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Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 15h

Congrats! This is really cool

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Catriona Menzies-Pike @catrionamp.bsky.social · 1d

What’s this? Yet more research concluding that robust public investment in the arts yields economic benefits?

A great outcome for Ireland, and a rebuke to all those tired cliches about freeloading artists sapping the resources of the state.

But also, art enriches us all, economic benefits or no.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 3d

tea is just a never ending loop of oh look here's one I prepared earlier

Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 3d

Visiting mum's. She has a frog in her watering can, long term resident, her name is Constance

Macro photo of frog wedged tight in the spout of a plastic watering can, eyes only just visible

Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 4d

cannot tell you how good it was to get in the water today

beach at dusk with a little pink to the clouds

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Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social · 4d

Mike Hewson’s The Key is Under the Mat - occupying the Tank at AGNSW for the next year - water, play, steam, sauna, bbq…in the gallery…

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Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 5d

Everytime I come across Ian Fairweather's story I'm just

Screenshot of the AGNSW artist bio for abstract painter Ian Fairweather:

"A turning point in Fairweather’s life and work occurred in 1952 when he undertook a sixteen-day journey by raft from Darwin to Roti, Indonesia, during which he nearly perished. Held by Indonesian authorities for three months, he was deported to Singapore and then to England, where he dug ditches to raise money to return to Australia, settling on Bribie Island off the coast of Queensland.

On Bribie Island Fairweather built a thatched hut and, living as a hermit, continued to paint until his death in 1974, producing some of the most significant works of his idiosyncratic career."

Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 5d

Ok that is cool, little lit goes big 🔥

Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 5d

It's been a good week. Nothing big, just small good things. Making pizzas with the kids. Kindness from others. Watching the whales go by 💙

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Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 6d

Jeez good there are still nice people in the world. Fingers crossed it is an easy fix

Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 6d

Urf what a pain. Hope you weren't too far from town when that happened, and that a mechanic can get you back on the road soon

Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 6d

Oh no!

Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 7d

Madeline Pfull, The Twist I, 2024 ❤️📚

Exhibited in 'Disturbances' at Chalkhorse, Sydney
www.chalkhorse.com.au/artists/made...

Madeline Pfull's The Twist I is a cartoonish, exagerrated painting of a middle aged woman in an embroidered jacket smoking a cigarette and reading an Agatha Christie novel

Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 7d

I'm so sorry 💔

Artists Shouldn’t Need to Become Content Creators to Get Fair Pay - Electric Literature

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 8d

“Most writers are not really sold—they’re told, implicitly or explicitly, to sell themselves.” (@ilanaslightly.bsky.social)

Under capitalism, those of us who want a career in the arts feel pressured to sell ourselves. But making art and marketing it are very different skills

buff.ly

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Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 9d

Ah that's interesting thanks Michelle, you're right. Looks like launched in 2016 with s&s as partners. And 2024 was the first global anthology

I do remember seeing that anthology in Big W. Maybe it does get sales??

Our 2025 Charity Partner is CAMFED — The Hope Prize

Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 9d

I'm not sure what to make of The Hope Prize. Run by Simon & Shuster, 100% of royalties from the anthology are donated to charity... but how do they calculate their own royalties? Would it not have been more transparent to just commit a percentage of the (very steep!) $30 entry fee??

The Hope Prize is a global short story prize that connects great storytelling with real-world impact. Shortlisted stories are published in an anthology by Simon & Schuster Australia, with royalties do...

www.thehopeprize.com

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Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 9d

I've found it, the perfect Monday poem

Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 11d

"This desk is a ping-pong ball with something alive inside it.
This desk is in a lion's mouth.
This desk is made of something called wood, I think."

"Hot-Desking" by @maxminckler.bsky.social, new poetry out today at OKD. 📝

Hot-Desking by Maxwell Minckler

Happy Monday, Gary! Gary is one of the interns stuck to the giant strip of sticky tape hanging over the snacks. Morning full-timer! he buzzes furiously with his one free arm, revolving away like a …

okaydonkeymag.com

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Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 10d

Superhighway day 💙🐋🌊

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Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 11d

it's probably not good for us but in my defence I often genuinely can't tell the difference between a form rejection from a nice journal and actual tiered responses. Makes my little brain implode

www.rejectionwiki.com/index.php?ti...

Literary Journals and Rejections - Rejection Wiki

www.rejectionwiki.com