Well, not mine, sorry – I mean, don’t be greedy! there’s one just before\u00a0this post, that will keep you going a while.\u00a0 I’ll put it in the Ebb&Flow gallery on my website shortly.\u00a0 No, someone else’s new\u00a0work: on one of the lists\u00a0I subscribe to\u00a0someone recently announced she had put up new work on her blog or somewhere – as happens daily.\u00a0\u00a0 If I have a mo.\u00a0I pop in to the link, often backing straight out again too – it doesn’t take up a lot of time mostly, and as in this case, I left no comment.\u00a0 \u00a0What\u00a0came to mind immediately was \u00a0‘Oh, so you recently studied with Nancy Crow then?’\u00a0 truly – several of her hallmarks were blatantly\u00a0incorporated but not nearly so well done as Nancy’s works.\u00a0 But, worse, the several quilts featured are to\u00a0go in a book that this maker is co-authoring with someone .\u00a0 This\u00a0 person clearly paid a lot of attention in\u00a0Nancy’s workshop, or perhaps it was in one of her acolytes’,\u00a0but instead of\u00a0 internalising and absorbing what she now knows into something that will emerge later in some fresh individual way after being processed for a while, she is just regurgitating it AND perpetuating it in book form, asap.<\/p>\n
This is one of my beefs with the state of the ‘art’ in contemporary art quilts today.\u00a0 The books and workshops\/courses that sell – and everyone wants to make money, fine – they are so heavily weighted towards what the\u00a0the artquilter\u00a0wants – classes on technique-de-jour\u00a0rather than design; magazines and books containing masses of projects with how-to-do-one-just-like-this recipes instead what many still really need – of inspiring photos of works and interviews with artists just\u00a0devoid of technical explanations about how the stuff you’re admiring is actually made.\u00a0 So many quiltmakers and indeed the organisations that represent them are caught in this bandwagon, it all gives the false illusion that all\u00a0you have to do to become an artist is attend workshops with the hottest teacher names, and enough of them, and, bingo! an artist is born and fledged all in one movement.\u00a0 Sigh.\u00a0 I think I’ll go off and make some new work while I listen to the footy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well, not mine, sorry – I mean, don’t be greedy! there’s one just before\u00a0this post, that will keep you going a while.\u00a0 I’ll put it in the Ebb&Flow gallery on my website shortly.\u00a0 No, someone else’s new\u00a0work: on one of the lists\u00a0I subscribe to\u00a0someone recently announced she had put up new work on her blog […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-8x","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}