Since November 2011, I have been running a monthly Artist Practice Session at Rogue Project Space, Manchester. The format runs very similarly to the crit session that I organised in London with my peers that also graduated from Goldsmiths, and also the sessions that I attended/ presented at the Camden Arts Centre. 1-2 artists present, and a group of 8-12 audience artists offer supportive dialogue and feedback. So far presenting artists have included Jacqueline Wylie, Mike Chavez Dawson, Nicola Dale, Jessica Longmore. This monday’s session has Daniel Fogarty’s talking about his work and next month Annie Harrison and Sarah Sanders are presenting. If you would like to attend and/ or present, please take a look at the tumblr site for the sessions – http://communityofpracticeman.tumblr.com/.
So far the sessions have been a great way to meet other artists in the area, and it would be great to run other sessions or events with other organisations in the future. I would also like to organise a show that would potentially involve collaborations from presenting artists.
My residency at Manchester School of Art has been going well too. Since completing the exhibition at KRAAK, I have been focusing on printing from the lasercut woodblocks to create two books I am going to make. I have been spending time understanding the process of making various basic book construction, so I am going to be using two processes for my two books. I am excited about making them, and a little nervous too. I have also been collecting my thoughts and ideas for a second animation. Work feels steady and relatively productive, but as always there is always room to do more.
One of my prints ‘Hope for an Urban Utopia’ (see image on right), will be exhibited at the #tweetart exhibition at Wakefield Studios, Wakefield on 28th March 2012 – see link http://aliceandbobcurate.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/tweetart/.
