Still not getting anywhere with son. Emotionally exhausting dealing with his teenage proclivities.
So, the Apparatjik bike thing – I seem to have sourced a few spare bikes! I just need to get them to the space to tinker with. No news about the ones in the police station, but I do hope to play around and create an Apparatjik Disco Bike of some sort.
For the Revival anniversary, I set up an LAN:LAB bird workshop for last Friday in the old arcade space. I was pleased to be joined by fellow Lincoln graduate Becca Reid, and she has a lot of ideas for art projects. For various reasons, I haven’t made much use of that space for some months, and I now have a couple of artists that will join me to have regular Lincoln Artists’ Network projects and events on Fridays to make use of the space. The Bird workshop was an excuse to invite people to come and make cardboard bird wings and beaks to create a flock of birds as part of the Outer Trial Bank project.
I’ve also set up regular bike rides, although it’s proving quite tricky to encourage artists that aren’t cyclists to come and join us! Cycling is one thing I do to relieve the frustration of all the failed grant applications and general failures…
Today I got a headache from staring at the computer screen, not doing what I should be doing; that is, what I’d planned to do today, so I decided to go out in the sunshine and go and check out the brand new Art, Architecture and Design Building, and go and see the MA Design show. In my wildest dreams I plan to do an MA in Illustration, when the magic funding fairy appears…. so I pretended to be a lost fresher, and went for a spy round the new studio spaces, as I had 20 mins to kill before a meeting with the manager of the Hilton hotel, to discuss the prospect of exhibiting art there. This is a fantastic opportunity for us, aside from my own work with various pop stars, the space is secure, with a large amount of guests and visitors – potential audience – and refreshments readily available, and with paid staff there to keep an eye on the work, we don’t have to worry about invigilation!
I’m quite excited about this, I’ve often followed the Artist Residence in Brighton and wished we could do something like that here, or something like The Thief in Oslo – this errs more towards the latter :-)
I sent my illustration of Michael Gove, a very carefully drawn piece of screwed up paper in the bin, with a broken pencil, to the Art Party Conference, but I wasn’t imagining being able to go. I inquired whether there was any funding to cover travel / accommodation, and was met with a negative, so that put me off.
Considering I face the prospect of a drop in income equivalent to approximately £81 per week, it would be best if I didn’t have to pay to attend, and it’d be a shame to miss out when Mum won’t mind having my son at hers, and he’s old enough to go on the train on his own now.
