Making brushes at the Institute of Education last Thursday,where I ran a class for The Making…was great…thank you to all who took part.
or rather my work at The Making
I am just back from installing the exhibition ‘Taking Time: Craft and the Slow Revolution’ which I have been curating over the past two years. It launches tomorrow at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery before touring for 2 years nationally… and I feel a bit emotional really…I suppose it’s a big project reaching a certain place in time. It couldn’t have happened without a spectacular group of people working on it and I am so excited about the work. It’s hard to even begin to encapsulate all the ideas we have had in one exhibition but I hope it gives a snapshot of our thinking. Here are some shots of the installation.
sheds and flowers…
at Haystack, Maine. More to follow soon….
I am working almost entirely on the Taking Time exhibition at the moment and writing, talking and thinking about time…the exhibition launches on 17th October at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Have a look at the slowrevolution blog for more information.
Also in a couple of weeks I am going State-side to an invited symposium/retreat at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts called ‘O Brave New World: Looking at Time, Making and Creativity’. I am really excited about this, there’s a great programme of speakers, making to be done and eating by the look of it. I will let you know my thoughts on my return.
Tortoise at the Garage last night were fantastic………….and the various projected images of Chicago and aerial views of crop irrigation systems in the US were right up my street….
the last track they played Seneca was brilliant…I like this version on Chic-A-Go-Go and this version of Salt the Skies
Carnac thinking about Carnac at the Richard Long exhibition, Tate Britain.
I thought it would be good to link to some of the dialogue programme that Russell Martin has been putting together over the last year for the project Analogue. We are running this alongside the blog makingaslowrevolution which I have authored whilst curating a national touring exhibition ‘taking time: Craft and the Slow Revolution’ which previews this October.
On June 4th
- Composer Tim Parkinson
- Performance artist Laura Malacart
- Curator and visual artist Nick Kaplony
- Russell Martin
and myself talked about practice….I think it’s an interesting piece that discusses the nature of practice, risk and uncertainty.
you will find the piece linked here
Have just been down to the enamel research centre at the University of the West of England to work with a group of makers. Hopefully you will see some of the fruits of the project next year. The following is a glimpse of what I got up to….
