• An Artist’s Website: What to Write About Yourself and Your Work

  The texts an artist's website needs: home page, biography, a text on the work, series descriptions, captions, a CV and press materials.

• How an Artist Can Put Together a Portfolio. A Concrete Example

  A portfolio is not an archive of all your works but a selection made for a specific purpose. How to put one together — shown through two different portfolios of Leonardo da Vinci.

• Biography, “About” Text and Artist Statement: Three Ways to Present an Artist

  A biography, an "About" text and an artist statement draw on the same facts but do different jobs. I show the difference using the example of Leonardo da Vinci.

• How to Write an Artist’s CV: What to Include, What to Leave Out and What to Do with Little Experience

  What to include in an artist's CV, what to leave out, and what to do when you have little experience yet. With an example: what Leonardo da Vinci's CV might have looked like.

• Portfolio, CV, Biography: How an Artist Can Tell Their Story

  A gallery asks for a portfolio, a competition for a CV, a journalist for a biography, and a website needs an "About" text. Here is how these formats differ and what job each one does.

• Why an Artist Needs an Art Historian: When You Should Not Write About Your Own Work

  An artist speaks the language of form, colour and material — that is their job. But an artist’s career today is half made of texts: a biography for a gallery website, an artist statement for a competition, an introduction for a catalogue, an exhibition press release, a description of a painting for a buyer. And […]

• I Want a Book About My Art: Where to Begin

  A book about one’s own art often seems to an artist something too big, too expensive, too obscure — a project at once alluring and intimidating. “Who would ever write about me?”, “What is there to say about my work?”, “I just paint pictures, make jewellery, do graffiti.” To these doubts are added entirely practical […]

• Texts for an Exhibition: Introductory Panel, Booklet, Section Texts

  An exhibition is not just the hanging of your works. Visitors give a substantial part of their attention to the texts: they read the introduction at the entrance, the labels beside the paintings, and leaf through the booklet. Poor texts can extinguish even a strong display; good ones build a route and a meaning for […]