THE IMPORTANCE OF COLLABORATIONS
Collaboration: the action of working with someone to produce something
CASE STUDY
Alison Vickery
Collaboration within the art community is nothing new. Artists like to seek out fellow creatives, people to share studios with, grow from professionally, forming collectives with whom to exhibit. As the definition suggests, the outcome is as important as the social aspect of joining forces. Some of the most renowned groups of artists found each other in turbulent times to explore and discover new ways of thinking. Strength in numbers worked in their favour, allowing for finances to be shared and movements to be launched.
Think of the Impressionists Monet, Pissarro, Degas, Renoir, Sisley and Morisot holed up in a back-street Parisian bar curating their eponymous 1874 exhibition at Rue du Capucines. Or the post-war gatherings of the radical Omega workshops in Fitzroy Square, followed decades later by Bacon, Freud and
