A website called 500 letters was brought to my attention recently. It creates an Artist Statement for you after you give it a few basic details of you and your art. It made me laugh how easy it was to generate a 'fancy' pile of art wank.
I am quite perplexed at the 'art worlds' desire and glorification of this art wank. What on earth?!
Who decided artists needed to write in 3rd person about them selves and use lofty language that makes the eyes glaze over. It's all intelligent, shallow, clever, heartless muck.
Where is the heart in this art world? I am considered a fluffy bunny woo woo for even saying the word heart... how dreadfully sad. What a sad time indeed when the words of the heart to convey your art are considered less. When creating from the heart and talking about the heart and living from the heart are thought of as less?
I think i am lost, lost and i don't belong any where. I feel this is the same for my art too. It has gotten me quite down of late, i think i am on the other side of it as the determination is bubbling again!
Surely if i was born this way, with this penchant for disregarding the rules, the head, the shoulds, the popular belief, the 'norms', the writing of critical faff then surely that's because there is a space for me?
Where are you my creative heArt tribe? Where do i belong? Why am i so driven to create if this modern art world has no place for me?
Maybe i'm wounded still from harsh tertiary education critisism and from failing year 12 English because even though i was and A student in creative writing i was a big old F in critical essay writing- Maybe it's a gift! Maybe if i let it all go and stop looking my place will come.
Here is the artist statement i actually wrote about my current body of work.
Oh my, i actually submitted this to a gallery! But you know what this honesty and vulnerability and heart sharing felt right.
So will continue to submit this Artist Statement until i find my space i believe!
SO here i go further down the rabbit hole, i want to truly embrace my creative heart, to dive deeply in and stop giving such a shit about how i will be percieved. I long to set myself free and so i have and here i go.
Blessed be xx
Sarah Kilgariff
Sarah Kilgariff (°1983, Perth, Australia) is an artist who works
in a variety of media. By contesting the division between the realm of memory
and the realm of experience, Kilgariff absorbs the tradition of remembrance art
into daily practice. This personal follow-up and revival of a past tradition is
important as an act of meditation.
Her collected, altered and own artworks are being confronted as
aesthetically resilient, thematically interrelated material for memory and
projection. The possible seems true and the truth exists, but it has many
faces, as Hanna Arendt cites from Franz Kafka. Sarah Kilgariff currently lives
and works in Scarborough.
Who decided artists needed to write in 3rd person about them selves and use lofty language that makes the eyes glaze over. It's all intelligent, shallow, clever, heartless muck.
Where is the heart in this art world? I am considered a fluffy bunny woo woo for even saying the word heart... how dreadfully sad. What a sad time indeed when the words of the heart to convey your art are considered less. When creating from the heart and talking about the heart and living from the heart are thought of as less?
I think i am lost, lost and i don't belong any where. I feel this is the same for my art too. It has gotten me quite down of late, i think i am on the other side of it as the determination is bubbling again!
Surely if i was born this way, with this penchant for disregarding the rules, the head, the shoulds, the popular belief, the 'norms', the writing of critical faff then surely that's because there is a space for me?
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| Handmade Wonderland, Faerie - Holding the Fall, Mixed media on Canvas and Rescued Circle Support, 2015 |
Where are you my creative heArt tribe? Where do i belong? Why am i so driven to create if this modern art world has no place for me?
Maybe i'm wounded still from harsh tertiary education critisism and from failing year 12 English because even though i was and A student in creative writing i was a big old F in critical essay writing- Maybe it's a gift! Maybe if i let it all go and stop looking my place will come.
Here is the artist statement i actually wrote about my current body of work.
Artist Statement
“Let yourself be silently
drawn by the strange pull of what you
REALLY love, it will not lead
you astray” – Rumi
Putting heart back into art
My past artwork has danced
with ideas and themes of ‘home’ and
‘daydream’ often set in the faerytale
landscape of my heart.
I want to go deeper, I want to let go and submerge myself in
this world and bring it out
to share for I feel it’s a balm for
this often-cynical world.
I’m a faerie.
That’s not something a lot of
‘rational, level headed adults say,
but I do, I know in my heart
of hearts that I am and it explains
perfectly the sense of oddness I have in
this world.
But doesn’t everyone – don’t we all at times feel
lost? Are we all faeries? :-)
lol no probably not but you can be what ever
you want to be –
that’s the magik.
In delving into this heart
landscape I am filled with energy, healing,
unraveling and soul finding. I am
at one with the infinite creator spirit
and still just a girl in a little art
room in a suburb in a country in the world.
I am not extraordinary at all, I am
just like you but I have
chosen to walk the path of
wonder – wandering wonderer!
I want to bring this
wonderland out in to this world and share its magik,
share the delight and joy
it gives me with others – beware there will be glitter!!!
I imagine a space of tea
parties and tea ceremonies and tea leaf readings,
ritual, music, growing
things, incense, delight, joy, wonder.
“To the right person my art
will delight, to everyone else I will confuse!”
Unknown Port Campbell Artist
Things that have been found
on the wonder trail so far
Day dreams night dreams Stories
Magik Memory
Faeries Curiosity
Absurdity Cats
Birds Emotion
Rhymes Rabbits
Glitter Nature
spirits
Juxtaposition Play
I have gotten lost, Opposities
There is also loss, Silliness
Healing mending and
re-membering Introspection
Glitter lost
things found things
It is mostly just about love.
So will continue to submit this Artist Statement until i find my space i believe!
SO here i go further down the rabbit hole, i want to truly embrace my creative heart, to dive deeply in and stop giving such a shit about how i will be percieved. I long to set myself free and so i have and here i go.
Blessed be xx
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