I made a conscious decision this year to not enter any gallery, entrance fee, ‘competition’ type exhibitions. I felt that I wasn’t getting anything out of them, I was producing work for them that I wouldn’t normally make and having it hung in a way that I didn’t want it hung.
I wanted to concentrate on developing a line of work that encompasses the transitional state of the physical journey I am making.
All well and good.
Then, when I was leaving work last night, I bumped into someone I hadn’t seen in a while. He expressed concern – asking if I was still making any work as he hadn’t seen anything of mine in any of the above mentioned exhibitions.
I was quite taken aback, as I felt that I had not only produced more work and had achieved more this year than I’d ever done …. but was seen as a bit of a failure as apparently, the measure of ‘success’ is gauged by a visibility in these ‘Opens’?
Is this really the case?
