Mink Schmink Show in London for New Year!

What have you got if you haven't got love?" (Eartha Kitt, Mink Schmink)

Just like a timeless tune, or a legendary French perfume, this group exhibition has top notes of glamour, style and bling, mid notes of aspiration, beauty and mortality and lingering just a little longer than is comfortable are base notes of vanity, envy and greed.

Mink Schmink oscillates between high and low culture and draws in the gold-digging, superficial, fake, embroidered, wishful, delusional and longing worlds that fills our emotional voids.

This show is a colourful blast for all the senses, with sculpture, painting, photography, print and performance from Emma Barrow, Deni Francis, Phil Illingworth, Denise Mahon, Eleanor Moulsdale, Starchild, Boa Swindler, David Wightman, Chiara Williams and Irlanda Zantone.

The exhibition runs from 17th Jan to 15th Feb 2009
www.wilsonwilliamsgallery.com

Private View

Date:	Friday, January 16, 2009
Time:	6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location:	Wilson Williams Gallery
Street:	30 Queensdown Road ,Hackney E5 8NN
City/Town:	London, United Kingdom

Was your Art Sale a "Sold Out" Event?

How creative of a problem solver are you?
So many artists and indie thinkers get so used to autonomy that they forget the world is bigger than their ideas (which seem to swirl like tornadoes in their heads). Sometimes, the best choice is to be still and ask, "How would a business solve this problem?" to come up with a new solution. Below is a solution that a calculus teacher came up with that can teach us all a lesson:

an excerpt from USA TODAY
By Greg Toppo and Janet Kornblum

"Tough times call for tough actions," he says. So he started selling ads on his test papers: $10 for a quiz, $20 for a chapter test, $30 for a semester final.

San Diego magazine and The San Diego Union-Tribune featured his plan just before Thanksgiving, and Farber came home from a few days out of town to 75 e-mail requests for ads. So far, he has collected $350. His semester final is sold out.

Sold out. Now those are two words every artist and creative would love to hear. If you've never had the chance to write "SOLD OUT" on a sign and hang it in your booth, maybe it is time to look for new marketing avenues. No excuses and no whining, I've told students time after time. If you have an excuse you're just saying, "I can't" or "I'm not worth it" and if that's the mind-set you're in, as Henry Ford said, "If you think you can or think you can't, you're right."

Jay Lipe, founder of Emerge Marketing, stated in his latest newsletter that most small companies cannot say what benefits they/their products offer customers. When was the last time you said, "My work will....for you/your home/your business." For example, the focus of Votre Vray is all about helping people discover and follow their truth. In doing so, you can be on a path of least resistance in life, reducing stress, depression, increase happiness and productivity, and maybe even lose weight! Seriously.

So, what benefits do you provide? Once you know and communicate that to customers, you just might find your next art show "SOLD OUT."