When fragments come together & become inspirational, ideas grow & new work is made. There are, however, definitely time, space and attitude weeds that get in the way and obscure the view and access to getting on with making.
Now the exhibition is up I notice maps and figures and a lightness of touch. There are themes but no big statements, a series of sight bites.
So far the exhibition is an airing of the collages over the past year presented on walls. It is still growing after the 50 plus people made small collages out of the seed packets. Some even came later by email – from visitors who took envelopes home with them. It has proved very popular and the good feedback continues. Over 30 children and parents added to this yesterday.
The plug on Radio Shropshire website and John Davall¹s programme helped – A big ‘Thank you’ to Genevieve Tudor who came to the launch & spread the word.
It is our turn now to review our work and decide what next. The work has fed into my work. My decision so far is to concentrate on making more landscape based mixed media work.
Back to the image of growing – growing new ideas from new collage materials. We have decided we must start anew as the old stuff is pretty well composted.
Angela
