I attended the Castlefield Gallery Associates meeting last night and was one of 6 artists to give a 5 minute ‘show and tell’. I chose to share the ‘Would you Tell me, please…” arrows work that I’m currently developing into a digital piece. It was really useful to condense the work into a 5 minute presentation. I also approached the presentation as a scripted talk, feeling that was the best way to get across what I wanted to in such a short time slot. I suppose it was a sort of monologue really, when I was writing it, I was trying to create some sort of rhythm. It was also useful to push me on to create something with the Flash skills that I learnt at the weekend. I’ve now got a slightly better version of the animation to show people.
The rest of the presentations were interesting too – a range of practices. From the research that Alice Bradshaw (www.a-n.co.uk/p/2334120) is doing on Rubbish and it’s use and references in art, to a review of work by Hannah Leighton Boyce (). Robert Carter shared his zine/cross-disciplnary event practice (), Kathryn Miller is currently working at Blankspace in Manchester on the Verb Project () and Nicola Ellis () shared her experiences of participating in a launch pad exhibition at Castlefield Gallery. That and meeting and putting faces to names of artists I was aware of but had never met, it was a great night.
