OK so just when I was going to have a moan and do a post because there was nothing going on, I find a show at Sheffield Haslam Uni worth entering. Deadline was imminent so I rushed around doing the submission. My work is perfect for it so I'm hopeful.
Also feeling motivated following a particularly poor show I saw yesterday, Straylight Cavern at Cell Space. Just rubbish unfortunately. I'd read the AN review and was intrigued but should have known from the blusterly bombastic press release that it was a load of blather to cover up the fact there was not much to say. Poorly executed by the curator and some of the artworks were just shoddy, I'm sorry to say. Apocalyptic future, I thought (putting the paradox of that phrase aside for a moment), HELLO! Let me in!
The upshot of it all is I have more confidence and think I can definitely get away with it now. Even be convincing. Although, my art pieces never feel very tangible to me. Does that happen to anyone else?
I also attended a talk by Jem Finer at ArtsAdmin. Titled 'Performance lab' it inevitably had more of a perfomance bent than I would have liked, but the guy was interesting and showed us some of his work. I wish he'd spoken more about his creative process though.
On the Thursday I went to see my friend David Bray's opening of a solo show of his pen drawings at Stolen Space. Such accomplished work and a giant golden cock in a box, fantastic. Also some embroidered pieces that were stunning.
