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Tag: Artist

Working for Raffle Tickets: An Argument for the Basic Income for the Arts

June 17, 2025
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There are a lot of misconceptions about the arts, and more specifically the careers of professional artists, in Ireland. Public perception tends to be dominated by the tiny percentage of the most visible artists, and people’s assumptions based on the public image that artists have to portray. This article runs over some of the same ground that I’ve covered…

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Between the Dark and the Light

November 29, 2011
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I still take on illustration jobs and private commissions, but it’s rare enough that I get the time to do some decent painting, so when a guy I owed a big favour to asked me to do an A3 poster of a role-playing game he’d run with his mates, based in the Star Wars universe, I thought I’d record…

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