i have just spotted that the advertising on the whitechapel website for the birth rites talk are leading with my image,
http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/shop/product/cat…
which is fantastic, probably only way of showing at the whitechapel but there is a error towards the end of the bio blurb about me, where i suddenly became male, oh well. Will email and see if I can get it changed.
On a uber efficient note, the Shepway arts officer emailed me a reminder about getting text ready for the guide and also extra notes and guidance. Good admin always makes me happy and impresses me. I think it is the hangover from temping as a team administrator and the control freak in me.
My desk currently makes me unhappy and there is a path to the desk, which weaves its ways through prints, unpacked boxes that is now waist height. It isnt quite fit for a grime fighters show but I am showing hoarding tendencies that if I lived on my own i could be buried alive. So I need to face up the fact that if i could disappear under the weight of my own work it could do serious harm to a toddler.
More tidying up needed – argh
Hoorah for childcare and on that note,
I have been invited to have a conversation about my work, visual representation (or lack of it) of pregnancy and childbirth in Art with Matt Collier at the Birth Rites Symposia, May 9th and May 11th
(http://www.birthritescollection.org.uk)
We have been asked to join in as we are the newest artists to have work included in the Birth Rites Collection.
There is a variety of speakers & different forms of presentations at the two talks; one at the Whitworth in Manchester and one at the Whitechapel in London. It is a ticketed event £15.
I have never been to Manchester or the whitworth and its currently exhibiting four decades of work by Mary Kelly!!!!!!!!!!!
This is an exhibition that I am truly excited to be going to see. Also looking forward to being immersed in conversation and listening to quite a few of the speakers, some familiar names that i havent seen in a while, brilliant opportunity to catch up.
has taken me a week to get on the computer.
Jo Longhurst (http://www.jolonghurst.com) visited last week to check out the room, take photos & measure up. And it was brilliant to catch up, chat and talk through ideas.
Things I have managed to accomplish this week (even though its Easter holidays & had no childcare for weeks. Elder child just left to go on a grandparent break until sunday and the younger is snoozing. It is the younger who has caused chaos by changing his sleep pattern/needs. Gone is morning sleep i happily posted about which meant i could achieve things whilst the other is at nursery. Now its a giant middle of the day sleep which means no alone time at all….)
I have a 5 hour break booked on Tuesday as we are test driving a new/emergency/ad-hoc nanny, so maybe there will be another blog entry soon.
rant over. Back to the art & events achievements.
– I have registered a wordpress blog for check in & out and will use that as a gallery/ promotional space whilst continuing to use this one to empty my head & reflect.
– registered our interest to be included in the shepway fringe events guide & found out the deadline is the 5th and not the 11th.
– I have probably annoyed Triennial workers with my over exuberant emailing about wanting work over the past month. Then i received an email about jobs. The tour assistant work is a good student summer job, the hourly rate is above minimum wage but I would make no money/lose 50p an hour paying for childcare to actually do the job.
I am hoping the chat that i have this afternoon about a possible artist/educator role for 3 days in the summer holiday will be more positive. I know it shouldnt be all about the cash but it is all about the time i have and how I can afford to spend, use & lose it.
Love the arts, but dont want to be totally altrustic and do want a return of some form. Am I getting old & more cynical, when the experience is just not enough… oh well
RECIPRICATION in any form -is the name of (my) the game.
Hoorah – i have had a piece accepted for Orebro Open this summer.
http://www.openart.se/
It was the work in progress, just the prod i needed/ carrot at the end of the stick to finish the piece. Sometimes I am more than happy with seeing it in my minds eye. But one of the really exciting things about this show, is the amount of possibilities for placing work. I am really curious to see where it will end up in the town and the scale. It could be any where from a 10 x 8in to billboard……
