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Hello my name is Katy Fryd and I am an artist and author and illustrator of the Cat Inspector
children's book and I'm making these videos to give you some advice on what to do when
you are starting out as an artist um so I hope this is helpful this video today is about
insurance and how you should have insurance er to protect you from being sued if say a
painting falls on somebody's head at one of your exhibitions or something like that I
use, there are probably a few companies out there but I use the artist's network which
you can search for as artist network or I think sometimes they write it as an a dash
n so if you search for them when you subscribe to them erm it's about forty pounds a year
or a little bit less to subscribe to their online magazine erm and or their community
but you get a free insurance which is like a basic insurance to cover you as an artist
for various things you can have a look at what it covers you for if you need something
a little bit more specific you can actually erm pay a little bit extra to get extra insurance
on top of that for particular projects and things like that erm but it is quite a good
basic insurance and you get that completely free with the subscription that you will have
paid for the magazine erm but also when you subscribe to the artists network you can also
get information about jobs and opportunities which are national so even international so
where I've said in a previous video about joining a local group to you to build your
confidence up in exhibiting and also to have the opportunity to do various exhibitions
in your locality er the artists network is great for exhibitions that you might want
to take you further away or awards competitions all sorts of things like that even artists
residencies and there are various other things so it can take you abroad and all sorts of
things like that so I would say it is definitely worth going and having a look I'll put a link
below erm to the artists network to help you find it and yeah go and have a look and really
do consider it because although I don't know of anyone whose tried to sue me for anything
if something did happen then at least you are covered up to a certain amount ok hope
that helps thank you very much, bye!