Filed under: session | Tags: galleries, links, local, marketing, report, support, trade fair
I am really getting into these sessions that support the more business minded members of the group. It would be helpful to have some craft orientated lecturers to back up the ‘how to’ sessions though, as it remains more theoretical without a live example of someone who has been there and done these things. By the time I see my mentor, I’m onto something else that is more pressing for the time we have.
Some helpful links picked up from the marketing session that are of particular interest to me:
HARDING HOUSE GALLERY – Lincoln
BCTF – British Craft Trade Fair
CRAFTSPACE – Birmingham
HARLEY GALLERY – Welbeck
MAKING IT TO MARKET – developing the market for contemporary craft, an Arts Council report
EREWASH PARTNERSHIP – local economic development and regeneration
Filed under: reflection, session | Tags: , emotions, experiences, feelings, group, intrigue, presentation, support, themes, work
Today was….exhausting…..entertaining, nerve-wracking, fascinating, very tiring and a complete relief.
I wondered this morning how varied we were as a group. We are so different in our work that it is hard to make any links. Despite there being 2 jewellers, 2 textiles, many painters no two are alike in any obvious way. There are themes that join us and experiences that are similar but the work is very varied. It fills me with intrigue as to what our show will look like.
I am finding the group experience a lot more supportive than I had anticipated. Having worked by myself for so long it comes as a surprise and yet it shouldn’t be – we’re all in the same boat. I suppose I also have my last experience of structured education, my degree course to compare it to – that was a very competitive and less sharing environment, I don’t think I thrive very well in those sorts of scenarios.
The atmosphere when travelling home was as though we had suddenly leapt from meeting one another only a handful of times to feeling as though we’d been together as a group for a year. The day distilled our purpose and opened us up to one another on many levels. It feels as though something has been revived in me.
