Its two weeks till the deadline of my open call for the book exhibition, but after a meeting at the gallery on Thursday, I was asked to do a press release and send images asap.
I do have invited artists in the exhibition (people I’ve worked with before) but I had to spend a fair bit of time prodding artists into at least sending me an image.
This is the problem. Galleries work with the media and need things yesterday, but generally -and I do hate to generalise, artists will leave things to the last minute. (I include myself in that statement :-( )
This has made things incredibly frustrating for me.
What is also frustrating, aside from the fact that it’s all happened so quickly and was therefore too late to apply for funding, is that many artists are just not reading the brief. The call out was titled ‘Doesn’t look like a book’ which is kind of a big hint to what I want, but still, I’m getting beautifully crafted books…that clearly look like books, sent in to me.
Sigh. I’m going to have to reject loads of good stuff as it just won’t fit in with the exhibition :-(
Images of work that will be in the exhibition…..
