Delighted to report that this week I have embarked upon my REview bursary having the first meeting with the fabulous Freddie Robins.
One of the ‘challenges’ that I face with my work is that by it’s interactive nature, it is very hard to describe and acurately portray without experiencing it. I also have a LOT of it, spanning over a decade and it is LARGE. Additionally, most of which has been hiding in storage since creation.
Luckily Freddie had agreed to come to my studio to see it all.
It was only when I began to dig everything out and put it all together in one room that a lot of things made sense. And made sense in a way that you can’t really appreciate by looking at a website or a list of what you’ve done.
When talking about diverse bits of work from over such a long period of time it is very hard to know where to start. It was a very enlightening and revelationary day.
One of the reasons that I chose Freddie as an advisor was that I feel we have lots of similarities in approach – primarily, I love the humour within her work. Also, as an artist working in textiles in a sculptural way I knew that she would undestand what I was trying to do.
The main thing emerging from the day, in a nutshell is: LESS IS MORE.
I have been trying to conquer the world using too many methods, weapons and tactics. I’ve ended up tired and confused by it all. And have ended up stuck in a country I really didn’t intend to defeat at all. And as ever, I am speaking the WRONG language.
I have been frantically digging (unpaid of course) myself into a big hole of my own Sisyphusian making. I need to stop and look at the mound of earth around me.
Quite why I was doing this I will have to ponder in depth but without doing so I will get nowhere.
This revelation feels strangely and amazingly liberating.
With the risk of repeating myself when I first started blogging on this site – I need to formulate a PLAN; and this time it is going to be one I want to do.
