Date Wednesday 09 April 2025
Location Live online, not recorded, hosted on Microsoft Teams
Overview
Once you leave uni it can be overwhelming thinking about how you can continue your practice and pay your rent.
Artist Lu Williams (they/them) has spent the last 10 years post art school finding ways to pay their rent whilst not giving up on their dreams, finding out what their boundaries are, and staying afloat while not giving into the conveyor belt of corporate jobs.
In this workshop we will:
- Break down how to get paid, and who typically does the paying
- Look at a good month of £££ and a bad month of £££ and how to make freelance life work for you
- Delve into the push and pull of applying to things verses making yourself look approachable for work
We will:
- Go through a checklist of what you need to start off
- Breakdown application lingo and find where to apply
- Look at an example breakdown of a budget for an application
- Look at the right websites for opportunities / grants / residencies
Go through:
- rates of pay
- what to put on an invoice
- how to charge late payments
- what to put in a contract
+ lots of other industry gossip because Lu loves a full disclosure and wants you to not make the same mistakes they did!
Hope to see you there! - Lu
Joining info: Open to UAL students only. Book your free ticket now to reserve your place in this online workshop. This event will be held online via Microsoft Teams, which can be accessed using your UAL login details. Please note this event won’t be recorded, so we’d love for you to join us live at 3pm.
Facilitator bio:
Lu Williams is an artist living and working in Southend. They use research and community engagement to produce zines, print, sculpture, drawing, writing, events and workshops. Lu is interested in social history, accessibility, labour, DIY culture and protest and explores them through a personal experience of queerness and working class culture.
In 2015, they founded Grrrl Zine Fair, which platforms womxn, trans and non-binary artists and zine makers through workshops, events, Grrrl Zine Library (based at The Old Waterworks, Southend) and Grrrl In Print zine. In 2021, they co-founded Dog Ear, a place for sculptural dog toys and artist publishing. In 2024, they co-founded Care Contractors, a collective working with councils and commissioners to protect and produce public art works.
Website: https://luwilliams.com/
Instagram: @luwilliamsdotcom