Artists’ Lottery Syndicate: Making Art, Making Friends, Making Money

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Everyone loves a lotto syndicate story such as '12 Corby bus drivers win EuroMillions top prize' or 'New Jersey's Ocean's 16 claim a third share of US Powerball jackpot'. theLotter recently discovered a great lottery syndicate story from back in 2010 when some 40 UK-based artists committed a full year to winning the lotto. Although luck didn’t carry the group to a top prize, they did make a profit and will go down in lotto history as one of the coolest syndicates the lottery world has known.

Lottery syndicates are about hope, community and sharing the excitement of lotto wins, big or small. Whether it is a group made up of colleagues, friends or family, the fate of one is that of all. It is with this understanding that forty artists formed a lotto collective called Artists' Lottery Syndicate.

Founded by Glaswegian artist Ellie Harrison as a response to cuts in arts funding due to the global economic downturn, the "speculative new scheme for acquiring funds for artists" was quick to attract participants, many of whom jumped at the chance to be part of such a potentially lucrative social experiment.

A brief look at the people and art behind Artists' Lottery Syndicate reveals the diversity of the group; Canadian Maayke Schurer's real-time magic realism contrasts dramatically with microperformance social commentators FrenchMottershead, actually a London pairing, who in turn differ greatly from Chinese public-space perfo [...]

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