Last night I attended a special PV for trustees of the Museum of East Anglian Life. The event had been scheduled separately to the opening PV on account of the huge positive response to invitations to the exhibition. Lisa Harris and I discussed possible dates weeks ago and we both thought that leaving a gap […]
That was a week that was…
Yes, a little play on words I know but the week has been a weird one. On Sunday last week I realised that Mrs O’s mum was travelling backwards in time far quicker than in the previous 30 months of her incarceration in the prison of dementia. I had become increasing dull following recent visits […]
Digital visit to an Edgelands site
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 […]
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 […]
Scything
I am no Ross Poldark. Ask Mrs O. I have done a bit of scything in my time though and also a bit of sickling – infinitely more dangerous than wielding a scythe though. One of the things I learned about scything apart from being a back breaking chore was the selective cutting of vegetation. […]