Upcoming Supermarket Art Fair – Stockholm
Monday (1/2/2010): sent David and Lucy most of the new images and updates for my website, the only thing I didn’t send was a new ‘artist’s statement’. I was good to see what I’ve done since they first made my website, both in terms of artworks and, for me more importantly, the additions to my cv. I feel a little embarrassed to write that but it’s true. I’m really pleased to add ‘residency’ and ‘collections’ heading to my cv, as well as a couple of shows. The work is one thing but the context of it and me means a lot to me.
Another day of dipping the strange ceramic ring/rose ornament in layers of silver glitter. I like the way the form is changing – two different people have both called it my ‘silver shit’! I guess that shit is kind of formless form. It’s not a path I want to pursue, though I need to take it on board if when I’m ‘embedding’ other objects.
Completed the artist’s information form for wip. Again I had to write a statement about my art/practice.
Tuesday (2/2/2010): Hampus and I went to a screening of Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio at the Italian Cultural Institute. They are showing a short season of Caravaggio films in conjunction with the exhibition at the National Museum. It was interesting to see it again, this time I think I was more able to enjoy the beauty of the film – it’s visually stunning. I like the Jarmanesque anomalies – the occasional modern dress, the sound of trains and helicopters, the golden ‘credit card’ calculator that now looks so 80s.
It was also a great opportunity to see the Italian Institute. Gio Ponti designed it back in the 50s and it hasn’t changed much. His original furniture and fittings are still there. It’s great to be so close to, to actually feel and experience, things designed by a world class architect.
Wednesday (3/2/2010): evening: I took my ‘untitled: embedded object SG1’ over to wip:sthlm. I really miss being there and having the studio. I’m starting to get that ‘itchy’ feeling that I used to get when I hadn’t been to the studio in a couple of weeks, now that I don’t have a studio it’s not so easy to know how to scratch that itch. Making a small piece in the house was ok, but it wasn’t the same has having a studio. A studio is more than somewhere to make work, for me it’s a place to think, to experiment, to play, to have coffee, to be quiet, to write – basically it’s where I feel most like an artist.
Alex offered to share her studio with me but until I know I have some income I don’t want to make a commitment that I might to be able to honour. So Stuart, it’s time to find some paid work.
Thursday (4/2/2010): Brilliant! David and Lucy have updated my website. I need to send them a few more details, but basically it’s all there. They noticed that the link to the cpartists website isn’t working which is annoying. Since cpartists ‘dissolved’ we’ve never resolved what to do about the website, Tine and I like the idea that it stays as a legacy of the work we did, however it seems that because no-one is really responsible for it that somehow it’s ‘gone down’. There should be a direct debit to pay for it but perhaps it needed confirming
It’s now Friday, the following week. Time is running away with me. I’m going to publish this blog entry that I wrote last week … even though it feels a little out of date …
I can’t beleive that this time next week I’ll be at Supermarket.
