepreneurial solutions supporting artists working in participatory settings. Artists can only play their role if they are supported by the other players in the system – the funders and policy makers, commissioners and employers and institutions. To generate the system and ‘field’ change needed we must generate field wide partnership working, communality, collaboration and collective action.