Emily Speed kicked off a very lovely round up of personal achievements of the year gone by a few years ago on a-n and a few of us followed suit. One can find it hard to talk about achievements but it seems a good time to take stock of all the good things and enter in the New Year feeling like you got the Boudicca back and remembering this stuff when the going gets tough ( which inevitably it does at times!).
Overall in 2011 there was great joy of learning all the time through the various avenues of art that I work in. Rock on 2012 and Happy New Year to you all.
Pros
My Art
10 wonderful exhibitions in 2011, including Deliverance at CoExist, The Charlie Dutton Crash Open Salon and Twisted at Phoenix Brighton. Proud to be part of.
http://www.coexist.org.uk/deliverance.html
Being a Selected artist on Rise Art and creating a special edition print http://www.riseart.com/user/rosalinddavis
Writing articles for a-n and artlicks about the value of the Arts and artists.
Taking part in the thrilling live debate on the Guardian careers blog on being a professional artists
http://careers.guardian.co.uk/careers-blog/profess…
Being part of the inspiring invigorating AIR council (www.a-n.co.uk/AIR) & making waves for empowering artists: representing AIR at several talks and conferences- debates on art education and the value of the arts. In addition Rachel Wilberforce, Jack Hutchinson and I have been developing a partnership with FUELRCA which will enable AIR members to benefit from the fantastic FuelRCA APD talks. Lucky AIR Members.
As part of AIR Jack and I also organised the first AIR Insight talks at Nottingham Surface gallery with Helen Jones. See the Youtube clip here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av3w0PMBGz8&feature…
DIY Educate
An amazing Show&Tell 2011 APD programme created with the wonderful Annabel Tilley with support from Elizabeth Murton with incredible artists speaking at our events: Phoebe Unwin, Freddie Robins, Delaine Le Bas amongst others. A radically accessible, dynamic art education alternative. http://coregallery.co.uk/feedback/
Core Gallery
www.coregallery.co.uk
2011 saw me programming 11 exhibitions with a wonderful revisit from Andrew Bryant and Nick Kaplony curating shows amongst others. We also had 3 open studios.
Curating Home with Annabel Tilley.‘ a beautiful, coherent, at times funny, often challenging show and a lot of what I’ve seen is still on my mind. Beautiful, emotional, haunting, and beautiful again’
http://coregallery.co.uk/current-exhibition/
Curating Extra-Ordinary with Jane Boyer , Marion Michell, Tom Butler and Alyson Helyer which was reviewed in White Hot Magazine
‘ well executed and thoughtful. Monstrosities Core Gallery would make an excellent starting point for just such an arty expedition in South London – especially if exhibitions of Extra-Ordinary calibre prove to be the norm’ http://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/may-2011-extraordinary-core-gallery/2281
The Core Gallery Open again curated with the clever Jane Boyer was also delight, in particular developing so many new relationships with artists, including the rather wonderful Annabel Dover, EJ Major, Clare Mitten and Iain Andrews amngst others. A wonderful group of artists. See the catalogue with essays and contributions. http://coregallery.co.uk/2011-archive/
There was also the delights of contributing to curating The Salon Photo and Video Prize externally with Matt Roberts.
Other bits and bobs:
The ALISN conference for emerging arts organisations: inspiring as is the concept of the Sluice art fair.
Market Projects projects! Fascinating research into the value and economics of the arts
http://www.marketproject.org.uk/
The Future:
2012 kicks off with an exciting exhibition at the East Wing X Courtauld Exhibition 2012-2013, Material Matters: 55 artists including Me, Rachel Whiteread, Paula Rego, Damien Hirst andTom Hunter.
http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/east_wing/
After the demise of Core Gallery evolving with talented Annabel Tilley to create future independent arts led organisation ZeitgeistArtProjects in New Cross and getting funding to run significant and dynamic DIY EDUCATE APD events in 2012 under ZAP,with seminars in partnership with Goldsmiths, officially launching in Spring. www.diyeducate.blogspot.com
