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I still carry with me the gloom laden prognostications of art school lecturers when talking to their students about their prospects of success as artists: ‘It’s highly unlikely that any of you will ever make it’. Ideas of ‘making it’ are of course very subjective. It’s true that visual artists rarely attract the kind of celebrity and adoration that is enjoyed by our best known performing artists, but there are a respectable number of visual artists and designers whose work commands very high prices and who are sought as dinner party guests by the social A league.