section3: Conceptual
For these aspiring practitioners, the possibility of hanging their work in the gallery was a huge incentive. Not all were much good: some showed great promise but had had little chance to develop, others optimistically churned out what they thought had merit but clearly did not, and very occasionally a star would appear.
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“ The need for some kind of regular technical / aesthetic training for such artists was pressing.“
The need for some kind of regular technical / aesthetic training for such artists was pressing. Painting or printing workshops run by established artists had been organised by the GCEAA from time to time in whatever suitable space we could find around the museum but it