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I’ve been writing proposals to try and get on the road to putting on a solo exhibition. I’ve written an application for funding from the Immaterial Art Fund, a fund established in memory of Vickie Paniale to help promote the work of young artists who share her particular areas of interest. My work fits in with their requirements of being related to the theme of time and fits one of their required categories of media – installation works. They fund up to £1000 of work to include devlopment of new work and exhibiting of work.
Freezing by Yunju Hwang. Shown in Westbourne Grove Artspace.
In terms of where to exhibit I have put in an application to show at Westbourne Grove Church Artspace, a contemporary exhibition space in the heart of Notting Hill. The space looks fantastic and I think my work would sit really well in the meditative context of the building. They have told me their next review meeting to decide on the exhibitions for the later half of 2010 will be after Christmas so fingers crossed for then. Likewise The Immaterial Art Ffund say they hopefully let people know within three months.
Fingers also crossed for the 3 pieces that I took up to Poole yesterday. The three pieces I submitted to the Reopen exhibition all got through to second round of judging so yesterday I drove up with them and set them up for the viewing which I think is happening today. They said they will probably let us know tomorrow and then unselected work will have to be collected Monday. I really hope I’m not making a trip back to collect all three – even though they do good cake at the Lighthouse.
Scrimshaw, Drawing on Lace Handkerchief, 2009 by Vered Lahav
Tomorrow I’m going back to the West Midlands for a few days to catch up with my parents and friends. While there I’m going to the private view of Vered Lahav’s work Sleepless at Wolverhampton Gallery which looks amazing! Her work is right up my street. On the Thursday I’m planning on going to Solihull to see Kirsty E Smith’s show Close Encounters Of A Frillip Moolog Kind. I’ve got to know her a little over the internet after admiring her creations – check them out they are fab!
Tall Legs by Kirsty E. Smith
Matt Forster
Found out just yesterday that The Artworks Gallery in Newcastle, which was exhibiting work by myself and my friends Anna, Dean, & Sharon, has been closed down and all artworks have been seized by bailiffs and taken to an auction house! Matt Forster who ran the gallery, and used it to exhibit his own work, failed to pay the rent to the council and they finally sent in Bailiffs to seize assets, including exhibiting artists work, to be auctioned next week to cover Mr Forsters debts. Some artists were informed about this situation but my friends and I weren’t so just found out about this by chance. Apparently Matt Forsters work was rescued before the bailiffs came in and he has set up a new limited company “MJ Forster Gallery Limited”, just 10 days before locking the doors on the artworks premises.
link to article about Mr Forster and the gallery
Other bad news this week – just found out today that I didn’t get accepted into Artsway Open. On the back of failing to get into Emergency 09 at Aspex I’m really gutted. I know logically that both had over 600 submissions and only a few places to give out but as I submitted my best work to both its hard not to be demoralised. It can be a bit of an emotional rollercoaster this art world thing.
Finally, I had booked in and been really looking forward to a trip to London this weekend to check out Zoo art fair but the weeks of illnesses seem to be rolling on in our house and looks like I’ll still be too unwell to go.
I’m eating marshmallows and chocolate orange to ease the pain of it all.
Picture sent to the Anonymous Drawings event – Kunstraum Kreuzberg/ Bethanien, Berlin.
Heaven & Earth, 2009. Indian ink and found photographs on vintage paper
“a selection of drawings by international artists will be presented anonymously at Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien. The artist’s anonymity can be lifted by means of purchasing a drawing for the symbolic unit sales price of 150 EUR. The buyer can take his drawing right off the wall and s/he is then told the name of its author. The empty space the drawing leaves behind will be marked with the artist‘s full name and country of origin.The given unit sales price should not be seen as a real market price, but as a place holder for any conceivable amount of money”
Dean Melbourne has just completed another painting for our Ebony Tower collaborative venture. A fantastic 6ft painting full of energy that references the emotion of the characters and the sense of elevated existence and immediacy that they are all living in whilst at Coet that seems so removed from the outside “real” world.
The Mouse and The Old Faun, Dean Melbourne
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