WHAT IS THIS BLOG ABOUT?
This is the first of a series of blog posts aiming at those who are starting out exhibiting their ceramics. It is planned as a live, developing, continually accessible resource for all.
I express my views and opinions and not a universal truth, but I will try to make blog titles explicit so that themes are easy to find and edit.
If you are experienced, maybe you will find some of it obvious, maybe you disagree, maybe you have better and more creative solutions. If that is the case, please give us feedback. We are eager to edit and improve this resource over time and build it into a useful point of reference.
IMPORTANT: DISCLAIMER
The editors will try to credit everyone whose contribution has been used; the contents of this blog is intended as guidelines only and this information is bring published in good faith; therefore, the editors clearly and firmly reject any responsibility for loss or damage linked to the advice/opinion here published. So, in other words, if you are consulting these pages, think carefully about your own situation and know that you are responsible for the outcome of your decisions.
STARTING AT THE BEGINNING
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| Setting out on a journey... |
And then, little by little, the mud bug took hold and I started on that journey of finding out what I really would love to make...
Very soon, the idea of showing off started to surface and eventually it became important to find ways of showing my work.
Each potter has a personal set of ambitions and an individual way of driving towards those goals. It may be that you perceive your work as having to fulfil certain criteria: it is not unusual to hear potters say, "My work has to have integrity. A container has to work as a container"; or "I will never be caught making a pot!" or "Ceramics are to be used, to eat from, to drink from and to store things in" "My ceramics are about delivering my deeply felt message: I use it to promote a cause". And so on endlessly.
Whatever your belief, there is always the need to share, display, sell... and there are countless ways of doing that.
BABY STEPS
Maybe like me you started by sharing a table top sale on May Day in your local Village fundraiser. Maybe your vision of yourself as a maker of fabulous table top wares you tried a Food and Drink Fair. Maybe you found the perfect gallery for your artwork.
Whatever you do, you need to consider the way to present and deliver your work to he point of sale.
We will start in the next post looking at the various exhibiting options available and finding a good fit for your work.
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