Why you need this workshop:

One of the important ways in which an artist communicates with prospective audiences, gallerists and curators is the Artist Statement that summarises an artist’s work and his/her usage of concept, visual language and material. However, there is often a wide gap between an artist’s ability to express through images and through words. Hence most art students and artists are at a loss when it comes to writing about their works, thereby losing out on many career opportunities. This workshop addresses this need. It will take artists through the various ways in which they could break down aspects of their work and create a cohesive Artist Statement that would help communicate the uniqueness of their work to those unfamiliar with it. 

Registered participants need to send in their current artist statement and portfolio to piramalartfoundation@gmail.com 

What you will learn:

At the end of this workshop series:

1. You will have an artist statement written in clear, concise, compelling prose.
2. You will be well prepared to talk about your art with friends, colleagues, gallery owners, journalists etc.

Who should attend:

Students in art school, independent artists, recent art school graduates, artists wanting to write better proposals.

What will be covered:

• 1 session of 45 minutes (presentation and Q&A)
• 1 personalised session (one on one interaction with the curator)
• 1 week of email interaction or feedback on the writing
• 1 Group session (peer interaction and sharing)

Schedule

29 May – 11am to 12 pm (1st session)

5 June – 9am to 9.15am , 9.20am to 9.35am, 9.40am to 9.55am, 10am to 10.15am, 10.20am to 10.35 am, (BREAK for 25 min) 11am to 11.15am, 11.20am to 11.35am, 11.40am to 11.55am,

11.55am to 12.15pm (BREAK for 15 min) 12.15pm to 12.30pm, 12.35pm and 12.55pm (2nd session)

12 June – 11am to 12 pm (3rd session)

About the Facilitator:

Vaishnavi Ramanathan is the senior curator and art historian of Piramal Museum of Art. She has curated Before the Canvas, the immensely lauded S.H. Raza: Traversing Terrains, which showcased five decades of S.H. Raza’s work from the early 1940s to the late 1990s, the exhibition Likeness Without Reference: Cultures of Forgery, which tackled the issue of fakes and forgeries in the Indian art market, and Making Art: Materials and Technology dedicated to showing how materials play a key role in creating art and ideas, for Piramal Museum of Art. She co-authored the book Smriti, focusing on the art of the Piramal Museum of Art. Her writings have been published in magazines such as Marg, Art India, Take on Art and Art & Deal. She completed her Masters in Art History from Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore. The Charles Wallace Scholarship, Nehru Grant, CIMAM Travel Grant are some of the awards she has won.

We are offering bursaries for 2 art students! Please write to us at artfoundation@piramal.com to know more about how to avail those.