Pine Street Talk on Fine Arts – Part 1
July 4, 2007
Last night I went to Creative Pros - a monthly talk at Circular Quay for young artists in Sydney. Last night’s topic was fine art but get in touch with Pine Street Galleries Chippendale if you want to know what other forums are coming up as there have been talks on music, mixed media and more! Best bit is that it’s FREE!!!
The first speaker was Liam Kennedy, an ex-actor who basically decided to open his own gallery – New View Gallery -where his struggling artsy friends could exhibit their works and said a big up-yours to a Hollywood that probably wasn’t paying attention anyway. He was young, scruffy and hairy in the cool Newtown way, wore torn jeans with trendy patches revealed underneath and had an even trendier Newtown looking fiance manning the PowerPoint aspect of things.
The most striking tips, pointers, verbal communication I got out of the talk personally was as follows:
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If you cannot bear the thought of accumulating a HELP debt, but fancy the idea of tertiary education, you can always do what Liam describes as “…attend University illegally…” which consists of finding out when/where lectures of interest are on. Then you turn up, choose a seat, plant your ass down and start taking notes. Voila – you’re an anarchist intellectual. Viva la learning, or sumfin.
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William Coles (and his concrete televisions) is an artist to keep an eye out for. C’mon Google! Give me some love here! Where is this guy in the wide world of web?
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Smaller works will sell better, as there is only so much room for feature pieces in people’s homes, particularly in the small terrace houses typical to inner west Sydney.
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Works need to be able to stand alone because it’s not really fair to expect that Nanna and Pop will want to fork out all their pension to buy a 7 piece ’story’. People want to be able to buy one thing that will look good in the toilet… Themes are ok though (this is now my opinion) as luck might have it that the guest toilet needs something to spice up it’s life.
Picture/s:
http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/customshouse/venues/
