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ArtFor Pride
Aug. 1st, 2010 11:03 pm...was a bust. Well, it was for me and Becky, who completely failed to sell anything at all. Conversely, every one of the other 8 artists *did* sell something. I can't announce the exact amount we made over the two days and one evening as that is dependent on those artists who sold fulfilling their agreement with ArtFor and actually giving back half of their sales to ArtFor and cheques clearing from buyers, so we can pass a lump sum onto Brighton Pride but, all being well, it should be substantially over the £500 mark. In total this donation should, when it's made, mean that ArtFor has raised *over* £1000 in less than 6 months in just two exhibitions.
This is obviously a phenomenal achievement for something Becky invented back in February.
This exhibition was much bigger than the last one and I took a few photos for our own promotional needs. We had two photographers from two notable Brighton publications come along, one stayed for almost 4 hours at the private view we had on Friday evening and ended up asking if he could join the list of artists waiting to exhibit with ArtFor (turns out as well as doing journalistic photography he does his own art photography) The second photographer was from Real Brighton and turns out to also be the editor of that publication, he was phenomenally enthusiastic about our venture and tells us they will create a profile for us on that website which we can update as and when we like with information about what ArtFor is doing. This is exactly the sort of media partnership we need if we want to make huge successes of future exhibitions.
A couple of photos (click for bigger) the first is of half the exhibition space - you can see my pictures in the corner, along with the work of 5 other artists - the second is of some friends of mine who came along to the private view in front of my paintings.
I am....hugely disappointed I didn't sell something and really feel that what was a hobby has been tainted with failure and makes me not want to paint any more because it's stopped being about me..it's also hugely personal, having a little bit of yourself...well, not rejected, but ignored is hard to experience. I'm still trying to decide if I will exhibit again or just take over the online presence of ArtFor (as we have already planned as our current web manager is mostly AWOL and really dropped the ball on updating the site and the twitter account for this exhibition. We hope he'll be willing to either share the responsibility with me or step aside to let me do the public relations while he does the technical stuff) and contribute in that way.
This is obviously a phenomenal achievement for something Becky invented back in February.
This exhibition was much bigger than the last one and I took a few photos for our own promotional needs. We had two photographers from two notable Brighton publications come along, one stayed for almost 4 hours at the private view we had on Friday evening and ended up asking if he could join the list of artists waiting to exhibit with ArtFor (turns out as well as doing journalistic photography he does his own art photography) The second photographer was from Real Brighton and turns out to also be the editor of that publication, he was phenomenally enthusiastic about our venture and tells us they will create a profile for us on that website which we can update as and when we like with information about what ArtFor is doing. This is exactly the sort of media partnership we need if we want to make huge successes of future exhibitions.
A couple of photos (click for bigger) the first is of half the exhibition space - you can see my pictures in the corner, along with the work of 5 other artists - the second is of some friends of mine who came along to the private view in front of my paintings.
I am....hugely disappointed I didn't sell something and really feel that what was a hobby has been tainted with failure and makes me not want to paint any more because it's stopped being about me..it's also hugely personal, having a little bit of yourself...well, not rejected, but ignored is hard to experience. I'm still trying to decide if I will exhibit again or just take over the online presence of ArtFor (as we have already planned as our current web manager is mostly AWOL and really dropped the ball on updating the site and the twitter account for this exhibition. We hope he'll be willing to either share the responsibility with me or step aside to let me do the public relations while he does the technical stuff) and contribute in that way.
