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Business of Being an Artist
A podcast produced by Solid Gold · Arts, Visual Arts · 4 episodes · 2024-01-16 to 2024-02-07
Conversations for cultural entrepreneurs.
The Business of Being an Artist was a 4-month workshop that was hosted by the META Foundation and Art Source South Africa, and funded by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation. This 4-part series looks to explore some of the themes that were unpacked in the workshop with the aim of supporting visual artists in their journey to become entrepreneurs.
Episodes
This is the final instalment of this podcast and we are speaking about making great work. Is there a so-called “secret sauce” that an artist can work to? Or it is more mystical and magical?
We are talking to 2017 Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art, Beth Diane Armstrong, and Ashraf Jamal - academic, writer and cultural theorist whose most recent books include In the World: Essays on Contemporary South African Art (published in 2017) and its follow up STRANGE CARGO: Essay's on Art (published in 2022).
We would like to thank the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for supporting this project…
This episode is centred around working with a gallery and planning an exhibition. We speak to guests Julie Taylor, from Guns and Rain, and Vivien Kohler, an artist, about reaching out to galleries; the inner workings of galleries; making sales; preparing for an exhibition; and using all the opportunities presented to you.
Guns & Rain works with contemporary visual artists from seven African countries, including South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia, Botswana, Eswatini, and Nigeria. Most of our artists are emerging, and focus on social, political and historical themes.
The gallery was…
The META Foundation is a dynamic visual arts organisation that programmes for artists based at Johannesburg’s creative landmark building of August House. The foundation works across three primary pillars which centre on collaborating with ARTISTS, instigating projects, exhibiting ARTWORKS, workshops & art commissions, while inspiring diverse AUDIENCES to meet artists. This particular podcast is focused on our work helping artists to become entrepreneurs.
August House is an artist studio space located in Doornfontein, Johannesburg. The space has been operating as a studio space since 2006 and…
Artists tell us about their experience on the course.
In this episode, host Sara Hallatt speaks to two emerging artists, Mohini Pillay and Alpheus Ngoepe, who participated in the Business of Being an Artist course.
The META Foundation is a dynamic visual arts organisation that programmes for artists based at Johannesburg’s creative landmark building of August House Studios. Within this context, and as part of the broader visual art eco-system, the META foundation works across three primary pillars which centre on collaborating with ARTISTS, instigating projects, exhibiting ARTWORKS, art…
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