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Lucy and Amy are back...! Sorry for our absence!
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What's New.....
We are in August issue of art of england - www.artofengland.uk.com
Art entrepreneurs tackle recession
Recessions have always thinned out ropey
businesses and forced entrepreneurs to raise
their game. The art world is no different and
two new websites demonstrate the manner
in which the recession is buffeting the art
market but also forcing it to adapt.
The newly launched ArtStreet website
(http://www.artstreet.co.uk) provides the
tools and features necessary for artists and
galleries to sell art, promote events and
share news and views direct with a growing
international audience.
Developed by Lancashire based
entrepreneur Steven Bennett, it integrates
an online gallery, marketplace, events guide,
community art blog and social network
through which selected partners can
increase both awareness and sales.
He explains, “Through speaking to galleries
and artists within the UK it became evident
that managing separate websites, blogs,
online stores and social platforms was an
extremely inefficient process, resulting in
both repetition and low visitor numbers
moving between each.” To apply ,artists and
galleries should submit their details through
the website (http://www.artstreet.co.uk) or via
enquiries@artstreet.co.uk
Anonymous Art is another online gallery
brought to you by Lucy Weir and Interior
Designer Amy Schellenberg – keen but
retiring artists. They set themselves a brief
asking, “How can we enable people like us –
shy but capable – to get our work seen? How
can artists find a way of allowing their work
to speak for itself? How can artists – trained
or not – feel free to go wild without being
damned for it? And how can an art-buying
public source art that is first and foremost
original and secondly, inexpensive?”
Artists pay an annual fee of £45 and are
immediately free to exhibit online. Art priced
to sell is there for anyone to see and buy. No
commission is taken and all negotiations are
direct between seller and buyer. For details,
0131 603 7760, info@anonymousart.co.uk,
www.anonymousart.com.
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Listen to Amy discussing Anonymous Art on BBC Radio Scotland's Culture studio! Click on link below then click on the screen.
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http://www.scotsman.com/news/arts/anonymous-art-gallery-to-sell-art-with-no-name-1-2881484
Visual Art Scotland (VAS) – Supporting all Artists
In the early years of the 20th century, women artists found it difficult to gain any kind of recognition within Scotland, for the art establishment was strictly a male preserve. In response to this, in 1924 William McDougall, whose daughter Lily was a talented painter, founded the Scottish Society of Women Artists. Its aim was to give encouragement and opportunity to women artists and to provide a much needed platform for applied arts. The SSWA existed until the late 1980s when it was re-formed under a new name, Scottish Artists and Artist Craftsmen, and given fresh impetus. This in turn became Visual Arts Scotland in 1999.
Today, VAS continues to embrace all aspects of the visual arts; with a membership of around 500 ranging from established figures to recent graduates and emerging artists. The Annual Exhibition, held in the Royal Scottish Academy, continues to show a diverse cross section of the best in Scottish art in a nationally esteemed venue. VAS is one of the few organisations that actively promotes and exhibits the work of contemporary visual and applied artists side by side and is a multi-disciplinary platform where painters, photographers and textile artists, sculptors and ceramicists artists exhibit together.
VAS must continue to fundraise on a regular basis in order to ensure the future of the education programme. Commercial sponsorship is invaluable but increasingly difficult to come by. If you would like to make a contribution of any size towards next years workshops you can do so by visiting the fundraising section of VAS website by making a donation.
Summerhall, the former Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary, is a truly inspirational place. Full of the named and the greatest artists along with live music, theatre, story telling, performance art, Giclée Printers, computer programmers and in centre the Royal Dick Bar/Café serving the Summerhall pale ale. This is the country’s newest and biggest art venue. It is a space willing to work with the community and will be forever developing and changing.
'Summerhall is a work in progress – as more space is developed more ideas emerge. Here the possibilities are endless,' “everyone is an artist”.
TESTIMONIALS
'What a brilliant idea. I bought 'Persian Slug' for my husband's 40th birthday - he was absolutely delighted. An original piece of artwork without having to mortage the house. Genius.' Mags, Yorkshire.
'We clubbed together and bought Aesop's Rooster for a friend's birthday. Really great that we were able to buy an original and also to be able to speak to the artist about it - all very easy and simple' Claire, Edinburgh
'Thank you Lucy and Amy for helping me find my way. I sent a few images, not knowing if anyone would like them and somebody bought one. I feel so proud of myself. Thank you, thank you!' Anon!
'Having heard Amy on the radio, I thought to myself, what a brilliant idea and sent a cheque plus my image right away, a really great way to get my work seen nationally and internationally without having to do all the marketing myself!' Gordon, Ayrshire
Anonymous Art: email: info@anonymousart.co.uk