Ikon Gallery are running a workshop on Tues 12th Feb to find out more about the R4 and Artangel £1 million opportunity for artists. Find out more at the link. It’s a free event and you just need to reserve a place.
http://www.ikon-gallery.co.uk/programme/current/ev…
This is an exciting opportunity but I can’t help feeling that those artists at the top of the tree will be favoured, due to their level of experience and development. It would be nice to think that the panel will consider other, lesser known artists. I’m going a long to the event so I will ask the question about the possibility of lesser known artists applying and being successful.
Allotment update – Sweet pea seedlings are romping away with Ailsa Craig onions following. No sign of any tomato seeds germinating yet. Peter has taken them to a warm spot on the fridge and is even talking to them! They are his ‘boys’. Snow on the real plot 39 means no work there which is a relief as there is plenty to do elsewhere.
II’ve completed 9 line drawings and 9 accompanying texts for the Estuary Eulogy series. I laid out the drawings in a group and likewise laid out the texts in a group. I placed the two groups of work side by side. I like the connection but also the disparate nature of this process. They could be seen together or as two individual bodies of work. Earlier drawings are a little bit more tender and smaller. I find the drawing I made of an old mattress is full of emotion and it creates a sadness in me when I look at the drawing. I used a different pencil in later drawings and also decided to work with a bolder line because it was hard to pick up the drawings on the scanner for copies. I have decided to maybe redraw some of these later ones to match the earlier drawings.
As the texts are word processed and printed onto tracing paper it has given me the opportunity to explore layering a number of pages of texts up. As the text is in red it is quite apparent underneath and shows through a few layers. I love the submerged feeling of pages deeper down. It is like looking into a shallow lake where the water softens the outlines of objects on the lake bed.
