Week 9 focuses on the realities of sustaining an independent creative practice through contracts, commissions, professional conduct, and diversified income streams.

I conducted a structured interview with Karen Ghostlaw, business partner, CEO of The Pictorial List Inc., and Gallery Director of Pictorial Foundation, to gain insight into our collaborative practice and organisational direction.

We visited both the Art Gallery of New South Wales and White Bay Power Station, two exhibition sites operating within the Biennale program.

Many artists today operate as independent workers or sole traders, managing their own creative practice as both artists and small business owners.

Interviewing industry professionals is an important research method in the creative industries because it allows artists and practitioners to gain insight into professional practice, decision making, and lived experience within the field.

In the creative industries, artists, designers, producers, and cultural organisations often work together to develop projects, share knowledge, and reach wider audiences.

The creative industries are currently experiencing rapid change due to technological developments, new economic models, and shifting audience behaviours.

On 6 December 2025 I visited The Venus of a New Age: Celebrating a Century of Art Deco at the Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka.

Cultural policy, institutional systems, and organisational purpose all intersect to shape how art is produced, exhibited, and experienced.