Although you might not believe it from the gap since the last posting, the project continues. Some of us have sent work off to Veronica in South Australia for the Celtic Roots exhibition in Port Adelaide. This seems to be a "dispersed gallery" show, a bit like the Ruthin Focal a couple of years back, involving hotels, pubs & shops to show work in informal settings.
I had an awayday in London at half term (travelled by train – just a touch crowded – had to sit on the floor) to meet Deirdre, my working "twin", at the British Museum. We went mainly to look at the Mold Cape, having been impressed with the wonderful Celtic artefacts at the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin. The Mold Cape was discovered in the mid 1800s near Mold (there's a surprise…) which is near Wrexham, which is where the Regional Print Centre is… The "cape" is a wearable thingy, covering shoulders and upper arms, and beaten from a single sheet of gold: it's difficult to imagine a culture where something of this value could be buried with its' wearer. It raises all sorts of issues about "value" and ideas of status and afterlife. There's lots more to see of course, and we have lots of ideas and preliminary drawings for our next lot of work.
