How to Enter the Art World...: AFTER a late start / a first career / raising children / caring for parents / recovering from illness / a crisis of confidence / leaving it in disgust.

A guide for anyone whose trajectory through the art world isn't a smooth upward curve, based on years of research with art professionals.

The commercial art world is powered by a convenient fiction: that artists' careers proceed along an established route, onwards and upwards, with always the same goal in sight. It is also notoriously hard to re-enter after time away. Based on years spent talking with artists and arts professionals, How to Enter the Art World... is a compendium of guidelines...