United Kingdom

This six-week online course supports visual artists in developing, revisiting or rethinking their professional practice on their own terms. Whether you’re starting out, returning to your practice, or planning your next steps, Making a Buck Without Selling Out offers a critical and supportive space to build momentum and develop strategies rooted in your values.

Together we’ll explore how to define success for yourself—beyond visibility metrics or institutional recognition. We’ll look at ways to communicate your practice, apply for funding, find or create opportunities, and sustain your work without reshaping it to fit the market. We’ll also consider how to care for your practice (and yourself), in a system that demands constant productivity.

Camden Council is seeking to engage artists working with light or lens-based media, drawing and performance for its Drawing with Light activities and event towards the end of October 2025 (date to be confirmed). The event celebrates the new pedestrianisation scheme for Camden High Street as part of its cultural programme, promoting the walking spaces between the High Street, the Regent’s Canal at Hawley Wharf and Camden Markets, and is part of the Big Draw festival. The event also aims to encourage the use of the Regent’s Canal as an alternative walking and cycling route.

The total event budget is £16,000 inclusive of all expenditure. Artists’ fees will depend on experience and achievements in these fields, and based on a guide rate of £300 per day.