Moving on to stage two of our big plan is getting increasingly complicated. It seemed easy enough – go to Stockholm with artwork, meet lots of nice artists, plan exhibition with group and new artists for later in year.
So… for the last few months, Bruce and I have been looking at venues both in Liverpool and Leeds to stage a series of exhibitions. This gives the project more flexibility and can in theory involve more artists. Tough finding spaces though, when so many are closing down due to lack of funding! We are working towards the Independents Biennial for the Liverpool programme: http://www.independentsbiennial.org/ so once the venues are confirmed, I can register the group. This eats up a fair bit of our budget, but I just think it’s the easiest way to publicise ourselves ( being on the Indie website and the free map that will be given out to all that visit during the Biennial period) This also fits with the ACE funding guidelines.
For some reason though, I’m now getting a lot of emails from overseas artists that want to exhibit with us. I’m presuming they picked up our details from the SUPERMARKET website or catalogue – which is good and proves that our trip out there was worthwhile…… but dealing with even more artists is a full time commitment and I simply just don’t have the time. All we can do, is put them on our mailing list, ask them to follow our facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/?ref=tn_tnmn#!/pages/SCI/170190669682733 and we’ll advertise our callouts that way.
ACE – if you are reading this, I will try to post more often in this blog, but I’d rather have concrete news than just writing for the sake of it.
