I’d prepared a PowerPoint presentation before I left the UK, but it was mainly about the Tate (as requested) and how the group started up etc.
I wasn’t really expecting to talk too much about the work I had brought with me, as I could do that in the gallery space.
A quick change of plan though, meant that I spent the afternoon trying to add a few images from my web page to the PowerPoint, while not only struggling with the Norwegian keyboard – but also with an apple Mac that I’d never used before either.
After explaining our association with Tate and how we work as a group, I started on how I had got to my present work, using images from a recent children’s workshop I’d run to explain the process.
This lead to a show of hands. Why did I do workshops? Why are they for children? Why do I work in an office? Why aren’t I just an artist?
