Having said that this is supposed to be about a contemporary artist, reading the hand out there is no mention of living or dead. So I could choose anyone. My initial thought was to choose Banksy but I could probably write that without research, as I've bought the books and followed his career almost since the start, but that's not why I'm doing this degree. I'm doing it to further myself and my learning, and if I don't then I'm cheating myself.
So here are the first few of the long-list that I'm drawing up:
Tracey Emin
Grayson Perry
Steve McQueen
Gilbert and George
and Simon Starling
4 Turner Prize winners and a shortlister
I've started with these because of the way that although the Turner Prize is probably the biggest and best PR stunt the British contemporary art world can pull off, I always have difficulty relating to it and never agree with the winner. But then if people in general agreed with it would it get as much publicity? Anyway I'll start my long list with these while I also devise my criteria
While I'm here I will put Tate down as the first contender for public Gallery.
With galleries it won't be as hard to decide, until last term I never really thought about them conciously, so I'll just choose the one which piques my ineterest most. However with artists it will be more difficult, should I choose a more obscure one I'm unfamiliar with, with a possibly unreliable amount of information to work from or should I choose a well known artist with lots of info, but which might be a bit too easy or obvious and therefore not stimulating. Either way I think I will try to chose someone as different from me as I can so that I actually learn something.
Again I've forgotten about the "masters" traditional painters and sculpters where the world they lived in shaped their work in ways that are very different from today. I can see this being a very complex decision, but I can't get too bogged down with it, I've got to do the actual research.
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Grayson Perry definitely, I like him, and I'm going to show my ignorance here, but I only know him for his broadcast work, not his art, so you've already enlightened me! Tracy Emin bores me I'm afraid, and both she and G&G have been written about ad nauseam, so you might find little to add...
Kathryn,
Thank you for my first comment, I found it after I made my decision so I'm not ignoring you. As for Grayson Perry, I think you and I heard the same Radio 4 programme Desert Island Disks which was so endearing. There was so much information about him both emotional and factual that I felt it would be really hard not to just re-write what he had said. So I chose Gilbert and George because there is at least scope for me to get really bitchy, I'll try to come up with something new or at least a new angle.
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