Lighting the touch paper…

Laurence and I met together early Monday morning to work on the budget proposal for the project. We were joined by a local professional who was able to give us historical background in connection with the space for the exhibition. After a really fascinating chat he left and a curator we both know and respect arrived to discuss the possibility of working together. As both Laurence and I will be including work in the exhibition we felt it necessary to have an external curator involved from this stage. We’re delighted that she is happy to contribute and we discussed how we might to shape the show together and the possible artists that we felt we would wish to invite. Her experience has been invaluable from the first conversation, raising issues that we may not have foreseen and suggesting possibilities that we would not have thought of. We have decided to invite artists rather than have an open submission as it also provides an opportunity for us to work with artists we respect, to give a platform to emerging talent that excites us and to grow this exhibition from the ground up as it were with a smaller number of artists creating dedicated work rather than selecting fom a mass amount of submissions at a later stage. Back to the city council now as we still haven’t physically been in the space, to chase up a site visite.