Project Me

I’ve been invited to talk about my work in late March and I’m surprised at how anxious I am about it already. It’s at a friendly gallery and the audience will be mainly artists – and a few friends I’m asking too. After years of describing my practice to school children it’s exciting and a bit daunting to think about showing the work to fellow artists. The invitation came from an artist I studied with over 10 years ago who now works at the gallery- we bumped into each other a Frieze last year and now I’m going to be in an off-site project she’s curating later this summer. First though I’ve got this talk to do. . .

After three years of being very involved in establishing and running CPArtists I stepped down as Chair at last week’s AGM. I’ve really enjoyed my time as Chair/Co-ordinator and now I want to focus on developing my own projects with some of the artists I’ve met through the group. I also want to spend more time developing my own practice. Chronologically I should be mid-career but I’m nowhere near it! I’ve kept so many seperate projects running for so long that I felt a bit of consolidation was required, and this is how Project Me came about. A bit of re-branding …