Re: What we talked about

It takes an unbelievable amount of work to start a new art organisation. More than perhaps we realised only a few months ago when we had a Fame-like “let’s put the show on right here” moment.

We’d decided that there wasn’t anyone doing what we wanted to do, that there was no studio provision that matched with what we needed, and that the opportunities we wanted to see were not being provided, so we thought.. “Let’s do it OURSELVES! How hard can it BE?”

Several reams of paper worth of forms, days worth of meetings and gallons of coffee drunk and it was, I can tell you, pretty hard.

However:

Our first pre-launch event Sex Death & Cocktails (Desire and the Death Drive) is a night of fast and furious presentations by artists such as Sharon Kivland, Alasdair Duncan and Holly Stevenson. It bodes well to be fun, informative and drunken, with happy hour cocktails and an art raffle. Join us at Cho Chos Bar and Restaurant, Streatham Hill on February 21st, to see what the fuss is about.

www.artlacuna.org

We are crowdfunding in order to offer our community based programme and artist opportunities, and will be launching an Open Submission Art Prize, for which the prize is a month long residency and soloshow at our new site at Clapham Junction. For more details of what we hope to offer and how you can take part visit our Sponsume page.

http://www.sponsume.com/project/artlacuna

I’m really excited about the space, and can’t wait to get started!

So it’s a shiny new year, just unwrapped from it’s packaging, much like the new desk diary just delivered to me by the postman. I already know it’s going to be a busy year, with a meeting scheduled for tomorrow, and leases, legalese and the like already swimming around my brain.

But I have at least managed to be a little productive this holiday season, working from home to avoid the deathly chill of the studio, and the ever increasing price of my commute.

Headshot I and Headshot II are digitally manipulated found photography printed to c-type. I was fascinated by the effect the anonymous collections of studio portraits had on me, they are obviously efforts toward self-promotion from the sitters, now anonymous. I post them here for you to see.

Let me know what you think.