#theatre

En toute objectivité, beaucoup me touche. Que ce soit la littérature, la peinture, le cinéma, le théâtre, l'opéra... La musique aussi, depuis peu. Et puis, surtout, je suis de plus en plus tou hée par des oeuvres qui m'étaient totalement opaques avant, notamment les installations contemporaines. Mais, et je dois l'avouer, mon premier amour reste et restera la peinture.

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Ça c'est de Jaider Esbell
C'est l'oeuvre qui m'a le plus touché à l'exposition “ Les vivants” avec la fondation Cartier.
L'artiste travaille principalement les liens entre cosmos, divinité et nature.
Je trouve que celle-ci est une pièce qui représente tous ces liens, à la fois un système nerveux, les rouages d'une vie, les plantes animaux cachés puis sacralisés, le squellette d'une plante et le ciel, les étoiles, le tout est un.
La contemplation

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Oo, good question!
For me, because I didn’t have a Fine Art background (my BA and Foundation were Theatre Design based), it was really difficult at first wrapping my head around how much freedom I had, and not having to work to a detailed brief. Sure, I still had creativity there and in some ways, that helped propel me to naturally go outside the box, but with Fine Art, I could choose whatever I wanted to do! In theory that sounds great, but it was overwhelming at first! I eventually got around that by essentially setting my own brief and creating a narrative to explore.

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The real kicker, and I’m not sure if you had this when you studied too/your current studies, is that art school doesn’t really prepare you for the business side of the career.

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For example, how to do your taxes as an artist/self employed creative, how to claim for this or what not to do, how to approach galleries, how to price your art (this was a major issue), how to negotiate with clients or potential buyers, what is a residency, how to submit a proposal to a gallery, etc. I could go on!!
All of this I’ve researched outside of uni, but it would have been really helpful to have had at least one afternoon spent on campus to be given at least a heads up on it! I think this is an art school thing in general, unfortunately.

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Those aspects were the most challenging things. That and finding my voice as an artist, and learning what contextual art is and how to portray that - my tutors didn’t really explain it to me till near the end of the degree, as they assumed everyone knew it as my peers had art backgrounds/were abstract or conceptual artists, so they didn’t need to know. As my art is quite realistic (or in the sense that, it’s definitely not abstract aha), I have to be super clear with what I’m trying to portray and basically spell it out through the painting, more so than other types of art. Who knew! I honestly didn’t, as my earlier artworks were too symbolic in meaning.

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It’s why I need to revisit a lot of my paintings I did over those years to create a series out of all of them, to tie in the collective story 😅

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(I’ve probably written too much, I’m sorry!! 😆) ✨

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