The Brewery Arts Centre 30th April 2010
Preview night of the exhibition and it’s underway – that cocktail of people and art brought together in one place for a brief encounter. Always unpredictable in it’s results and, seen from a particular point of view, as much a performance-piece as the swim-project itself, the opening night is another pool to dip into and savour – Jill and Pat working round the viewers offering sprayed samples of essence-of-Bowscale Tarn or Bleawater Tarn to cool fevered brows; the sound of trickled water in the background recorded from Bleawater Tarn sending who-knows-what messages to people’s minds and bladders; the acrid smell of Paul’s canvases rescued from the burnt-down Green Door studios mingling with the humid evening air – these are some of the ingredients contributing to the evenings unrecordable performance. Some swim in quite a different sort of tarn.
Richard
