Well I’ve been on a stay-cation so had a break from my blog. I have found it good to step back and walk along the river and think rather than do. However over the two weeks I did also see The Vortisists, re visited Miro, still love his ‘Majesties’ and meandered into the Arte Povera Galleries and felt very much at home
As I’ve noted before the more artists and writers I find the more I want or need to see and understand. So to my long list I’ve now added Marisa Merz, Grenville Davey and Abraham Couzvillegas amongst others
A concern I have is whether my identifying with past art movements more closely than those of the present will set me back in time rather than with my contemporaries? Perhaps a glance back won’t be harmful as long as I don’t get lost in the past, after all I am of the present by default?
I also visited a panel discussion at the Jerwood Space, ‘The Materiality of Things’ part of the Makers Open. I thought it would be pertinent to my research though I didn’t come away with any strong leads, perhaps that’s just as well given how many I have to follow already…
Finally, I have booked the Technologies of Drawing Conference at Huddersfield University and am really looking forward to it so I ought to log off and make some drawings and get properly engrossed in my work
