Mary Carty

I’m heading back to Limerick tomorrow for Visual Arts Ireland, Get Together 2012. There is a great programme of events planned for the day along with tours of EVA international. I’m giving a workshop on socialising your arts practice, specifically for artists and creatives. It’s going to be a fun session.

For artists, social media offers a fantastic opportunity to build community, to collaborate and to make things happen quickly. It is a great way to share information and research and for future sustainability.

It can be a daunting experience though, opening up a private experience to an unlimited audience. But it is well worth it. New low cost platforms like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram make it easy and most importantly affordable.

The latest buzz in startup circles is arts entrepreneurship and I have to agree; it’s going to be huge. The next wave of creative, innovative, game-changing businesses are coming from arts and culture. Investors are realising that while technology is great, magic happens when world’s collide.

And raising your profile and looking at new possibilities for your creative practice is one way to get there. Business is not a dirty word, just another creative possibility for you to explore. Like Damien Hurst who has mastered the two with aplomb.

Looking forward to the conversation back in my old Alma mater tomorrow.

See you there!

Mary