The question of space to exhibit our work seems to have reared its head again over the last few days.
I’ve just read over Carol Ramsey’s blog about her residency at the Butterfly Park in New Ferry and was horrified to find out that it had been vandalised. It is such an awful thing to find that there are people out there with total disregard to someone else’s work.
The butterfly park is an area similar in nature to Leasowe. Quite a few people have asked me whether ‘it is safe’ to even park their car near where I have my residency at the Millennium centre. It is after all, set in a less salubrious housing estate. To describe where to find it, I’ve often referred to a pub just a few doors down, but I never knew the name of it because most of the letters are missing from its sign. For some reason – this puts people off visiting. This is a shame, as everyone I have encountered there so far, have been an absolute delight. As I’m sure are the residents close to the park in New Ferry.
So – should we only be looking for ‘quality exhibition opps’ as someone stated in a recent posting? I personally don’t think so. Paying for exhibition space is not a guarentee that the work will not be damaged.
Nor does it mean that the work will be viewed by more people.
