An artist’s statement is piece of writing by you, that helps to explain your artistic work.
When is an Artist’s Statement used? Exhibition purposes, grant applications, teaching position applications, fellowships, and more. It directs your audience to the concerns you consider to be important in the work, and helps publicists, curators, and critics write about the work. Writing about your work may also be integral to your creative process. You may be writing about as specific work, group of works or your body of work developed over a considerable period of time.

Advice:

Begin by considering the following in relation to your work
•  What are the key ideas, issues, struggles, goals within your work or studio practice?
•  Thematic focus of work (goal, purpose, intention, exploration).
•  Content of work (themes, ideas, subject matter).
•  Influences (cultural, historical, theoretical, art historical, personal, biographical).
•  Form of work (materials, processes, tradition of work –e.g. abstract, figurative, etc.) Describe your


process and what the work looks/sounds like, etc..
•  Who is your audience? It helps to have someone in mind when you are writing.
•  How can you clarify what your work is about, how can you make your work easier to understand?
•  Remember. If you are unsure of what your work is about, your readers will be as well.
•  If you are, exploring, uncertain, struggling to find the meaning of your work, suitable media,
 a focus, etc. then SAY IT!