Dialogue lastest news! Charlie Levine has accepted our invitation to review our exhibition in Bordeaux. Charlie curates TROVE among other projects and we are delighted to be working with her. That’s it for now.
Dialogue update! We met last Thursday at Peters Grego’s house for some lovely pasta followed by hours of logistical planning. We decided on how our catalogue for the exhibition will look – considering the font style, text size, colour for cover. Favouring a postcard format each of us will have our own postcard with image on one side and text in both English and French on the other.
As Joss is in Bordeaux we use Skype to involve her in our meetings. It has proved a very useful tool to include Joss on all the decisions we make on organising the exhibition. It is also fun -especially with a glass of wine to liven up proceedings. Joss was able to update how things are procedding in Bordeaux, and it looks as if the British Consulate will be at our opening on the 4th November.
We are currently trying to get a curator/writer to come over to write about our show and try to get it in the art press. It is important to us to raise our profile as a group and as individual artists. We hope to have someone shortly.
My own work is progressing nicely and have got the design of the banners worked out. Hopefully these will be ready for printing next Monday. I have also decided on a photo -book to present a personal diary of my visit to Bordeaux in September. That’s all for now -will be in touch again shortly. Tom
Just to let you know that the Dialogue exhibition is featured on the art chartons website. This can be accessed on www.arts-chartons.info. The information is in French. This is the 6th edition of the Art Chartrons Festival in Bordeaux. We have a meeting on Thursday night -so have a lot of logistical issues to sort out. Will update you on how we are progressing. Cheers Tom
Dialogue – is the second artist exhibition that I have been invited to take part in as part of the Art Chartron’s Festival in Bordeaux. This year Francis Viguera who is an artist in Bordeaux as well as the President of Art Chartons invited Joss Burke to select artists from Birmingham to exhibit in Halle de Chartons space. Joss originally from Britain and who lived and worked in Birmingham for many years now is based outside of Bordeaux in France. She continues to work on projects in Birmingham through out the year and so the connections are kept up.
Joss selected Graham Chorlton, Peter Grego, Myfanwy Johns and myself to join herself in showing at the Halle de Chartons. The aim is to build on the unique historic and cultural ties between Bordeaux and Britain. We were asked to make work in response to the French city and this we have done in our own unique ways. I will talk a bit more about the individual approaches with images for interest in later blogs. I will also give the Art Chartons website details.
We have had to consider the bi-lingual nature of the exhibition and all promotional material, catalogue and exhibition text has had to be translated in both French and English. We also hope to engage in some critical discussion with French artists based in the city.
We are also fortunate to have received funding from the ACE and the Art Chartrons Commitee to make this exhibition happen. In April 2011 we will exhibit some of this work at Oxford Brookes University. As a group we have had to have a number of meetings (and dinners!) to discuss logistics and numerous emails. This is the reality of a group enterprise of this nature.
I will update this blog after our meeting on Thursday to let you know how things are progressing.
Tom Ranahan is an artist who lives and works in Birmingham.
