I have just spent a thoroughly exhilarating day hanging a show of work in Ipswich Art School with fellow students Emma Voller and Mel Belton. Today’s hang is the culmination of 5 months dialogue and effort but it is all worth it. Emma Roodhouse, curator, kindly  let us have space alongside IDPS and the Museum’s own exhibits for a 3 month hang. The work on display is from 6 students and it was only today that once hung we realised that half the work is about unseen or overlooked aspects of the everyday and the other half reflects people in various guises or activities.

We regularly hang work in the University and I have been lucky enough to have work hung in the prestigious Waterfront building on several occasions but hanging the work today in a place that is now an established gallery, but also a space that I used to frequent as a night school student has to be a new pinnacle of achievment for me.

This gallery reopened as a Saatchi Gallery and an exhibition ‘Roadside Britain’ by Sam Mellish  in early 2011 was I’m sure the catalyst, even though a subliminal one, that stimulated me to reapply for the degree course I should have done some 38 years previously had I not fluffed my A levels. All that is water under the bridge now as I complete the second year of the course with this hanging.

We also hang in Slack Space Colchester in June for a parallel show of similar work for a two week stint.

It is all happening in Ipswich. Please visit the Art School to see the show.