Have been doing a lot of thinking about skill swapping and passing knowledge on this weekend. Hoping to have a bookbinding day with a couple of friends sometime soon to pass on what I have learned about hardback binding. I shall ask for tea and cake in return.
I have also been drawing really cheesy pictures to go on the poster for the local drama group’s next play. Hope no one ever sees them connected to my name…. but I am glad I can do this kind of thing to help them out!
I feel very lucky at the moment as we artists in A Curriculum are about to start receiving visitors at A Foundation. This week we have Paul Domela from Liverpool Biennial, Bernd Behr (an artist whose work I am very interested in) and Kate MacGarry, owner of Kate MacGarry Gallery in London. The visitors will give a talk in the morning and then do studio visits in the afternoon. I’ve never had a studio visit before and don’t have much idea of what to expect….but I know this is not the time to start talking about my work like it’s a load of crap.
I have noticed a few of us on the residency have a tendency to rubbish what we are doing and sentances are frequently cut short by a ‘or whatever’ or ‘you know, it’s just stuff’ and other throwaway comments. As an experiment I am going to try and approach it like I am cataloguing myself for Intute. My remit there is to be factual and non-emotional about resources. It has taken me a long time to be able to write like that and to emit myself from text (I have obviously not grown out of my egocentric stage of development), and perhaps it’s one way of presenting myself with some vague whiff of confidence or self belief, or whatever, you know, that sorta stuff! *blushes and avoids eye contact*
