University of the West of England

Tours of Room 1 of the Museum of Space Exploration’s 800^th anniversary exhibition of artefacts have been running – with appreciation of the performance art required to sustain suspension of disbelief.

One colleague has suggested that we might show together under the MOSE umbrella. Her work is an exhibition of the artefacts brought back from Vastus 26 – one of the planets designated as garbage dumps in 2200. Revisiting these planets has meant an abundance of recyclable material has been recovered.

Four more rooms are available for interested artists…you can contact MOSE via..

www.theowood.com





Phew…the final show is hung, there’s nothing more to do to it except wonder how much bigger and better it could be..

But The Museum of Space Exploration is now sailing away into the blogosphere and has its own dedicated blogspot..

www.museumofspaceexploration.com

with all the latest news and pictures.

A taster….

June 7

Curators, looking through the archives, came across a puzzling addition to the Nujema artefacts. Delicate burnt out pieces of material fused to a background could suggest purposeful rather than accidental burning. Further examination could lead to more clues as to how these artefacts came to be left on the planet.





Stella Pioneer report: starlog 23749. Pathfinder has reached Nujema in the Xillian galaxy.

Went to see Zhao Renhui (the Institute of Critical Zoologists) at Cardiff Chapter…amazing for its mix of fiction and fact and the quality of displays. It added another dimension to the concept of display with the use of diasec for some wall hung photos – they seem to float on the wall…but very expensive. Does this mean I am becoming obsessive about the display when I should be completing the work? The excessive rain has scotched plans for the field trip to Devon so progress on that front is very poor indeed.

I am beginning to think of returning to ‘the glass shelf’ for displaying the ceramics, while using the plinth for some of the fire pieces and some porcelain slip based works (still to be made).

This would mean that the space above the cubes could be dedicated to the documentary photos of the field trip – several of them – with MOSE catalogue entries/numbers (still to be done).



Spent yesterday afternoon painting my light box and plinths. Tried out putting foil round the interior of the light box which made it brighter but also discovered that there was an element of uplighting which will light the prints. However I’m not entirely happy with these and although I will continue work on them I am now thinking of also working on some more ceramic artefacts that could be wall hung…6 weeks to final deadline.