IceTwice Gallery – How do you do it?
Orange Knickers, Gloss on Aluminium, Dean Melbourne 2009
On friday I delivered seven gloss pieces to IceTwice Gallery in Olney, Buckinghamshire. I was so nervous and to be honest I have put off going for a few weeks, those paintings just kept staring at me from the corner of the studio though. In the end it went really well and Kim at the gallery was enthusiastic and really supportive. It is great to be back in a position of having some gallery representation. It is worth saying that I was in danger of spending more than I could earn on books as IceTwice has the most amazing collection of books I have ever seen at a gallery.
It would be really interesting to hear how any of you other creatives feel about or cope with the awkward embarrassing delivery of work and talking about money!
The Gallery also has a blog her on wordpress. I’m also really pleased to say that my talented friend Rachel Marsden has started a blog called Rachel Marsden’s Words.
“These words will daydream and deliberate the start and development of my PhD studies at BIAD alongside the development of my artistic practice and general click-clack of the typewriter keys against a fresh piece of paper.”
I think that Rachel has a lot of good intelligent things to say and I think this make excellent reading.
Nice!
And I totally know what you mean about the delivery of work to galleries. Gulp.
Fantastic, so pleased the pieces are in there now. Just checked out their website – they really do have a huge variety of work there, some great stuff too. Good work and hope having a gallery show confidence in what you do translates into some extra confidence for you! Bring on those Christmas spenders!
Great studd Dean, you know my opinion of this work – keep on keeping on!
By the way, tell your friend Rachel she is welcome to use the Learning Centre for her research. The Hicks is always here.
thanks guys. Its good to have your support!
Can I just clarify that I meant to write ’stuff’ in my post.
yea i got that tom!
Well I hope you get paid, Mr Thonger is refusing to pay me for my works already sold!!
I have found him completely unhelpful, once paid/if paid I will still be at a loss due to a massively inflated collection fees, because his gallery couldn’t sensibly repack items (using a box 5 times too large). Throughout Mr Thonger has done the bare minimum, he couldn’t even return the signed loan form for my items.
sorry to hear that and thank you for your comment. I will keep you posted.