Ni vu ni connu photo collage             One of my aims  int his Blog is to address issues relative to the process of thinking as a professional artist. It’s a tough one, because many people have only a vague idea about it, believing that living by art is about ‘just’...Read More

Stay!– photo collage I recently was part of a mentoring event in which I was one of many professionals who spoke to Bachelor, Masters and PhD students on the verge of graduating university into the cold cruel world of earning their own way. They were Arts and Sciences, and Visual Arts students, and to a...Read More

Fortune Teller photo collage Reading the signs: –        Art is not about ‘beauty’, it never really was, not even in the Renaissance: art is first and foremost a response to elements of life that must be expressed in ways which reveal their deepest meanings (for which words are inadequate) and their most profound impact (involving...Read More

Plastered  photo collage An artist recently forwarded to me a copy of a contract a gallery had sent her to sign. Unsolicited, the gallery had contacted her with high praise for her work and an offer to represent her. The contact it expected her to sign was seven pages long. In my opinion, it was...Read More

Building Home  photo collage             If artists are confident in their work, preparing dossiers should be a rewarding, even if demanding, experience. Done with attention and deliberation, the preparation becomes a valuable self-critical exercise that can reveal new ideas or clarify what must be revealed in documents.             Done properly, that’s the key, usually not...Read More

Packaged – photo collage  The art world is a mysterious and seductive place, alluring to image-makers. Getting there should be straightforward – there it is, after all, seemingly all around us, a tantalizing domain populated by the gifted, the visionary, the fulfilled, the admired, and the rich and famous. However, while it appears to share normal...Read More

Artist at Work photo collage            The practice of transforming an art gallery or a museum into a site where artists don’t just exhibit their work but also create it isn’t new, but it isn’t usual. Galleries and museums are generally reserved for finished work; they operate backwards from the surface...Read More

Learning photo collage I toured a group of three to five year olds through an exhibit of expressive paintings. The adults with them expected to spend fifteen minutes at most in the gallery; were they shocked when the kids listened and asked questions for over an hour! Even more, they were surprised by how much...Read More

Getting to Know you photo collage My experience as a curator has shown me that given the extensive history of art, the huge variety of media, the increasingly mixed cultural influences and the infinite variety of human experience, it is impossible for everyone to look at works of art, whether objectively or subjectively, and understand...Read More