I hung a new show today in Ipswich Town Hall. I and some fellow students from UCS ran the gauntlet of threatened tickets from over officious police to get work into Ipswich Town Hall for the last of our promotional activities before our degree shows. It never ceases to amaze me how difficult it is […]
That was the week that was
Phew! What a rollercoaster 10 days it has been. We had a spectacular response to our Auction at UCS and something like £2400 was raised to help fund the £7000 costs of going to Free Range. Very special thanks to all the donors of great work. especially to Sam Mellish and David Watson as Sam […]
Herpes Simplex and internecine conflict
I always knew that the last semester would be a tough one. However, I never expected the tiredness and stress of getting the Lux Locus Auction – www.luxlocus.wix.com/luxlocus fund raising activity up to speed would drain me so much. Two weeks ago we had our first break in 4 years for one night courtesy of […]
Lux Locus Auction
Lux Locus are having a photographic artefacts auction at UCS Waterfront building on Thursday 3rd April in Lecture Theatre 2 from 1830hrs. We have some great donations from well known internation, national and local artists. Take a look at our auction site to preview the lots http://luxlocus.wix.com/luxlocus I have been busy behind the scenes working […]
Maybe it is time to stop now….
The sands of time are rapidly exhausting themselves and new deadlines loom large on the horizon. Following a full-on week topped by Andreas Schmidt honouring us with a guest lecture I am now looking at final edits and print preparation. Throw in an interim show to hang in April plus prepping 90 8’x4′ boards for […]
Andreas Schmidt inspires UCS Students
Today has been a good day. My fellow ‘equals’ founder member Mel Belton had written to Andreas Schmidt asking for support for our forthcoming degree show. Not only did he gift us two books to auction he visited UCS to talk to us, donating his fee to our degree show fund. He was thoroughly entertaining […]
Lux Locus
This is the moniker for our BA(Hons) Photography degree shows this coming June. I helped come up with the name by running a creative thinking session with some of my fellow students following the ‘equals = ephemera’ artist-in-residence event that we had in Ipswich Town Hall last September. This was put to a vote along […]
Recovered daffodils
The demonstration yesterday was a resounding success with money being donated to the Lux Locus Degree Show following my interactive teaching session at UCS. Another unique image from Polaroid type film – second generation!
All systems go for last semester
Time is a strange dimension. Academic years are a strange dimension. Seasons are strange dimensions. Even when I was a spotty faced youth attending Grammar school back in the 60’s and early 70’s the Autumn term (we had terms in those days) always seemed the longest and after the New Year everything ran downhill rather […]
Quiet January – so far
Blogging has been low on my agenda these past 16 days. To be honest, I was utterly exhausted by the time Christmas arrived what with all the planned and unplanned events during December but also to do with a full on first semester of my final year at UCS. Something had to give and I […]