02-25-2014, 03:14 PM
[b][b]Jenny wrote:
[i]That's interesting that you think so[/i][/b]
I can only go from personal experience. However whenever I have contacted a museum abroad they have:
A) known who I was.
B) Were excited that I had contacted them and wanted to display my work in their museum.
C) If possible and at the earliest available opportunity put on a display of my work.
D) Not only invited me to the opening but have also on occasion paid for my accommodation and even travel expenses!
I can compare that to when I went personally to a Museum here in the UK. It has a large Roman collection, a fantastic gallery for temporary exhibitions and were at the time even selling some of my books in their shop. However the person I met looked at me and treated me as something nasty they had trodden in and was trying desperately to scrape off the bottom of their shoe! Their attitude was, who on earth are you and why would I go to the trouble of putting your work on show here. I am sure that if I had said something like "I have not come here to be insulted" They would have replied " Well where do you normally go"!
Well the answer is Tarragona where I would not be insulted but treated as an honoured guest for a weeks expenses paid trip obviously!!
Thankfully not everyone involved with UK Museums is like that and currently my work has been displayed at Vindolanda, The Grosvenor Museum in Chester, Ribchester Roman Museum and is about to be displayed again by the Museum of Lancashire this year.
Graham.
[i]That's interesting that you think so[/i][/b]
I can only go from personal experience. However whenever I have contacted a museum abroad they have:
A) known who I was.
B) Were excited that I had contacted them and wanted to display my work in their museum.
C) If possible and at the earliest available opportunity put on a display of my work.
D) Not only invited me to the opening but have also on occasion paid for my accommodation and even travel expenses!
I can compare that to when I went personally to a Museum here in the UK. It has a large Roman collection, a fantastic gallery for temporary exhibitions and were at the time even selling some of my books in their shop. However the person I met looked at me and treated me as something nasty they had trodden in and was trying desperately to scrape off the bottom of their shoe! Their attitude was, who on earth are you and why would I go to the trouble of putting your work on show here. I am sure that if I had said something like "I have not come here to be insulted" They would have replied " Well where do you normally go"!
Well the answer is Tarragona where I would not be insulted but treated as an honoured guest for a weeks expenses paid trip obviously!!
Thankfully not everyone involved with UK Museums is like that and currently my work has been displayed at Vindolanda, The Grosvenor Museum in Chester, Ribchester Roman Museum and is about to be displayed again by the Museum of Lancashire this year.
Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
