Where does the ‘starving artist’ live now? At least in the developed world, the cost of living, particularly housing, with all its attendant pressures, has made the freedom to make art almost unachievable for someone from a middle or lower class background. The cost of higher education completes this pressure. If an artist, of whatever kind, receives training through school, they will leave school with half a lifetime of debt. The starving artist isn’t starving anymore. They are working as an assistant lecturer or assistant curator, getting paid little, and working on their own art as much as they can on the weekends. Unfortunately even relative success no longer offers little monetary compensation. The struggle for the artist now isn’t to eat: it’s simply to continue making art.