Planning
At last, two consecutive days off work… this heat has been unbearable and I’m sure I’m not the only person who has found it difficult to get motivated.
Its seven weeks until I install my new work at the Chapel Gallery in Ormskirk for the ‘Land Sea Sky’, but before I can even think about making another installation, I have to create extra storage space for all of my work from past exhibitions. I have so much stuff and am fast running out of storage space.
I spent yesterday knocking down my old leaky shed and sorting through the junk inside, thankful for the hot weather so that I could spread everything out without worrying about overnight rain. Everything will go into my new plastic shed, which hopefully will be dryer.
The problem with working with recycled materials is that I always think something ‘might be useful one day’ and am reluctant to sling it. Watching ‘hoarders’ on TV helps put things in perspective, but I still have a stack of stuff that I can’t get rid of.
I don’t want to store the paper outside, but it gives me more options to move things around.
After the Chapel Gallery exhibition and unless anything comes back from recent proposals I sent off, I will have a bit of a break from exhibiting until April next year. I will be in a group exhibition in the 3rd on 3rd Gallery in Jamestown, New York and I’ll be going across for a short residency there.
This week has seen the start of applications for funding. I know how difficult it is to get funding, but I least I have last year’s experiences to go by : www.a-n.co.uk/p/983947/
