I went to Nottingham over a week ago to speak to someone from the Arts Council about making a grant application for my current project, The Outer Trial Bank. Rather ironic that the discussion of how the arts council need to ensure that any money invested offers good value, when The Outer Trial Bank itself was a government funded experiment in water resources that cost £3million, and is now a nesting site for sea birds. An expensive nest!
I was mainly wished luck with the application. It’s like playing the lottery, and I’m not a fan of the lottery.
I went to Page45 to pick up a graphic novel that provided research for my current work. I’ve been much happier working on that, because I know it’ll be successful commercially.
I had hope to have an ACE grant application finished and submitted by the end of June. But this meeting was later than expected, but I have now completed it and submitted it. I can now look forward to 6 weeks of “shirking”, which is what the government refer to waiting for the outcome of ACE funding whilst having 2 teenagers off school.
