Someone’s given me another plate to spin. My work has been accepted for this year’s Junction Festival of Contemporary Art in Chapel Ash, Wolverhampton. I’m chuffed to bits. I have a fondness for this festival which started last year, and for which I did a one-day residency with Elena Cassidy-Smith. The reason for my fondness is directly connected with my thoughts about my work. This community of artists is connecting in a very real way with the wider community, providing links and a sense of helping each other. It is a strange, strung out area on the edge of Wolverhampton city centre, bisected by a tremendously busy 4-lanes of traffic, and roads leading in all directions (hence the name). I don’t yet know where my work will be placed, but to establish a new relationship with these businesses and people is a real pleasure. More people could and should do this sort of thing, get to know each other, have a drink, a laugh, support each other, get to know each other’s children, keep each other out of harm’s way and out of trouble.
http://junctionwolverhampton.org/
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I have decided that the advice to have a separate blog for the shed is a good idea. That way, I can point people in the direction of that blog so they can just see the shed stuff and not have to get entangled with the rest of my life and sift through the twaddle that goes on here. “Shedding” will be shed-related twaddle only! Over the last few days I’ve written some entries, just to see how it reads and if it’ll work. So I shall hop over there after doing this post and publish it. There’ll be about 5 posts to start off with, but then as things happen to the shed I’ll post them there instead of here.