Its in the post
Far from being one of those excuses you hear when people are late with a delivery or payment, today this statement means that I have cleared some of the backlog of paperwork, completed my Galway proposal and as a result have a clear head. Strangely the proposal came all in a rush together with a fully formed idea for another application I have made to a festival called TULCA – which also takes place in Galway. The next stage is, of course, the waiting to see how ideas are received. I dont think about things too much once they have gone off in the post, I am out of control then, nothing to do so might as well get on with other things.
I spoke at the AIR event in Colchester on Monday PM. Alex Pearl, another [an] blogger also talked about his future plans as did David Kefford. They had interesting things to say. We had all been asked to speak about ‘Key issues for our practice in the future’ and there was a lot of overlap in the three presentations. It seemed we all knew that networking was important (although some did not like the term networking) and that we needed to find our own way to work effectively. I like to be in my studio and also out and about whereas David spends as much time as poss in his studio and Alex prefers to work from home and uses the web proactively to raise the profile of his work. By the way Alex, if you read this please correct anything!
The audience were really involved, it helped the evening discussion flow. In fact I think it could have gone on a lot longer as people had so much to say.
The next thing on my agenda is a solo show I have in early October in Saffron Walden Essex. I am showing some new work – very different to anything I have done before, so there are a few nerves creeping in as the date of installation gets closer.I am planning to show some drawings. They are quite large, about 1.5 mts x up to 5 mts. Its strange really because I feel more nervous about showing these than doing a live performance piece. I guess it all about what you are used to
