Artists & Illustrators

The late and long-neglected British painter Sargy Mann seems to be having something of a moment of late. Ex-pupil Chantal Joffe curated a collection of his late paintings at the Royal Drawing School earlier this year, award-winning author Olivia Lain

About seven years ago, I was asked to speak at a conference for creative entrepreneurs. The woman who ran the conference was an acquaintance I’d known socially in San Francisco, where I lived at the time. I used to run into her at nearly every event

There are more freelancers than in any other time in history. In the past few years alone, there has been an extraordinary boom in the self-employed, remote-working, hot-desking culture. The chances are that, if you are going into the creative indust

Visual Arts Scotland and the Society of Scottish Artists have joined forces to stage the biggest show of contemporary art in Scotland for a second time. Enter for the chance to feature in the Edinburgh exhibition and win a range of prizes. www.s-s-a.

God. I thought working in the arts would be more fun that it is. I thought it would be more creative too, more accessible. For some reason I thought it would have better politics than other industries, and even be a bit VIBEY to use the language of t

How did you start? I grew up in Brighton and me and my friends panicked about what we were going to do after A levels. We stayed to do an art foundation at the city college. When I was 20, I went to Manchester Metropolitan Uni to study illustration