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2. Craftspeople and Designer Makers in the Contemporary Creative Economy

Author

Luckman, Susan and Andrew, Jane

Subjects
Cultural Policy and Politics, Small Business, Australasian Culture, Entrepreneurship, Craft, Designer Makers, Self-employment, Micro-enterprise, Creative Industries, Creative Careers, open access, Politics & government, Cultural studies, Small businesses & self-employed, bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government, bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KJ Business & management::KJV Ownership & organization of enterprises::KJVS Small businesses & self-employed, bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFC Cultural studies
Abstract

This open access book explores the experience of working as a craftsperson or designer maker in the contemporary creative economy. The authors utilise evidence from the only major empirical study to explore the skills required and the challenges facing contemporary makers in an increasingly crowded marketplace. Drawing upon 180 interviews with peak organisations, established and emerging makers, and four years of fieldwork across Australia, this book offers a unique insight into the motivations informing those who seek to make an income from their craft or designer maker practice, as well as the challenges and opportunities facing them as they do so at this time of renewed interest internationally in the artisanal and handmade. Offering a rich and deep collection of real-life experiences, this book is aimed both at an academic and practitioner audience.

Published
2020
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11. Introduction

Author

Luckman, Susan, Andrew, Jane, Luckman, Susan, Series Editor, Taylor, Stephanie, Series Editor, and Andrew, Jane

Published
2020
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15. ‘There’s a lot of luck involved’: Sustaining hope labour amid workplace inequality and precarity as a creative worker

Author

Luckman, Susan, Taylor, Stephanie, Luckman, Susan, and Taylor, Stephanie

Abstract

The challenges of building and sustaining a creative career are well-established, as is the degree to which opportunities are either opened or foreclosed through the complex intersectionality of inequalities. Yet creative aspirants persist in pursuing creative work, sustaining themselves through survival strategies variously theorised as ‘hope labour’ and ‘aspirational labour’. Drawing upon data from an arts mentoring programme, this article explores how ideas of ‘luck’, ‘chance’ and ‘opportunity’ are implicated within such labour as sense-making resources for managing difficulties and justifying persistence in the face of precarity. It argues that the take up of these resources can function as a valuable discursive tool that also contributes to an enabling ‘repertoire of shared myths’ which sustains the career work of artists and many creative workers., Los desafíos de construir y sostener una carrera creativa están bien establecidos, al igual que el grado en que las oportunidades se abren o se excluyen a través de la compleja interseccionalidad de las desigualdades. Sin embargo, los aspirantes creativos persisten en realizar un trabajo creativo, sosteniéndose a sí mismos a través de estrategias de supervivencia teorizadas de diversas formas como “trabajo de esperanza” y “trabajo de aspiración”. Basándose en datos de un programa de tutoría artística, este artículo explora cómo las ideas de “suerte”, “ocasión” y “oportunidad” están implicadas en dicho trabajo como recursos que dan sentido a la gestión de las dificultades y a la justificación de la perseverancia frente a la precariedad. Sostiene que la utilización de estos recursos puede funcionar como una valiosa herramienta discursiva que también contribuye a un “repertorio de mitos compartidos” habilitador que sustenta la carrera profesional de los artistas y de muchos trabajadores creativos.

Published
2024

41. Making bodies, craft skills and the legacies of policy 'blokeism'.

Author

Luckman, Susan

Subjects
*WORKMANSHIP, *OCCUPATIONS, *CULTURE, *CULTURAL studies, *CONSUMPTION (Economics), *POLICY sciences
Abstract

Drawing upon over a decade of research into craft and craft skills in Australia, this article identifies the skills challenges growing within the Australian making ecosystem. Bringing together qualitative and quantitative research findings, it finds that one sector, building and construction, dominates the occupational landscape, at the expense of a richer, more diverse and future-ready skills base. The article argues that what, why and how we make, or how we support making through our consumption decisions, is one of the key ethical challenges facing us today, and one that requires major cultural shifts. Therefore, re-imagining, re-forming and revolutionizing our relationships to the cultures, and thus practices, of making is one of the core challenges facing the world today, and one, following Haraway that cultural studies needs to stay with the trouble of. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2023
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46. Mentor=Mentee: a creative relationship (Final Report)

Author

Luckman, Susan (University of South Australia) and Luckman, Susan

Subjects
mentor, creative practice, arts, mentoring, artist, mentee
Abstract

This final research report produced by UniSA is the outcome of a four-year study that encompassed rich qualitative research with mentor and mentee participants in the Catapult program 2018-20 in addition to a cohort of artists who had participated in Guildhouse/Craft South mentorship initiatives since the year 2000. Given the tumultuousness of recent years, this study offers an important insight into the challenges artists are facing to realise their creative and professional ambitions, and the unique role funded mentorships like Catapult play in empowering artists to meet the gaps that are becoming ever more evident in artistic career development in Australia. Refereed/Peer-reviewed

Published
2022
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