Smart Artist Membership

Helping you build simple income (online sales + grants) so you can leave your 9-5 and focus on your art.

Most artists aren’t struggling because they’re not talented. They’re struggling because the system is full of barriers. Bills don’t stop. Selling art can feel awkward and inconsistent. Social media changes constantly. Building a website feels technical. Grant forms feel like a different language.

None of that comes naturally when you’re a creative person — and it’s not your fault.

Smart Artist Membership gives you a simple, step-by-step path to build income that’s sustainable, realistic, and designed around how artists actually live and work.

Selling your art shouldn’t feel like a constant battle.

Have you ever felt like you’re doing everything right — making great work — but still not earning enough to breathe?

Like you’re constantly trying to figure out marketing, pricing, websites, and “how to sell”, while also trying to stay creative?

The reality is: most artists are juggling too much, with too little time, and no clear system. You don’t need more pressure.

You need a simpler way that actually works.

Why artists are choosing Smart Artist Membership

Have you ever felt like you’re doing everything right — making great work — but still not earning enough to breathe?

Like you’re constantly trying to figure out marketing, pricing, websites, and “how to sell”, while also trying to stay creative?

The reality is: most artists are juggling too much, with too little time, and no clear system. You don’t need more pressure.

You need a simpler way that actually works.

The cycle that keeps artists stuck

You work a job to pay the bills…

so you have less time and energy to create…

so you can’t make enough work to sell consistently…

so you can’t afford better materials or invest in your development…

so marketing and websites get pushed back again…

and it becomes a loop that’s hard to escape.

And even when you do find time, you’re expected to be a creator, a marketer, a salesperson, a web designer, and a grant writer — all at once.

It doesn’t have to be like this. Smart Artist Membership gives you a clear path out of the loop, with templates, training, and a community that helps you keep moving.

Ready to build your real artist life?

If you want more time to create, more confidence selling, and a system that doesn’t overwhelm you — you’re in the right place.

What you unlock as a member

🎓 Step-by-step training (simple, practical, no fluff)

🧩 Website + course templates (swap in your content and go)

📣 Marketing & social media setup (One Thing Method)

💷 Grant funding support + tools

🛒 Selling systems (website shop, eBay, in-person)

🎧 Podcasts + replays library

👥 Community access and support

After you join: just follow the steps in order.
Inside the membership you’ll find: clear pathways, templates, demos, and a community to keep you moving.

The Arts Council AI Tool (Included)

One of the biggest reasons artists join The Smart Artist Membership is for the Arts Council England grant-writing AI tool I’ve built. It’s designed to remove the biggest barriers—blank-page fear, confusing questions, and wasting weeks on an idea that isn’t fundable.

You can speak your answers using voice-to-text, and the tool helps turn your thoughts into strong draft responses for the main application sections.

You can also ask it to review and score your application, highlight what’s missing, and suggest improvements so you submit something solid, not a rushed guess.

On top of that, you’ll get supporting resources like example applications, templates, and guidance documents so you’re not figuring it out alone.

Our promise to you

We’ll give you the training, templates, and tools to build your artist income with less stress and more clarity.

We’ll welcome you into a supportive community, help you implement what you learn, and keep things practical so you can make progress without burnout.

Podcast

Prefer to learn by listening? You’ll get access to podcasts and replay trainings so you can learn while walking, travelling, or making art — and come back to the practical steps when you’re ready to implement.

Presented by Kexx Community Artist

I’m the host of the Smart Artist Membership and a community artist. In 2012 I quit my nine-to-five to focus on my own creative work, and I built community projects rooted in hip-hop culture through 4Elementz CIC—including street art, music recording, performance, and rap-based wellbeing work with young people, prisons, and artists.

For the last four years I founded CIC Tribe LTD, helping over 1,000 people secure around £50 million in grant funding for community projects (many arts-based). But Smart Artist isn’t about setting up a CIC, that’s for my CIC Tribe work.

Smart Artist is for artists who want a simpler route: build online income, sell their work, and (if they want) run community arts projects, without getting buried in admin. I also run an artist hub in Penzance, Cornwall, where I’ve helped artists build systems to quit their jobs and spend more time creating.

Real stories

Sumo

This was life changing for me. The Smart Artist Membership and Kexx helped me set up my online art course. I was able to quite my 9-5 I hated and now can earn a living making my art.

Charlotte

I was successful in getting £30k Grant from Arts Council England after Kexx designed an amazing project for me. I am not an artist myself but she taught me how to hire artists and design an art project I can manage. I have never been more excited about a project, this is life changing.

Sophie

I used the ACE AI tool. It was amazing was like having Kexx write it with me. I loved that it told me it was a strong idea and feedback how I could further strengthen it. Honestly saved me hours. Amazing tool.

Best Value