Simulacra And Simulations

Alice In Disneyland @ The Terrace Lincoln is now finished, and I’m really pleased with the feedback in my gloriously tea stained comments book – follow the white rabbit to Lincoln Central Library from 4th – 7th May, by which time I will have hopefully finished my animation, the final part for this is now coming together.

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We’ve been invited to a consultation at The Collection on Wednesday 5th May for artist’s networking in the East Midlands.

Lincoln University are building an entirely brand new Art, Architecture and Design faculty building, and it’s exciting to have been asked to offer suggestions to the consultation committee.

The LAN ACE grant application was not successful again, so I’m thinking of re-applying, but I really need some more advice I think. Alice In Disneyland is coming to an end, so we will all get together and come up with a new plan to develop the LAN after Lincoln Artist’s Markets, which commence tomorrow on The Strait, Lincoln, and we’re using the first one to promote Alice In Disneyland with a Tea Party and Unbirthday Cards. The weather is glorious, so I’m hoping it’ll go really well.

Thankfully there was no train strike, and our holiday arrangements went ahead as planned. Better still, Albert Cottage Hotel in East Cowes is nothing like Fawlty Towers, former Royal residence to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, we enjoyed a lavish two days with sun, sea and yachts, all for free, including a visit to Osbourne House, where amongst all the extravagant gilded ceilings, untouchable furniture un-photographic art, and strange marble casts of Queen Victoria’s children’s limbs, I eventually discovered Holman Hunt’s The Beloved, hiding away in a darkened corner of the billiard room.

And it wasn’t until just now that I realised our local hero Tennyson lived on the Isle Of Wight, but I would never have had time to visit Farringdon House as well. So I thought that I must go back again sometime….

Albert Cottage Hotel – potentially a fantastic location for an APT summer residency I have concluded.

We observed Queen Victoria’s bathing machine – it’s like Howl’s Moving…. Shed – this beach hut on wheels, ironically beached in the grounds of Osbourne House, never to be used again – I think it should, and I want one for an art gallery!!

After a 5 hour train journey back to Lincoln, there wasn’t much time before the Private View for the LAN exhibition for Alice In Disneyland (as it’s now known) at The Terrace.

As one artist had to drop out, and following Alex Pearl’s talk in Lincoln a couple of weeks ago, we’re pleased to have received a DVD of his work to exhibit – Study For The Invisible Girl, and I managed somehow, in the midst of holiday arrangements, to borrow a DVD player and TV to display this on, and the exhibition itself looks good – curated and installed by colleagues whilst I was away, Alice In Disneyland is at The Terrace until 21st April, then we’re moving it to Lincoln Central Library from 4th – 7th May for a larger exhibition, by which time I hope to have my animation finished. It’s coming together now, but work has been interrupted by Easter.

The spaces are a compromise – the exhibition would’ve been so much better in its original location at the Odeon cinema, and I have issues about the space at The Terrace, but the main thing is that we managed to put the exhibition together, and we’ve already received an invitation to a steering group for the East Midlands at The Collection next month.