Curating brings everything together for me. Not only do I get to look at, consider and analyse art (my own included) but I get to write about it too. I will be interviewing all of the artists for This ‘Me’ of Mine, which is going to be such a pleasure. Excerpts from the first interview with our own David Minton is on-line at www.thismeofmine.wordpress.com I hope to raise funds to publish an exhibition catalogue which will have the full interviews with all the artists.
Many thanks to Annable Dover who is in the show, for posting the interview with David on the Market Project website. Thank you to artists, David Riley, Kate Murdoch, Sandra Crisp, Anthony Boswell, Hayley Harrison and others who are helping to spread the word. Visit their blogs here on an and their websites to find out about the wonderful work they are doing. And many thanks to all of you who are taking an interest in the development of This ‘Me’ of Mine, it’s really encouraging to see so many of you watching.
In addition to these interviews, I’ve asked the artists to give me a reading list; these are the books they have read and have influenced their practice. At the end of each interview will be their reading list with links to The Book Depository where you can find out more about the books and make a purchase. Each book purchase will help raise funds for the show.
I’m very excited to see the two articles posted on Anthony Boswell’s post yesterday about the return of abstraction. I’m looking forward to reading those. Through curating and reading, I’ve seen an emerging trend to abstraction. I think this is a really exciting thing (of course, since I’m an abstract artist!) and something worth watching. I’m fascinated by many artists’ desire to return to abstraction but on new terms without the high voltage emotional content, it will be interesting to see this develop.
