One for the road.
Vevring is an unusual art event. It’s run by the community of Vevring. The community host an exhibition, talks, film showings and workshops. They are extremely hospitable, stage fabulous dinners and large party events open to the community and artist in wonderfully converted farm buildings. The arts come by invitation and are expected to be on location for the first three day to meet and talk to everyone who come and some are asked to put on mini workshops. Artist are hosted in the homes of individuals from the community. I was ask to paint a small mural during the event, in collaboration with an artist I’ve worker with many time.
I chose a pastoral theme painting the portrait of a traditional shepherd. The shepherd as a herder is a archetypal figure and has potential for our thought to play into. We also made a workshop and worked on another piece which I’ll go into in another post.
I would say this work is not really my practice as an artist. It’s something I can do and was made at the request of the community and therefore painted it because I can and wanted to meet the request. And that is ok. I think the other work I proposed is closer to something I would call my practice as an artist.
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