I went to B&Q yesterday (AKA ‘hell on earth’ in our house) to get some MDF to make a couple of plinths for my forthcoming exhibition. I can’t recall the exact price when I last bought some around a year ago, but I estimate I paid 40-50% more yesterday. Not a huge sum in itself, but an example of how the cost of materials is another (increasingly) major issue for the practising artist. To boot, three ink cartridges in my printer ran out simultaneously yesterday.
Incidentally, I had looked into the cost of hiring to save me the hassle of making, and then storing, my own plinths. Wow!
