Hi all. I just wanted to update people on the Dialogue group I am involved with. On 4th -7th November Dialogue exhibited at the Halle de Chartrons in Bordeaux as part of the Art Chartrons happening in the French city. It was a huge success in terms of exposure for our groups work.
Over the four days we had over 1400 people see the show. Our show was filmed for French TV3 channel to promote our contribution to the Arts Chartrons festival and there was a number of radio interviews which featured our exhibition at the Halle as the centre piece of Novembers 6th edition of Art Chartons. The British Counsul attended the preview and along with various representatives from the mayors office in Bordeaux and local dignatories opened the exhibition. Over 600 turned up for the opening and the wine and food was sponsored by a local wine company.
We received a lot of positive feedback from the ordinary Bordeaux public as well as from artists based in Bordeaux. The work produced included Graham Chorltons large paintings on paper of Bordeaux industriall architecture, Myfanwy Johns parquet floor – a triangular section based on the floor of Musee Beaux Arts, Peter Grego’s slide projection of Bordeaux housing scheme inspired by Le Corbusier. Joss Burkes construction using sache window frame from England with digital photographic images on the window panes relating to her response to Bordeaux. I created 4 double sides pvc banners using photographic images of people and places I visited in September with red,white and blue blocks of colour reminiscent of the French flag.
