This week I have been taking a break from the Doll Gallery while I gain further advice to clear up a few niggles I have before applying for funding. It's my first application, and things have seemed so slow, but there are many reasons for that.
I've been assisting John Newling with The Noah Laboratory installation at The Collection.
I've been working in the new Curtois gallery where I've attended many exhibitions before as a visitor, now it's good to finally get actively involved in one myself and engage with The Collection.
Wednesday was the first wave delivering newspapers to people in Lincoln city centre.
The newspapers detail the project and once read are returned to the gallery to be made into compost, a special soil for the anthropocene era.
John then hopes to grow a plant in the soil.
My colleague was dumbfounded by the ignorance of people who thought we were there to take their bank details for some kind of charity or something like that. You know how it is when you're out shopping and you're approached by chuggers… I know how annoying that is, but this of course is for a piece of art work, and I wasn't as fazed by the apparant lack of interest as my colleague. I'm sure people have more important things to do than engage in art, or a brand new art gallery in Lincoln…..
There were also some people who asked if it was religious…. luckily they didn't attempt to expose their religious intolerance in front of me otherwise I would've had to word my objection to that very carefully…
Next week however, John's putting something in the press, so we will be recognised for what we're doing hopefully!
The project is going well anyway, and is creating networking opportunities. The LAN is gaining momentum, I'm getting a positive input from people for that, and we had a meeting of sorts after the Private View last night.
In the mean time I dropped by the faculty of fine art, where one of the MA students is exhibiting her own "doll's houses" in the gallery at the moment.
