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The current header image for the blog is a detail of a piece called ‘Slaked down casts’ by Neil Brownsword.
Oronsay - stone drawing by Sue Lawty
Thank you to Paul Harper for his new posting.
Since I last wrote I have been to Munich ’slowly’ by train, it was a lovely way to be able to take things in and also took much of the stress out of getting to airports and waiting for planes. That’s not to say that we weren’t waiting for trains, but it felt easier and it’s a great feeling arriving in the heart of a city, rather than on the edge.
I am very pleased to confirm that we have two more exhibitors agreed for the exhibition: Shane Waltener and Esther Knobel.
I have posted an image of the piece ‘Oronsay’ by Sue Lawty above and hope to start to show more imagery of work by artists/makers to be included in the exhibition as we go along and more information about their work and the commissions that they will produce for ‘taking time’.
Finally look out for more information about our next event that will take place on 27th April at the Southbank Centre…you will find more info at the ‘Out in the Open’ page. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s been a while since my last posting but we have been busy here working on the project.
Our selection panel met in late January, it comprised of Professor Lesley Millar, University for the Creative Arts Farnham, Judith Robinson, Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery, Dr Elizabeth Goring, IC: Innovative Craft, jeweller and academic Laura Potter and myself and Andy Horn. After a very interesting day of discussions we selected the following artists, their participation has now been confirmed: Gary Breeze, Neil Brownsword, Sonya Clark, Rebecca Earley, David Gates, Matthew Harris, Amy Houghton, Sue Lawty, Paul Scott, Elizabetth Turrell, Judith van den Boom, Gunter Wehmeyer and Heidrun Schimmel. There are three or four more artists yet to be confirmed and we will keep you updated as this progresses. We are now discussing commissions and work to be included in the exhibition and I will be able to let you now more about this as we proceed.
It has been an interesting and busy couple of months for me. There has been much to think about with the exhibition: as a practitioner it is sometimes hard to juggle the demands of running a studio and making, teaching, researching and curating such a large scale project and so you will forgive me if at points the blog has to take a little bit of a back seat in affairs. However the project is constantly at the forefront of my thoughts and on that note I have been to several interesting talks recently all of which I hope contribute to my thinking on the project.
One of the most interesting took place last week in London and was a conversation between Eva Hoffman and Richard Sennett and chaired by Jonathan Heawood. The conversation encompassed ideas of craft, making, composition, subjectivity in the creative process, excellence and a culture in this country that is obsessed with outcome and reluctant to embrace the value of process the making of mistakes. Sennett described the ‘What’s it for?’ culture that we live in as having ‘strangled a generation of creativity’.
Hoffmann and Sennett also spoke about the necessity of ‘slowness’ in a world where ‘we want things to happen fast’ but where ‘both the making and reception of art takes a certain slowing down’. The conversation moved on to notions of ‘time’ and ideas of ‘organisation of time’, and how ‘music is time fuelled’, all things that resonate and some of which I hope we will bring to you through the development of this exhibition.
Before I go I would like to thank everyone who put forward proposals for the exhibition and for all the time spent in considering ideas and thoughts. I hope that you will continue to follow the project with interest and to participate with your thoughts through the blog.
Helen
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