Absolutely knackered, life still in boxes blog:
Firstly, thanks so much for all the recent kind comments – these have cheered me up immensly and make me want to continue blogging.
Secondly, I didn’t put the link to the the conference if anyone else fancies watching it. Still haven’t watched anymore yet.
http://www.thersa.org/events/state-of-the-arts-con…
I am in week two of four straight weeks in schools in Yorkshire and am pretty shattered after not being able to sleep last night. I have to get up at 5am on Mondays to drive over (I stay with a friend’s parents in the week) and today I only just made it up the motorway with my eyes open.
Moving house the weekend before last was so much worse than I anticipated. I would really like to be at the new place unpacking, but I can only do bits at the weekends. I will be spending my evenings writing and also laying out the books for the end of the YSP project so at least I am doing some useful things. This week also involves some book finishing off as it is the Lancashire artists’ book and zine fair on Friday and Saturday.
Lastly, Susan Jones posted this on twitter earlier from the Guardian. Talk about badly researched, over generalising, romantic artist stereotyping. Pah, in my opinion, this article just sets artists back in public perception to starving in an attic or being eternal students.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/jan/24/arti…
I am also keen to know which visual artists out there earn £521 per week? That’s the average apparently. I like the way they also mention sales from the affordable art fair and say some of that may go to galleries – try around 50% usually. Do more research next time please.
