The exhibition in Manchester is very real now; thank you, thank you Jayne Lloyd, for setting up the website for W0budong. I am really looking forward to conversations about the project in the discussion section of the site and to meeting everyone in the real world. I feel honoured to be taking part; I only started back into serious practice and intentions about two years ago and although I constantly veer between elation, dogged determination to keep to my path of serious fine artist and complete self doubt, it is the opportunities that arise such as this show that bolsters my courage!
I have been reading information about the other artists with interest and just know that the experience of exhibiting and interacting with them is going to stimulate more responses through my own practice.
The title of the exhibition is a phonetic translation of “I don’t understand” in Mandarin. All the artists have some connection with calligraphy that has no meaning, or asemic text. Over the next few months the web site will host a discussion between we artists and any one who wishes to join in and will culminate in the exhibition. The whole project is a result of twelve months of study by Jayne that included a residency in Chongqing at the 501 Arts Space.
For information about the exhibition follow this link:
http://w0budong.wordpress.com/
The artists:
http://wynnepatondotcom.wordpress.com/
