Tickets open on Tuesday 3 November at midday UK time.
Early bird: £199 until midday on Thursday 5 November, then £215.
165 seats in the Great Room.
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Friday 29 January 2027 at the Royal Society of Arts, London, and live online
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Tickets open on Tuesday 3 November 2026 at midday UK time.
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Four talks on the business of being an artist: pricing your work, building an audience, working with galleries and winning funding. One room of working artists, and a plan you take home.
165 seats in the Great Room, and 500+ artists already on the waitlist.
You already make the work. What nobody hands you is the rest of it: what to charge, who to tell, which doors to knock on and where the money is.
For one day, we hand you all of it. You walk in with the questions you have carried for years. You walk out knowing exactly what to do on Monday morning.
Creative Flair Live, hosted by James Carter
Every session is built around the things you have searched for at midnight and never found a straight answer to. Practical, honest, and ready to use the next morning.
How to set prices you can stand behind, raise them with confidence and say them out loud without flinching.
What actually grows a following that buys your work, from someone who built one to 248,000 people.
How galleries choose artists, how to approach them, and what to expect once you are in.
Where the money is, how to write applications that get funded, and which deadlines to plan your year around.
A panel of working artists and arts professionals, and the floor is yours for the questions you came with.
Panel guests are announced soon.
Painter, founder of Creative Flair and author of VISIBLE. James has spent years helping working artists get seen, get funded and get paid, and he built an audience of 248,000 people doing it.
He hosts the day and leads the talks, with no slides full of theory and nothing held back. Just what works, what does not, and what to do next.
Also speaking
A Zimbabwean artist, Afro expressionist painter, art psychotherapist and activist based in London, and the host of the Get Help podcast.
Charmaine didn’t set out to be an artist. She worked in graphic design and then IT, trained as an art psychotherapist, and found painting along the way. Her big, bright work on politics, memory, mental health and the Black experience has since been picked as a Director’s Choice on Saatchi Art. On the day she shares how she got here, and then the floor is yours.
Working artists and arts professionals who have done the thing you are trying to do.
Since 1754, the Royal Society of Arts has backed the people who make things. It staged Britain’s first exhibition of contemporary art in 1760, helped pave the way for the Royal Academy, and counted Benjamin Franklin, Charles Dickens and Marie Curie among its members.
On 29 January, it is yours for the day. You take your seat in the Great Room, designed by Robert and James Adam, beneath James Barry’s monumental paintings The Progress of Human Knowledge and Culture, with a Gainsborough and a Reynolds looking on. When the talks end, we go down to the Vaults beneath the house for drinks with the room.
The Royal Society of Arts, 8 John Adam Street, London WC2N 6EZ, a few minutes from Charing Cross and Embankment. Lunch is yours to find on the Strand.
A printed Creative Flair Live workbook for every guest, with a pen to fill it in as you go. Virtual guests have theirs posted, plus the PDF.
Every talk, recorded, in your attendee hub from Monday 1 February. Watch it again whenever you need the reminder.
A Great Room full of working artists who take their practice as seriously as you do, and two hours of drinks to meet them.
Bring your copy along and James will sign it during the drinks.
Tickets open on Tuesday 3 November at midday UK time. For the first 48 hours every ticket is at the early bird price, and everyone on the waitlist keeps it after that.
Early bird prices end at midday on Thursday 5 November. Everyone who joined the waitlist keeps them after that.
One ticket per person, no booking fees. Waitlist members keep the £199 and £59 prices with the code WAITLIST at checkout.
In the Great Room at the Royal Society of Arts, London
£199£215
Early bird and waitlist price
Live from the Royal Society of Arts, wherever you are
£59£65
Early bird and waitlist price
One ticket per person. No booking fees. Ticket terms
Your waitlist price is applied. Book with the email address you joined the waitlist with.
Tickets open on Tuesday 3 November at midday UK time. Join the waitlist and we will email you the moment they are live, and you keep the early bird price, £199 in person or £59 online, even after the early bird ends.
Everyone who joined the waitlist before tickets opened keeps the early bird price, £199 in person and £59 online, even after the early bird ends. Use the link in your email, or the code WAITLIST at checkout with the email address you joined with.
Ticket holders get the full running order by email by 10 January, and in their attendee hub too. Doors open at 9.15am, the talks run from 10am to 4.30pm, and drinks are from 5pm to 7pm.
Tickets are non refundable, but you can pass yours to someone else. Just email us their name and email address by Friday 22 January. Read the ticket terms
Book an online ticket by Friday 18 December and your printed workbook arrives by 10 January. Book by Friday 8 January and it’s posted straight away, so it reaches you before the day; after that, your printed copy follows after the event. Overseas post can take a few days longer. Online tickets also include the PDF workbook, which arrives by email by 10 January with your Zoom link and the running order. In person guests collect their printed copy at registration.
Yes. Every ticket includes the replay of every talk, in your attendee hub from Monday 1 February.
No. There is a long lunch break and plenty of places nearby on the Strand. Food bought outside cannot be eaten inside the building.
Each ticket is for one person, so each person books their own. That way everyone gets their own ticket, badge and emails.
Tell us when you book, or email [email protected], and we will work with the venue to help.
Creative Flair, the platform for working artists behind The Public Canvas billboard programme and the book VISIBLE, founded and run by painter James Carter.
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