Artist
Create visual art, such as paintings or illustrations, expressing ideas and emotions through a chosen medium.
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- What's it like to be an Artist?
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- Top skills and experience for Artists
- Artist role reviews
What's it like to be an Artist?
Artists use their creativity and skills to produce visual or auditory pieces that often convey a thought, feeling or message. This might include various mediums like painting, sculpture, music, performance art, or digital design, depending on the artist's specialty. Artists often display their works in galleries, perform at events, or sell their creations to collectors or businesses.
Tasks and duties
- Creating two-dimensional or three-dimensional forms to realise and explore ideas.
- Generating artwork based on commissions or briefs by clients, or the artist's own creative desires.
- Participating in applying for grants and residencies, exhibiting and selling work at galleries, stores, festivals and museums.
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Skills and experience employers are looking for
Having the right skills and experience can make you an in-demand applicant. Artist employers on SEEK are looking for job seekers with expertise in the following areas. Autodesk 3ds Max
Visual Effects
Rendering
3D Graphics
Texturing
Adobe Photoshop
Creative Ability
3D Modelling
Creative Thinking
Autodesk Revit
Architectural Design
Linux
Feature Films
V-Ray
Video Games
Simulations
Architectural Industry
Unreal Engine
Animation
Architectural Drawings
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Latest Artist reviews
Nov 2024
Good
Reviewer's QualificationDiploma of Arts
Experience1 – 4 years
Organisation sizeSmall (1-19 employees)
SpecialisationAdvertising, Arts & Media
The good thingsChoosing my own hours
Work is fun
The challengesNot paid enough
Unpredictability
Can be physically hard
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