Welcome to the latest edition of The Artists Newsletter!This week we have included a round up of news and info on The Artists Web and beyond 

Showing Your Work On Facebook

No doubt you’ve been hearing about the latest buzz on the internet www.facebook.com, so cutting out a long introduction it will suffice to say the latest buzz in social networking, facebook is receiving a massive amount of attention and new users at the moment. We’ve mentioned before about using social networks to help your work reach a wider audience (see http://www.theartistsweb.net/wiki/Social_Networking_Websites), so how can one make an impact on facebook aswell?If you’re familiar with myspace, you’ll know it’s all about “showing off your stuff”, however facebook is a little more private. Essentially you remain private from people who you aren’t already connected too – your friends, people in the same networks and groups. So how can one’s work reach a wider audience, outside one’s own network? Well realising that this was a missing feature, The Artists Web has started a new facebook application for just this purpose.The application is called photobox and can be found here: http://apps.facebook.com/fbphotobox/ The idea is simply that you can tag your facebook images and make them public so that anyone on facebook can browse throw photobox and see your work. In addition, people can make comments or even add your work as a favourite either way it helps your work reach a wider audience. You might even get selected for photo of the day!At the moment there’s several thousand photographs that have been tagged already, but it would be nice to see some artwork on there too, so please drop in and have a look: http://apps.facebook.com/fbphotobox/We’re actually considering bringing some of these features to the artists web aswell, more on that below.

New Features For The Artists Web

We’re been planning some exciting new updates for some time now, and would like to give you sneek preview of some of the ideas we are bouncing around. We hope to improve the look of www.theartistsweb.co.uk, make the buyer experience smoother and more condusive to sales, start introducing some interactive features such as the option to leave feedback/comment on artwork, interviews with artists and more detailed artist profiles.Anyway watch this space!

Print Reminder

And just a quick reminder (again!) that we’re launching a print service whereby you can upload high rez images of your work and in conjunction with easyart.com we’ll make them availble for sale as prints, complete with framing and shipping!We hope to have this up and running next month, keep an eye on the website and your inbox for details.

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New Contemporary @ the Art House gallery
Must see paintings
‘HAND STAND’ an exhibition of paintings by Christian Mann
Exhibition on now until Sunday 29th October open every day 11am – 530pm except Monday and Tuesday
At The Art House 140 Lewisham Way New Cross London http://www.lewishamarthouse.co.uk/
Nearest stations – New Cross and New Cross Gate Buses which stop there – 321, 21 , 436 , 171, 172, 136
Presenting Christian Mann – an exciting young painter in London who produces powerfully engaging paintings, each of them born from freakish notes prose and drawings. Christian is 27 years old and has been working in his studio for 5 yeaars . He has been waiting for the right opportunity to unleash his work on the public.
His paintings convey aspects of social issues which are constantly being regergitated by the media, historians, politicians, and yes – artists too. But far from being dated, each painting cries out a sense of ‘happening’. Some paintings contain vortexes of colour which bleed into strange forms . Some look like designed 20th Century propaganda posters – but with a modern twist or tension ‘puppeteered’ by surprising characters acting out poses amidst scenes of chaos. He says – ‘Different cultures will have different understandings about what represents what. Conflicts can derive from misunderstandings of words or symbols and I think a big part of the process behind these works is about helping me to explore the idea that my intentions are not always black or white. The great thing about painting is that you can just let it happen. The problem is when you try to see meaning too much in what you see.’
His work is definately challanging – but what it challanges is constantly being lost and found within a mealstrom of creation.
He says of his working stye ‘I have always felt I have been taking a stand with my work -just by letting it happen. The trouble is I’m never sure what kind of stand I’m making. What I want to convey with each painting is constantly changing – each time I come up with an idea I immediately want to look at it upside down, or back to front, strip it naked, or sometimes avoid it. I push the idea until it has that aura of timeless purpose, so that it cannot be avoided’
You can contact the artist with any questions via email – mailto:smashedplanet@btinternet.com