I think, at last, I may have some time, despite ongoing meetings and other stuff including domestic details. Only 15 more boxes to unpack. I have too much stuff – all collected over the years and forgotten about. I seem to have been living with packed boxes for the last five years – moving house, then moving out of the new one because of the fire that gutted next door and damaged ours, then moving back in. Would be nice to have an uneventful year on the house front.
Despite having no time and no space, I’ve done a couple of small paintings in tempera in a deliberately non-gestural, non-heroic way.
Passed through to the next stage of the MA. Got a bit of a ticking off for the minimal amount of work done this year. They are right; I really mustn’t waste next year as it won’t come round again and I do have a chance to make it a really good year. Let’s hope the house doesn’t catch fire again.
Went down to Exeter last weekend with my intern , who is great, to help clear and prepare the space for the group show with fellow St Martins students.
Mental space as someone said. Take that any way one wants I think. It’s a huge warehouse currently being used by graffiti artists and Book Cycle.
I ended up in agony with a bad shoulder, so must plan in assistants in future.
Handed in my portfolio yesterday for the Gateway assessment. See what they say next week!
It’s definitely all go. Went to the opening of Beuys Is Here at the De La Warr last Friday and was pleased to see two people I knew well enough to talk to, one of whom was Sharon who is working with DAD on Reside, which was great even if we didn’t actually have time to talk.
DAD’s open weekend programme didn’t get ACE funding but has morphed into a smaller project of 5 workshops commissioned by Kent County Council to run alongside the Sea Change exhibition in Dover (regen project). As well as being part of the organisig team, I’m also running a drawing workshop which will feed into my professional practice as an artist rather than curator/organiser. This will look after most of August.
Tomorrow I have a practice guiding session at the Hayward with fellow student guides. We’ve had training in moving people round the gallery and picking the best spots to stand and the kind of guiding type info to give and we’ve also had the low down from chief curator Stephanie Rosenthal. Have been trying to do some research on all the artists and sort out my own ideas about the different pieces of work. Fortunately 45 mins is not masses of time so won’t have to talk too much!
Somehow I also have to finish my study proposal and written work to hand in for assessment on 15th and also take some decent images of my wall installation.
After that I’m off down to Exeter to clean up a space with fellow students ready for a group show in August. That’s when I get to try out the wall installation outside the studio. Should be fun.
