I’ve been busy doing some new drawings over the last month. They’re obviously very sculptural and mentioned in a previous blog I’m getting urges to start to make things again. I’ve been debating how I could make these, whether I need a studio, where this is taking my practice and it’s still not resolved yet. I am really pleased with the way its going though, doing these drawings has opened up a lovely dialogue in my head about material and spatial concerns. I have been in conversation which a local Sheffield gallery about doing a residency there, but following on from a meeting there I’m not sure that we have the same ideas and needs to what a residency is. It was useful though for me to decide exactly what I want and its just some space to work in. I would like the networking and social aspects of a studio but not sure that I can afford it. We’ll have to see.
It’s interesting thinking about sculpture because it has such a weighty history behind and presently the definitions of sculpture can mean anything. I was interested in the article in Feb’s Art Monthly about feminist performance art and how the artists wanted alternative sites of production and presentation for the work. As well as sites for performances, other places where ideas could be exchanged was in feminist journals and publications. An interesting debate at present is how the artist can use social networking sites. I use my blogs to document my practice and my work, and by putting them on Artists talking I hope they get looked at by an understanding (and knowledable) audience. Using twitter is a different matter. I was initially repulsed by the idea as the only experience was hearing about bland celebrities every move. But now I’m starting to warm to it and I think today I’ve started to utilise it to my own way. By using the twitpic extension I’ve found a place for a series of photographs of readymade sculptures that I’ve been working on.
You can connect with people too, doing the residency in Leeds has made a few new followers, and I even got to meet some of them at the opening. It seems a very useful tool to network and keep in touch with things that are happening. The only thing I’ll have to watch out for though is getting a bit obsessed with tweeting and telling people what I’m having for my tea….!
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