So over the past week or so I have starting working at BayArt Gallery again which I am very happy about, they have an exhibition on at the moment entitled Open Books which is a very interesting exhibition of artists working with the chinese folding books that seem to be very popular at the minute, I reccommend it to anyone interested in the book making or book binding field, it’s good to see how artists fromt he east and west react to the object. The show is also going on tour to China and Australia, picking up more artists along the way. BayArt Gallery is open Tues – Sat, 12-5. I’m there on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, so come say hello then.
On a more mundane note, I now wear glasses after my first visit to the optician, ever. I could see fine before but now everything is in high def. Artists, your eyes are your livelihood, get your eyes checked!
B I T Studios sucessfully hosted Wales’ first Bring your own Beamer night, and what a great response from artists we had! Showing were a range of artists from all over Cardiff as well as Swansea, Bristol & Worcester, with a spectrum of slide projectors, animations, visual mappings, video art, lightboxes, light sculptures and a bit of Alan Partridge briefly. I would like to personally thank Ifan & Winf, all the artists and supporters. As well as Jon Pountney for documenting the night with great hilarity.
WARP have been hosting Peer-to-peer sessions for quite a while now, I first had one with Chris Brown shortly after I graduated and recently had one with Mark Gubb, both have been massively helpful, with the first one I think I had alot of ‘out-of-art-school’ anxiety, and with Mark alot of ‘is-my-art-too-tangential’ anxiety. I see a theme occouring. I had some fantastic discussions with Mark and I’m very thankful that he had the time to be able to do them, and that WARP had time to put them on. I think one on one time with a more established (whatver that means) artist is very good for early practicioners (whatever that means) like myself. We discussed the trials of having a consistent art practice, if that is even appropriate, and what to concentrate on. I also keep thinking that an MFA needs to be treated like a liferaft, rather than a speedboat (if we consider an artist’s trajectory in nautical terms), but I’ve booked a place on an open day at Slade and I’ll be looking around Swansea before too long; a bit of window shopping never hurts..
