ARTS: Irish Government bold basic income plan leaves Northern artists in halfpenny place

ARTS: Irish Government bold basic income plan leaves Northern artists in halfpenny place

EXHIBITION BY EMAIL: Oonagh McAteer’s work in the Arts for All exhibition in Cityside. As part of its 2021 economic recovery plan, the Irish Government is bringing forward a pilot of a basic income for the arts sector which "recognises the necessity to remove the precarity from the lives of artist and art workers of all disciplines, so that they might develop, create and present their best work for the benefit of all society".

This decision follows five years of research, engagement, consultation and lobbying by the National Campaign for the Arts . As anyone in the arts will tell […]

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