Open Calls - the Artist View [256]

Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers

Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan

Visual Arts, Arts

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Are submitting to open calls part of your practice? Maybe you find the rejection hard to handle? Or you're fed up of losing submission fees...

This week's show was prompted by a rather shocking and sad recent scenario involving the Livingstone gallery. If you got caught up in it, you're not alone. But it prompted a discussion about whether we should be more wary about open calls, or if they can be a beneficial element in building your career.

Alice is joined by Abigail Bowen and Jessie Woodward to discuss an artists view ... from getting organised to practising bravery and stepping outside your comfort zone.

We hope that later in the summer we'll hear the view from some gallery owners who organise open calls and why they organise them.

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https://www.jessiewoodward.co.uk/

https://www.abigailbowen.com/

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0:00.0	same day I had been rejected from a rejects exhibition.
0:06.4	So I was doubly rejected and then I got this.
0:08.7	I'm not really sure I'm the right person for this. personally.
0:18.0	Hello and welcome to Art Juice. This is honest, generous and humorous conversations that will feed your creative soul
0:22.0	and get you thinking with me Alice Sheridan and this
0:26.3	week Louise is taking a break and I have invited on two fabulous artists to come and discuss a very interesting topic and I just
0:37.6	wanted to have a kind of roundtable discussion on it. So two lovely people that I have invited on to talk with me today are Abigail Bowen. You can find her on Instagram at Abigail Bowen studio and Jesse Woodwood and you can see her work at Jesse Abstract on
0:56.8	Instagram and this conversation is going to be all about open calls and this was prompted after I saw a reel that
1:07.2	Abby did after Livingston Gallery announced that they were closing. So this little podcast is going to be in two parts.
1:18.1	Open call models and can we as artists be more aware?
1:23.2	And why should we even do open calls anyway?
1:26.8	We did a very interesting poll on Instagram,
1:29.4	which I will share some of the results with you later.
1:32.0	But first of all, I want to welcome Abby.
1:35.2	Hello, welcome to the podcast. Tell us a little bit about you and where you work, what kind of work you make. Thank you Alice from inviting me on. I am an abstract painter. I'm based in
1:49.3	Brighton on the South Coast. I'm about 10 years into my current phase of my practice like many of us I took
1:58.4	a break when I had children and my work is inspired by the atmosphere and the light of Turner and they take months and months to complete and I often think that I should be making life easier for myself but as we all know as artists the torture is part of the joy of our practice. So that's me.
2:25.8	Lovely and Jessie tell us where you are. You've just finished an open studio.
2:31.4	I have hello I did yeah just at the weekend I did an open studio as part of the
2:38.8	BS for arts trail which is a new Arts Trail in Bristol where I'm based.
2:45.0	So that was fun.
2:46.4	It's always nice to do an open studio,
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