Online Workshop: The Art of Writing and Talking about your Creative Work
Artist Resources, Online, Workshops
Friday 27th September 2024 10:00am - 11:30am
Online - Zoom
Online Workshop: The Art of Writing and Talking about your Creative Work
Learn to create an engaging and comprehensive overview of your artwork.
Your artist statement will be required for all sorts of opportunities including exhibiting, funding or residency applications and it is important to be able to engage people with the ideas behind your work on and offline in an informative way. This talk gives useful tips on developing your artist statement to create an engaging and comprehensive overview of your artwork. There will be some examples and creative ideas as well as advice on structure, layout, and using different voices for different audiences as well as constructing your bios.
Plus, tips on writing for press releases, proposals or applications. There are also tips on building confidence in talking about your work as well as marketing it on social media.
What you will get out of the session:
- Strategies for addressing writing about your work and talking about it.
- Building confidence in writing and talking about your work
- Examples of good practice
- Approaches to social media and garnering an audience on these platforms.
- Building agency and strategy
About the facilitator:
Rosalind Davis is a Curator, Artist, art consultant, teacher/mentor, writer and designer. Davis has curated over 30 exhibitions to date and an ambitious group show at Arthouse Jersey 2023 and was the Curator at Collyer Bristow Gallery in London 2016 -20. Independent curatorial projects have been curated Trace Elements | 1971 at The Factory Project produced by Thorp Stavri, London (2021) Athens Art Fair- Platforms, Athens (2023), and Standpoint Gallery, Arthouse1 and Geddes Gallery, London. Davis co-directed Art Organisations Zeitgeist Arts Projects (2012-15) at Bond House Gallery (ASC) and Core Gallery 2010-12.
Davis is co-author of ‘What they didn’t teach you at art school’ and lectures at universities, galleries and organisations across the world including the RCA, ICA, Camden Arts Centre, UAL and is a mentor for Artquest, Plop Residences, previously with a-n and works as a private mentor.
As an artist Davis has exhibited nationally and internationally and work is held in a number of private and public collections including Soho House.
Website: https://linktr.ee/Rosalinddavisartist
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