The concept is simple: Artists who commit to the pledge will post images of works for sale (available to anyone, not just to other artists), for no more than £200 ($230), and each time their sales reach £1,000 ($1,155) they promise to buy another artist's work for £200.
"I realized the work needed to be
cheap enough to make selling it an act of generosity, but also I needed to make
that infectious," Burrows says, "generosity creates generosity."
Burrows first
posted about the initiative some days ago, selling his own 2012 etching, 'The
Seer', and he received an "immediate response." there are now more
than 1,000 posts, which he hopes to translate in 1,000 pledges.
Here's the statement that
Matthew Burrows put out at the start of the project -
"Due to the COVID-19 pandemic many
artists have found themselves without work teaching, technical support, gallery
work, exhibitions and sales have disappeared. In an attempt to help alleviate
some of the stress I have instigated the ARTIST SUPPORT PLEDGE
#artistsupportpledge. The concept is a simple one. You post images of your work
you are willing to sell for no more than £200 each (not including shipping).
Every time you reach £1000 of sales you pledge to buy another artist's work for
£200".
Here
are the titles & info on the Artist Support Pledge pieces I have available
for £200 each. They are from my ongoing 2020-2021 art challenge, in which I'm
aiming to create as many small oil paintings/sketches as possible in a twelve
month period. My original goal was a thousand paintings but due to sculptural
commitments I'm now aiming for around the four hundred paintings mark.
Please
feel free to contact me at waynechisnall@yahoo.co.uk (or DM me through
Instagram or Twitter) for any further info -
1
Horse Rider & Poppies, 22.2 x 11.3 cm, oil on plywood
4
Stroke Bunny, 24 x 15 cm, oil & charcoal on plywood
5
Skull, 22.4 x 17 cm, oil on plywood
13 Thames
Embryo in Wonderland, 21 x 30 cm, oil on book cover
15 Skull
Boy, 22.3 x 17 cm, oil on plywood
20
Tentacle Lovers, 16 x 23.4 cm, oil on chipboard
27 Twigs
in Wooden Nook, 19 x 14 cm, oil on plywood
31 Skull
& Cross Bones, 17 x 13.4 cm, oil on mount card
33 Fig. 1., 21 x 17 cm, oil on mount card
35 Blind
Dinosaur, 19 x 29 cm, oil on book cover
40 Blond
Hair & Hand Bag, 18.4 x 10 cm, oil on mount card
43 Hollow
Dog Floundering, 19.4 x 15.8 cm, oil on mount card
44 Rock
Hopper Hollow Dog, 22.5 x 16.3 cm, oil on mount card
46 Meaty
Hair, 21.2 x 14.4 cm, oil on mount card
50 Hollow
Dog Carcass, 20 x 13.6 cm, oil on mount card
51 Clown
Nipple, 10 x 7.5 cm, oil on mount card
54 Saintly
Long Dog With Staff, 22 x 15.8 cm, oil on chipboard
61 Death
Loiters, 27 x 19 cm, oil on mount card
66 Corona
Currency, 16 x 20 cm, oil on mount card
A Rose Tripod #2 (2018), 15 x 10.2 x 1.8 cm, oil on canvas & plywood
B
Leggit! (2018), 15 x 20 x 1.7 cm, oil on canvas & plywood
C
Gill Man (2018), 14.5 x10.3 x1.8 cm, oil on canvas & plywood
Most of the other pieces in my ongoing 2020-2021painting challenge are also for sale but they're closer to the £500
mark.
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