Off to a rainy start, but the sun did come out eventually this afternoon. I am working at YSP for a couple of days doing drop-in workshops to mark the end of my bursary there (this really is the end now, honest).
I’ve also had a great time being shown around the working areas of the park and being introduced to the gorgeous boathouse where I will be able to work in the run up to my exhibition there next July. First residential dates are in November and I can hardly wait!
Last Friday was the launch at of ‘A House Like Me’ at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. The event was to mark the end of my year as bursary holder for the Feiweles Trust at the Park. I have compiled the book and it is a mix of digital printing with screen printed dividers.
It was a lovely day and great to get some feedback on this thing that has been filling my house with piles of paper for weeks.
‘A House Like Me’ is intended for educators wanting to work with conceptual art and is based around the themes in my own practice and the projects I have been doing in schools since last September. The book is not for sale, but a pdf version will be online soon, I will post a link as soon as it’s available. Some images can be viewed in the bookworks section on this website.
ISBN 978-1-871480-85-6, Yorkshire Sulpture Park, 2010. Digital print on paper with screenprinted, card dividers. Digital printed folder.
a-n commissioned a piece of writing from me about how artists make a living, based around some of the artists I met during my time in Linz last year. The research paper and artists’ profiles were published in May, sorry I’ve been a little slow to get this on here!
You can read it here (although some content is only available to subscribers I’m afraid)
I have been in conversation with Anna Francis, guest editor of ”Talking City’ on the Longhouse website for the past month. It has been an interesting project and you can see the whole conversation here.
I elected to be represented as a blackbird because I often stomp about.
I am here, it is lovely and my studio is enormous. Just about settled in now so looking forward to really getting stuck in to some new work. My head is overflowing with ideas so I shall have to try and start somewhere, I find myself gravitating towards writing again. Seems like there is a lot to see here too so, excited about seeing some new artists and perhaps a different approach to showing work?
More about the residency, Linz and the other artists can be seen here.
Found out last week that Liverpool Biennial put me forward for a residency over the summer with Linz Kutur at the Atelierhaus; a newly renovated artists studio centre and exhibition space in the centre of Linz, Austria.
So, I leave on Tuesday – loads of time to plan and everything. But, this last-minute-ness may be a blessing in disguise so I am ready to get there and just see what happens…. Linz seems to be a bit of a rebel as far as Austria is concerned, with loads of contemporary art and architecture, not to mention the Ars Electronica Centre and festival, can’t wait!
I may even come back all digital!
new blog on a-n to document the process coming soon and I shall be having an online conversation throughout with Fiona Flynn, an artist from London, who will be in Vilnius (the other Capital of Culture this year) at the same time..
Bye for now.
Links for
Linz, Capital of Culture, Vilnius Capital of Culture and the place I’ll be living/working in: Salzamt Atelierhaus Linz
Off to Venice for a few days to see the Biennale and to generally get out of Liverpool! When I get back I will be invigilating Dumb Objects (looking great!) and then at the weekend it is the 2nd Liverpool Artists’ Book Fair.
Hope to see you there, more information about that here:
http://www.afoundation.org.uk/greenlandstreet/details.php?id=45
I will be presenting a research paper (visual essay) at art>space>philosophy, a conference organised by the philosophy and art departments at the University of Staffordshire on Saturday.
