Linda Duffy phoned last week, she and Emma Healy are curatiing Hunters and Collectors at the new gallery in the Willesden Green Library Centre, along with the show we're planning at least one event involving artists and members of the public.
I really enjoy being able to offer this kind of thing, especially when exhibiting in a multi-use space. Discussing my work with new audiences has always been invaluable in helping me understand how it functions outside of the studio – and outside of my own ideas. I've had some very strong, and very diverse, reactions to pieces in previous shows. It's always interesting for me to have to think about how much of my motivation, inspiration and process to discuss – can revealing too much somehow reduce the work or does it make it both more accessible and more interesting. I hope it's the latter!
We're all visiting the gallery next week, it'll be good to meet the other artists and see the space. I'm very intrigued – although the space is attached to the library it's run by an artists group (Brent Artists Resource), it sounds like a good partnership – the kind of thing we need in Crystal Palace.
