I’ve finally made a start in sorting out my spare room ready for the artist to stay. (one of the 3 that will be resident in the studio soon – http://www.artinliverpool.com/international-artists-to-translate-the-street-for-alternator-studio/ )
I do have quite a small house, so this ‘spare room’ if you can call it that, is very much used for everything – it has a bed in it for any visitors, it’s an extra studio cum storage space for my work, its somewhere to dump my washing, and its also an extra space for the dogs (better not mention that bit to the artist I suppose)
It was while condensing boxes and boxes of my paper installations into less boxes, I discovered older works that I hadn’t thought about for a while. It was such a thrill taking them out and reminding myself how I had made them – but also reminding myself of the endless, tedious months of sitting and cutting and glueing and the very reason I took a break from making them. I realised though, how much I wanted to work on them again.
Stashed at the bottom of the boxes were two hard copies of a-n from 2011. I flicked through them again and I remembered how much I used to enjoy sitting down to read them, as I don’t read so much online now.
Budget cuts I suppose…
I took down the book exhibition at the Williamson Art Gallery on Friday – 5 days after it officially finished. I have to work round my days off.
Its always sad taking down an exhibition, but this one had gone really well. I hope all of the artists were as pleased with it as I was . I’ve got into the habit now of getting a review of the exhibition published as it always draws people to the website. Its had loads of hits and is still continuing to do so after the exhibition https://sciartistprojects.wordpress.com/2015/10/28/doesnt-look-like-a-book/
I haven’t had time to send all of the work back to the artists yet – I need a full day to package everything . It’s on my very long ‘to do’ list though.
What else? Oh yes, I went to pick up my ceramic works, which had now been glazed and fired for the 2nd time. I can’t begin to explain how excited and thrilled I was to see them . I expected them to have exploded or at least cracked in the kiln (me being such a novice at it and all that) but they were perfect.
I didn’t enjoy the process so much at the time because I felt it was all out of my control. I’m used to planning a design and having a rough idea how it should look when finished, so this was uncomfortable for me having to ask what to do next all of the time.
I know now though, so I think I will pursue it further :-)
