On Thursday I went to London with the primary aim of going to see Magne Furuholmen’s “Norwegian Wood” exhibition. I’ve blogged about that experience here http://helend-blackbird.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/magne-furuholmens-norwegian-wood.html
I also asked Jack Hutchinson if he had time to meet up, and he was kind enough to invite me to go to the Discernible exhibition at ZAP, even though there was only one person there.
It was interesting to see Rosalind’s work, which for some reason I find interesting, and also I was drawn to Kate Murdoch’s sculptural work.
Before I went, I put together this project experiment http://www.lincolnartistnetwork.co.uk/apps/blog/
with the intention of asking Magne and / or Guy if Apparatjik had some time free in their schedule to come to Lincoln, however, the conversation that occurred became much more interesting, it gave me some other ideas, and I think it’ll work towards that outcome eventually.
And the good news is that I received an email about the project with Erin, and met up with Natasha from Stian’s show again, she has some funds and is very excited to be able to offer me a commission for Erin, and also for her own book, unfortunately we didn’t get much of a chance to speak properly about it, but there was certainly inspiration all around us :-)
Tips to generate a huge amount of traffic to your blog – don’t take photos of artwork, instead, find the nearest celebrity and have your photo taken with them. People seem much more interested in celebrities than art. I know this because images of Magne’s AMAZING prints receive far less hits than pictures of the man himself or pictures of Guy Berryman. Guy was very keen to tell me that he and Magne are best buddies, so I don’t think it would be terrible of me to illustrate him as in the Take On Me video now, would it? When Paul Stolper finally invites me to exhibit my work at his gallery, then Guy can buy it, and then I won’t feel like Vincent Van Gogh any more!! Hoorah!
