This residency offers me a free studio space at the newly renovated Harrington Mill Studios. The one year residency sponsored by Erewash borough council in conjunction with the University of Derby and Harrington Mill Studios is a unique opportunity for me to develop my community and participatory practice supporting my artistic engagement and community arts practice. The residency offers a financial breathing space, allowing me to focus on the development of my own practice.
The Baskerville House Exhibition was really successful. The venue was spectacular, a beautiful building in just about the most prominent position in all Birmingham.
As part of the exhibition there were two debates held in the exhibition room, hosted by Tim Marlow of White Cube. The guest speakers were Janice Blackburn, Matthew Slotover, Stephen Snoddy, Frances Morris and Artist Richard Wentworth to name but a few.The discussions were based around museums, art galleries and collections awith particular focus on the potential New Contemporary Art Gallery in Birmingham. This sounds really amazing and I can hardly wait until it’s here.
MY NEXT EXHIBITION
Visual at Baskerville House 2009
presented in association with Art of Ideas II
FREE ADMISSSION
Open daily, 30 June – 12 July, 11.30am – 6.00pm Baskerville House, Centenary Square, Birmingham, B1 2ND
This exhibition has been selected from the Visual collection by Stephen Snoddy, Director, The New Art Gallery Walsall. He takes nature as his theme. ‘We have just passed midsummer’s day and my thinking is that we should celebrate the natural world and deliberately bypass the busy urban metropolis which is directly outside the doors of Baskerville House. City life is a fast accelerating life and time passes without contemplative thought and a slowing down is needed to appreciate the emotional impact of Nature and all that is imbued in it to survive the daily onslaught of the new technology media driven world that hinders our attachment to the enduring beauty of Nature in all its essences, outcomes, phases, beauty and cycles.’
Exhibiting artists: Daniel Bosworth, Ian Bratley, Louise Cattrell, Sarah Chapman, Ravi Deepres, Anne Guest, Paul Hirst, Nigel Jackson, Chris Keenan, Susan Laughton, Betty Pepper, Steve Speller, Sonia Stanyard, Pamina Stewart, Kate Walters, Stuart Whipps and Simon Withers.
Visual at Baskerville House – FREE Exhibition Tours:
2 July, 12.30-1.30pm
9 July, 5.00-6.00pm
Please book at [email protected]
I went to Derby University Degree show today and really enjoyed the work on exhibition. It was a diverse mix of work as is usual in degree shows but the work was of a very high standard, which is not so usual in degree shows. So congratulations to all involved, for what it is worth, I thought you did a really god job!
IM A DAD AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!
My wife gave birth to our second son today!
We have named him Oliver William Hirst
He is as beautiful a creation as my first son and they are both by far the most amazing and wonderful things that I have ever come across.
Thank you to my wife, she is beautiful too!
It's been a really busy week.
Time is at a premium at the moment and sleep is the casualty. For the last week the earliest I have been tucked up in bed is 12:30 am. The norm has been 1:30am and even 2:00am I'm having to get up at 6am at the momet to go to work, after work it is sorting my son out and and getting him to bed and then after dinner i finally have some time to concentrate on art.
Over the last week I have been in the studio a few nights preparing for my latest exhibition that I put up on Tuesday.
Last week I had the preview night for my exhibition at the university of Derby. It went really well and there seemed to be quite a lot of peole there to see the work. I also had another preview night on Friday which was at Derby Museum and Art Gallery. I have a painting in the current main show that is about imagined landscape. This exhibition uses the museums collection of landscape and exhibits this work along with work from a few invited artists dealing with landscape in the present. I was privilleged to be asked to be part of it and was extremely happy to see my work exhibited alongside works by Lowry, Joseph Wright and Michael Porter.
Last week was a week of proposals. I had to write quite a lot of proposals and this has been the main reason for so many late nights.
I have finally had indication that my materials budget may soon be paid, I hope so as I need to start making some new work.
