As the SW group workshop last Saturday, we discussed ways of maintaining our practice and creative momentum. Lots of good ideas were put forward and I thought it would be useful to document them for future reference and for other people. Other aspects of the meet up are written up here.
Networking, looking:
- Joining local artist groups
- Getting together with artist friends
- Google hangouts with fellow students
- Seeing other peoples work for stimulation
- Gallery visits
- Exhibition visits
- Open studio events
- Looking at work in other media or techniques to widen your vision
Getting your work out there:
- Exhibiting, solo, with friends, with local groups
- Investigate local Art Fairs
- Entering competitions
- Entering print or other work exchanges
- Engaging in critiques, but ask specific questions about your own work
- Have a public blog
- Post on Instagram
- Join your local Open Studios group
Kickstarting your processes:
- Make a point of making
- Set a fixed space in the week or day to make
- Organise your space to help you make, dedicated space
- Seek a mentor
- Seek a portfolio review
- Attend a workshop
- Do a life drawing class
- Use ‘oblique strategies’, creativity trigger questions created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt, available as a website here.
- Join a sketch group, do a sketch crawl
- Create something collaboratively.
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Thanks for both making good notes and for posting all this – very good list of things-to-do.
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‘Set a fixed space in the week or day to make’ – how true!
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Ah, do as I say, not as I do……Still, useful to focus. Congratulations on your results! We are lucky to get even brief comments from assessors, most unis just give a mark!
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