UKscroll saw club

[pixy]

Hi guys as anyone ever thought of a UK scrollers club where we could exibit our work and let the UK know we exist. I have just entered my work in a local art exerbition and my pieces where turned down but I walked round and found that a red plain chair on a brocken wooden pallert with a glass on it and found out it had been acsepted and another piece was a piece of MDF with wool stuck to it .One of my pieces took me a week to makeand even the atendant couldn't believe it, the bull dog on my photo bucket album. Alright mayby Im not as good as I thought I was but lets fight back and get reconised as artists.I have recentlently moved more over to animal portraits and I am hoping to be able to produce my own patterns. If i was younger and fitter I would lead this fight to be recernised, I have never in my life been more exicited with anything I have done since starting this craft lets fight for some recisition Mal

 

[Gill]

Hi Mal

Sorry you didn't make it into the exhibition . I've always had the impression that 'artists' treat scrollers as 'craft workers' and sneer at us. Yet most artists only produce weird stuff because they're not good enough to create work which bears any relevance to its subject (IMHO). Take your rejection as a compliment!

Once I get back to woodwork, I'll certainly be interested in doing whatever I can to promote and develop scrolling in the UK. What do you suggest as being the way ahead?

Gill

 

[chrispuzzle]

I suspect it is very difficult to persuade the art world - any world, really - to accept two new things at once - first, that scrollsaw work can be art, and secondly, that the folksy subjects that we tend to portray, such as that marvellous bulldog, are the right subjects for art exhibitions as opposed to craft fairs.

If I was trying to get scroll saw work accepted as art I guess I'd try to do the scrollsaw equivalent of the red chair with the glass and the broken pallet. I'm not sure what that would be though!

 

[pixy]

Hi guys I was upset but not insulted as in a lot of things if your face fits???Gill I think we should get the companies that make a profit out of selling Saws and acsesseries should give a help in hand, but at the moment i realy don't have much confidance in British companies, aspecialy when you deal with guys like Mike at Mikes workshop.Our companies seem to just expect us to buy from them no matter how they treat yuo . I realy think an exerbition of scrollers work to show the co9untry what artists realy look like and the skill it takes to produce our work. It should start of small at first in a very well known venue. With lotsiof publicaty. As soon as I have got enough pieces together iI will enquire at our local radio center if they will allowe me to stage a small exerbition in there open centre. Just had a thought how about an exerbition in a central B&Q store What do you all think .Mal ????

 

[big soft moose]

I suspect it is very difficult to persuade the art world - any world, really - to accept two new things at once - first, that scrollsaw work can be art, and secondly, that the folksy subjects that we tend to portray, such as that marvellous bulldog, are the right subjects for art exhibitions as opposed to craft fairs.

If I was trying to get scroll saw work accepted as art I guess I'd try to do the scrollsaw equivalent of the red chair with the glass and the broken pallet. I'm not sure what that would be though!

turners have been fighting the same battle for years - only recently have some of our best turners finally broken through into the art scene. for ages it was ceramics - art , turned wood = craft.

for scrollers i would expect it to be exactly the same if not harder