WEEK 14
Artists in attendance 11
Happy New Year!
Above is a picture of some of the group (a jolly, enthusiastic bunch!)
After a lovely kind of relaxing 2 weeks off I thought I would start the New Year with a group exercise just to gently get the group back into their practice. We used the format that the lovely Ria Roberts (our first guest artist week 10) taught us. After all who doesn’t like a bit of doodling and a natter? The group loved it and thought it was a fantastic way to solidify the group again.
Exhibition
I met with one of the trustees of the charity to discuss having our exhibition we decide that it will open on sat 28th of March and run for a month. I have planned a few things in the run up to it so that the group can take part in the whole experience of setting up and the running of an exhibition. I have invited another guest artist to come and do a workshop around what makes a good exhibition and curating a show. Her name is Nicola smith and she is a performance artist/ curator/ facilitator I have worked with her many times and she curated the last show I had work in ‘Furiously Mad’ at the peoples history museum last year so I can highly recommend her. We have also asked a local gallery owner to come and talk to the group about pricing and the value of work, a film maker is joining us to interview the members about what being part of this group means to them and the progression of their Artwork and a graphic designer is going to hopefully come in and run some workshops to create the promotion leaflet/ poster with the group. Phew it’s all go! All these things will hopefully give the group an insight into what work goes into “putting paintings on a wall”
Lots and lots to do and such exciting stuff. I love having an exhibition!
Next week back to abstraction + discussion and making plans!
