Just had an enjoyable and remarkably relevant trip into east London. Amongst other galleries I spontaneously went into Tintype on Redchurch St and saw Joby Williamson’s installation ‘What have you forgotten?’ An archive of post-it notes he has picked up and collected, slides of which are projected from a number of points. It is in turns funny and poignant. Worth a visit. A second, most relevant show was ‘Whose Map is it?’ at Rivington Place. Artists including Susan Stockwell who use maps and mapping in their work. A bonus is the free colour catalogue that goes with the show…collected paper and maps, now what would happen if you brought those ideas together?!
I have just spoken to another local school about the project. I hope they got what I was after – although I teach I still find I get very nervous when talking about my own work. They were very attentive however and it’s always lovely to get applause!
I have been e-mailing local papers trying to raise the profile of the project – I am hoping at least one will pick up on it, in terms of being community- centric it couldn’t be a better project.
I am planning to do a days temporary install at the artsdepot in August – possibly the 5th. The idea is to install the work as it is so far and take some photos for this blog. I am also hoping to do some of the actual work there if they’ll let me and see if I can’t get some paper donations on the day.
If anyone reading this has any paper they want to dispose of that relates to Barnet’s history let me know! I need all I can get.
Success! Well some more progress anyway. I have managed to get some paper from East Finchley Library- thank you to the nice ladies there – and yesterday I spoke to my daughters school about the project. Last week the children had been working on a project looking at the work of Richard Long. They had produced some lovely work both in the classroom and in the grounds and surrounding landscape. I was especially pleased to see some had been working with maps of the local area – the link (coincidental I think) couldn’t have been better! I have now finished cutting out the whole of the map of Barnet and have started work on the next layer. This is using paper that has been donated by the library and good friends.
