Our meeting at Aid and Abet was a focused and productive hour, partly benefitting from having the train journey to chew the cud on ideas. Being a show about creative spaces and exchanging them, we’re hopeful that our chosen artist space will take up the first stage of our idea. Satellite’s creative space can be considered the whole, big-sky, vast-feeling East Anglian region, given the geographical spread of Satelliters and the requirement to travel distances within the region to meet, or see ‘art’ (or Art) in its many forms.
We’re excited about the space within our idea for the unexpected, the challenging and the unknown to emerge, as we will have no idea where within the region it may take us, or what physical objects may end up in the gallery space. Perhaps it will be only teeny-tiny things requiring much focus by the viewer, or a couple of large and awkward objects with a somewhat nasty smell. Working with the unknown within the prescribed, but wide, boundaries (and budget) we have set will hopefully encourage playful creativity, improvisation and a dose of adrenalin as we panic.
On the train back to Norwich we finalised the ‘Opt-In’ part of the project that will give the whole group a chance to sell prints within the commercial wing of Aid & Abet, curated by the gallery. The deadline is very tight on this project, with 22nd September the final deadline that any print editions must be ready. There is a heck of a lot to do before then.
Back to Aylsham in the afternoon for a meeting about a new Project Space, this time a physical space rather than Satellite’s virtual and geographical cultural landscape.
Dominique Rey
