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7 tips to clean up your art act

By On October 7, 2010 · 2 Comments

Do you often feel overwhelmed by the amount in front of you? Do you have trouble making time for your work? Wonder which activity to prioritize? Worry you’re drifting rather than directed? If any of this sounds familiar, you might need to clean up your art act – take a good hard look at the way you work and try to identify the things that cause stress in your work life.

Sometimes artists with these kinds of problems worry that there’s something deeply wrong with their working method, that the kinds of situations that are conducive to their creative talent just aren’t also helpful when it comes to efficiency. This isn’t the case. Usually, the overall method is fine – it’s important to work in a way that suits your temperament [...]

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Promoting art – the artist-gallery relationship

By On September 1, 2009 · 7 Comments

From time to time, artists ask us about what they can do to build a good relationship with the gallery, about details of what kinds of things they should bear in mind or expect. Sometimes these are emerging artists who are only just beginning to enter into this sort of professional relationship and are trying to work out the rules, but at other times the question comes from established artists who simply want to make sure they’re working on a secure footing. They know that every gallery is different and want to know about anything that might be outside their previous experience. It’s a question we always appreciate, whoever it comes from, as it shows that an artist is thinking about how they and we should act and is taking the opportunity of representation and promoting their art seriously. It’s also a good question, worth thinking about, since [...]

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