Artists' age and location
The Australia Council artists survey, Don't give up your day job, collected information relating to practising professional artists in Australia.
The survey included full-time and part-time artists; employed and self-employed artists; and artists regardless of whether all, some or none of their income was from art practice.
The survey did not include artists whose primary involvement was in design (furniture, interior, fashion, industrial, architectural or graphic); artists working primarily in the film industry; or Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists working in remote Indigenous communities.
According to Don't give up your day job, the mean age of practising professional artists is about 46 years. This is older than the average non-arts worker, aged 40 years.
Because most major arts infrastructure tends to be located in capital cities, about three-quarters of Australian artists live in capital cities, compared to about 64 per cent of the general population aged 15 years and over.
Following is a breakdown of the location of Australian artists:
- capital cities - 73 per cent
- regional towns or cities - 13 per cent
- semi-rural locations - 9 per cent
- rural or remote locations - 5 per cent.
Source
Links
Australia Council, 2005, Artswork2: a report on Australians working in the arts.
Australian Bureau of Statistics, Employment in Culture, 2006 (cat. no. 6273.0).
Australian Bureau of Statistics, Arts and Culture in Australia: A Statistical Overview, 2009, Census of Population and Housing (cat. no. 4172.0).
| Author | Australia Council for the Arts |
|---|---|
| Year | 2008 |
| ISBN/ISSN | N/A |
| Hard copy available? | No |
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