Beer
Money Commission #2
Artistic
vision
The artist has been selected for this commission on the basis of their
past work, for this commission they will be give a free hand as to the
nature of the work they produce with the following conditions:
1. It will
be consistent with their previous practice in terms of artistic quality
2. It will be an accurate reflection on the time and money spent on
the work
3. It will not undermine the general artistic programme of MILL-WORKERS
or any of its funders
The artist
is free to sub-contract parts of the production of this work providing
that this is consistent with the nature of their practice.
Budget
The recommended daily rate for an artist with 5 years experience is
£222.48(i) this works out at £27.81 per hour or 0.007725p
per second.
The total
budget for the commission is £31.98 this means that the time allocated
to complete the commission is 4139 seconds (approximately 69 minutes)
There are
no concrete guidelines as to whether materials and research should be
covered by the commissioning body or by the artist. The commission will
follow one of two possible models based on discussion with the artist.
a) All inclusive;
materials costs and research time are to be factored into the commission.
In which case the artwork will belong to MILL-WORKERS. In this case
a budget is proposed as follows.
Research:
28.8% or 1192secs or £9.21(ii)
Production: 28.5% or 1180secs or £9.12
Materials budget: 25% or 1035secs or £7.99
Auditing: 17.7% or 732secs or £5.66(iii)
A leeway
of 3% would be expected in these figures.
b) Purely
production; the allocated time is to be spent SOLELY on the production
of the work (this would include a reasonable amount of ‘thinking
time’ as would be expected as part of the production process)
all research, materials and auditing would be external to this process
and would be covered by the artist as part of their practice. In which
case the artwork will remain the property of the artist (subject to
certain contractual conditions)(iv)
Payment
of fees
60% of the fee will be paid to the artist on the signing of the contract
(with the production of a valid invoice) the balance will be paid on
production of a full audit.
NB
All negotiations and discussions or time that the artist spends on preparing
or researching the commissioned work prior to the signing of the contract
are not no be included in the cost of the project.
Acknowledgement
The figures used to produce this document were taken from the a-n publication
Artists Fees and Payments – Good Practice in Paying Artists, with
supporting information from the website www.a-n.co.uk and are consistent
with the best practice guidelines laid out by a-n(v).
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(i) Based
on £10K a year, in line with a-n guidelines Feb 05 with 3% inflation
added. The lower recommended figure, as opposed to the higher figure
of £15K, is used as MILL-WORKERS is a small, low income organisation
(ii) This figure is derived from the suggestion that an artist should
spend 15 days a year on R&D to maintain their practice (outside
of the 177 working days suggested)
(iii) This figure is derived from the suggestion that an artist should
spend 10 days a year on administration (as part of the 177 working days)
(iv) These will concern the future exhibiting of the work and the crediting
of the role of MILL-WORKERS in the production process and will be negotiated
as part of the contract
(v) Owing to OFT guidelines ACE is not allowed to recommend rates of
pay for artists it does however recommend a-n as a source of information
on the payment of fees to artists.
Beer
Money Commision #2 Contract
Andrew
Bracey's Report
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