newcastle-proposal-collage
picture for a 'proposal' to build a battle of walkerloo HQ in a city shopping street in Newcastle, the city I grew up near.
Making pictures for most people to look at and later sell to rich things is a very accepted way for artists work. But making pictures which everyday people can look at, and buy, and take home you become a shop and not an artist ... I went to ask mr Boots at the Boots shop what he thought of the distinctions between art display and shop display, art and artists, shops and shopkeepers but he had died years before. No one in the shop new that much about the origins of the stuff they sold but they knew it was good for them to sell it, although many customers did just look at the stuff many also bought some of the stuff. This shop is different from the shop I want to make but work is work... and galleries and shops etc.
newcastle-proposal-collage
picture for a 'proposal' to build a battle of walkerloo HQ in a city shopping street in Newcastle, the city I grew up near.
Making pictures for most people to look at and later sell to rich things is a very accepted way for artists work. But making pictures which everyday people can look at, and buy, and take home you become a shop and not an artist ... I went to ask mr Boots at the Boots shop what he thought of the distinctions between art display and shop display, art and artists, shops and shopkeepers but he had died years before. No one in the shop new that much about the origins of the stuff they sold but they knew it was good for them to sell it, although many customers did just look at the stuff many also bought some of the stuff. This shop is different from the shop I want to make but work is work... and galleries and shops etc.