Dialogue – is the second artist exhibition that I have been invited to take part in as part of the Art Chartron’s Festival in Bordeaux. This year Francis Viguera who is an artist in Bordeaux as well as the President of Art Chartons invited Joss Burke to select artists from Birmingham to exhibit in Halle de Chartons space. Joss originally from Britain and who lived and worked in Birmingham for many years now is based outside of Bordeaux in France. She continues to work on projects in Birmingham through out the year and so the connections are kept up.
Joss selected Graham Chorlton, Peter Grego, Myfanwy Johns and myself to join herself in showing at the Halle de Chartons. The aim is to build on the unique historic and cultural ties between Bordeaux and Britain. We were asked to make work in response to the French city and this we have done in our own unique ways. I will talk a bit more about the individual approaches with images for interest in later blogs. I will also give the Art Chartons website details.
We have had to consider the bi-lingual nature of the exhibition and all promotional material, catalogue and exhibition text has had to be translated in both French and English. We also hope to engage in some critical discussion with French artists based in the city.
We are also fortunate to have received funding from the ACE and the Art Chartrons Commitee to make this exhibition happen. In April 2011 we will exhibit some of this work at Oxford Brookes University. As a group we have had to have a number of meetings (and dinners!) to discuss logistics and numerous emails. This is the reality of a group enterprise of this nature.
I will update this blog after our meeting on Thursday to let you know how things are progressing.
