I saw a lot of doublets in spain, matching children mainly and thought that it was an extremely odd concept to want to attempt to replicate your second child with your first. Babies travelled in post war prams decorated with voluminous bows in either pink or blue, all wearing cotton bonnets. Older children were seen wearing matching outfits with boys in coordinating cotton pale toned shorts with attached braces and girls with flounced skirts and matching hair bows.
I have decided to work on a new series of works titled ‘We’ for the show in Nottingham concerning this theme of doublets.
Almost a month has gone by since my last update, but other than a week in Bilbao, Spain, I have had my head down working.
I have been fortunate enough to be selected for Exeter Contemporary Open, have a show in Berlin, (Small Moments of Fantastic Things at Galerie Antje Wachs, Berlin) curated by Catherine Hemelryk, SALE in on tour in Liverpool where small works are available for sale, I have work selected for Salon09, Vyner Street, London and I have a show with Tracey Eastham at HMS Nottingham in October. My work for g39 is coming along nicely and I have proposed trip to Venice coming soon for research based work.
My ideas are to be developed into short films with the fantastic photographer and film maker Tobias Feltus and others and I am coordinating a collage show titled Post at Trove in Birmingham for January as well as planning an extremely exciting larger project in the near future with a group of artists that were also selected for the Escalator Arts Programme at Wysing.
This has to be the busiest summer for me to date, and despite having to force myself to be really organised, things are going well and falling into some kind of order.
