EXCITING NEWS FOR BLUE MONKEY MEMBERS!
We are very excited to say that Towner has invited members of the Network to curate the next Towner Collection exhibition. Towner holds one of the most significant public art collections in the South East. It boasts in excess of 4,000 works of art by historic, modern and contemporary artists including Vanessa Bell, David Bomberg, Tacita Dean, Olafur Eliasson, Anya Gallaccio, Henry Moore, Grayson Perry, Pablo Picasso, And Wolfgang Tillmans.
So, we’re inviting members to apply for the opportunity to be part of the Blue Monkey Network Curatorial team to work with Towner to curate the exhibition which will be on display from October to April 2012 at Towner.
What a great chance to work with an ambitious and aspirational professional organisation & put together a show from an amazing collection of work. Wow!
So, we hope that our members are as ambitious as Towner and as excited as we are!
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INTRODUCING… 5 BY 5
Last night was the first of our monthly events. We’d invited 5 East Sussex artists to talk about their work Pecha Kucha-style. The brief was that each artist should talk for 5 minutes about their work, and show 15 slides with 20 seconds for each slide.
None of the five are particularly used to talking about their work – but that’s the point really – to go through the process of preparing the talk; making decisions about what’s really important in their practice – what to focus on in that short 5 minutes; to select images, practice fitting the talk into the time slot, and then, finally, stand up and do it in public.
When the evening came about 20 people including Towner’s Exhibition Curator, Sanna Moore, came to hear the talks. All the hard work and preparation on the part of the five really paid off as they all gave interesting, articulate and well thought out presentations. They were enthusiastically received by the audience and the whole evening seemed to be a really positive experience for all concerned. A good start!
WEBSITE WONDER!
Exciting news for the Network this week is that Towner have just launched their new website and we are very proud to have our very own pages!
We’re also getting quite excited about the first of our regular monthly events which will take place next week. We’ve got our five artist-member-presenters all primed up and ready to each give a five minute presentation about, or relating to their work. www.a-n.co.uk/p/1381448
