CORK, Ireland — Artist Elinor O’Donovan draws, sculpts and creates installations, and said she feels lucky that her passion is also her profession.
“I can’t imagine not doing it,” O’Donovan, 27, told NBC News earlier this month at her studio here in the southern city of Cork . “But it’s also a job for me.”
Until September, O’Donovan said she had to work part time as a receptionist to fund her artistic endeavors.But then she was among 2,000 artists and cultural workers selected to participate in a basic income pilot program launched by the Irish government to receive €325 ($326) a […]
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