The kids have gone back to school, and I received my first response to a recent exhibition application. Apparently there is suddenly no space on the wall for my work.
However, I’m still waiting for more important news for the other applications I mentioned. By tomorrow my brain will be back to normal. it would’ve got back into the Swing Of Things if it wasn’t for a simultaneous email telling me that I’ve won a competition I entered via the Jo Nesbo’s Headhunters facebook page to win a trip to Norway!!! It helps if you spam Pal Waaktaar Savoy and Jimmy Gnecco’s music video for the film that is out at cinemas now, being ahead of the game there!
Not sure whether there’s a set date when this trip will be – it’s for 3 nights at a hotel, 2 return flights and £200 spending money, so I’m hoping to get the opportunity to do something really useful – which sounds very vague, but I have a few ideas in mind, awaiting more details before I can consider them more – depends on timing!
I’ve been off for the Easter hols. I’m totally burnt out and need a break – just for two weeks – I’ve submitted an application for an exhibition in Skegness, submitted an entry for the AOI Serco prize for Illustration Secret London, and I can’t do any more, as single parenthood takes over during the holidays.
However, I wanted to poke my nose in here, because I’ve been doing one small creative thing as the holidays drag out and the rain relents. I uploaded this erroneous Easter picture: http://helend-blackbird.blogspot.co.uk/
The other reason I wanted to post, was because last summer I submitted a proposal for SO Festival in Skegness, but wasn’t successful. The idea was for an I Scream Van based on Munch’s iconic painting, to link Skegness with Norway following on from my last visit, where I saw a small figurine in the Radhus that resembled Skegness’ famous icon The Jolly Fisherman. I sat down to eat tea on Thursday evening, and The One Show was on, with a report about Munch’s The Scream going for auction at Sotheby’s, and a presenter appearing in an Ice Cream Van doing pretty much exactly as I’d proposed, only very craply. So do arts organisations use our failed proposals and give our ideas to researchers for TV shows to use?? In future, when I apply for opportunities, I wonder whether to add a disclaimer that if my ideas are not good enough to be accepted, that they should not be shared for the benefit of others. Does this seem picky, or would you be happy if you spent some time putting together a proposal that wasn’t accepted, only to find your idea, the exact same idea had been used by someone else – someone that got paid to express it in some other way, while you’re sitting there wondering why the gas bill has gone up but your income level has not??
Lastly, the 2nd Twitter Art Exhibition in Moss, Norway, for which I submitted a postcard, opened on Thursday with great success. I’m impressed that so much money was raised for the Women’s Crisis Centre on the opening night, here are photos of the exhibition:https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.37003538…
