Does your art need a gimmick to succeed? [13]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Does art need a gimmick to succeed? If art has a quickly recognisable ‘hook’ does that make it easier to sell?
This week Alice has been learning the value of taking detours - Louise is in flow with her work and both have been working together to share a free art workshop with Nicholas Wilton which will show you the three most powerful principles you can use to transform your art. Sound good? You can find out more here:
louisefletcherart.com/art2life
We explore the difference between artists who have settled on a process and/or subject matter that works for them, and those who are continually searching. Perhaps there isn’t as much of a difference as we are assuming. Our discussion ranges from pop art to cubism and from Damian Hirst to a colour-blind Yorkshire farmer. Perhaps it's not that art needs a gimmick to succeed - but that it needs a story, so that others can relate to it.
We also answer a question from a listener, who asks "How much do you concern yourself with contemporary, 'critically relevant' art? How do you navigate the call to innovate versus just following your own pleasure and intuition?"
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| 0:00.0 | I would hit my head with my hand and go, |
| 0:02.8 | I wish I didn't think of that |
| 0:04.8 | or I made that mistake. |
| 0:06.4 | So you haven't annoyed me yet. |
| 0:08.4 | If you, you probably were at some point. |
| 0:11.1 | But so far, you haven't annoyed me, you've just made me think oh few thank you. |
| 0:20.6 | Hi and welcome to episode 13 of Art Juice Lucky I'm sure this is behind the |
| 0:26.8 | scenes conversations about making art and the creative life with me Louise |
| 0:30.7 | Fletcher and me Alice Sheridan. |
| 0:33.2 | So today we have a couple of topics to talk about and they both kind of relate to each other. |
| 0:38.3 | One's a listener question and one's our main topic and it's really just all about what art needs to be and so I'll leave that |
| 0:49.3 | until we get to that but they're both kind of the same subject. That's going to be easily solved within an hour then isn't it? Yeah and we've got |
| 0:59.1 | all the answers we know exactly what art needs to be so don't worry about that. So first of all though I just |
| 1:06.8 | let's catch up with what we're working on this week and actually we're both kind of |
| 1:12.2 | working on the same thing this week. |
| 1:14.0 | Yeah but before we get to that I just want to have a little big up for taking detours. |
| 1:21.0 | So doing something not quite the same as what you planned. So yesterday we set off to |
| 1:26.8 | deliver some paintings and rather stupidly I didn't check the details, something that we'd |
| 1:31.8 | said in email conversation and the post code being |
| 1:34.9 | eX I'd assumed that we were delivering to Exeter. Turns out we're not, we're delivering to the |
| 1:41.5 | northwest side of Dartmouth, which is totally the opposite direction, twice as long. |
| 1:47.2 | And so we ended up heading off near to Bewed, which I'd never been to before and it was absolutely lovely there was a little |
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