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01 Aug 2024

Jack Gamble: Creatives are relying on jobs outside of the arts to survive

Article
by
Katie Chambers

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Campaign for the Arts director Jack Gamble has highlighted how creatives are having to rely on multiple sources of income due to an inability to earn a living from their art.

He also highlighted the disproportionate challenge for artists who do not “come from money”.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Money Box, Gamble said that, for early-career artists, spending money on their creative work rather than profiting from it was a “norm”.

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