Pass it On.
Catching up on Elena Thomas’s blog, this sentence immediately resonated and got me thinking…
“The Artist’s Lie is that thing where you are led to believe a person is supporting themselves SOLELY through their art.”
My own feelings are…the cultural value system of success that equates only with monetary gain, seeps in to all our practices. I can entirely understand any artist not wanting to be defined by or even being ashamed of their day job and my own journey has been tempered through balancing artistic pride and making the ends meet.
Sometimes pride and shame overlap, some of the jobs I have done and indeed still do, on some days embarrass me and on others empower me especially when I look back at over thirty years of an uninterrupted art practice, I am still here making art and feel very proud of that.
So in true outing spirit I am announcing just one of the things I do and in fact am really excited about and btw, if you happen to know anyone who just might be interested, please pass it on-and I will do the same for you.
http://www.lovelysgallery.co.uk/news.htm
