how to survive in aberdeen as a creative

• we all know someone who is a complete fanny but is getting paid like a gazzilion £s a month at some oil company for doing relatively little work and taking 3 hour lunch breaks. TRY, if you can, to find comfort in the fact that they are STILL a complete fanny

• your studio is not aberdeen. it's not the outside world

• if you can't find artists to talk to in real life, live most of your life online, in a chat window.

• don't make shit, safe art whatever you do

• remember if you can make it in aberdeen (and I don't mean sell paintings or become part of the 'scene' here. I mean, carry on working and making good art/trying to survive financially as a creative) you can do it anywhere. this has to one of the hardest places to work and feel valued as an artist

• remember some people do give a shit and together you're probably going to be the most proactive artists because you have to fucking be to get anything done in this city

• money is shit. just erase your bills and get on with making stuff and hanging out with the right people

• the oil might run out and we'll be a fishing town again and our rent will get cheaper and we'll have fish and chips all the time