Having given up on the notion of ever making a living from my own work, I went back to full time paid work at the beginning of November. I knew this would impact on how much art work I could now produce, but I’d forgotten how much I appreciated and needed my ‘thinking time’.
An exhibition I am due to be next year has been brought forward a few months and this has really made me aware of how little time I now have to think up new ideas for it. I don’t feel that I was constantly working and reworking ideas on my time off prior to working full time, but I must have been doing it ‘unconsciously’ somehow…
I have therefore had to reconsider things that I have been offered so that I can use my precious time wisely… I have already turned down two smaller exhibitions and a paid workshop as they were just creating extra work without the bonuses.
How does everyone else manage?
For 2012, I will show work at Supermarket in Stockholm and in the group show at Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk. Then hopefully a break, before I take part in the Independents Liverpool Biennial. Sadly, I really don’t think I can do anything else.
