Probably only helpful if you were there. The whole talk will be online soon, I’ll share it here, and you can watch me in all my snakeoil-selling glory.
I’m giving a talk this Saturday 15th August in the Galway City Museum Coffee Shop at 4.30pm, along with Lynda Cookson. I’ll be talking about how I’ve created a viable business out of art instead of flipping burgers, which is an important job too but a bit smelly.
Art + Business + Creativity, with Lynda Cookson and Allan Cavanagh!
Lynda Cookson, Artist and Writer based in Galway, will be giving an unmissable talk on how building a painting can be like building a business whilst demonstrating her technique of creating an oil painting.“It’s not such a huge jump from being creative to being businesslike,” Lynda claims, drawing on her experience of combining the two worlds. Throughout her own career, she has learned how important it is that your business life as an artist runs parallel with your creativity; and she will speak about how handling business and promoting your artistic work, can be just as creative as art.
One of Ireland’s top caricature artists, Allan Cavanagh uses his talent as a caricaturist in wide ranging fields, from being a regular contributor to news publications to attending conferences as a cartoonist where he quickly produces large, on-the-spot cartoons based on the themes and objectives of the event. Allan will speak about the skills and knowledge that he has accumulated through developing a powerful presence online, and how he has established a viable business from his artistic talent.
Learn: From the experts and from eachother:
How to promote your art using online and offline tools. How you can use your creativity in business.Share:
“Show my Art” where you as audience members get to show us some of your own work as a creative way to enrich the content of the event. If you are interested in showing some of your art work, please contact us.Meet:
After the talks you have a great opportunity to meet like-minded people at the event, and have interesting conversations, to share ideas or exchange tips on how you’ve managed to promote your art.Tickets are 5 euro for meetforeal members, (sign up free) or 8 euro on the door.
This is one of the nicest emails I’ve ever received.
Hello! (:
I’m in year 9 and i’ doing an ArtsAward for school which is a nationally recognised qualification at three levels – Bronze, Silver and Gold, (I am doing bronze.) We get to choose something we want to become good at and I have chosen caricatures. It is required that we choose an ‘Arts Hero.’ Someone whos art you like and want to be able to draw like. Would you mind being my arts hero, all that you need to do is answer a few questions about your caricature arts, is that OK with you? I really love your caricature style and would love to learn how to draw like you.
Thankyou very much!
Got it today and walked around on little clouds for the rest of the day. I’m currently designing my superhero outfit. If I pad the chest and arms out it’s not cheating, it’s inspiring.
My son Naoise is learning all about WWII, Hitler and the Holocaust in school at the moment. Very impressed with the way it’s being taught. He came home today with his version of Picasso’s Cat Catching a Bird, so not only is he learning cold facts but he’s also being taught about allegory. You can’t beat the ol’ Educate Together ethos.
Here’s Pablo’s original:
Martin Rowson of the Guardian just sent me his contribution to Fústar’s nudie Cowen postcard exhibition.
The exhibition is open to everyone. Send us your postcards!
