At the beginning of the month I found myself in Coventry where my piece “Stitched Time” was shown in an exhibition to accompany a symposium at the University called Drawing Conversations. Although my academic brain felt a bit rusty on the day (4 December) I have promised to write something up for the follow-up collection of papers. The show itself, Drawn Conversations, was a really nice show – there is something about drawing exhibitions that are really open, which I really like.
Since then I’ve given two presentations for Dover Arts Development and getting better at public speaking as a result. Also, note to self for the future, agree question-taking protocols first! In one of the presentations I kept getting interrupted by the organiser which meant I overran.
It’s been a good year so all that remains is to wish all my readers a Happy Christmas and all good things for 2016.
I’ve reorganised my website http://www.studio308ltd.co.uk and now have my work organised under portfolio. I still have some historical stuff to add but I think it is easier to navigate now.
Here is an image of the collaborative painting produced in Folkestone last week as part of the SALT festival. (see previous blog post). Thanks to Helen Lindon for the photo.
Last week was amazing. The new piece I found myself making for the Table of Elements exhibition at relatively short notice ended up working surprisingly well. The exhibition itself was an opportunity to exhibit with two artists whose work I admire – Helen Lindon and Joanna Jones – and in the related workshop to explore new aspects of collaboration through the making of a painting using a process that was only possible through joint action. This was, in part, due to the size of the paper we worked on. Folding the paper, for example, in the way that we did, could not have worked had there not been four of us.
My piece, Inherited (above) is an installation of paper cut-outs, using found atlas pages, of Straits Chinese porcelain and Chinese export ware from cargo shipwrecked in the Malacca Straits. The work references autobiographical elements as well asideas about diaspora, migration, the sea.
More here about the piece and more here about the whole programme including a curated conversation and the production of the collaborative painting in response to the rainy weather – using the rain as an element of the painting.
I am very excited about an upcoming exhibition I am in with Joanna Jones and Helen Lindon as part of the SALT festival in Folkestone. We are also running an elemental, experimental workshop in which together with workshop participants we will create a large scale elemental experimental collaborative painting in response to the elements, mood and weather, on the Folkestone Harbour Arm.
And I am also thrilled to announce that Stitched Time is going to be part of a curated exhibition to run alongside the Drawing Conversations symposium at Coventry University on 4thDecember. When I read this phrase “There was a huge response to the call for exhibits“, I was expecting and I’m sorry to say … but instead it was “we are very pleased ….“.
Wow!
