God I'm so grumpy, and its nearly xmas. Spent most of the afternoon and all this evening cutting this mosaic into sections. Cos it is so cold and damp the paper and glue does not really dry, and scalpel cuts are really just tearing the paper.
I can not be bothered to even explain the implication of this. I should do em on sticky back plastic or something in the winter see if that works better?
Installation in Jan, how cold how damp ? Just a nightmare .
Happy xmas
from Mr GRUMPY
In my other blog I concluded the work was civic and I think this work is as well.
It is about encouraging these school pupils (young citizens) to interact and mingle with self confidence in their community. Just like these fish will swim about in the environment being built for them by Groundwork, Midland Heart and Renew. A parralel symbolic world. I hope they grow and thrive adapt to their habitat and become the best fish in the severn seas or the Severn Towns or is it six.
Burslem, Longton, Hanley, Tunstall, Fenton and Stoke……I dont think Newcastle counts, thats just rubbished my annalogy then.
So today I managed to rework 6-7 of these fish. I quite like working on them as I'm not too precious about them. Just go with the flow.
I sent images of them to the paymasters…..I hope they meet with an affirmative nod, as I dont really have a plan B for them!
I want these kids to feel they are their fish, I think it is important, I want them to believe that they really did it like that. I want them to bring their mum and say 'Look this is what I was trying to tell you about, We made them in school'.
Rob Turner's art is about places. His studio work is about the landscape around his North Kent home and his commissioned work is about the history and heritage of towns and landscapes all over the UK. Rob has described himself as both a 'landscape artist' and a 'map maker', but not in the traditional sense.
