This time last year I was in Stockholm, nervously displaying my work as part of SUPERMARKET. The build up beforehand and the amount of work involved made January and the beginning of February 2012, fly by. Now I feel a pang of jealousy when I see posts about artists preparing for this years SUPERMARKET event. It was too expensive to do again though and it was only through funding by ACE and other sponsors that we were able to go at all.
I’ve said it before I know, but I did too much last year and I felt burnt out. I had to make the decision to take a bit of a break before I started again, but this decision has made the winter months drag and drag………….
I’ve done my own work less ( due to lack of time) and I’ve brooded more over the unfairness and complexities of art and its favoured groups.
So I was grateful today for the silly tweets I received from Elena Thomas and Sophie Cullinan about the formation of the anti – clique group . It’s all stuff and nonsense out there really and we should be just doing this for ourselves.
I’d saved what was left of my 2012 leave for next week, instead of taking it earlier. Although this has made the winter seem even longer, I’m finally going to have a whole seven days off to sort out my work and to just get on with it!.
