It has been a tough year in the art world in 2023. Strikes brought things to a standstill in the entertainment industry, change in the social media landscape has continued to diminish artists’ online presence, and the galloping progress of generative AI, which has impacted incomes and created anxiety about the future.
So, as the year draws to a close, we spoke to a range of artists about how they think these challenges will unfold in 2024, the intentions they’re setting for themselves, and their hopes for the upcoming year.
Among the group, there’s a trend growing towards returning to the basic elements at the core of one’s creativity and focusing on personal work. Illustrator Amelia Leonards puts it like this: “It’s time to imbue our work with as much personality and humanity as possible. Anybody can click a button and generate an image scraped from stolen art, so it’s important to show why we’re driven to create.”
THE EVOLVING THREAT
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