Career Advice

How to create your ideal artistic life
Mary de Ruyter talks to two artists and asks them how their enviable creative life.

So you want my arts job: Circus Rigger
Working behind the scenes in the circus sector isn’t for everyone, but if you have a good head for heights…

Breaking out of a creative rut
If you work in the arts, at some point you’re bound to experience the dreaded rut. Kathryn Burnett has some…

Welcoming a newbie to the office (from the archives)
Giving new recruits a login and showing them where the toilets are is not enough to make them productive employees.

Production skills to go from film/TV to games and back again
Screenhub gets the lowdown on working in production in film, television and videogames from two producers who've done it all.

'Keeping it real' on social media
With over 80,000 followers, internationally-renowned New Zealand artist Mr G (AKA Graham Hoete) knows a thing or two about social…

So you want my arts job: Rights Manager
In the latest 'so you want my arts job,' Artshub talks to Allen & Unwin's Rights Manager about getting started…

Join the self-publishing revolution
No publisher? No problem, says one of New Zealand’s most prolific and profitable authors.

9 techniques for generating game changing ideas (from the archives)
From group drawing to dissident behaviour, stealing innovation to tricking the brain into being creative, Nicole Velik of The Ideas…

Thinking China – how to market to shifting tourism needs
The Chinese-speaking market is perhaps the greatest untapped audience for the arts. Charmaine Wong of Think China Australia tells us…