Artist
Create visual art, such as paintings or illustrations, expressing ideas and emotions through a chosen medium.
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What's it like to be an Artist?
Artists use their creativity and skills to produce visual or auditory pieces that often convey a thought, feeling or message. This might include various mediums like painting, sculpture, music, performance art, or digital design, depending on the artist's specialty. Artists often display their works in galleries, perform at events, or sell their creations to collectors or businesses.
Tasks and duties
- Creating two-dimensional or three-dimensional forms to realise and explore ideas.
- Generating artwork based on commissions or briefs by clients, or the artist's own creative desires.
- Participating in applying for grants and residencies, exhibiting and selling work at galleries, stores, festivals and museums.
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