Edward Totah

Interview by William Furlong

from Audio Arts Volume 7, Number 3, 1985

Transcript

William Furlong: I’m, talking to Edward Totah. Edward, how has the Fair worked for you?

Edward Totah: It works OK. There are a lot of people. The problem is that there are too many bad foreign galleries and some very good English ones.

WF: You’ve got Stephen McKenna, a one-person show, did you decide to do that rather than have a range of work?

ET: I prefer to have works that are cohesive rather than just a mixture of artists that have nothing to do with each other, so I decided on McKenna and one other. Last year in the Fair we sold all the Picassos we had, but this year none –I wonder why?

WF: But I see some red dots of Stephens.

ET: Yes a couple; very small drawings we didn’t sell very much. We didn’t cover our costs, which are extremely high about £4,000, which is exorbitant, it’s half the annual rent of my gallery.