Will post some drawing soon. This time management this is getting difficult! I’d be interested to know how other people/artists sort out how much time to spend on different activities.
I interviewed an articulate artist on Monday morning who is putting a lot of energy into having a successful and high-profile career at the moment – he has a sculpture on show at the Royal Festival Hall at the moment. We were talking about the romantic idea of a studio artist and how fun, energising, excellent it is to actually have time in the studio to make things, but that often there just isn’t time. With researching and applying for funding, making professional contacts and doing the administration and educational work that often surrounds exhibition-making (or in my case working, studying/researching and interviewing/writing), we both found there’s just not the time for much art-making. While this proportion of admin/working might lead to a more productive/successful career than mere studio work it does make me wonder whether we’ve got our priorities wrong. Shouldn’t there be more time spent actually making things?
On another note, while I’m thinking about how to organise my life and my way of writing about my artistic life, I really like the way Emily Speed’s a-n blog is layed out. Writing about different elements of life/art under different headings really seems to work as a way of differentiating/integrating activites and thoughts in this blog format.
Anyway, will post some drawing when I have time.
