Can You Sell Art During a Crisis? [68]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
You can't sell luxury items like art during a global pandemic. This seems to be a widely held belief and yet artists all over the world are discovering that it's not true. In fact, many artists are now selling online for the first time and finding more success than they ever expected. Indeed, we both posted work for sale recently as part of the #artistsupportpledge initiative, and we were both pleasantly surprised by our results. In this episode, we share our experiences and tips for succeeding with online sales during this crisis, discuss the importance of finding marketing strategies that work for you, and chat about ways we can use our art to raise funds for our favourite causes. We also discuss the ways in which this initiative might change how we market our own paintings in the future, and offer advice on what to do if you post work and it doesn't sell right away (spoiler alert: we don't think it's anything to worry about!) And finally, we say goodbye to Louise's (slightly surprising) childhood hero.
Mentioned
#artistsupportpledge on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/artistsupportpledge/?hl=en
Alice's small paintings - sorry - all sold out!
Louise's small paintings: https://www.louisefletcherart.com/small-works/
Norman Hunter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awoxabZSS9c
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| 0:00.0 | but I was thinking I hope they went out in the garden listening to me |
| 0:03.0 | effing and blinding while I tried to another episode of Art Juice. This is honest, generous and hopefully humorous conversations to feed your creative soul and get you thinking |
| 0:25.8 | with me, Louise Fletcher and me Alice Sheridan and today we are both really pleased this is only audio and not video. |
| 0:34.4 | Yes. |
| 0:36.4 | Because I am seriously I was looking up before we came on this call using men's clippers on women's hair to see. |
| 0:45.0 | Could I just do the whole buzz over it? |
| 0:49.0 | It's just, and I just read something in the papers that said |
| 0:53.0 | that hairdressers might not open until next year. |
| 0:55.0 | Because there's no way they can make that a situation that's safe. |
| 1:02.0 | So can I imagine what all the Sunday newspaper style sections are going to be about, |
| 1:08.0 | they're going to be about like styling your stick of the dump, |
| 1:11.0 | hair get around. |
| 1:12.0 | I wish you had long hair still because it would long hair. stick with dumb hair at least you can tie it or boil you can cut your own fringe |
| 1:18.8 | or bangs if you're in America and you can manage but with short hair it's just a nightmare. The answer is |
| 1:25.0 | just cover all the mirrors with a sheet surely. Well somebody who was showing me |
| 1:29.1 | wigs, you can get wigs for 30 dollars. You cannot, can I just say you cannot get good wigs for $30. |
| 1:35.0 | You cannot get good wigs for $30. |
| 1:38.0 | Really that is not worth it. |
| 1:40.0 | I've got a friend who needs to wear a wig and they are. |
| 1:42.0 | It is a lot more expensive than that and they itch. |
| 1:46.0 | Yes, but these were, Alice, they were beautiful, I could have long gold and pulling |
| 1:51.0 | phara-pharic type. they were those things, like they show you the beautiful picture |
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