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Blog 8/8 The final post of Professional Practice 2 2023
There are many ways of promoting work and it takes time to research all the variables. Social media is great if you can maintain a regular following by posting work. There are many dyslexic artists/designers whose websites are helpful when […]
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Blog 7/8
Although I am not confident using Instagram, I can see how it works for artists, increasing profile followers and gathering audiences. I follow Simon Hitchens on Instagram https://www.simonhitchens.com/ . I thought I would conduct a simple comparison and find out […]
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Blog 6/8
How to sell on a seller’s platform: My own experience. I have sold my work through a selling platform, with my own virtual shop and I have recently re-applied to do this again now that my degree is nearing the […]
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Blog 5/8
Consideration of a website. There are great things about being dyslexic, the non-reliance on social media, and the realisation that it has its place. Attending artist-led talks, allows you to find artists you may not have found stumbling around Instagram. […]
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Professional Practice 2 : Blog 4/8
Self promotion via Facebook , back it up with an easy to find Website. Facebook allows for an enormous amount of text and a wide variety of images. It is against Facebook’s Terms of Service to have a personal profile […]
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Professional Practice 2 : 3/8
Promoting via Instagram The abundantartist.com describes Instagram as specifically designed for visual media. Perfectly square photos and bite-sized text, which is why I use it. However, I rarely use Hashtags, as it is copying #charactersinlengthanditsreallydifficulttofathom. See what I did there! […]
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Professional Practice 2: Blog 2/8
How do artists consider which platform is the most suitable for their art? You can obtain stats on the largest social media platforms direct from company statements and earning announcements. The image below shows the top four social media platforms, […]
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Blog 3/8
Blog 3 of 8 Promoting via – Instagram or Facebook Instagram https://theabundantartist.com Instagram is intended specifically for visual media, and provides bite-sized information but has square photos, which isn’t always helpful. The Instagram business account doesn’t cost anything unless […]
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Blog 2/8
Blog 2. The global popularity of social media? The Datareportal for January 2023 provides a global overview to expose social media growth. More than 59% of the world uses social media. 76 billion people around the world use social media […]
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Copper weave
The nights have drawn in and I find myself weaving again. I feel there is more to this and I need to explore it further. There is something organic about the weaves. You can see every thread and mistake, […]
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The “Mind Dump”
We have the luck of playing with our work in a designated space. To either see how the work sits in the space or to work within the space. It’s a place to bounce ideas around and we are very […]
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Will No
I was gifted some willow. I built a drainpipe soaking facility (discovered that ‘drain bungs’ were an actual thing). I soaked the willow 1ft = 24 hrs. so 7ft is […]