I've had some work selected for TULCA, a city wide festival in Galway Ireland. Last week we (my husband Paul and I) had fun packaging up four neon pieces and transporting them gingerly to Art Moves in London where after unloading them, our car promptly broke down. A few hours later and thanks to an efficient AA man we managed to get going again with the advice not to stop the engine until we reached home and call out our local garage the next day.
The neon will be shown in a large open building (1 – 5 Merchants Road). I have seen photos and it seems to have some interesting architectural features, wide stairs, large windows, alcoves. It will be interesting to see how the work is hung. The festival theme "If we accept that we are strangers to ourselves then there are no strangers, only others like ourselves" by Julia Kristeva is a fascinating choice for a show of international and national work and I am keen to see how the many artists have responded to it when I go over for the opening on 9th November.
Tomorrow I will go to take down the drawings in the Saffron Walden show. The exhibition period has gone quickly. Looking forward to seeing the work again having had some distance on it.
