Artist's Statements

Formatting an Artist’s Statement?

Mary mentioned this point in a comment. I am wondering what is the best format for an artist’s statement? I’ve seen different formats and suggested formulae. Is it better to say “I” or write it in the 3^rd person? It feels a bit silly writing in the 3^rd person, but I suppose it allows you to say factual things (like the “association with the V&A” below) without sounding boastful.

Artist's Statement by Sue Lawty (this is off the textile art web site)

     The work is rooted in an emotional, spiritual and physical engagement with the land, drawing on direct experiences of remote, raw and edgy landscape.
     Constructed pieces and drawings in two and three dimensions are abstract and minimal. They explore repetition and interval; investigating territories of expression in raphia, hemp, linen, lead, tiny stones or shadow.
     Lawty says of her work… 'I seek an understated restraint, balance, tension, rhythm. I seek to produce work that is essentially still'.
     An ongoing association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and an enduring interest in links between art and science, led to Lawty devising the World Beach Project. Open to anyone, anywhere, this global project is hosted by V&A Online. It celebrates the human desire to make pattern and speaks of time, place, geology and the base instinct of touch.