It has slowly been filtering into my mind that I should be more disciplined in my approach to life and in particular my art practice. Making decisions driven by research interests and artistic integrity seem so difficult to make sometimes when the nagging voice reminds me that I need to do a shop at Sainsbury's or the builders need paying.
For the past few years, in effect I have combined several practices – a community one, a visual arts and performance practice and a teaching role. Of course portfolio careers are the norm for a large majority of artists but there are times when a purity of direction is longed for. Even when it is in ones own hands to direct things in that way it seems interminably hard to actually DO IT.
Enough of my ranting… heard Rosie on the radio today – Galway FM taking about the Redhouse show – it was good and it seems the exhibition continues to draw in a good number of visitors.
I am concerned right now about getting ready for a show in Norwich that opens on Monday 16th Feb. It is called Triptych and is a project initiated and maintained by several HE's – Norwich University College of the Arts, Dublin University, Loughborough and more. The show is based around drawing and will include a seminar on the Thursday (19th) with several of the artists in the show speaking about their work and research. I will be speaking with the theorist Anna Green and we will discuss and converse around my drawings and her reading of them within a framework of theorists such as Freud, de Certau and others.
I am mildly apprehensive and wish I were better read.
