Writing Artist's Statements

Monday 23rd 2009

The focus of the crit will be on writing an artist's statement as the end product of our discussion. The artist's statement is not mandatory but it will help you consider your work as it exists today, it will also help those who struggle to articulate their motives and references clearly.

The links below are to some great commercial galleries that list an artist's statement/biography for all the artist's they represent. You might want to skim over these before we meet, I have also attached a copy of my artist's statement for those that are interested.

http://www.alisonjacquesgallery.com/

http://www.doggerfisher.com/artists/

http://www.maureenpaley.com/maureenpaley.php?color=yellow&element=29&id_cache=1

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Artist’s Statement

It’s good to keep you artist’s statement up to date.

An artist’s statement is useful professionally but it also helps as a response to the inevitable question; “What do you do?”

As we will be talking a lot about our work over the next couple of weeks I think it’s a good opportunity to take notes that can be condensed and revised into a concise statement. The exercise below seems obvious, but it’s probably something you fail to do on a regular basis. This is a simple plan for your artist’s statement…

Your work (Pre crit)

Material

Context

References

Notes (during/ post –crit)

Hannah