They say express your artist statement helps your audience understand the significance of your artwork.
I had a really busy week I delivered four days worth of training about change and management and really got to grips helping leaders in various organisations connect with organization transformation goals.
It was through reflection of the typical epiphanies, eureka moments and critical incidents arising for leaders in my 9 to 5 work and thinking about what my art represents, where I later in the week discovered what my artistic statement is.
Yes I had my own ah ah moment after years of helping others discover theirs.
My Artistic Statement
The pieces are about the handling and mishandling of our work lives. Through a mix of gentle calming abstract strokes against sharp friction marks and deftly encrusted mini sculptured paint skins, the work nods to the quest for calm and balance amidst cultural artifacts that fail and the artifice that wins.
Some more brave pieces have hidden tear drops displayed through the paint skins either in shape or drip form.
They are all busy and colourful, with pockets of stillness echoing some of the contradictions experienced in modern workspaces.
In essence they express the deep realities of working lives while demonstrating our abilities to mask with the unreal, inorganic and artificial.
They pay homage to those who are working towards being and becoming more authentic in their own working practices for they are represented by the glints of gold and shimmering finely ground up powdered stones.
End of statement.
Interestingly I was originally booked on a CSM course last week about writing artist statements but they moved or cancelled it (can’t remember). But I think I’ve done an OK job at it, perhaps my academic training helps or hinders slightly.
Anyway let me know what you think of what I say my art is about, in the comments.
See you next Sunday.
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