Dublin City Council Arts Office is responsible only for the payment of work it has specifically assigned and agreed in advance with the artist.
Payment: €50 per contact hour / €20 per preparation hour (number of hours to be agreed with Arts Office in advance of programme). This rate applies to ‘one-off’ workshops. An extended workshop programme rate will need to be negotiated on a project by project basis.
Assistant Artist: Applicants may indicate on the application form if they wish to be considered for artists’ assistant work from time to time. Assistant Artist rate is €20 per hour.
At the Arts, Culture, Leisure and Community SPC meeting of 27th November, 2013, the following motion was proposed by Noel Kelly, Director of Visual Artists Ireland and agreed by the Strategic Policy Committee.
The motion presented here is to ask Dublin City Council to put in place a policy that artists, in all art forms undertaking work commissioned or otherwise undertaken on behalf of Dublin City Council are paid in an equitable manner, and that a further policy is put in place requiring any organisation or group applying for funding from Dublin City Council to clearly show that artists employed as part of the applicants projects are paid in an equitable manner as a condition of the funding provision.
This motion is now part of Dublin City Council Policy in relation to the payment of artists.
To ensure the above motion can pass into practice, a supplementary protocol was requested.
