Professional Development

Keeping fresh and focused in a long-term role
Tips and ideas from sector colleagues to keep you inspired in an ongoing role.

Expert advice on starting a creative business
Three successful creative entrepreneurs show the path through the perils and offer tips on how to win at Creative Business…

Understanding your competition
Knowing what other creative practitioners are doing is essential to pitching your own marketing.

Navigating the relationship between artists and publicists
It can difficult for many artists to promote themselves or talk about their creative work as a product. To offer…

What the arts sector can learn from Aristotle
From the funding crisis and art criticism, to the importance of artists in politics, 2400 years on the Greek philosopher…

Overcoming the 10 biggest obstacles to creating
Want to write daily or put paint on canvas but find yourself resisting the habit? Here's how to identify what's…

Taking the pulse of cabaret
Co-Artistic Director of the 2016 Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Eddie Perfect, reflects on the art form’s health and what the festival…

Knowing when it's time to go
Arts industry figures share their stories about knowing when it's time to seek the next challenge, and how to handle…

Sick? Don't push through
A culture of the show must go on means people attend work when they shouldn’t, impacting the health of individuals…

If only I'd known...
Successful writers share what they would tell their younger selves and save you learning from your own experience.