Take one letter

T

for Time, lack of, due to day job or other reasons

Exhibition

In a really interesting essay, Anna C. Cline states that “Exhibitions are essentially spaces of experience.”

http://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcont…

They are also a space for experimenting, a way to connect with the audience, a validation of what you live and work for. There is also a social aspect to the exhibition quite separate from the conviviality of the private view which is about working with others, be that fellow artists, the curator, technicians…

For me, pieces in the studio are transformed into works through the process of being exhibited. And what could be more exciting than being invited to show?

I am thrilled by Jayne Lloyd’s invitation to take part in an exhibition early next year in Manchester, which “will include works that are influenced by the actions, traces and aesthetics of handwriting or its ephemera – the lines and grids that guide it. All the invited artists are native English speakers but all to differing extents have taken influences from Chnese script.”

Walking is something I now enjoy, dodgy knees and hips permitting as my walks are generally short, done at at my own pace and with the dog for company.

There have been times, including earlier this year, when I have hardly been able to walk and times when going for a walk seemed more like a forced march, at the end of which I would be in such pain that the only way to finish the last few yards would be to count my paces in lots of 20.

Walking now is an action which by its very repetitious nature – putting one foot in front of the other – allows my mind to wander and in doing so, structure funding bids, draft emails, prepare something to eat, perform all day-to-day tasks … think about my work, think about work I’ve seen, think about new work, make connections.