Artonomics, where artists discuss making art and making money.

Artists Hetain Patel and Yasmin Falahat discuss their experiences of selling work – from online shops and social media to commercial galleries. They talk about self-worth, the monetary value of their artworks and labour, and how to find balance between paying the bills and sustaining creativity. Hosted by artist and curator Cathy Lomax.

A collaboration between SPACE and a-n. Recorded remotely in June 2022.

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The experiences, views, opinions and recommendations presented in the podcast are the speakers’ own. The content does not constitute professional, financial or legal advice from SPACE or a-n and any reliance on it is at the listener’s own risk.

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Host

Cathy Lomax is a London-based artist, the founder of Transition Gallery and the editor of Arty and Garageland magazines. She is currently researching the role of makeup and artifice in the creation of the Hollywood female star image for a PhD at Queen Mary University of London. Cathy’s paintings and installations assimilate the seductive imagery of film, fame and fashion, juxtaposing it with personal narratives and the everyday. Her particular interests are femininity, masquerade and the way that popular culture is constructed, consumed and related to. In 2014 Cathy was an Abbey Painting Fellow at The British School at Rome and in 2016 she won The Contemporary British Painting Prize. Her 2017 solo exhibition The Blind Spot is profiled by Matt Price in The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting. Recent exhibitions include Star Bar, Broadway Cinema, Letchworth Garden City (ongoing), The Immaculate Dream, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London (2019) and Dear Christine, Vane Gallery, Newcastle (and touring) (2019).

Guests

Hetain Patel is a London-based visual artist and performance maker. His work exploring identity and freedom, using choreography, text and popular culture, appears in multiple formats and media, in order to reach the widest possible audience. His live performances, films, sculptures, and photographs have been shown on public screens at Piccadilly Circus, and Times Square, and presented at Tate Modern, Venice Biennale, and Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing. His video and performance works online have been watched over 50 million times, which includes his TED talk of 2013 titled, ‘Who Am I? Think Again’. Hetain is represented by Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, is a Patron of QUAD, Derby, and a trustee of the Liverpool Biennial. He is the winner of the Film London Jarman Award, 2019, and in 2021 he received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Artist Award, declined a British Empire Medal, and was selected for British Art Show 9, which is touring the UK until December 2022. Hetain is also a member of a-n’s artist council and this series about artists and money was his idea.

Yasmin Falahat is a London-based multi-disciplinary artist and ceramicist with an Iranian and Turkish Cypriot heritage. After graduating from studying a BA in Textile Design at Chelsea College of Art in 2014 and doing various creative jobs, Yasmin did a short ceramics course in 2018 and started selling her ceramics later that year. Yasmin designs, makes and glazes each piece by hand and her pomegranate and fig ceramics, inspired by her mixed heritage, have been featured in Real Homes Magazine, Living Etc, Homes & Antiques, The Observer Food Monthly, Mollie Makes and Olive Magazine.