Isn't Frieze 2025 having a moment - I've read so much about it this year & loved your visit write up and memory jogs. I'm going on Saturday, in patched jeans, and felt I might be letting the Frieze tent art- and rich-spotters down, but now I'm going to pretend bigger and better (thank you Rachel McCormack for the idea!)
Love the Perry comment about having to do homework after viewing art, it does seem nothing can stand up as a piece of work unless it has a lengthy diatribe to explain it.
I wonder if this goes back to college course requirements to satisfy the grading, when there is the need for an ‘artist statement’ to accompany the work, the more outrageous it was the more the course leaders would lap it up, as a then 52 years old student on 05 I troweled it on, at one point getting a 99% mark for my final BA Hons submissions in ceramics. When someone ‘normal’ viewed my work, and asked what was the accompanying text all about, I said with all honesty ‘just arty bollocks’. They replied with a smile, OK, but I do like the ‘pots’, can I buy one?. At the end of the day is that not what it’s all about, a connect between the work and another person.
That has made me want to put on a pinstripe suit and go round Frieze for a couple of days pretending to be rich.
Thank you.
It’s a great bonnet in fairness
Thankyou!
Isn't Frieze 2025 having a moment - I've read so much about it this year & loved your visit write up and memory jogs. I'm going on Saturday, in patched jeans, and felt I might be letting the Frieze tent art- and rich-spotters down, but now I'm going to pretend bigger and better (thank you Rachel McCormack for the idea!)
How did you get on?
Love the Perry comment about having to do homework after viewing art, it does seem nothing can stand up as a piece of work unless it has a lengthy diatribe to explain it.
I wonder if this goes back to college course requirements to satisfy the grading, when there is the need for an ‘artist statement’ to accompany the work, the more outrageous it was the more the course leaders would lap it up, as a then 52 years old student on 05 I troweled it on, at one point getting a 99% mark for my final BA Hons submissions in ceramics. When someone ‘normal’ viewed my work, and asked what was the accompanying text all about, I said with all honesty ‘just arty bollocks’. They replied with a smile, OK, but I do like the ‘pots’, can I buy one?. At the end of the day is that not what it’s all about, a connect between the work and another person.
Very much so. Thanks Kelvin. How's it going?
Living the dream, starving artist in the back end of nowhere, haha.
All very well put. It makes me want to go. Still nostalgic for those former days - the back cover of Tastemakers is a time capsule.
I know. Reading it again was very triggering.