I am starting a new adventure. I have become a blogger! I hope this will help me put some ideas into perspective and create a chance to share some thoughts. For this blog I will document gallery exhibitions, projects I am currently working on, and random experiences I think are neat! Just to give a behind the scenes look at my proccess and how my art comes into the world.
I’m currently attending the Emily Carr University of Art and Design and will be graduating spring 2008 with a B.F.A. in Visual Art. My focus has been on sculpture and painting. I recently had my first group show at the Brow gallery in the Emily Carr University and started a website at lindsayjoyhamilton.com. It got me excited to enter “the real world” after seven years of being a student and I can’t wait to put all this learnin’ to use. The next few years are going to be novel for me and I’d like to have some documentation, an archive, to remember this crazy time in my life. As an emerging artist I have a few battles to overcome like finding a steady source of income, getting a studio space, making interesting and sincere art and having my first exhibition, to name a few goals. I’d like to document this experience in order to share to trials and great times that are a head for me. There is a cultural assumption that artists are poor, starving and struggle to make a lucrative career for themselves and I’d like to see how true is this assumption. I’d also like to share my inspirations, thoughts and opinions about contemporary art and other random curiosities.
So here it goes, wish me luck, woo!
“I don’t believe in Art. I believe in Artists.” Marcel Duchamps