In this online training session ‘Surviving and Thriving as an Artist with Rosalind Davis’ she covers the following subjects:
- Representing yourself & raising your profile
- Galleries and the Art World
- Insights into Curating and tips on how to curate/develop your own exhibitions or projects.
- How to maximize an exhibitions success, build relationships and new audiences for your work such as curators/ critics and potential collectors of your work.
- Tips for generating your own opportunities as an artist.
- Opportunities: where to source them and how best to apply for them.
- Working collaboratively.
- Portfolio careers.
Rosalind Davis is a Curator, Artist, art consultant, teacher /mentor, writer and designer.
She is co-author of ‘What they didn’t teach you at art school’ and has written a number of articles for a-n and other arts publications. She lectures at universities, galleries and organisations across the country including the RCA, ICA, Camden Arts Centre, UAL and for various universities outside of London as well as online for the VAA and Professional Artists Institute.
Davis has been a mentor for a-n, Artquest, PLOP, UKNA and Shape as well as working independently with creatives for many years. She has led art tours for many orgs including the ICA (London and Boston) and the Whitechapel Gallery and contributed to BBC4’s Film ‘Tales of Winter’ as well as a number of podcasts, online talks and interviews for various arts publications.
Davis has been on many judging panels to select works for exhibitions and prizes including recently being an Expert judge for Jacksons Painting Prize, the Robert Walters UK Young Artist of the Year Award, Chapel Arts Studios and the VAA to name a few.
There are no prescribed or straightforward career paths for an artist and there are no golden tickets. This talk is about giving you the tools, to empower and encourage you to be inventive and entrepreneurial in your career as well as with your art to make thriving as an artist a more tangible and realistic possibility.
You can read online two reviews and reflections on a seminar she did at Chapel Arts Studio, one by an artist and organiser at CAS Maija Lepins and the other by an art student Annette Warner.
Links
Some useful links/resources mentioned in the Zoom session:
- Rosalind's Resource Sheet - with lots and lots and lots of useful content!
- 'What they didn't teach you in Art School' book by Rosalind Davis & Annabel Tilley
- a-n The Artists Information Company
- Art Quest
- Arts Admin
- Jam Jar - invite preview cards
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