You and your art business experience risks ALL THE TIME
​You can also manage them.

​The importance of a risk - and its potential impact on your art business depends on
whether it’s likely to happen and ​how severe the impact would be on the success of your art business
– in both creative and financial terms.
​Who is this guide for?

This PDF guide (below) is for people wanting to know more about how to manage the business risks of being an artist

How to reduce your exposure to risk and loss
- and avoid a negative impact on your art business
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This FREE 5 page guide:
  • outlines risk assessment and risk management processes that enable you as an artist to reduce and better manage risks to your art business
  • enables an artist to get a much better appreciation of the relative importance and priority of the different risks you are exposed to and how these might be tackled.

RISK ASSESSMENT
  • Identify all the risks you’re running
  • Identify their relative level of importance
  • Analyse the probability of the risk actually occurring
RISK MANAGEMENT
  • Rank the likelihood and importance of different risks to determine priorities
  • Devise a plan to reduce the likelihood of all major risks occurring
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Banner Image: A tropical cyclone - Astronaut Ed Lu captured this broad view of Hurricane Isabel from the International Space Station.
​Source: Wikimedia Commons

Download FREE - Guide to Managing Art Business Risks for Artists

The following publication is
  • available as a pdf file
  • this can be downloaded for free for personal educational use only ​ (see copyright notice).
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"Managing Business Risks" describes an approach which can be used by artists to identify, assess, address, manage, reduce and mitigate their art business risks
NOTE: This guide was first published on my Making A Mark website in 2008.
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COPYRIGHT
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You may NOT copy or use any of the guides for commercial purposes in a workshop or in any other fee-paying context.  
If you wish to use these free publications for commercial purposes you MUST contact Katherine Tyrrell for  licence and details about fee rates
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IMPORTANT - DISCLAIMER
 
Please note that although I have professional experience in using risk management practices I am not formally engaged in offering professional advice and therefore I take no responsibility for and have no liability in relation to your reliance on the information here. 
Most of the people writing on the internet, like me, are sharing their experiences and offering their opinions. 
It's up to you to make sure your research is thorough enough for your purposes.  If you need to secure professional advice then I suggest you contact and contract with an appropriate professional.