An artist's statement explains your work and how you approach it when you're not there to speak about your work.
Organising your thoughts in an artist's statement can give you the confidence to engage others effectively when you meet them and present your work in a meaningful way.
Katherine Tyrrell - reworking Paul Turounet's words about statements for photographers
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I have found that it is mostly artists who read these artist statements, in order to see how other artists write them and what kinds of things they say about their work.
Christopher Addison, director of the Addison/Ripley Gallery in Washington, D.C
Views about why you need an Artist Statement
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Another fairly large group of people sees statements as little more than “bullshit” (a term regularly used in emails sent to me) put out by gallerists to make a quick buck (let’s call them the cynics).
Joern Colberg
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