artnewsNEW ZEALAND tertiary 2017 art courses Harmony Repia, Lachie Philipson Art in the real world hen I graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Elam Happily, more than three decades later, the art world Win 1982, the chance of making a living from your work, to be referred to as an ‘industry’, no different from, say, not impossible. constructionis now well and or agriculture, truly professionalised as a ‘profession’. – it’s justNow as dealers likely or Igetting remember a job ingoing an arts to related the Department field, was extremely of Labour slim (the – if sharks, looking for the hottest young artists and offering seeker boards with a sinking heart. 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