Today's Talk: Grayson Perry "I Love Making Art"

Today I had the pleasure to attend a lecture given by a contemporary British artist Grayson Perry which took place at the university. The presentation was called "I Love Making Art" and the artist was kind enough to share a lot of inspiring images of his work along with some valuable tips on how to succeed.

What got my attention the most though, was the fact that in his speech Grayson has mentioned several times networking and its importance. Moreover, he even used it quite literally in his art.

This Grayson Perry scarf has been created exclusively for Tate; as the artist described himself, it represents the route to success and recognition for aspiring artists. The idea behind it was to help the artists to navigate through the hostile industry thanks to the right people along their way. The whole map looks like one big network of useful connections to me, but as if it wasn't enough, there is a special little spot for networking if we look at the close up of the print:

How brilliant is that?

Here is another one of his works which again represents networking in some way (groups of useful connections in this case):

With this one, the artist has recreated a sort of a map of potential buyers in the face of well-known collectors, which totally worked out- the pot has been sold to one of the gentlemen from the list.

All in all, I enjoyed the presentation and found it really useful for the current module!

Image courtesy of Tate and Colourweb