Showing posts with label galleries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label galleries. Show all posts

Friday, 2 September 2011

New Artist Fair Feature - Aisling Fegan




Aisling Fegan was born in Ireland in 1985 (just like me! Though I was in '86, so feel like an old granny o' course). She studied Model making and Design for Film and Theatre in The National Film School of Ireland. For a number of years Aisling has been working as a full time as a model maker.

She is now based right here in London where she continues to paint daily.  Aisling is incredibly passionate about art, and her recent work is described as illustrative pop art with nod to the style of graffiti art. Aislings current project is building toward her first solo exhibition in 2012. Her current Project entitled URBAN CULTURE is a study of People, Expressions, and Street Culture.

Aisling will be exhibiting her fantastic art work at the New Artist Fair, under a week away now!  

Wednesday, 31 August 2011

New Artist Fair Feature - Nick Peart




Nick Peart, a young English chap, is an artist living and working in London. His work explores the subconscious and the conveying of his emotions. He was once asked to describe his work, and he replied, ''I paint my feelings''. For him this is an integral part to understanding his work and its perpetual development.

When not painting, Nicholas writes poetry which he writes in the same way as he paints; subconsciously and spontaneously, and expressing what he currently feels. Nick has also travelled widely. He spent two years travelling across Latin America
Some of his influences include Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso, Edvard Munch, Willem De Kooning, Pierre Bonnard, the Boyle Family, Richard Long and the works of the Huichol people in Mexico.

To see more of Nick's work visit www.saatchionline.com/nicholaspeart.

He is also exhibiting as part of the New Artist Fair!

Monday, 4 July 2011

Exhibition Fee Pain- worse than a trip to the dentist

So you're an artist, right? So you're absolutely loaded and can pay to submit your work to endless open shows or hire out gallery space regularly, right? Oh no, wait, silly me, most of us can't!

It is a difficult situation; you have to get your stuff out there, non? But I am genuinely annoyed by all of these 'open exhibitions' which charge you simply to submit your work- not get in, oh no, no guarantee of that, but just to try. What a nightmare.

Don't get me wrong, I am more than happy to pay fees if I am accepted into a show. I recently got in to the New Artist Fair (click here to visit their website!); they seem to have the set up right. Artists can submit work for free, then the chosen people who get to be part of the exhibition pay a fee. This way makes sense! I am sure most artists are happy to pay towards gallery hire, PR costs, man-power etc, but why should you pay when you have no clue if you'll even get a chance to exhibit? You could fork out a lot of money over a few months and find you've gotten into no shows.

I recently found a 'call for artists' to submit work. There was a £20.00 sign up charge, and £20.00 per picture you wanted to submit. They must be making a killing! Meanwhile I'm squinting at my bank account, (always dangerous) unable to see the spare £40 to enter. Bum.

I see a similar situation with my music friends (my father being one of them); however, as I point out to him, they certainly have a lot of costs but they rarely have to PAY to do a gig! Sure, they have to do free-bees to get known, but artists struggle to even do that!

I wish galleries and show organisers would give us a break.

*BIG DRAMATIC SIGH*