To Gallery or Not to Gallery [145]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
This week, we're answering a listener question from Helen, who asked why we chose to represent ourselves rather than pursue the gallery route. Helen also asked: "can a female artist be self-representing and still find her place in the history books - or is it important to have the testimonial from an established gallery?" When thinking about galleries, we believe that it's important to know (a) where you want to go and (b) where you currently are. We also point out that the art world often catches up and "discovers" artists late in life (or after their death), and we debate whether galleries will continue to play an important role as we move forward. Of course, we also answer Helen's question and explain why we each decided not to market primarily through galleries. There's lots more in this conversation, so don't miss it!
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"Painting Abstract Landscapes" by Gareth Edwards https://www.amazon.co.uk/Painting-Abstract-Landscapes-Gareth-Edwards/dp/1785009737/
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| 0:00.0 | And like you said, the real top galleries really only deal with your work once you're dead, so, you know. |
| 0:05.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:07.0 | Best not worry about it now. |
| 0:09.0 | Just make sure you put labels on the back. |
| 0:12.0 | Yeah. Yeah. Hi everybody and welcome to episode 145 of art juice. This is honest, |
| 0:26.3 | generous and humorous conversations to feed your creative soul and get you |
| 0:30.1 | thinking with me Louise Fletcher and me Alice Sheridan and this week our main topic is a |
| 0:36.0 | follow-on from last week's episode when I spoke to Sarah Kolya from Silsen Contemporary and she gave her advice about what to do to get into a gallery, how to work with |
| 0:48.8 | galleries, what not to do, etc. But we had a listener question related to our choices with regards to galleries and we thought that would make a good follow on main topic. So that's what we'll be chatting about shortly but first I just want to catch up because I know Alice has had a busy week |
| 1:06.5 | So what have you been up to Alice? I have been to Manchester art fair which was fantastic. It was the first art fair so I've done |
| 1:16.1 | the open studio event but it was the first art fair since the week before lockdown and I'd been a little bit buoyed by going to visit the other art fair in London. |
| 1:26.0 | That was fun, but the reality of doing it, the packing up, it fits quite well with this week actually, you know, packing up, |
| 1:35.2 | the driving, this is the first time I'd done one when I had to be away from home. So on top of the getting everything |
| 1:41.5 | ready, hanging it, I also had to allow for a day's drive at either end, |
| 1:46.6 | hotels, being in a new city, working out everything that I needed to, you know, keep body and soul presentable for four days over different things. |
| 1:56.7 | So it was quite a big thing. So I was a little bit looking forward to it and a little bit thinking, oh, what a pain but it was really good fun there were you know |
| 2:10.2 | all as always these things are quite tiring and it goes in ebbs and flows and it has those waves of oh I've got all the way here nobody's going to be interested nobody's going to buy anything you know all of that stuff so I'd forgotten that kind of emotional roller coaster element of it and |
| 2:28.2 | either I'm two years further on or the fact that it was further away. |
| 2:33.5 | I am tired this week and I've been home |
| 2:35.9 | and I've spent the last two days packing boxes, |
| 2:39.7 | wrapping, rolling prints, ordering big couriers for the States, not for this, from what sold beforehand. |
| 2:45.6 | So I'm kind of pooped and I've done no painting whatsoever. |
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