The Artists’ Guide to Financial Success
How to build financial confidence in a creative career.
Friday 7 August | 12:00pm | Hawthorn East
Free Financial Management & Tax Workshop
As an artist, performer, or creative, you’re always working towards mastering your craft – but what about mastering your finances?
As a performer, musician, actor or creative professional, your career rarely follows a standard financial script. Irregular income, multiple employers, freelance contracts, touring, tax obligations and quiet seasons can all make it harder to feel in control of your money.
Join us for The Artists’ Guide to Financial Success, a practical workshop designed to help Australian performing artists build financial confidence, manage variable income and make informed decisions throughout their creative careers.
This free workshop is open to artists, performers, musicians, actors, choreographers, technicians and creative professionals working across the entertainment sector.
Join us for The Artists’ Guide to Financial Success, where we’ll put the spotlight on your finances and show you how to build financial stability as a working performer relying on gig-based income.
Our experts will take you through a practical, performer-focused approach to managing money in an unpredictable industry.
What we’ll cover…
- Managing irregular, gig-based and seasonal income.
- Understanding tax obligations as an employee, contractor or sole trader.
- Knowing what deductions performers may be able to claim.
- Keeping records that make tax time easier.
- Building an emergency fund for quiet periods or cancelled work.
- Making the most of superannuation, even if your income varies.
- Protecting your income if injury or illness stops you from working.
- Understanding basic investing and long-term wealth building.
- Finding grants, funding and financial support for artists.
- Knowing where credit scores and lending may fit into your broader financial picture.
- Seeking the right advice as your creative career evolves.
Reserve your spot and learn how to build stronger financial foundations, protect your income and plan with greater confidence, on stage, off stage and beyond. If you’d like to bring a friend or colleague, please include their details when registering.
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Free Lunchtime Workshop – Friday 7 August 2026 | 12:00pm – 2:00pm
The Artists’ Guide to Financial Success is free to attend and open to all, but places are limited!
Reserve your spot today and learn how to turn breaking a leg into breaking even (and beyond)!
If you want to bring a friend (or two) along, make sure to include their details as well – the more, the merrier.
Meet Our Experts…
Shane McKenna
Managing Director at Aintree Group
As Managing Director of Aintree Group, Shane is passionate about helping people make confident financial decisions and improving access to practical financial education. He regularly shares his expertise through seminars, workshops and industry events, making complex financial topics accessible and actionable.
Beyond Aintree Group, Shane is an active member of several advisory boards, including Salty Theatre, where he supports the organisation’s long-term sustainability and strategic growth.
Ashley Tickell
Owner & Director at Salty Theatre
Ashley is the Owner and Director of Salty Theatre, Founder of both the AMTAC Sessions and The Hatch Lab Writers’ Initiative, and a Producer at Stoddard Entertainment.
She is passionate about creating opportunities for artists to develop their craft, build meaningful industry connections and bring new stories to life.
