New project, new blog!
For the past three months I’ve been researching and developing ideas for new work in a solo exhibition that takes place in June. There’s 12 weeks until the show opens so it seems a fine time to start writing this.
I had hoped that I’d start this blog with a fat envelope from Arts Council in my hand, but they turned down my GFTA application, so I’m working on a shoestring with the partners I have in place for now. Although I’m working on rejigging the application and resubmitting it before the end of the week.
The shoestring approach includes taking the opportunities that I find, so the beginning of this week has found me bunking in on a business trip with my husband in South Wales. I spent a bit of time in Cardiff library looking at old maps, an explore of St Fagan’s open air museum of Welsh life to see their buildings that have been translocated from across Wales and a morning in Merthyr Tidfil drawing how houses occupy the valleys.
This is all towards a new piece of work which will look at how housing acts as evidence of population movement within the UK. There’s another two pieces of work that will form part of the show which I can talk about later.
Anyway, off to work on GFTA application take 2!
Let the countdown begin!
