Autonomy, an independent think tank, published recently a report about \u2018artist as-worker\u2019 in the UK, emphasizing notions of “artistic labour, and highlighting the sector\u2019s interaction with wider trends, such as the gig economy and marketization in education.” <\/p>\n

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Covid did not produce precarity, exploitation and inequality in the art world out of thin air. Rather, it exposed, amplified and accentuated a set of pervasive trends that have long characterized the labour conditions of artistic workers in the UK. All too often, these have gone under appreciated, under-explored \u2013 insufficiently criticized – by those both within and outside the industry. Artistic labour seems to be easily forgotten.<\/p>\n