{"id":349,"date":"2011-09-07T12:28:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T12:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandgreen.com\/PGArt\/?page_id=349"},"modified":"2011-12-20T11:25:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T11:25:19","slug":"the-island","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.portlandgreen.com\/PGArt\/the-island\/","title":{"rendered":"<span style = \"color:#e20036;\">The Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>featured in the exhibition <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandgreen.com\/PGCurator\/?page_id=162\"><span style = \"color:#e20036;\">RETHINK: Idea, Output, Exchange <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-536\" title=\"The Island\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandgreen.com\/pg_images\/island600x340.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>THE ISLAND<br \/>\nMichael Atavar<br \/>\n2011<br \/>\ndigital print<br \/>\n240cm x 70cm<br \/>\nmounted onto Foamex.\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-right: 35%; line-height:2em\">\n<p> <em>The Island<\/em> was included in the exhibition <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandgreen.com\/PGCurator\/?page_id=162\"><span style = \"color:#e20036;\">RETHINK: Idea, Output, Exchange <\/span><\/a>which sought to further the debate about the function and role of arts practitioners within the current economic and political climate.<\/p>\n<p>The work combines themes of protest, the group and self-organising in one meta-narrative, each decision in its production made by a throw of the dice. <\/p>\n<p>Michael Atavar is an artist and a creative consultant with a practice that mixes creativity, business, art and psychology. His book <em>How To Be An Artist<\/em> was published in 2009.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.atavar.com\"><span style = \"color:#e20036;\">www.atavar.com<\/span><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.how-to-be-an-artist.com\"><span style = \"color:#e20036;\">www.how-to-be-an-artist.com<\/span><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativepractice.com\"><span style = \"color:#e20036;\">www.www.creativepractice.com<\/span><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"color: #a7a8a6;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artscouncil.org.uk\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-719\" title=\"ACELOGO\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandgreen.com\/pg_images\/logos\/\/ACE_logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"70\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>featured in the exhibition RETHINK: Idea, Output, Exchange THE ISLAND Michael Atavar 2011 digital print 240cm x 70cm mounted onto Foamex. The Island was included in the exhibition RETHINK: Idea, Output, Exchange which sought to further the debate about the function and role of arts practitioners within the current economic and political climate. The work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.portlandgreen.com\/PGArt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/349"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.portlandgreen.com\/PGArt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.portlandgreen.com\/PGArt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.portlandgreen.com\/PGArt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.portlandgreen.com\/PGArt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.portlandgreen.com\/PGArt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583,"href":"http:\/\/www.portlandgreen.com\/PGArt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/349\/revisions\/583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.portlandgreen.com\/PGArt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}