Fish … I said, fish …
Interestingly, I own a contemporary art gallery business called ‘The Freudian Sheep’. It launched in December 2013. I am a very busy chap … and sometimes wish that I could sit quietly in a room at home and make art that only I get to see (like I used to).
Why on earth would I want to do that?
Out there in the world, I am a fish swimming around in a bowl (not unlike all the other fish). As an artistic fish, it’s a particularly difficult sea for me. We artistic fish have to survive by any means we can. I suppose I’ve been safe as a member of the Art School of Fish for the past couple of years – but there are many different types of fish, even there.
All us different arty fish swimming around in our different ways, trying to attract attention to our art, but probably not so much to ourselves. We have been working together as a school of artistic fish, to give us a chance of survival out there in that big deep ocean that we’re swimming towards.
My art gallery is a place where I can enjoy displaying the art of all these other fish friends of mine, alongside my own; hopefully, it’ll keep the sharks at bay, and might even help some of us to a bigger and better sea altogether.
The gallery is, of course, more ‘sheep’ than ‘fish’. But that’s another story …
