In with the Big Boys
All of a sudden, things are starting to happen, and i feel that i am getting there. OK, so they are just proposals and possibles, but great to be asked anyway.
I have been asked about the possibility of a stepping stone for a landscape designer – and whilst it may not happen, i am making one anyway! Having sourced precast, but unwanted, stepping stones at a local building merchants, and got the design in my head – so done a lot of the work, i thought i would just do it. A Work in Progress is going on the flickr site.
So how much to quote? I have already determined that i have under-quoted, so far i have done 4 1/2 hours, and not yet finished the laying out of tiles on paper. hmm.
I wouldn’t usually time it, as it does take away a lot of the fun, but i have also been asked to do a community project over a few evenings, and thought the stepping stones would be a good one to do – all the recycling and using landfill stuff – so the timing bit would allow me to work on what they could achieve in one evening. So this is my second ‘possible’.
My third is that i have submitted for a community arts project, subbing out the teaching bit to Jan Kilpatrick of WildTiles. It would be great to get it, if not just for the local cudos, as it is at the new community campus in my home town of Crieff, but in reality i don’t think i will. But i am learning by just going through the processes anyway.
And still building up towards the Open Studios in September. Trying to get advise as a newbie at these things, working out what to have for sale, how to demonstrate that i can do ‘big and ambitious’ things too, and that it is more than ‘craft’ that i am an artist! Their website isn’t up and running yet, but they do have a blog – so i will aim to get something on there soon: http://perthshireopenstudios.blogspot.com. But i must spend less time at the computer and more in the workshop, so logging off now!
Katy. Think we need to have a heated debate about the definitions between Craft and Art.
Craftspeople have argued persistently that their working practice should not be perceived as less important than that of the artist. Today the boundaries are less defined
Potters are Turner Prize winning and artists employ traditional making skills in realizing
their ideas. The importance is the work itself and not to which category it
belongs. Now go make some work and stop blogging!! Love your ever supportive sis in law who fits no category.
Hopefully i have cleared up my misuse of the word ‘craft’ in the next post, or maybe digging the hole deeper…katy