The Opens with submission fees
OK, I know I said only the other week that I’m never doing another open…..but I’m just ticking off things on the curator’s advice list. Despite my better judgement, I’ve applied for the Jerwood Drawing Open.
Even before I delivered my work to the submission centre, I received an email with instructions on picking up unselected work. This doesn’t bode well.
The good thing about it though, is that despite having so much on at the moment, I found the time to work on an idea that had been formulating over the last few weeks. I’m pleased with the work and the direction it is going in and I don’t think I would have pushed myself to achieve this without having a deadline.
So my day off today started off VERY early. I woke up before I needed to as I’ve just got so much to do. I need a box/container for my awkwardly shaped work for Jerwood and with not having one with the right dimensions, I’ve had to make one. So first things on today list, was a bit of cutting and glueing and a lot of hoping that it will stay in one piece.
I had to get my car to the garage by 8.30, even though the MOT wasn’t booked until 12, so I had to get the bus to the school for the workshop. This meant I couldn’t carry as much as I did last week, but even so, I thought I had enough scrap paper and cut out starflies for a small group. I was there at 1.15 as requested by the head….and still there at half past. Despite a note about me being there in the diary at reception, no one knew what I was doing. We (thankfully I had a friend!) waited while teachers went up and down corridors, knocking on doors to find out which class I was with.
Finally…. it turned out it was year 2. The teachers had kindly (!) shoved two classes together in the one room’ so more children could experience the lovely artwork’… so it was unbelievably chaotic (and very hot!) We ran out of papers really early on because there were just so many kids, and had to raid the supply cupboard.
The starflies were really loaded with too much glue and everything was rushed because we started too late. I had to bung the still wet shapes all in my bag anyway and hope that I could separate them when I got home.
At least….. my car passed its MOT ( VERY surprised and hugely relieved at that, as its getting quite old, and I don’t have any money!)
