Looking into how artists present themselves through their websites I decided to look at David Shrigley's website as I am very familiar with his work and have been to a talk by him, so I feel that I can get a better understanding about how his work and personality may reflect onto his site or if not why it doesn't. Another reason being is that he uses text in his work which will be helpful to see how he presents this.
Firstly his website has a lot of subheadings which is understandable as he has a lot of work and also works in quite a wide field of mediums. It is a very organised way to present it, worth considering as a layout if I expand my field of working and present it as one website.
This website has a lot of content which can get messy in a webpage however this site you can get to what you are after in two to three clicks which is an important rule for a website, or you will loose a lot of your audience to being impatient. Also this rule goes for how long it takes a webpage to load also, it needs to be quick and easy to navigate.
Things to consider that would be useful for my own website:
Exhibitions listing page - Solo or group exhibtion.
Articles/interview page - This site links each article/interview to a separate page on the site where each article is laid out as the same style of text based review. This keeps the design constant and also doesn't take anything away from text.
Contact page
Also don't be afraid to add humour if it's in your work see - Help Desk in Shrigley's site. He links his sense of humour that is reflect in his work over into his website.
There isn't an about page present in this website however I feel that it successfully portrays his work and practice with any explanation needed about the artist as it can be found in other places on the site. Also a fan of his handwritten titles for each page, it portrays to way he presents text.
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