A few months ago, Ross and I signed up to the Office Art Team – responsible for making our office environment more creative and lovely. The whole office came up with a bunch of ideas, some straightforward, others more interesting but maybe impractical:
- Projector – showing Flickr/FFFound/data visualisation e.g. of @nmstereo listening trends (rejected due to carbon cost of projector)
- Buy art (rejected as it would have to be permanent as it’d use up the whole budget, so we’d get bored of it)
- Bike racks on the wall (rejected as they’d drip dirt down the walls)
- Individual pictures – each staff member displays a found image or one that they’ve created, that means something to them. Done!
- Local artists – exhibiting in the office, in the waiting area, on a bi-monthly rotation. This may be an interactive digital installation or traditional painted or printed art.
- Commissioning artists to create a mural on the meeting room walls, potentially using write-on-able coloured vinyl
- Collaborative staff “make an art” day
So, having completed our own personal art wall, we’d like to hear from the professionals. If you’re an artist (ideally local) and you’d like a space to exhibit your work, please get in touch. Send us a link to your portfolio, or email us some pictures, or just call and arrange a time to come in and bring us things to see/play with. In return for letting us have your art for a couple of months, you can sell it to anyone visiting our office who takes a shine to it.
Or, if you like painting big and would like to do a mural on our meeting room wall/s, let us know! We have a small budget available for mural art, so if you can give us an idea of your costs that’d be fabulous.
