Lynda Graham Lynda Graham
The Covid-19 pandemic has thrown a stark light onto the precarious working conditions of visual artists and makers working in Scotland. When lockdown began the Scottish Artists Union were overwhelmed with emails from artists struggling to work out how they are going to pay their bills let alone concentrate on being creative. The emails made for painful reading. However, they came as no surprise to those of us who have been involved in the union for nearly 20 years.
The union has seen artists’ incomes slowly eroded over the years, an already fragile infrastructure wobbling since the […]
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