As a working-class creative do you feel alone in your practice and would like to meet other people like you? To collaborate and discuss your idea with your fellow peers? To meet people in the field to get advice or even just where to start being a freelance creative.

The proportion of working-class creatives in the UK has shrunk by half since the 1970s. The Analysis of Office for National Statistics data found that 16.4% of creative workers born between 1953 and 1962 had a working-class background, but that fell to just 7.9% for those born four decades later. These statistics hit harder for working-class creative women who, after the pandemic has further exposed to deeper gender and class inequities. In the U.K., 64% of undergraduates and 65% of postgraduates in creative arts and design are women, but 68% of the artists represented at top London commercial galleries are men. What does this mean for all other creative women, ones who didn't go to university, have no financial stability, women who are carers and parents or women who started working in the arts later on in life?

Pink-Collar Gallery presents Pink-Collar Agency - a new platform where working artists can learn and grow from each other. Pink Collar Agency want to help tackle these inequalities to help working-class creatives who work in the arts to have an easier path to develop their practice. Artists spend years developing their practice but when it comes to other aspects of the art world such as networking, knowledge of funding, and working with art organisations there are hidden and untold rules and regulations you have to crack open to ease you into being a working artist. PCA will develop workshops, activities, networking events, mentoring, and funding support groups to ease the code-breaking aspect of the arts which will create a community of creatives who can develop and learn from each other.

+PCA will have many free and accessible events that will be for all but to keep this agency growing there will be exclusive events and opportunities only through Patreon.

+This project will be focused on working-class women artists from the North East, but all creatives who want to participate in these events can join.

+All live events will be held around the North East of England. Online events will be a part of the Patreon for all to access.

+We are trans-inclusive.