Okay, I have started this blog to document my experiences post NFBP (New Ferry Butterfly Park) which will act as a useful aid to keep me motivated and working as part of that young-white-middle-class-overworked-underpaid group.
I want to start by talking about my show at Hatch Space – Hatch[ED] is up and kicking. It is a well presented, well put together show with work that showcases what Hatch Space in Deptford is all about. There is a range of different work: print, painting, sculpture and drawing.I have attached a photo of my work set up by Jack Brown, fellow collaborator and long time friend/advisor.
To my dismay, seeing it on Monday meant encountering it in a semi delapidated state: the walls of the gallery weren’t washed down and the cards had started to fall off! Alas dust is the adversary of sticky dots. So, paintsakingly, I re-sorted the stack of cards piled up on the shelf of Jack’s print nearby and peeled the dots off each one before applying tiny bits of blue tac and re-sticking them in sequence to the gallery walls. This took a while. I am pleased with the work though, it looks remarkably friendly and approachable for a work that uses a minimal sequencing system for presentation.
Other news, I am meeting with the people involved on the closing day of Hatch[ED] to talk about the show, most likely how to draw more people to Hatch Space and what to do for Deptford X. We have missed the deadline for Deptford Fringe while I was away in New Ferry and we have till next Tuesday to give information to Paul for the website programme. I have no idea what is going on. Rachel of SLAM fame has asked me to be an admin for SLAM to profile Hatch and put up events. This means I have to contact our studio manager who works full time and rarely has the time to communicate. So it is a bit of an empty role at the moment because I cannot really arrange anything without the consent of our studio manager.
Also, a friend is selecting work for a couple of poetry mags – I’m producing a number of poems for this. I got off to a good start today, even though I use writing a lot in my work it comes to me quite slowly and poetry takes time. Hopefully I will be in a couple of collections over the next few months though.
Bad news on the part-time job front – my cinema post is in jeopardy. My hours have been trailing off steadily over the past few months and I received a polite but slighlty scary email shaking the foundations of my rent-payment-safety-net job dream. EEEK!
