OO something new!
We’re just launching one of the new initiatives which our Grant for the Arts is enabling us to provide. It’s one of those “luxury items” which it’s incredibly difficult to measure as far as value for money is concerned, but it’s something we think is incredibly important. Not everyone will want to do it because, at certain stages during the cycle of our practices, the last thing we want to do is talk about or get feedback on our work – and at other times we’d give our last hot cross bun for the chance! So for a fortunate dozen or so artists who are at THAT stage of the proceedings and within reach of Eastbourne, this is a great chance to be part of a group of artists who will dedicate a couple of hours a fortnight to get together and talk about each other’s work and the wider contexts and implications of it at a new Blue Monkey Network Crit Group.
The idea is that 10-12 artists will commit to attending the group for the whole 12 week period, meeting once a fortnight. At each session, two artists will bring along work for discussion and feedback in an atmosphere of mutual trust and co-operation, and be part of a stimulating conversation and critical discussion about each other’s work and the wider issues surrounding it.
The group will be facilitated by Blue Monkey member Sheila Hay and we plan to get started round about the beginning of October through to December 2013, at Towner, Eastbourne. Cat and I are going to be there too to take part in the conversations and we’re really looking ofrward to getting to know more about our members’ work. Exciting stuff!
