Art From London Markets, a-n feature

Please come along to the  APT Gallery, 6 Creekside, London SE8 4SA  on sat 6th May at 3pm.  I have work selected for this show and this is the opening and prize giving, I’d love to see you there.

Today is the day I wrap the work due in Deptford on Tuesday. The APT have encouraged all artists not to share images of the work selected until the actual show, so not too many photos this week.

To improve my finances I started a block of six weeks work last week so my new challenge was how to get a work to a gallery within the hours 10-2 when I would be too far away. Up until now I have been able to deliver work myself. So I tried phoning Artistwithavan.com, but their phone line only works when I am in my day job and the kind of work I do means I can’t make calls, I tried contacting a couple of man with a van companies, but they were kind of tender sites who put the work out for quote and hopefully you get a call back and I did not have time for that.

So then I switched my brain on and went to the local cab company just near our house, and have arranged to drop the work off with them the night before and they will take it for me. I have been able to talk to them directly about how to handle it, I know its not going to be put in the back of a van with a whole bunch of other stuff, and we are neighbours so I know I can trust them.

So that is one job done! I am so pleased to be showing at the Creekside Open along side other artists selected by Jordan Baseman. And unable to resist at least one photograph to give just a hint of which work of mine is selected I’ll show you a little section!

This week started with confirmation that I have a block of paid work for six weeks which will be great for my finances.  I had had an awful week the week before, but this week, this week kept getting better and better, I went to see Fujiko Nakaya at the Tate.  It is beautiful, playful and somehow sinister all at the same time, a little nature smuggled into the city.

So then my daughter and I travelled up to Lincolnshire for the most tentative research into the county where I was born, because this week I also got the news that I had been selected for a one woman exhibition in a small public gallery for 2019.  I received the confirmation letter today.

My favourite landscape we visited was The Wash

The project will not actually be based around the Wash but nearer to Corby Glenn, so this is just background….

Yesterday happily I also found out that I have had a piece selected for the 2017 Creekside Open in May. Visuals of the piece are currently not allowed.

The day was finished off by a visit to the fabulous opening at BlainSouthern of Mat Collishaw The Centrifugal Soul. This show is touching and melancholy, beautiful and playful all at the same time, a real delight. Here is another artist smuggling in and commenting on  nature in the city, and on ideas of mythology and identity.

Albion, Matt Collishaw at Blain Southern

This week started with confirmation that I have a block of paid work for six weeks which will be great for my finances.  I had had an awful week the week before, but this week, this week kept getting better and better, I went to see Fujiko Nakaya at the Tate.  It is beautiful, playful and somehow sinister all at the same time, a little nature smuggled into the city.

So then my daughter and I travelled up to Lincolnshire for the most tentative research into the county where I was born, because this week I also got the news that I had been selected for a one woman exhibition in a small public gallery for 2019.  I received the confirmation letter today.

My favourite landscape we visited was The Wash

The project will not actually be based around the Wash but nearer to Corby Glenn, so this is just background….

Yesterday happily I also found out that I have had a piece selected for the 2017 Creekside Open in May. Visuals of the piece are currently not allowed.

The day was finished off by a visit to the fabulous opening at BlainSouthern of Mat Collishaw The Centrifugal Soul. This show is touching and melancholy, beautiful and playful all at the same time, a real delight. Here is another artist smuggling in and commenting on  nature in the city, and on ideas of mythology and identity.

Albion, Matt Collishaw at Blain Southern