MEG BERRY: How did you come to work for spaceinart.com?
SUSAN KAYE: I was recruited by my friend, Meg Berry, founder of spaceinart.com. She is the director, and she asked me if I would like to be part of the marketing team. The website is relatively new to the art world, but it has already managed to attract a few clients. The concept is unique and fresh, so it is not hard to see why this company has found success so quickly.
TK: What exactly do you do as part of the website?
SK: I help promote artist and gallery projects through social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and other various websites such as Pinterest. We also have a blog and an e-mail newsletter that we send out on a monthly basis that promotes projects that have been posted on our site.
TK: How would you describe your job?
SK: My job involves working with artists and galleries to help them promote their work by utilizing social media outlets to get their name out there. I also answer e-mails from clients, handle their social media presence on sites such as Facebook and Twitter, create content for our blog, write articles about artists and
The space of the art gallery is critical to our understanding of it.
Meg Berry, an artist and critic, is a co-founder and co-director of the company I work for in London. She also runs a blog about art and its history called At the Same Time As. We spoke at her offices in east London about the role of space in art, what makes it so powerful, and how we can incorporate its power into other areas of our lives.
TK: What kind of work do you do?
MB: I’m a director at an art company called Anish Kapoor Projects (AKP). We are responsible for all public commissions including Cloud Gate in Chicago, Orbit in London and now Marsyas in Doha. My particular area is probably curation; I’m very interested in the way we define what the museum looks like, how we choose to display work. It’s about how we think about space; how we create it for people to experience art.
I started At The Same Time as Art History to give myself time to think about these things without having to write academic papers every month. It’s become my soapbox for talking about why I think that space is important, which has developed into a series of essays on architecture
Space in Art is an online gallery that focuses on multi-media art, featuring artists from all over the world. The gallery contains a series of different types of pieces, such as paintings, photography, digital art and sculpture.
The company was founded in 2006 by Meg Berry and Daniel Jones. They were able to gather a team of talented and passionate individuals to help with the success of the gallery. All of our artists are extremely talented and we are proud to showcase their work.
The idea behind Space in Art came after Meg had worked more than ten years in the art industry in London, both as a gallerist and painter. She wanted to open a space where she could reflect her own artistic interests, which differed from what was being produced at her time. This way, she wanted to create an environment where visual artists could create freely without having to endure any constraints or pre-conceived ideas about what they should be producing. The Space in Art collective has been working together since 2006 and we continue to grow and develop with each year as we strive towards achieving our goal, which is to provide an online art platform for anyone who wishes to enjoy high quality art that is available from the comfort of their own homes.”
It is interesting how the concept of space in art has developed over time. From the early days of cave drawings and architecture, through to the present day artists are looking at ways to represent space on their canvas or in buildings. Meg Berry is a professional artist whose main subject matter is architectural spaces and objects, my company was established in 1974 with the aim of creating innovative projects which utilize technology and design to create new artistic experiences. We have worked with many different artists including David Hockney, Sir Anthony Caro and Gilbert & George.
TJ: Hi Meg, you have been working with us for several years now, what does your role involve?
MB: I am an artist who has worked with the company for about 10 years now. I have a studio in our offices where I work on my own paintings as well as collaborating with colleagues to develop new work. I work closely with all of our artists including Ben Nicholson, Michael Craig-Martin and Anthony Gormley to develop new ideas and applications.
AB: Can you describe your approach to works such as “space2place” (2003) at St Pauls Cathedral?
MB: This was a collaboration between myself, Ben Nicholson and Sir David Chipperfield Architects. It was a huge project which took
Meg Berry: The idea of “space” in art is one of the most fascinating and controversial topics in contemporary art. Please tell us about your thoughts on the subject and what you’ll be talking about at the symposium.
Toni Dove: I have worked with the idea of space in art for more than twenty years. In my recent work I explore how our perception of space is influenced by light, color, tone, line and shape as well as by our own cultural conditioning.
I am particularly interested in how these perceptions are affected by the use of glass (which can be transparent or translucent) and mirrors (which can be reflective or opaque). My aim is to create a sensation of infinite space that exists here and now. When the viewer is faced with their own reflection they become aware of their own existence within that space and their relationship to that environment.
In my lecture I will discuss ideas and concepts behind this body of work and reflect on some of my experiences over the last twenty years which have led to my current thinking and working methods.
Meg Berry: Can you give us a brief overview of your career? How did you get involved with glass and mirrors?
Toni Dove: I was born in London in 1963 but have lived all over the world
The space in art can be divided into three types: positive space, negative space, and the space in between.
Positive space is the part of a painting that is filled with color or defined by objects. Negative space is the area surrounding this positive space. The space between objects is also considered a type of negative space.
Tonal value refers to how light or dark an area of a painting is.
Color refers to an area’s hue, value, and saturation. Hue refers to what color the area is, value refers to lightness or darkness, and saturation refers to intensity.
Lighting in art generally comes from one direction, but can also come from several different directions at once. This lighting can cast shadows and create highlights on different parts of the painting depending on where it hits them.
Artists use several different types of paint brushes, which affect how their paintings look. For example, a brush with long bristles would be good for large areas of color while a brush with short bristles would be good for small detailed areas like hair or fur
You have a background in design, but you are now also a director. Why did you choose this path?
Ah, yes! It was all a bit of a fluke really. I love design and had originally wanted to stay within that industry and maybe one day even open my own studio. I was working as an assistant designer in London and then I got offered the opportunity to work on a feature film which was being directed by two artists called Claire Marie Vogel and David Lewis. I loved the pace of working with them and the creative freedom they gave me as an assistant. I ended up doing several more projects with them after that, which led to me being offered the position of production designer on their next project which was being backed by an independent company called Hammer & Tongs (Mark Herbert and Adam Hamdy). I took it, but not before buying myself a copy of The Filmmaker’s Handbook by Steven Ascher and Edward Pincus. That book would become my bible for the next five years or so.
The Filmmaker’s Handbook is an amazing book and is full of great advice for people who want to make films as well as practical information about how to go about it. Basically, in order to make this feature film, Megascope
