Gabrielle de la Puente (lecture and tutorial)
Gabrielle is only the bloody creator of the Output Gallery
and I’m so psyched we got a lecture from her and I had a tutorial with her
afterwards and it was so useful because I was literally in the middle of
co-curating my own exhibition the ‘flat mat cat exhibition’, In fact I think meeting
with Gabrielle was actually two days before the show.
In the lecture Gabrielle discussed the Output galleries
values such as wanting to get artists from and based in Liverpool involved and
the importance of listening and taking suggestions from others (especially
other artists), therefore shaping the identity of the gallery. I think this is
amazing and I feel like I kind of related this back to my exhibition and how it
was a mixture of multiple artists and art historians input to create the show
we had and this definitely made the show what it was and not to toot my own
horn, but it was a sick show.
Some advice that Gabrielle mentioned in the lecture was that
some things such as criticism, exhibitions and creative discussions can be more
important than art itself and I really do agree with this. I feel like
communication and the bringing together of creative minds and having the space
for creative flow is so important. Exhibitions and crits make this able to
happen and often the contributions and thoughts given can really change and
take the artwork to that next level.
Later in the tutorial with Gabrielle she also gave some useful
advice towards my upcoming show and my performance installation that I am currently
working on. Gabrielle expressed the importance of keeping communication with those
in I guess you would call it the “art scene” and how in the future this will benefit
us and our future shows, which I agree with. Just got to keep up the bubbly
chat and keep in contact with people from shows etc. At the ‘flat, cat, mat exhibition’
I spoke and exchanged social media accounts with a lot of people and it seems to
have paid off, a lot more people are recognising me as a performer and I have
since been asked to perform with other people in there shows.
Overall if you couldn’t tell, I loved my tutorial with Gabrielle
and I want to be her.
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