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Blue Shop Cottage is a gallery and events space for selling original artwork by emerging artists that hosts creative learning through talks, events, and workshops. It’s founded by designer and entrepreneur Ocki Magill, who we speak to this week about her career journey and business idea. Ocki turned her home in South London into an art space because she felt her mission was to help her local community grow through being a platform for local creative talent. With that, she opened Blue Shop Cottage, its mantra? ‘Help artists grow’. Since opening, Ocki has curated a number of highly successful exhibitions and shows, as well as having 19 artworks purchased by Soho House for their permanent collection.
We will talk about:
- Having a space that’s a home, an art gallery and events space all in one!
- Event and Art show curation
- Working with the local community
- The importance of finding your vision, mission, and purpose and aligning this with your values
- Selling work to large scale businesses
- Ways to support artists and makers in your own, local community
About Ocki Magill
Ocki Magill studied at Central St Martins before becoming a designer/art director in fashion, music, advertising and branding.
She has always lived with and been surrounded by artists, introducing them into campaigns with large brands whilst an AD. This became her passion and main focus early on in her career.
In 2016, Ocki converted an old shop in Camberwell into her home and gallery space and, after naming the building, Blue Shop Cottage was born: a gallery with artists at its very centre.
About Zoom Dive
Our live Zoom Dives bring creative business experts together in conversation with Creative Entrepreneurs founder Carolyn Dailey to tackle some of the most urgent topics currently affecting business owners and freelancers in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis.
You will receive the Zoom link to join this Livestream via a confirmation email once you’ve signed up. Feel free to send us your questions for Ocki by replying to the email!
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This event will be recorded and the audio file will be uploaded on our Soundcloud page.
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- artgallery
- makerspace
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- artistspace
- artists