{"id":154,"date":"2012-05-17T12:30:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T12:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1051675528.test.prositehosting.co.uk\/?p=154"},"modified":"2012-05-23T15:02:03","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T15:02:03","slug":"why-has-that-man-got-no-clothes-on-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejackdaw.co.uk\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"RA summer exhibition: Why has that man got no clothes on, Dad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>First published in The Jackdaw <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u00e2\u2122\u00af12, October 2001<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Will Harvey demonstrates how the RA Summer Exhibition performs a useful function for those who can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get their works easily exhibited elsewhere&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of paintings are entered for the RA Summer Exhibition. A few squeeze through the jury. Fewer still get past the Hanging Committee and onto a wall. (members \u00e2\u20ac\u201c RAs \u00e2\u20ac\u201c may hang six works without selection. Non-members can enter three works at \u00c2\u00a318 each.) Members\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 work is hung and any gaps filled from the work that got past the jury.<\/p>\n<p>One aspect annoyed me this year. Space was given over for non-member celebs, like Hirst and Emin, who don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to struggle to get shown in major galleries. They probably didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t pay entry fees either. If their work had been better I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have been so annoyed.<\/p>\n<p>This year, a painter friend of mine, Peter Kettle, got all three of his paintings past the jury. \u00c2\u00a0One was hung and sold. Llewellyn Alexander took the two that didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get hung for their \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcNot the RA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 show. Both sold. Later, someone went to the RA, wrote to Peter and bought another painting. Similar things happened to him last year, and several years before. I saw the weeks of time and work he put into The Glass Bead Game (right). It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an entirely imaginative work. Pete doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t construct something in his studio and then copy it. This one got finished, but he felt something wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t right. His wife suggested he put a glass ball on the floor. \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcMake it look as if it had fallen out of the stone,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 she said. It works a treat and neatly illustrates how he works. \u00c2\u00a0Many painters are like Pete. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s had three one-man shows in London and two outside, with numerous group shows here and abroad. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s won competition prizes and completed almost a hundred commissions. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s supported his family partly through painting for thirty years. But I bet you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never heard of him.<\/p>\n<p>How does an artist get noticed? The answer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s depressing: don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bother with elitist stuff like studying art history or developing painting skills. Instead, get notorious. Working with paint is corny so use maggots, piles of fat, or used colostomy bags. Some big collector might take you on if you pee on felt. You could call it exorcising your abused upbringing. Yeah man&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Jackdaw Sept-Oct 2011<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First published in The Jackdaw \u00e2\u2122\u00af12, October 2001 Will Harvey demonstrates how the RA Summer Exhibition performs a useful function for those who can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get their works easily exhibited elsewhere&#8230; Thousands of paintings are entered for the RA Summer Exhibition. A few squeeze through the jury. 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