In response to the invitation to make a presentation about what it was like to live and work as an artist in Plymouth, Low Profile developed a project searching for the lonely artists of Plymouth.
R U an artist?
In October 2006, almost 1 year after making the decision to move to Plymouth, Low Profile are invited to make a presentation about what it is like to live and work as artists in the city.
At the time, Plymouth seemed to be a city with an all but invisible arts community – it proved difficult to know whom the artists were or where to find them. Within this context, the artists developed a number of alternative strategies in order to track down the hidden network of contemporary artists living or working in the city.
These strategies included:
Posting ads in lonely hearts columns, newspapers, magazines, newsagents’ windows and supermarket notice boards; a city wide covert stickering campaign; holding ‘golf sale’ style ‘R U an Artist’ signs in the city centre; handing out flyers; talking to strangers; searching on google; asking a policeman and looking in the yellow pages.
The presentation tracked Rachel and Hannah’s progress in finding, meeting and befriending lonely artists in the city as a way to suggest improvements in the development of the arts community.