This session will explore the current funding landscapes and how you can support your creative practice.
We will hear from Medeia Cohan Petrolino from Good Authority Consultant and Muralist, Visual Artist, and GSA Graduate, Molly Hankinson, to discover strategies that creative practitioners adopt to support their work, including portfolio building, applying to funding streams, securing commissions, and advice on getting appropriately paid for the work you do.
Guest Speakers:
Molly Hankinson is a Glasgow-based artist from London. Her work interrogates and celebrates ‘safe spaces and the people who occupy them’, weaving narratives of collective gendered experiences into her bright, bold and unapologetic artworks. Overall, Molly is particularly interested in how her art can evoke a feeling, offer comfort, and serve as sites of power. She has painted at mural festivals across the UK and Europe, exhibited in group shows across the UK and has artworks as part of private collections in the UK, Ireland and the US. Selected clients include Tramway, The Glasgow School of Art, The Body Shop, Chivas Regal, the FA and SFA, and Lucozade.
Medeia Cohan-Petrolino is a fundraising expert who specialises in helping artists and organisations turn big ideas into reality. She has raised major investment for ambitious cultural projects, built innovative patron programmes, and created partnerships that open doors to new opportunities. A natural connector, Medeia believes fundraising is less about asking for money and more about building meaningful relationships and shared purpose. She has taught these skills internationally, encouraging creative people to see fundraising as not only possible, but as an essential part of sustaining their practice.
