Work with schools has completely taken over for the next few weeks (not to mention my own children’s schedules) and it will be a flat out race of sports days, meetings and displays until the end of term. I’m also aware I’ve got to squeeze in any meetings or chase up any contacts in the next six weeks as once the children are off, there will be no time for my work meetings as such.
Money worries mean I’ve got to step up my work with community groups in the Autumn term as I just don’t have the luxury anymore of cutting back to one or two days paid work, so putting plans together to go back to past organisations. This is not panning out the way I had hoped. In an ideal world a grant body such as the Leverhulme trust would have funded me to work on a museum residency or such like and I would have had to cut back again on the full on, heavy duty school based work to potter quietly in some dusty archive of antiquities.
The truth of the matter is I never had the time to actually work on a proposal to such a body to get me out of this constant cycle. Anyhow, I’m amazed at how the research I conducted over the past year and a bit has resulted in so many possible fledgling pieces of work knocking about so I have plenty to get on with. It really was an incredibly productive time and is still bearing fruit.
Off to a new meeting at the John Hansard gallery tomorrow, a networking, crit, discussion type thing. Scary going on my own, (everyone else is busy) but worth a try.
