Its been hectic since I last posted! I’ve been working daily @ The Event 2011 which is a biennial arts event located in the Eastside of Birmingham. I am office manager for curatorial project SLICE who are running a project called B42 (which is the alt. Name for the guttenberg bible). We are distributing 7 commissioned prints which relate to themes of religion on the streets of Eastside, via post and from the office located within the festival hub, Minerva Works. Its been a fairly intense 6 days so far and runs until sunday so I recommend you make a visit to birmingham if you haven’t already! The festival also has a huge range of performances, screenings, exhibitions and other events which have all been really exciting so far! Its also been a great opportunity to meet artists and curators (which hopefully good things will come from) not to mention a great opportunity to earn some cash!
Having visited The Lombard Method again as part of The Event I have began thinking about my upcoming residency with them… I really feel I need to make some sort of plan before getting into the space in november so I don’t end up wasting the time and space!
In other news; work with Southam’s Cardall Collection continues! I gave a talk to their committee two evenings ago discussing my intentions, what I require from the committee and what I can do for them through my work… There is definite interest in working with me but there is also a level of nervousness due to the collection having not worked with an artist before which is completely understandable! It was decided that I would write them a proposal-cum-contract which they could read over and come back to me about moving forwards or not. The proposal is now written and I will be sent!
I’m looking forward to actually making again – it looks like I might have a bit of time next week!
