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Sunday
Portfolio Updated With New Works...
My latest collection of paintings and prints have now been added to my online portfolio. I've also tweaked the cover page to incorporate an image of my work as opposed to using a simple unrelated design. This kind of goes against my designer background way of thinking but having researched other artists sites that are visually effective it seems that using your own artwork as part of the design of the site makes perfect and simple sense. My next major task will be to incorporate this blog, my portfolio and my motion design showreel all in one. That in itself is a big undertaking as I know little of Adobe Dreamweaver so I've put that one on the backburner for 2011! Enjoy the collection!
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Tuesday
Multiplied Art Fair
I went to visit the first Multiplied Art Fair at Christie's in London on it's last night. Exhibitors included many traditional commercial galleries showing some fabulous prints by the likes of Francis Bacon, Damien Hirst and Eduardo Paolozzi at equally FABULOUS prices! But the new and refreshing element of this show was the inclusion of many newer contemporary galleries including Bearspace from Deptford South East London, Nobrow who publish books and posters from many talented illustrators and Print Club London who champion the fine art of silk screen printing. A quick chat with Adele from Bearspace established that the galleries and curators are comfortable with this mix where mainstream galleries are happy to be pitched alongside up n coming outfits and the newer folds enjoy the kudos of displaying with their bigger counterparts. All in all it was a fantastic free event packed full of some incredible prints with the highlights for me being editions by David Spiller and Grayson Perry. Well done Christie's!!!
Saturday
Final Print in My 'B' Series is Complete
It's taken a while but now I've created 3 silk screen prints from my garage studio that are the result of months of trial and error. This final print was an exercise in playing with halftone effects and honing in on getting the right transparencies. I'm never fully satisfied with the finished article but what I've learned has given me some great experience to go on to larger and more complicated techniques and styles.
Wednesday
Curating For Beginners
A really nice mini article courtesy of Nolia's Gallery, London.
The task of curating, organising and setting up one's own show can be a daunting one when it is done for the first time. Dealing with the practical aspects of exhibiting such as budgets, logistics, schedules, advertising and so on don't come easy to artistic temperaments. They are not necessarily difficult tasks in themselves once you have the experience but they can be confusing when you haven't done anything like it before.
The first thing you should think about is the space. Finding an affordable exhibition space in London can be difficult, and you must book well in advance. It is a good idea to organise group shows to spread the renting costs.
I find that the main problem in curating a show is deciding what the aim or message of the exhibition will be, especially when the work of various artists is shown together. The job of the curator is to make sense of every different approach from each artist involved and come up with a unifying discourse that will bind different styles, mediums and subjects into a coherent whole. A single artist can stick to an idea right from the start of his artistic production for a given show, or even a group of artists can decide that they will produce works to put a show together with a single idea in mind, but things can get rather more complicated when a curator faces the task of selecting works by different artists who have produced their pieces independently. In this case the curator must strive to understand the work of each artist, their backgrounds, interests and discourses and try to distill from all these different elements a kind of unifying glue that will make sense of it all and give the exhibition a direction and purpose.
Funding, logistics and advertising can become a nightmare if they are not planned in a feasible and realistic way. A number of institutions can be approached for funding such as the Arts Council, local councils, your college or university, or even private businesses that may be interested in sponsoring an exhibition in exchange for advertising and having their name associated with the arts, but all this will require a detailed project proposal. It can be a big effort but the reward is the experience and satisfaction you will get from being capable of making your exhibition happen.
The task of curating, organising and setting up one's own show can be a daunting one when it is done for the first time. Dealing with the practical aspects of exhibiting such as budgets, logistics, schedules, advertising and so on don't come easy to artistic temperaments. They are not necessarily difficult tasks in themselves once you have the experience but they can be confusing when you haven't done anything like it before.
The first thing you should think about is the space. Finding an affordable exhibition space in London can be difficult, and you must book well in advance. It is a good idea to organise group shows to spread the renting costs.
I find that the main problem in curating a show is deciding what the aim or message of the exhibition will be, especially when the work of various artists is shown together. The job of the curator is to make sense of every different approach from each artist involved and come up with a unifying discourse that will bind different styles, mediums and subjects into a coherent whole. A single artist can stick to an idea right from the start of his artistic production for a given show, or even a group of artists can decide that they will produce works to put a show together with a single idea in mind, but things can get rather more complicated when a curator faces the task of selecting works by different artists who have produced their pieces independently. In this case the curator must strive to understand the work of each artist, their backgrounds, interests and discourses and try to distill from all these different elements a kind of unifying glue that will make sense of it all and give the exhibition a direction and purpose.
Funding, logistics and advertising can become a nightmare if they are not planned in a feasible and realistic way. A number of institutions can be approached for funding such as the Arts Council, local councils, your college or university, or even private businesses that may be interested in sponsoring an exhibition in exchange for advertising and having their name associated with the arts, but all this will require a detailed project proposal. It can be a big effort but the reward is the experience and satisfaction you will get from being capable of making your exhibition happen.
Monday
Nearly finished the print...
...one more colour to go. The placement of my paper stock on this proof is a bit out on this one though, spot the error?! I'm especially pleased with the way the black has printed over the aubergine. The lessons I've learned over the past few months on ink viscosity seem to have paid off.
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