Greens pitch artist’s wage (again)

10,000 artists and arts workers could receive nearly $800 a week for one year based off the Greens' latest pledge.

10 May 2022

Celina Lei

Performing Arts

Living wage for artists may be a policy unicorn for the Greens. Image Annie Spratt via Unsplash.

The Greens announced on 7 May a funding program titled the Artist’s Wage which proposes to supplement up to 10,000 artists and arts workers a living wage for one year.

Part of a $277.5 million funding package and the Greens’ arts policy, the program would see artists receiving $772.60 per week to pursue their creative work.

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Celina Lei is an arts writer and editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne.