So I have spoken with the butterfly park team again and I am officially an artist in residence now. Plans are being formatted. Great news.
Busy researching at the weekend, lots of varieties of plants and butterflies.
One body of work that I will be producing might be in the form of Botanical Illustrations but etched into (found) plexiglass sheets and hung from the relevant plant that it represents or the plant that that insect pollinates/breeds etc.
I am attempting to etch the plexiglass with a dremmel tonight, fun fun fun. Not sure I want to go down the laser etched route as the Park is so ‘rustic’ for want of a better word. I feel that if it looks too neat it will react against the setting.
Met with the head of the New Ferry Regeneration Action Group (NFRAG) yesterday, they once had use of a shop in New Ferry back in 2002 he thinks and it’s still abandoned now, so this could be a good place to set up shop. I am going to go have a look tomorrow, see if I can see any to let signs for contacts. He was a helpful guy and a good contact within the community for sure. They were producing an emergency newsletter last night about the potential demolition of a local pub that has a great history. I asked for my May event to be put on the newsletter to give people a ‘save the date’ for their calendars. That goes out to the whole community so was a bit of free advertising.
Not that I want the pub demolished at all, hopefully the outcome of a petition will be really positive but thanks to the developers for helping me along my way – bizarrely.
This week should be a really interesting time.
