I’ve actioned the action plan (collating all the info about the exhibition and sending it out to contacts) so now it’s a case of waiting to see if anyone is interested in the work/exhibition along with talking to some of those contacts on a one to one basis when the opportunity presents itself. Quite a few of my contacts have offered to pass the info onto their networks, so there could be a few more curators seeing my work as a result of that, for which I’m thankful to them.
But now that I’ve got that job out of the way, and I realised that I don’t need to submit the ACE report until the end of this month, I’ve had a bit of time to start making new work again. I’ve been wanting to make some drawings based on the ‘displaced persons’ work (that’s the huge circle with projected hands, & fingerprints) I had originally planned to print the film stills out, but the resolution wasn’t good enough for print, so that put a bit of a delay on the process. I managed to get a slot of time with my fellow studio holder Angela Wilkinson who took some new shots of my hands in the positions used in the film piece using her studio lights and nice clean backdrop. I’ve sifted through them and printed some up, originally intending to paste them onto some smaller MDF circles that I got cut from the waste when making the huge one. However, the print shop printed some at the wrong size, so today I’ve mostly been playing around with them at A4 size.
I’ve been using the prints as they are laid out, fingerprinting onto them, cutting and pasting the hands onto the page in different configurations and also using the cut away pieces as stencils to print up to. It feels good to have spent a day making things for a change and the couple of pieces that I have made on the circles are starting to suggest different ways of displaying them and having them interacting with each other.
