Here I have loaded up the remaining pieces of work.
The new envelopes have been posted and the participants paired up to go on working in twos until the exhibition in February.
There is something very satisfying about cutting or tearing up old work. One idea I was working on was pinned up for weeks waiting for inspiration on how to take it forward. The inspiration never came. In destroying it – I am free of it and one of the random pieces has already led to new work. The moral here is obvious …
I should have torn it up sooner.
Angela & I had a long conversation yesterday about the project. Now we have an exhibition in sight we need to structure the final stage. We discussed what had come out of it so far and what had changed now that there were more artists involved.
First it made more work.
Second neither of us had been able to give the attention to it we felt it needed.
Third – one participant returned the last envelope unopened as it didn’t spark any inspiration.
So in all it seemed to have lost some of the momentum we had at the beginning when it was just the two of us.Our resolution now is to pair up the participants and see what results. We will ask them to each make two more collages before Christmas & then we will put together the exhibition.
As I post more of the latest work I am reflecting on where next & a new exhibition. It seems to be arranging itself. A new Gallery organied by ‘VAN’ Shropshire & Telford Visual Art Network (A Charity) is now open. It is in a corner of the Market Hall in Shrewsbury and will primarily showcase work by Shropshire artists.
The Gallery is run by artists & those interested in the visual arts. All of them are volunteers. We have been invited to put up the 2011 Art Allotments show there in the new year and run workshops in the adjoining space.
At the same time this projct feels as though either the exhibition will mark the end or, if it continues, it is time for a new approach. So in the next few days we will consider what that is likely to be.
