Still tying up the exhibition before moving onto new things – well, new applications anyway.
So I'm posting some pages from the Ex Voto edition of Kalender that acted as the catalogue to the show.
I'd only ever intended to make twelve issues of Kalender to chart the course of the residency year, but now the bug has bitten and I can well imagine wanting to make more at the least provocation. Hope Trevor feels the same way about it – I've been lucky enough to have his help each time and I'm sure he doesn't relish the last-minute panic that seems to be the norm.
Website's still not sorted, though Trevor's working on it as hard as he can. It doesn't help that I keep giving him flashdrives with 'just a bit of extra stuff' on them …
Photos today from the 'intimate' private view on 26 September (yes I know that's distant history now, but that internet crash has a lot to answer for).
The photos I'm posting today were taken once the show was finally, exhaustingly, in place!
The much-updated website should be ready sometime tomorrow …
www.world-tree.co.uk/festial
Just when I was feeling a sense of achievement from having updated this blog daily while on the three- week Gresham's residency, it all went horribly wrong! A couple of days before the private view the preparation became so utterly manic that I didn't get a chance to write anything. Then the private view happened, and I gave myself the weekend off to pick myself off the floor.
Then our internet service went off for over three weeks. And then, I had problems accessing this site.
As you can imagine, this has served to slow momentum on the recording of the exhibition, and in particular the promotional stuff I'd hoped to do elsewhere on the net.
Now, the setting up and private view seem too distant to describe in detail, except to say that Trevor and I worked madly to paint the space, find and paint plinths, make labels, make a list of works, collect the Ex Voto edition of Kalender from the printer (on the morning of the PV – nothing like cutting it fine, is there?) and hanging everything using sticky pads, nails, pins, screws, hazard tape and goodness knows what else. I missed part of the PV as I was still typing and printing out the list of works. It was nice to stop for a glass of wine, and nice to see the family and friends who attended, but the House Music Evening did play havoc with overall visitor numbers.
So I thought I'd round things off by posting a few photographs each day for maybe a week or so, just for the record.
All the pictures were taken by Trevor Ashwin. And there will be a major website overhaul with loads of new images over the next couple of days (hopefully).
www.world-tree.co.uk/festial
Tuesday today, so home after lunch, having spent much of the morning gold-leafing the edges of those modrock moulds that the relics were cast in. Plenty to do at home, though! So much still to take care of before the exhibition opens on Friday. It's hard combining the residency with making my own stuff at home and being my own curator, publicist, gallery-preparer and hanging-person (if that's the right term). Having said that, Trevor is being fantastic: passing critical comment when I'm dithering, doing a lot of the work behind the scenes (technical and domestic!) and he'll be working beside me on the installation.
Something we did together over the weekend was to put together another issue of Kalender. We finished it and got it emailed to the printer this afternoon, and I'm happy with how it's looking. Very similar to the old Kalenders really, but less chaotic as it's a kind of catalogue, and with an interview between Katherine Bulwer and the artist running through the whole thing as a thread. Katherine Bulwer, for those who haven't been following this rambling blog closely for some reason(!) died in 1487 and lies under a brass in Wood Dalling church. All I know about her is that she donated £10 in 1486 towards the repainting of the rood screen. So I can legitimately describe her as a keen patron of the arts …
www.world-tree.co.uk/festial
