Feeling fairly rotten today. Have been keeping a cold thing at bay for a while, but I think I am about to sucumb. I might just stay home today and keep warm!
Last week was great – really busy and exciting and interesting. Paul Domela came from the Biennial to talk to us at A Curriculum. Interesting for me to hear from the horse’s mouth about the Biennial’s approach and intentions. Also good to hear a bit more about his background and unconventional route into his current position.
There was some family stuff going on this week too, but I managed to get to Bernd Behr’s talk on Thursday. It was a fascinating insight into his residency at the Centre for Land Use Interpretation and the resulting work. Then we had studio visits back at A Foundation where I faced some tough questions from Bernd that confirmed what I was thinking about the weaknesses in current ideas/plans. All good.
Friday was a talk from Kate MacGarry. This proved to be a very down-to-earth chat about how the gallery came into being and what her relationship with the gallery artists involves and how she keeps a happy ship. We also heard about certain expenisve and challenging works and how they came into being. Nice to have some things confirmed (like how not to approach a gallery) and learn lots more about how it works and what having a gallery represent you might involve. I came away thinking that I am not near that yet. Not saying never, but definitely not now.
She also came down to A Foundation and did studio visits in the afternoon and it was lovely to talk about ideas and have a non-academic/theory laden approach in contrast to Bernd’s visit. She also gave me plenty of ideas about how to solve current technical difficulties and a bit of reassurance that what I plan to make is interesting.. after worrying about repeating myself I now feel that it is more about developing work further.
On Saturday I did a workshop at Hot Bed Press and then dropped off some work for an exhibition I am in (opens Thursday) at Rogue Project Space. This show ‘Built’ includes five women artists who respond to the built environment and is curated by Liz Murphy of Contents May Vary. Although I haven’t made anything new, which feels strange, I am looking forward to showing alongside these particular artists.
Yesterday I threw a baby shower for my twin sister. She only has four weeks to go and I’m very excited about being an Aunt (Aunty Em). It was great fun, but knackering and now I am finished off.
Today I shall remain wrapped up and do some writing/admining/account maintenance ahead of the end of the tax year and budgeting. I couldn’t sleep thinking about my workload last night so it will be great to cross some things off my list.
http://www.katemacgarry.com/
http://www.chisenhale.org.uk/archive/exhibitions/i…
http://www.rogueartistsstudios.co.uk/projectspace….
BUILT – search for Built on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com
