Fresh from my temporary studio in Paris….. It has been an interesting challenge creating from my make shift studio in Paris .Ive had to work differently from my usual larger pieces. Pieces have become more intricate and detailed.I even created some more hand made books and collages using whatever I could find .I am enjoying re-cycling everything I can get my hands on….I just sent back to Australia 5, 7kg. boxes of junk ,collected from the streets and stuff that lovely people have given to me to re-use in my art.
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PARIS STUDIO IN A BOX
Friday, January 29th, 2010MEET THE TENANT PROJECT
Sunday, January 24th, 2010
MEET THE TENANT PROJECT
Over the past 3 months I have been living and making art in Paris. I came here to finish off an arts project I started 2 years ago.
Meet the Tenant project began in in the Summer of 2007,when I ventured down into the underground area of an apartment block in Asnieres sur seine. I sensed the presence of past lives lurking within the walls and this became the starting point for my project.
Within days I had massed hundreds of images, video, photos and drawings. I took them back to my studio in Australia and have been working on the project ever since. I edited the videos into an 18 minute piece and printed out some of the photos. Developed a storyline which keeps changing, and created a proposal ,to be performed . (See 1st draft below)
Today back in Paris 2010 I’m still no closer to resolving this project its forever ongoing and not sure where it will end up and its driving me mad. Why am I an artist???.
Proposal No.1 $10,000 – Jenny Davis 2010
“Go to Paris, from Australia & live in an underground space for 7 days and document everything that happens.Video, photographs,drawings, whatever, all things created become yours, you own the experience, everything including my clothes, shoes, food containers ,implements etc…I will deliver them to you. The art piece is… The whole thing…. you can do with it what you want”
(Due to sub zero temps. this project was canceled and may be performed at a later date)
COLLECTING & 4 NEW PIECES 2009
Monday, June 15th, 2009
Med.- Acrylic paint found wall paper screenprint on canvas
Size-40×30cm
Med.- Acrylic paint found wall paper screenprint on canvas
Size-40×30cm
Med.- Acrylic paint found wall paper screenprint on canvas
Size-40×30cm
Med.- Acrylic paint found wall paper screenprint on canvas
Size-40×30cm
COLLECTING
Collecting can become so addictive, especially for an artist. My found objects and things are the inspiration and starting point for most of my artwork and ideas.When I see something; it can trigger of an instant idea and give me a vision to work with.I think this is why I love museums too as display and arranging objects are an important part of my work.
I have been collecting since I was born. I used to hide stuff under my bed in boxes as a child .As an adult I’m still putting stuff into boxes and plastic bags and other strange things. I view my collections as arrangements. They are all art installations scattered around my place as well as material for use in my arts projects
Walking through the streets to the local shop I always come home with something foot trodden. A piece of paper, packaging, a bright piece of plastic, glass all will be used in my art eventually. When I travel overseas (much to the sometimes embarrassment to friends and family) I pick up off the ground, bottle tops, lolly papers, wires bright bits of plastic, even if an item disturbs me I’ll bring it home.On a tour once in Europe the whole busload of passengers collected bottle tops for me.
My stuff may brood for years in a dark space or cupboard till I come across it again sending me off on another project. On my last trip to Paris I came home with 15 kilo of junk. I collected baguette bags, bits of string, stones, free ad cards, labels from food items, torn posters, a book and papers from a bin.
All sorts of ephemera is precious to me. I collect found photographs, as they tell a story about people and places I’ll never know about.I make up my own stories. I collect found images, negatives, scientific stuff,equations, wire,tin,bones, animal skeletons,fur, hair,watches, old mobile covers, eye glasses, shrivelled things,found numbers and fonts from keyboards, magazines and advertising,boxes, packaging,all sorts paper, vintage clothes, fabrics, wall papers,shells, driftwood, snowglobes, toys, childrens books and so much more.
I go to op shops,cities,airports underground spaces ,beaches, garage sales, friends houses and sometimes, find stuff on EBay though, part of the fun and attraction for me is, the actual finding of a material that is discarded and thrown away. I like to recycle it into something else or, just show its beauty, as it is.
Collections of stuff are also extremally important for future generations, for History. 100’s years from now someone may come across my piece of fabric, wallpaper ,lolly paper, box ,bone etc that will give them information on of how we lived in our time, in our place.
Collections are also portraits of those who love to glean….. Check out Andy Warhol’s boxes and boxes of stuff he collected over his life time http://www.warhol.org/collections/archives.html What do you like to collect?
MORE ABOUT MARKETING & PROMOTING YOUR ART ONLINE
Friday, April 17th, 2009Continuing on from my last post …
I would like to share with you just a sample of what can be done through marketing and promoting your arts business online.Without the computer I couldn’t have done any of this and ANYONE can do this if you are willing to put in the time and energy….while still saving time for precious creative pursuits
I have included parts of a letter I sent to an arts body in Australia “explaining” (as typically artists constantly have to do)… How serious I am about what I do…
To whom it may concern,
I wanted to write this to let you know how serious I am about my arts business and how I have great expectations for its continual growth internationally.It takes time for artists to establish themselves; we have to approach the” business” of being an artist slightly differently, from the usual manufacturer of goods and products because our income can come from many different creative areas, not always with the one product.
Also to be a “successful artist” doesn’t always mean a huge income though this helps.
My main objective is to expose and market my art to an international audience.
To do this I regularly network with my peers, directors, collectors, other artists to get known and to find spaces, galleries to show my work for sales, invitations to international events, engagements and commissions.
Australian Contemporary art is much sort after in Europe and USA however, New York has never had a major exhibition of important Australian art but, it will happen.
Since 2001 I have concentrated on exporting my art overseas. I have been part of an Australian exhibition in New York in 2004, Leipzig Germany and Spain 2005 Berlin & Paris 2007 and more in US… I have traveled to England, Europe and was awarded an arts residency in Barcelona Spain. In 2007 I went to Paris to setup a network in France and to oversee my Melb5 art exhibition opening in Berlin Germany 2007.
I spend at least 2/3 hours daily (depending on my physical self) at the computer contacting potential clients and exploring all areas of the International markets. I upload my images onto websites all over the world. I have numerous international spaces and have just released a new series of digital artworks onto the international market.
My main websites and blog draw various people who contact me. I receive invites to art fairs, international exhibitions in galleries and online for solo & group exhibitions a. I enter art awards, exhibitions, photography competitions ,arts residencies.
Lately, I have collaborated with other international artists in art projects worldwide and received magazine work and published a book of my art in Australia and US.
Included are sites for selling my original art pieces, limited- edition art prints, a design site for images on products such as t shirts, cards, etc. Art, photography and crafts sites. Blog sites let the world know who I am and what I do. A video site where I can create a short video advertising my artwork or experiment with new work.
I am represented by Ausgallery with Austrade in Australia for International representation.
When overseas, I market and promote my work by approaching and meeting with gallery directors, managers, attend openings of other artists work for networking and researching market trends. I always have a good supply of my professional gallery package I designed. The package may consist of a CD of my images, CV, digital prints, postcards, of my work and an exhibition history all in a folder.
I am in the process of developing a short video of my practice to add to it. When I travel I always leave my art packages at all the airports I pass through.
When I don’t have funding and income to travel myself, I send my work all over the world to events. Example : Ive also had invitations to the Florence Biennale 6 times, Louvre complex in Paris twice, Sala Barna Gallery in Spain, Galleria Gora in Montreal, Mont Serrat Gallery in New York, Armory art fair NY, Singapore Art Fair, Miami, and may be a possibility for me to attend the next Cityscape in Dubai and much more.
I have just spent 3 months in Paris where I networked, visited and negotiated with gallery directors for space in their galleries for future exhibitions, projects events. I have put in many applications for arts residencies and studio spaces in Paris and other parts of Europe. In Paris I developed new work in an area I had never ventured, video and digital work, an extension to my arts practice. In Berlin I had an exhibition at the Bob Curtiz Contemporary Movement Gallery with 4 other Melbourne artists in which members of the Australian Embassy in Berlin attended.Recently I was asked to go to the Shanghai Art Fair with Chaira Goya from Goya Galleries in Melbourne.
Through hard work and determination I feel there is a market out there for my Australian art.
Finally after many years of knock backs I did receive that grant …….