So as Christmas becomes a distant memory and I sit back at my desk the list of tasks needed to make our Norm Exhibition a success grows. By we I mean Working Title Artists Collective a group of 3 artists who decided to try working together. This is our fourth year as a constituted group. Two of us (Jason Sheppard and Beth Barlow)were brought together by the wish to do something creative in our native city of Chester. The the outside eye Chester is full of culture but with no permenant home for the arts it has often been left to determined artists to fill in gaps. Later Simon Kennedy joined us and as two of us now live in Northwich our boarders widened. We ran further Projects in Chester Runcorn, Cuddington, Manchester and now Northwich sometimes supported by the Big lottery and twice by the Heritage Lottery. Sometimes as in the Norm Exhbition funded ourselves with tiny purses of money.
Norm is an exhibition just for our own work, no community involvement, no funding obligations. It is based on a common theme in our work, a quest into What is normal today?
With the exhibition due to start at Artworks Northwich on Thursday 13th February there is still much to do. We will keep adding to this blog as we go along as truthfully as diplomacy will allow.
