A few days ago I took my non art chum, Mel, (Newcastle born and not behind in vocalising her opinions) to the Southampton/Winchester degree show. Mel had never set foot in an art college let alone a degree show so her views were untainted in any way which made her an ideal companion, so it turned out.
Unfortunately, I hadn’t the forethought to document names otherwise I could have contributed to reviews unedited. Overall though, the work was up to the usual standard, a little predictable but with one or two flashes of potential. A film of a woman with a cardboard house on her head absorbed us more than most. The little house appeared forelorn and Mel and I stood transfixed at it’s sorrowful meanderings, watching in silence and spending much, much more time there than at most other work.
All in all though, Mel summed it up as predominently ‘a lot of scatterings’ which was true, and as a bit of a fan of the ‘scattering’ approach, I was happy enough.
Hopefully I will have something concrete to work on soon, my Geneva connection is postponed due lack of money and the curator now focused on starting a family. I have continued pushing doors however, mostly to generate some activity in this barren part of the country and with two if not three meetings set up with potential collaborators, hopefully we will get something off the ground.
Fingers crossed.
Oh and Axis had my work as the front page image for a good few days which was nice, it has now been replaced by an angry woman, dressed in scarlet and squatting in an oversized birds nest – which I have to say, perusing her other work, I’m quite fond of.
