Professional Development Course: The Art of Business
Join us for a brand-new series of hands-on, supportive sessions designed to help early-career artists and creatives build confidence, gain practical guidance, and develop their professional practice.
This week:
Our final session focuses on the realities of sustaining a creative career – balancing the practical with the aspirational. Gain the tools, confidence, and inspiration to take control of your practice and allow it to flourish.
- Address the real, often overlooked challenges of sustaining a creative career in a practical, approachable, and collaborative way.
- Learn how to manage risks effectively in your projects and create risk assessments.
- Gain skills in creating and maintaining budgets.
- Imagine new, alternative economies and ways of working, particularly through a feminist lens.
Please note: Tickets are sold per session to keep things flexible, but the three sessions were designed as a complete course. We encourage you to attend all three if you can!
Guest Artist:
Rachael Clerke, CEO of Art Business Ltd [The Artist Formerly Known As Sole Trader Rachael Clerke], will playfully explore artist-led mutual aid, conversations about money & how to dance the Dance of Professionalisation for Survival. No previous dance experience needed.
Concession tickets: £25 (available for those who self-identify using our concessions policy)
Friends received early booking on this event. Find out more about joining as a Friend here.
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Rachael Clerke is a Bristol-based artist working across many mediums. They make generous artworks that sit somewhere on the edge of live art and community infrastructure; playful experiments about what real life might look like if we were less concerned with what real life ‘should’ look like.
Rachael is CEO of Art Business Ltd, a performance/real company that uses spreadsheets, comedy and interpretive dance to expose and explore the contradictions and consequences of art-making under late capitalism.
With collaborator Linzy Na Nakorn, Rachael is artist in residence on Filwood Broadway, a street in south Bristol undergoing regeneration. Throughout 2025, they are working closely with the local community to create artworks, events and interventions against a backdrop of huge change.