Have started to get nervous. We fly from Edinburgh this afternoon to Cardiff. Dr Reeves is horrified that the boxes from the printers books have been opened . I tell her its Wales. What does she expect? There's no way those boxes were going to remain unopened in the Castle. Curiosity and privacy do not share the same bed in Wales.
Meanwhile have downloaded a freedrawing application from Apple to my Iphone . Amazing. It operates like finger painting.
Friend persuaded me to submit at least one image to the Society of Scottish Artists forthcoming exhibition. So I emailed the digital print of "The Journey".
Busy drumming up publicity for forthcoming book launch though I learnt today that there is some problem with the printers….oh my God!
It is always fascinating to see who watches my videos on Youtube- thanks to Google they track them all.
Got a surprise tonight when I learnt that "Mirage" which I made in Egypt is most viewed in Pakistan and South Korea!
My mini film "Lost Dog" made outside my home one very snowy weekend in Scotland is viewed in equal numbers in France, UK, India and the USA.
Discovered apps on my Iphone and 2 free drawing programmes…watch this space.
Have joined Twitter, or rather resurrected an old account when folk started to say they were following me.
(Find me under Titchtwitter).
Also discovered thaat I can update my blogs from my Iphone which is great. No longer tied to the computer. Except for this blog…
Decided not to submit work to the annual exhibition of the Society of Scottish Artists, variety of reasons triggered by fact that I will be in Wales for my book launch at the time of submission though they did agree I could submit digital images for selection.
Can't help feeling though that these annual exhibitions are now rather arcane institutions….you spend several hundred pounds having work framed with no guarantee that it will be accepted. In fact the odds are stacked very high that it will be rejected because they are inundated with submissions even if you are a professional member ( as I am) and pay your annual £50 fee.
Somehow all this doesnt fit in with the digital world we live in. Notice today that the Tate gallery are putting all their work on Itunes!….for free.
Now that looks like a really interesting project
Craigynos Castle tell me that 76 people have already booked in for the lunch to launch our book:"Children of Craig-y-nos".
And we still have three weeks to go!
Meanwhile delighted to see that the Society of Scottish Artists are prepared to accept digital submissions this year , albeit only for very large pieces of work.
Still it is a start.
Have joined Twitter. Find my daily "tweets" under the name of Titchtwitter.
Ann Shaw is an artist/writer based in Scotland working in new media. As a journalist she campaigned and wrote about many social and medical issues. She is a feminist and founder member of Falkirk Womens Aid, active in the trades union movement and former member of National Union of Journalists Equality Working Party, and founder member of Forth Valley Open Studios.
