How should artists price their work, earn royalties and build sustainable creative businesses? In this episode of The Art Business Podcast, David Bellingham talks to artist, author and Artonomics founder Halim Flowers about pricing art, financial literacy, intellectual property and building multiple revenue streams.
Halim transformed 22 years of incarceration and self-education into an international creative practice. He discusses his journey from self-publishing and street entrepreneurship to working with galleries, Warner Brothers, institutional collectors and public projects.
Topics include:
• How artists can price their work and understand their financial value
• Budgeting and building multiple revenue streams
• Artist resale royalties and intellectual-property protection
• Building intergenerational value from creative work
• Blockchain and tokenisation
• Using AI as a business tool for artists
• Measuring cultural value and impact
• Community-building and ethical for-profit models
• Translating art into education, curriculum and commercial projects
Halim also discusses the Artonomics Cultural Capital Index and his approach to using data and technology to demonstrate cultural value and impact.
Key takeaways: Treat your creative practice as a business; diversify income; protect your intellectual property; use technology and data intelligently; and build communities that can extend the impact and value of artistic work.
Links:
https://www.art-o-nomics.com/
https://www.instagram.com/halimflowers/
https://www.halim-flowers.com/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/afdhelaziz/2025/12/05/how-halim-flowers-turns-art-into-weapons-of-mass-construction/
https://www.obama.org/programs/leaders/usa/2025-2026/halim-a-flowers/
music
‘Baby, I Miss The Internet’ (Rama, Rama, Rama)
by TOT TAYLOR
is used by kind permission of the artist
©Tot Taylor/Songmatic Music (2020)
