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Untitled blog post from "Derby Big Draw"
I keep saying “This is my fantasy…..” and then I launch into how I imagined the festival to look when it was first talked about. And then I exhale and sit back and say what the reality might be – […]
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Untitled blog post from "Contemporary Beardism"
To read this blog is like getting backstage access to a Paul Daniel's show. I am giving away all the secrets to the magic. Take note: 'Beardism', in its huge and monstrous form, is an alternative reality and exists only […]
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Untitled blog post from "Contemporary Beardism"
Contemporary Beardism is keeping me awake at 2am. Not out of worry or concern but just out of excitement. I am co ordinating the month long show at the Crompton Tavern in Derby and it is starting to occupy my […]
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Untitled blog post from "NO PARKING"
I'm writing this morning after a very busy opening last night. There is always a feeling of sadness after previews (admittedly it could be the hangover!) I feel bereft now the adrenalin of the past few weeks has ebbed away. […]
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Untitled blog post from "NO PARKING"
I am very tired. My work is being relegated. I had neglected to insure whilst organizing noparking that I manage time efficiently. I am notorious for it – will I ever learn!!!!!!!>>>>. I am still experimenting with stuff and the […]
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Untitled blog post from "NO PARKING"
There is one room in the shop that is niggling us. I couldn't sleep last night for ideas bursting into my head about how to tackle it, that and the conversations I'd had throughout the day kept me buzzing. I […]
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Untitled blog post from "NO PARKING"
Spent most of the day at 2 Cheapside clearing up a bit and trying to suss out the heating….no luck. Blue fingers. Think I am spoiled at Banks Mill (where my studio is) where the heating is great…. over the […]
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Untitled blog post from "NO PARKING"
Forgive me it has been almost 2 weeks since my last blog…… Took the family to Brighton for Easter to visit old friends. Putting some distance between me and Derby makes me realise how much work there is to do […]
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Untitled blog post from "NO PARKING"
Its Friday already. Meeting last night. We are a truly clever collective. Despite the wine and hilarities we get the jobs done – and no-one falls asleep during the grown up bits.Julie (West) has made a plan of the building […]
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Untitled blog post from "NO PARKING"
Not much has happened this week. We get the keys – fingers crossed – to number 2 cheapside next week. Meantime I have been having fun with the piece thats going in on the ground floor. I was getting cross […]
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Untitled blog post from "NO PARKING"
Having scoured Derby for the right building we have all fallen for the delightful number 2 Cheapside. It suits us perfectly. We are so enchanted with the space and all begin behaving like potential newly wed first time buyers from […]