The Curator's Salon - The Art Podcast

In this episode I explain how I respond when an artist says they want gallery representation. We look at their sales history, exhibiting experience and more. 
Often artists come looking for gallery representation before they are ready. I think it is great to know what to expect and the road to representation.  However, if the goal is to offload the 'business' side of being an artist, there's often other elements that the artist needs to work on before approaching any dealers, which includes professional and personal growth.

A guide to gallery representation is found here 

In this episode I mention the program, Gallery Ready., details here 

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Michael Wallner is an artist based in London. His inspiration comes from urban skylines and landmark buildings. In this episode of the podcast he talks about his journey through art and regularly showing at art fairs.
He talks about building his art network, showing his art at fairs in the US and managing costs and finances in his art business.

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In this episode I am joined by Tim Fowler who talks about his exhibition, The Ground at the Attenborough Centre, Leicester. The Leicester based artist talks about the research that went into the exhibition which features his large scale paintings of plants that followed the same migratory pattern as his own DNA - from West Africa to the Caribbean to the UK.

He talks about setting himself challenges such as painting large scale before he had any exhibiting opportunity, and selling at fairs where he wanted to be seen before any gallery represented him. Tim currently has gallery representation and we talk about the different expectations and challenges of working with commercial galleries and institutions. While both offer programming, they vary in their expectations and outcomes.

While preparing for the exhibition (ends 26 January 2025) Tim worked with a film maker to create a documentary which you can watch here.

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Kat Popova joins me on this episode of the podcast and we talk about her year which started with with 3 exhibitions on the calendar. 
As an artist she reflects on the last few years of exhibiting,  and setting up 2024 with three exhibitions on the horizon. She shares her vulnerable story of the fear of 'not being included' that led to her committing to shows and avoiding 'red flags'.

She goes on to share how she returned to her art making and easing her fears around working with galleries in the future.

We go on to talk about Art Basel Paris, and Art Basel Miami Beach, and how the former revived our join interest in returning to Miami as exhibitors at a future date.

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Sonia Borrell is a collector, author and mentor. In this episode she talks about writing her book Art in Real Time and her journey to building a contemporary art collection. She talks about her art preferences which is currently figurative and staying open to her personal tastes changing. She talks about collecting for personal expression and connection over investment and shares her advice for new collectors; buy art from your own time. Sonia also shares her views on the works of art that the artist does not sell, holding back to create their own archive.  She also talks about supporting your own practice through other income streams where possible, in order to have the time to develop a body of work and find your own visual language.

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In this episode Gita Joshi talks to Mona Lerch and Katelyn Chapman about artists statements and applying for funding to develop their art practice.

We discuss the importance of the artist statement for those artists who are ready to enter the marketplace and how it supports the artist's visual work.

Katelyn Chapman shares details of successfully applying to grants for funding a studio practice and details of the program that can support you to do the same.

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In this episode my guest is Victoria Mann,the founder of AKAA art fair. This fair takes place in Paris with a focus on artists connected with Africa.

In this episode Victoria shares her backstory and how the fair came about and how it has evolved over the years. 2024 is the 9th edition of the fair and Victoria discusses what visitors can expect at the fair taking place 18-20 October 2024.

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Liz Lidgett from Liz Lidgett Gallery joins me on this episode to talk about her gallery based in Des Moines Iowa.
Liz has amassed a loyal following online and in this episode she talks about how the gallery started, her experience of working with artists, hiring and growing a team, selling worldwide and the regular launches and exhibitions offered by the gallery.

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Artist Ghia Haddad joins me on this podcast to discuss her non Euro Centric approach to textiles and mixed media art.

She shares her experience of art history with a Euro-centric viewpoint and feeling outside of this as an Arab woman.

Her work explores textiles and representation of Arab women through the lens of an Emirati woman. Ghia's art is something that invites interaction and touch. In this episode she  talks about the Western approach to idolising of art that is to be revered, while her own art takes reference from her own culture that invites interaction through more than looking and permits touch and considers this more communal and democratic.

She goes on to talk about her series I Dream In Colour which uses the bridal gown as the symbol that crosses cultures and presents it in its various ways beyond the European white bridal gown. Tap here to see the collection

Decolonizing History is another of Ghia's series which represents queens from a bygone age, again reminding us that much of our knowledge of world history is told through the European lens. Hear her talk about her reimagining Cleopatra and Zenobia. See images of the artwork here 

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Victoria Fry of Visionary Art Collective joins Gita Joshi on this episode of the podcast.

Victoria talks about her initial blog which has now developed into a community of artists around the world, a magazine, a podcast and artist mentoring.
She shares how the platform evolved during the pandemic, and providing resources for art educators  and now supporting artists to build their own practice.

In 2023 Victoria launched a gallery space, Warnes Contemporary based in Brooklyn.  In this episode she talks about finding the gallery space and the artists she exhibits.

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