The boys’ school has changed to an academy, so I’ve had to buy brand new uniform for both of them.
The kids are back at school, and aside from having caught a hideous cold at Grimsthorpe Festival over the Bank Holiday, I’m now getting on with work again. I applied for a couple of events over the months since my exhibition, neither of which were successful, although they have been successful in a way….. I have some very high profile artists that have agreed to come to Lincoln to collaborate with the LAN for the Digital Arts Festival. One of the organisers was quite excited by my proposal, but then told me that “all the artists have been chosen”.
So whilst instead this will now be very exciting for 2013, I’m left back at square one. The Digital Arts Festival will take place in October, and I will keep away from it, because I don’t need people rubbing my face in the fact that I wasn’t as successful as I’d have hoped.
I’ve been in the studio working on new work for “Fictions” exhibition next week at gallery at St. Martin’s. I’ve had a lot of interest from Lincoln based artists for this group show. But more recently I’ve lost motivation again, and ask myself why I don’t seem to get the support I need to get projects going, and why I seem to end up taking on too much for little reward.
I went to London to visit the Serpentine gallery for a research trip, and to attend a private view that ending up costing me far more than I’d like.
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In other news, in my home town there’s an old Victorian hospital standing empty and abandoned, looking like something out of Edward Scissorhands. The hospital is where I was born and where my eldest son was born before a brand shiny new building was built just outside the town centre.
The old hospital was bequeathed to the town back in the days of philanthropy, but I can guess what will happen to it. Faceless developers will claim ownership of it and turn it into housing.
So I wrote to the local newspaper asking for information, and proposing that it would be a good opportunity to develop a body of artwork for an exhibition in the town. They printed this in the letters section, and I’m getting emails from local artists interested in the idea, offering support. So this will be another project I hope will develop into something.
