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Networking – the artist without the studio
Charlie Fox on what networking means to artists.
What does the notion of networking suggest to an artist practitioner? The lifeblood of their practice or a terrifying round of speed dating, socialising and contact exchange. Undoubtedly networking has become one of the shibboleths of a successful life; for a vital career an artist like any other ‘professional’ needs and requires an effective and expanding network. Success comes with exposure: whom you know and how you present yourself are not minor preoccupations for the new professional artist. Recently opportunities for artists to network professionally have multiplied, provided by an increasingly sophisticated number of artist networks, tempting the practitioner out, from the safety of their studio, into the world without. As Lucy Day comments: “The somewhat sanitized term ‘networks’ is used by many to describe a combination of information gathering, social enhancement and sharing of good practice that is fundamental to artistic activity. From monthly peer critiques initiated and facilitated by arts organizations, supported programmes such as a-n’s NAN initiative to self-determined projects and global networks artists have the ability to...
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