Society of Slow Artists

Society of Slow Artists Moving forward at glacial speed since 2007. The focus of this group is to provide support and encouragement for fellow slow artists :-)

The Society of Slow Artists was formed to provide support and encouragement for fellow slow artists. These artists enjoy working with both traditional materials and digital media, focusing on pieces that require a significant amount of time to complete. As practicing slow artists, we spend an awfully long time on each piece because most of what we're doing is sitting there in the studio... just th

inking. Grayson Perry, an artist from England summarizes, loquaciously - in true slow artist style - some ideas on slow art. He writes:
"Artists, I call on you to spend some quality time with a sketchbook before pointing the digital camera out of the car window. Think long and hard, perhaps even discuss your ideas in a Hoxton café before ringing up the fabricator and ordering that monument to a one-liner. Maybe even take the rebellious and increasingly fashionable step of learning how to make something skillfully with your hands. Picasso set an awesome precedent by knocking out three art works for every day of his life but Vermeer is held in reverence for a surviving oeuvre that wouldn’t crowd out the wall space in a squash court. So I ask gallerists and curators not to expect artists to churn out cool stuff like some cultural ice machine. Often I plan to see a certain exhibition only to find it has been superseded in the blink of an art historian’s eye by the next show. If we all spent longer thinking, making and looking perhaps less bad art would get made, shown and seen."
- Grayson Perry, Times Online, September 7, 2005

Another aspect to our slothful production of art is that the intervals between projects can be weeks, months years, or even decades. In the case of one artist, it was nearly 40 years after he graduated that he finally picked up a brush. After joking about how we were so ridiculously slow, we decided that we needed to come up with a name for our group of slothful artists. Some names that didn't make the cut:

Slothful Artists - "Behold the eternal and unending power of sloth." Glacially Progressive Artists - "Moving forward...even though you might not notice." The Continental Drifters - Not sure people would really get that one...

05/10/2018

Cartoonist Grant Snider illustrates what to expect during the writing process.

Intricate drawings with an old fashioned dip pen.
03/28/2018

Intricate drawings with an old fashioned dip pen.

Through her whimsical and eclectic sketchbook art, artist Elena Limkina showcases her eye for detail and the endless possibilities of ink drawing.

"...what is at stake when artists, art historians, students, and the public can no longer engage in the act of browsing ...
03/21/2018

"...what is at stake when artists, art historians, students, and the public can no longer engage in the act of browsing the stacks as part of the process of creating and researching art?"

Two major public universities have recently moved to radically downsize or entirely relocate their fine arts libraries, which is in keeping with broader trends of libraries doing away with books.

Time to start preparing for Slow Art Day. "One day each year – April 14 in 2018 – people all over the world visit loca...
03/13/2018

Time to start preparing for Slow Art Day.
"One day each year – April 14 in 2018 – people all over the world visit local museums and galleries to look at art slowly. Participants look at five works of art for 10 minutes each and then meet together over lunch to talk about their experience. That’s it. Simple by design, the goal is to focus on the art and the art of seeing."

In other words... how to not starve.
03/07/2018

In other words... how to not starve.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving…

Beautiful surreal paintings combining science and art
01/09/2018

Beautiful surreal paintings combining science and art

Name: Kerry R. Thompson Which came first in your life, the science or the art? ​Honestly the two developed in tandem from a very early age. I have always been fascinated by the natural world…

12/22/2017
10/25/2017

New film Loving Vincent is made entirely of oil paintings. Alex Stanger visited the production studio in Poland to find out how it was created.

Acrylic ink looks fun to use.
10/17/2017

Acrylic ink looks fun to use.

10/07/2017

Zoe Keller creates detailed illustrations pulled from the natural world. Her fauna-based drawings are done completely in charcoal, drawing the eye to the subtle markings used to create either fur or scales. Source imagery for the works comes from nature and how it becomes mediated in books and filed

10/03/2017

Studies show that children are better at identifying Pokémon characters than real animals and plants. Robert Macfarlane on his quest to reconnect young readers with the natural world

These folks deserve an award for the biggest, slowest, art project.
09/29/2017

These folks deserve an award for the biggest, slowest, art project.

If you're fascinated with the middle ages, you don't need a time machine to visit the period. Guedelon Castle in Burgundy, France is a unique project where volunteers and researchers are constructing an authentic 13th century castle, using only techniques and materials that were available at the tim...

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