ouapita a écrit :
en effet les "artistes" ne sont pas très nombreux on dirait sur FDU...
Salut ouapita, I think this is a great discussion to be widening the forum into.
And actually, I think there might be many more artist FDU members than we think (or artist-ic at least) since the subject really hasn't come up much (if at all) before and it depends on the type of art: if sculpture, painting, etc, then probably there aren't many, but i'm remembering there are quite a lot of FDU members out there with some fantastic photography on their websites, and I think of photography (even without special lenses, filters etc) as an art in itself (and the only one I could go for, much as I admire art and would love to be artistic).
I guess it's all in the way we think about art and break it into categories.
Par exemple, j'ai une amie qui fait 'craftworks' qui sont vraiment formidable, and her patchwork quilting is so intricate that I would almost call it art, instead of craft.
And then there are people who are creative and artistic and don't even realize it. My mother-in-law took up painting for the first time at about age 60, and within a few years had filled every wall of her entire house (meme le WC!) with her paintings, which are all rather good, even if she says she just 'copies from photos in books'.
Je suis d'accord, I think art has enormous potential in Australia at the moment, particularly in the arts of making beautiful objects, and people like to see new things from new places, instead of the some stalls which which can have the style of art/craft, wherever you go.
My city, Ballarat, has an excellent and huge market for 5 hours or so chaque dimanche at the showgrounds, with old things (like a flea market), new things, craft, art - just about everything.
Actually I'm quite stunned at the prices Domi quotes for having stalls at St Kilda, because up here, it's only $12 for outside and $16 for inside stalls, and stallholders just pay on the day, by the week, and can just have 1 week if they choose.
The artisans tend to group near each other in the big pavillions and it's all quite interesting.
Now I think I see why we're starting to get quite a lot of stallholders coming up from Melbourne to set up at our market!
Domi, perhaps you could try at a smaller market somewhere, like par exemple the craft markets that some schools run as fundraisers (and where no doubt the prices would be much lower to have a stall).
I notice though that at markets that have only art/gallery stuff and craft, that there's always a lot of people who only browse, and never buy, but at our market here, where hundreds visit, almost nobody ever seems to leave without buying SOMEthing (especially when the fleamarket part of it is so cheap. J'adore l'art des aborigines aussi, and I once bought a fantastic large dot painting at our market for only $5!).
Kate