The art world can be intimidating and complex to those who are new to it. What do emerging artists need to know it avoid its pitfalls?
With little or no knowledge of navigating the art world, many learn about it the hard way. Here, Charlotte Marra and Patrick Goddard share the benefits of their experience. Discussion covers issues such as commercial sales, securing funding and sustaining a practice.
This event was for fine art graduates, and was part of University of the Arts London Enterprise Week.
Speaker Biorgraphies
Charlotte Marra is Sales & Production Manager at Studio Voltaire, London.
Since graduating from Art Institute of Chicago with a Masters in Art History she has worked internationally in commercial galleries and publishing. Marra began working at Parkett publishing in New York before working with one of Chicargo’s most established contemporary galleries, Rhona Hoffman Gallery. Marra moved to London to become Director of Alison Jaques Gallery before being appointed Director of Seventeen Gallery and most recently Sales & Production Manager at Studio Voltaire.
Patrick Goddard is a practising artist and currently studying for a doctorate at Oxford University, in Fine Art practice.
Godard’s practice spans video, publications, graphic Novels, performance and drawing. Working with a DIY aesthetic his film works take the format of mockumentaries utilising black comedy and sarcasm. Goddard is represented by Seventeen Gallery, London.
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