COMMISSION  AN  ARTWORK

Commissioning an artwork gives you the opportunity to own a unique work designed specifically in response to your theme/subject matter and your requirements.

Contact David    07577 450093

Creating your bespoke original artwork

Stage 1

You can call or email info@davidboothmrss.com to make contact and we can begin discussing commission. Discussion can be through email or whats best is that we set up appointment at the gallery so that you can come into the gallery.

You need to have a theme, idea of material/medium, size, budget and timescale. This is so we can discuss your requirements and your budget, from which I can formulate some ideas to work on. Sometimes I may already have commissions in the diary. I will be able to tell you if I am available and what is possible. If the project is a site-specific installation, a visit to the proposed site, preferably with the client, is required which allows me to appreciate the surroundings and scale. This will help me to refine my plans for the commission with the client, ensure any site limitations are being considered and carry out risk assessment. A non-returnable fee will be charged to cover travel expenses if site visit is needed.

Stage 2

I provide outline proposal so the design can be visualised, discussed with the client and agreed. This will also contain costing and schedule for completion, delivery and installation.

Stage 3

I require a deposit only if you want to go ahead with the commission. Non-returnable deposit, usually 50%, is agreed with the client which is required on acceptance of the proposal so that work can begin on creating the commissioned work.

Stage 4

When to work is completed you will be able to see the finished piece. Final payment will then be required before delivery.

Copyright ownership remains with the artist.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I am inspired by material, process, context - especially site-specific and thrive in the challenge of responding to a space. This can result in the creation of large, ephemeral works which are created onsite. I believe in the importance of nurturing and encouraging the ability to reinvent. Evolving is a vital life skill - offering resilience, growth, escape, survival. I want the display of the art to perform a kind of phenomenology so that it reveals something in such a way that the viewer understands it more perspicuously than they did before. I often select unusual sculptural materials and through experiment find ways to manipulate the material so it is not immediately obvious what it is - creating uncertainty,  revealing itself on closer inspection and layering the work with the materials 'familiar' use. In this way my work often references reinvention by deliberately exploring transformative ways of using and manipulating a material - in doing so I endeavour to challenge my viewers to see new ways to look and expand possibilities in an expressive gesture in order to recapture ambiguity that is present in a pre-reflective experience to allow us to see the world afresh. I want to render visible something that is taken for granted with our lived experience by changing how we encounter it.

His work draws on different aspects to layer his work - personal experience, phenomenology, site specific, context - and Booth's broad practice allows him to select how to respond.