The phrase "artistic labour" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the work or effort involved in creating art or engaging in artistic activities.
Example: "The exhibition highlighted the importance of artistic labour in the creative process, showcasing the dedication of the artists involved."
Alternatives: "creative work" or "artistic work".
With the completion of this altarpiece and several other minor works, Fra Angelico's fertile artistic labours drew to a close.
It is a strange fate that everything that I have, of set artistic purpose, laboured to leave indefinite, suggestive, in the penumbra of initial inspiration, should have that light turned on to it and its insignificance (as compared with I might say without megalomania the ampleness of my conceptions) exposed for any fool to comment upon. . . .
Aardman has become world famous since Nick Park joined it in the mid-1980s to make his elaborate stop-action movies in moulded Plasticine, perhaps the slowest, most labour-intensive artistic activity since the building of the pyramids.
For several years, Australia has laboured under an artistic inferiority complex.
A decade ago, New Labour bottled out of artistic excellence in the Millennium Dome and lived both to regret it and to be derided over it.
"The 2015 Oscars turned out to be about navel gazing, as old Hollywood took an admiring glance at itself and awarded best picture to Birdman, the story of a clapped-out superhero striving for artistic integrity... "Sadly, the real labour of love, Boyhood, was not properly rewarded.
The variation in the manes of the horses has been of particular interest to scholars attempting to discern the artistic personalities of the sculptors who laboured on the frieze, so far this Morellian analysis has been without conclusion.
The dry stone walls that corrugate the valleys, the intricate dovecotes and the gaping quarries sprinkled around these sage-scented hills are evidence of hard labour, as well as an artistic sensibility.
The diverse 13-person jury included Dr Who actress Frances Barber, Labour MP Tom Watson and the artistic director of London's Southbank centre, Jude Kelly.
