I keep leaving it too long between posts, it has been 19 days since my last confession. I am going to have to force myself to get back into the habit.There has been so much I could have written about and I have no excuses for my extreme laziness. In the interests of brevity I'm going for a sort of list approach in roughly chronological order.
1. Went to London to see a show at Rokeby really liked it and started to write something to send to Josie for "Hit and Miss" the deadline is looming and I'm getting a bit depressed with the half finished jumble of words I have on my desktop.
2. The same day one of our students died of a brain haemorrhage, he was a lovely lad (they always are). Very tall too.
3. Met up with Eva at BCA to drop off the last bits (honestly) for "Goodbye to most of the daydreams" picked up the invite cards and discussed a few bits and bobs.
4. Stayed on to see Jane Edden's talk at the gallery. She was really good and her Icarus film was beautiful (I've just realised I was supposed to email her).
5. Recieved a rejection from the Daiwa Foundation and was asked to show work in France in Kerry Baldry's One Minute Volume 3 and James Hutchinson (via Axis) invited me to be in a show of video and performances in Manchester and Switzerland. Apparently Laurence and Paulette at International 3 had recommended one of my films to him, so that pack I sent off 2 years ago must have worked. I also got some work into UAMO in Munich (AN opportunity) but had to go through the humiliation of calling Johannes and asking him what I had submitted.
6. Had a show in a local gallery with a friend. Lots of people came and made lovely comments. But I wish I hadn't bottled out and spent a fortune on framing as I didn't sell anything. Still Hayley Lock asked me if I would do a swap and I love her stuff so that's not a total dead loss.
7. We invited Jock Mooney to come and talk to our students today, he did a good shouty presentation which we thoroughly enjoyed. Afterward he said he'd seen my work at Vane, it turned out it wasn't the Protest Films which were in a little show there but rather compilation they were looking at in the office. He didn't get into the Daiwa foundation thing either so he, me and Hayley are planning a drunken sneerfest at the opening of the London show.
8. Josie sent me an invite to a show at space wwhich read "which I hope that you will come to see and review for a-n if you so wish." note the scary bold, I'd better do it.
