• 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 […]