you sign your kids over to a democracy and a democratic economy to have access. There is a contract and you are owed.

Michael Holland No one owes us a living!Just shut up and get on with it!!😅 4 Like · Reply · 1d Hide 14 Replies Rob McLeod Rob McLeod Michael Holland .....and get a real job to support your bad habit. 2 Like · Reply · 22h Warren Feeney Warren Feeney I do not believe that any artist carries a sense of entitlement to generating an income in the arts, and going back to CNZ’s report on the state of "creative professionals" in 2019, the problem for the arts is that there are fundamental issues still not resolved that go back decades. CNZ’s previous survey of “creative professionals” was Portrait of the artist: Te whakaahua ö te tangata pükenga published in 2003. It reported that the median income for an artist in 1999 was $20,700 and for a Zealander in paid employment, $27,933, making the annual income for an artist 74% of the median nationally. In 2019 the median for an artist is $35,800 and for New Zealanders in paid employment, $51,800, making the annual income for artists now down to 69% of the medium nationally. (So much for the vitality of the arts in NZ in the 21st century). Yet, the biggest surprise in the “creative professionals” 2019 report is the gender pay gap. At 21% lower nationally for women than men, in the creative industries the gap is more than double at 45%. So, I am working on the premise that CNZ’s findings represent a deliberate challenge to all creative industries to reflect on its infrastructures and implement practical measures to resolve these issues. [I cannot imagine CNZ doing so - but thanks for the report] I can only comment on the visual arts, but I would like to see, (for example), galleries and arts event managers throughout the country reflect on the volume of volunteers that are utilised to deliver the services of their industries. The increase in voluntary work by those seeking to become “creative professionals” documented in the 2019 report is not helpful, indeed a hindrance to developing careers. CNZ’s report should be read as a provocation to actively implement practice solutions from the ground up. 5 Like · Reply · 9h Wells Tao Wells Tao you sign your kids over to a democracy and a democratic economy to have access. There is a contract and you are owed. Like · Reply · 6h Replied to you Dick Frizzell Dick Frizzell Wells Tao Really?! Like · Reply · 6h Replied to Dick Frizzell Wells Tao Wells Tao Dick Frizzell yeah, you might not have noticed. Like · Reply · 6h Replied to Dick Frizzell Wells Tao Wells Tao I had kids recently, was paid a grand each Like · Reply · 6h Replied to Dick Frizzell Wells Tao Wells Tao was rather weird Like · Reply · 6h Wells Tao Wells Tao But does illustrate the point Like · Reply · 6h Replied to Warren Feeney Dick Frizzell Dick Frizzell Warren Feeney There's so much unsaid in all these comments and reports. and that's the difference between the definition of 'artists'. Is a musician busy earning money arranging movie music, and a writer busy writing TV scripts and a Director busy directing them, etc the same as a painter busy painting...on spec as usual...or a novelist writing..on spec again. How can these random occupations and incomes be lumped together under the banner,'The Arts'? They're definitely all creative...and some of it is even art...but...? 3 Like · Reply · 6h · Edited Replied to you Dick Frizzell Dick Frizzell Wells Tao Jesus Wells...if you think that that was a contract you are seriously buggered. Like · Reply · 6h Replied to Dick Frizzell Wells Tao Wells Tao nice debating with you 1 Like · Reply · 6h Replied to Dick Frizzell Wells Tao Wells Tao Dick Frizzell All those different 'arts' get space in a democracy to flourish and articulate themselves, many invested in by the public like the 191 million of tax bucks that went to Lord of the Rings. The problem is capitalist artists like yourself ar…See More 1 Like · Reply · 6h Dick Frizzell Dick Frizzell So...if people respond to your work and invest in it...you've somehow got it wrong? Is that how it works? Like · Reply · 6h Replied to Dick Frizzell Wells Tao Wells Tao Dick Frizzell aw, don't be hurt. Capitalism is a learning curve. You'r on it regardless 2 Like · Reply · 6h