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No idea where the time has gone to….I do seem to be arted out after the solo show….my inclination is to just do something else; so at the moment I am just doing that. Lots of reading and going to PV’s and events, meeting and greeting, and enjoying. No making.

I think we all go here at some point. The secret seems to be not to panic but to keep doing something. I have a group show in Hastings coming up in September called Telling Stories:Hastings. This seems now to have linked to another in Margate which is great. So – two shows in September.

The current plan is to exhibit the QCodes that each TS artist presently has up around Hastings and with them any relevant work/research that went into the work on show in Hastings.

I have also had a joint proposal accepted for the end of next year. We are to work with objects originally from a famous stately home that are now in a museum – and then exhibit the work in the Orangery at the end of next year.

Nothing hugely grand or good for the CV but solid and steady and interesting to me….

So – nice to feel something is there to ground me even if it is on the far horizon.

Maybe I will finally take time out to make a new website, organise my images, update my statement, write proposals and learn new skills like Vimeo and Mail Chimp that I am sadly lacking….

Today was just fun. Went to Whitstable to catch the last few days of Jeremy Dellar’s inflatable Stonehenge ……..just brilliant. Pure unadulterated fun.

The piece is titled ‘Sacriledge’. Being among the life sized stones took me back to the days when you could wander lonley as a cloud among the stones…I remember clearly sitting with a boyfriend into the dusk. no one else much about. Sacriledge indeed that now there is rope and barbed wire and a road and no access. Enough to make you convert; to become a Druid.


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Up to London today to the OPEN at Bankside gallery. Our lovely friend Dawn Cole had one of her beautiful pieces in the show so a printer friend and I made a day of it.

Not over enthused…Dawn’s piece looked wonderful, but the show seemed all rather safe and sound to me but then I am not a printer – so although the technicals are on the radar for me I am no expert.

Personally I find the work in Margate’s Pushing Print more my thing. Conceptual and exciting. Gets better each year.

Did get to the Tate Turbine Hall where Tino Seghal has an installation of people performing in the space. Interesting choreography from above – could be overwhelming if below – I watched one family with a pushchair enveloped as they walked…..

Also took time out to look at the Tate’s new Tank performance spaces. All had to be entered through a pitch black corridor – not my forte, so I only ventured into one. They do feel as if they will become a very original and much loved London space.

Loads happening on the South Bank – including a green colander installation outside the Hayward Gallery [Korean artist Choi Jeong Hwa] and a baobab sculpture lurking down a side road.

Got home and looked on Google to find I had missed a whole mass of work. All part of the Southbank Centre’s Festival of the World.

Was however very tempted by the multi coloured sand pit.

Some great Olympic graffiti around.


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Hello blog!

Been a while.

The solo show feels a long time ago – except for my work being in all the wrong places and detrtus all over the house and studio. Some great feedback but no work directly so far.

Am in the process of writing a proposal for a great local gallery within a museum. Have wanted to work there for a while. Recently they have tightened up their criteria in line with the new Arts Council Funding interest in museums. When I first saw it I was disappointed that I hadn’t applied before, but I now think it actually helps having tighter boundaries.

I have developed a fascination with Princess Ennigaldi who fashioned the worlds first known museum in the kingdom of Ur around 530 BC. Her museum labels were cylindrical seals……..brilliant. I feel there is something there that will simmer for a while….

Since the last blog:

My QCode is up on the Hastings seafront as part of the ‘Telling Stories: Hastings’ guerilla art project to advertise the show. Need to find time to go and see it now….http://tellingstories.info/home/telling-stories-off-the-wall

I got the TS catalogue proof through. Its the first time I have been in a quality catalogue. Looks amazing.

Ros and I have been invited to a very grown up reception on the back of the Hobby Horse Project and the fact we run Sevenoaks Art Forum unpaid.I will report back.

Looking forward to going to Whitstable for a celebration of the Kent Cultural Baton project. Will be a chance to meet all the other artists and see the final map with our project on it.

Have just come back from Fowell Hall Features V. An artists residency run by Accident and Emergence in a beautiful Kent orchard. My fourth time. Still floating… such a great weekend. Poets, writers, performance, artists…workshops, crits and connections. Nowhere like it.

http://www.accidentandemergence.com/

Sevenoaks Art Forum has been asked to host an Arts Council funded talk by Jon Adams- lead artist for Accentuate – fascinating work. So good to see something you started because there was nothing locally growing up and being appreciated.

so – all good. Need to sort out my website next.

PS Go to soundcloud and search out the poetry of Indigo Williams. We met at Fowell Hall. What a talent.


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Blimey!

I will have to look at my Life /work balance. I am shattered. Bonkers.

Latest thing was the last invited outing for the Farningham Hobby Horse Project. Ros and I took them down to Margate to join in the celebrations for the Lone Twin Boat Project. The boat was out of the water up on the Harbour Arm.

We were a long way away – on the beach. Not much in the way of an audience- put off by the soggy weather I suspect. Still we had a good time until the wind got up and the stands kept going over.

Eventually we cut our losses, packed up and made for the party!

Having taken photos of ourselves with the FHHP wooden horse donation on the starboard side of the boat we then wrote a goodwill message for their bottle.

Then off to greet Nicole Mollet in her silver Kent Cultural Baton airstream caravan. It hardly seemed credible that we started the FHHP 18months ago with the caravan in attandance. Lovely to get a sneak preview of the Kent map that will be the final legacy of the Kent Cultural Baton Project and chat and catch up.

Feeling the need to mark the occasion Ros and I then visited Kim Conway’s seaside photographer’s portrait gallery. We came out with the perfect daft celebratory photo.

Great fun and a terrific shared memento of a fun day and a wonderful and very special project.


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Well, that was a short space of R& R….!

What is it with us artists? There is a new plot afoot to put together a proposal between four artists who work to [as one artist succinctly put it] create beautiful, delicate, considered work based on and around the death of birds, insects, flowers and humanity.

This morning we struggled with the words to take this idea and progress it to a point where we could articulate the concept of how we all use this to remake that death into future potential within our work.

So now that is all I can think of. Took what? Two days? Amazing. We just can’t not do it can we…….its in the artist DNA; and now I am happy. New work to come and a new slant to it and new possibilities…..

This afternoon I took a good friend round the show. One on one…an individual tour..I’ve never done that before. She is not an artist and we had an enjoyable time and she went away knowing where I was coming from. Now I wish I had used the opportunity to ask her many more open questions about how she – as a non artist-read my work.

Perhaps we should offer artist tours for that reason…listen and learn.

Next time…


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