Last December I took delivery of a larger pixel density digital camera. On of the first things I did with it was to re-visit the Sproughton site of my 5 very large C-types in the current Edgelands exhibition at the Museum of East Anglian Life. The detail in this image is very good indeed and […]
Re-visiting Edgelands and missing treacle tart
This morning Mrs O and I went over to the Museum of East Anglian Life to see the exhibition on the first full day it was open to the public. I have virtually lived the exhibition since I completed the maquette with scale images but Mrs O was far too busy on the PV to […]
Edgelands PV
Last night the Museum of East Anglian Life held the PV for my 8 month run of Edgelands. Mrs O and I got there early to help with last minute preparations including limiting the number of people in the gallery on account of floor loading – a new threshold for the Museum! The guests (49 […]
Feeling the heat
Everything is on track for the hang to commence a week tomorrow. Looking back, it amazes me that the negotiations and toing and froing to get in the position of having a show open have taken up nearly 12 months of my time. The last 6 weeks have been a stroll in many respects given […]
Lemon Drizzle cake, Bacon & Sainsbury
Today I had some Lemon Drizzle cake followed by Bacon. Lots of Bacon and quite a few extras on the plate such as Van Gogh, Picasso and Rembrandt to name a few. Mrs O and I trundled up the A140 to the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts and we were not disappointed, at least not […]
Edgelands Exhibition – all crated up
All the work is now ready and crated up for transfer to The Museum of East Anglian Life. Now that the artwork is done it is final editing of museum catalogues, labels etc. If anyone ever thought that we artists just make pictures all day then let this dissuade you. The rather excellent ‘What do […]
Retrospectives, student shows and gearing up to Edgelands
The last few weeks have been full on. Starting with the UCS Arts Faculty student shows, a retrospective by Borin Van Loon in the Freudian Sheep, a pop-up exhibition by UCS photography students in Hoxton, collecting framed work from MF Frames, oh, and throw in working in Newcastle for a few days and an AGM […]
Quiet of late but things are stirring
Since my last post, I have been all over the place, working away, getting prints to the framers, producing marketing material, visiting exhibitions of other artists’ works …. I am gearing up for my first solo exhibition and most of the tasks are done or on schedule, the latest of which was getting artwork approved […]
Good weather – above par
Last week we were away. Mrs O had booked us into a holiday let in Southwold. In a sense, it was winding back three and a half years to September 2011 when we holidayed there but I was in Freshers week and only kipped there and had my tea most nights (I had to stay […]
On fossil beach
Of late, I have been examining and exploring the fossil beach at Easton Bavents. It is another form of Edgelands but totally outwith that series. As is so with much of my photography, I get drawn to something by colour, shape, texture or whatever and then all sorts of alchemy takes place with projects within […]