Once a year during August every South Australian artist puts up an exhibition, takes part in a group show or opens up their studio to the public. This year i'm opening my Vanilla Sky Studio each weekend
There is a reality to being an artist today that seems to be at odds with public perception.
As an artist I find myself increasingly unsure of what is art, what is not, and how to define or even recognise a ‘masterpiece’
Appropriation of the artefacts of the past has been rationalised by museums las the necessary preservation of human achievement.
Michaelangelo, though, was somewhat different. Half a millennium after he painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling the then pope decided to have the accumulated candle soot cleaned off. What the cleaning revealed was intense colour. Michaelangelo, being long dead, might well have insisted on having it cleaned sooner if he’d known how little care the Catholic church was going to take of it.
AS AN ARTIST YOU’D BETTER HAVE YOUR LAWYER READY