It suddenly feels like everyone is waking up.. there are lots of exciting things afoot in Liverpool and the weather is nice enough and it is light enough to want to leave the house.
Last night there was the pre-launch of the Drawing Paper, a new, free paper concentrating on drawing (see images for an idea). The first issue had 20 artists in, me included and we all put £40 in the pot and Mike Carney designed and printed 3,000 copies. If you would like a copy, email me your address and I will send one. If I get a million replies I may ask for an SAE though!
Some images and a bit more information here:
http://drawing-paper.tumblr.com/
Next weekend, although it is light night and there are an insane amount of things I will miss in Liverpool, I am going to London. I want an art-saturated couple of days, to catch up with old friends, and to buy lettpress ink. My studio group is in ‘No Soul for Sale, a festival of independents’ at Tate Modern from Friday – Sunday for the 10th birthday celebrations. I have put some things in, so would like to see the chaos in person.
Next exhibition up at Royal Standard ‘This Matter’ looks incredible, as much for the music at the opening night (the Grubby Mitts) and the programme of talks and things running alongside it as the work. This is really interesting and ambitious stuff, and I can’t wait!
http://www.the-royal-standard.com/events/
I am almost settled into my new, double sized space there too and it is awesome. I feel delieriously happy there and I had a dance around in it yesterday. It still needs a tidy and shelves assembling/filling, but it is a GOOD space. The Royal Standard just keeps getting better and better.
http://www.thismatterblog.blogspot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/thegrubbymitts
