Frigg



Haven't really got an awful lot to say this week. This week we've just had a bit of a catch-up fest in the studio.

Wanted to say sorry to Dawn as someone had pointed out - I called Dawn who curated our show in Newcastle - Ruth. I'm putting this down to tiredness and meeting alot of people wthin a very short period of time between Newcastle & London. Excuses aside - I'm Sorry.

We're currently working on promotional material for this year's Light Night - a large scale one night art festival held in Leeds every year - there's over 80 events on the one evening this year so it'll be the biggest one to date. As well as ploughing on putting together a promotional package for the Leeds Universities: Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery for a show coming up featuring a contemporary art from the Lodeveans Collection. Both are proving challenging, with restricted budgets and us aiming quite ambitiously high in our production specifications. A challenge is always good for the create juices though. Hard work though.

I've also been chasing stock left right and centre for the re-launch of 'theartmarket' we're all chipping in getting it off the ground and I've been given the task of sourcing zines / artists books. Also an exciting challenge. Currently located stock from Analogue Books, Islands Fold, Cafe Royal, Its Nice That, Nieves, Soyfriends. So there should be a nice selection for the opening, still ploughin on though, so there'll be more to follow and it'll be the only place in Leeds stocking any of these types of publications - can't wait.

I'll be spending most of the day tomorrow painting / fixing, getting hands on in the new space which is always fun. Then I'll be spending the remaining part of my weekend entertaining my mum and brother - who have travelled over from the Isle of man for the bank holiday to spend some time with me. Nice!

Hopefully I'll manage to steal a few moments next week to get sit back and do some investigation. Until then here's some pictures of my pieces from our Newcastle show 'Massive Contact'








Good day & Good Weekend!

J x

CHILD

LUNGS

Today I and the rest of Nous Vous, and other people were shown around Temple Works in Leeds, which is an amazing space in Holbeck. Apart from it being a great space, and huge and possibly turned into a creative centre, what I found fascinating was that nothing has been touched in the rooms for a few years, and there's still letters in drawers and bits of paper lying around with things like 'CHILD LUNGS' and 'WRONG PICTOGRAM IN SHOE' written on. I actually got a bit scared. It was like Silent Hill or something, and i half-expected some zombos to come lurching out of the darkness or something. But if things get going with it, it'll be ace.

I have been getting into The Craftsman' by Richard Sennett this week. I remember someone blogging about it on Its Nice That a few months back, and thought about it when I was a bit drunk the other night and happened to be on Amazon. Could have been a recipe for disaster, thought I might get some ridiculous purchases through the post like a Jurassic Park box set or something, but as it was I only got sensible things. I'm really into this book, and it confirms loads of stuff that i'm thinking about / believe in. Its good to hear someone else who is a lot older than yourself and infinitely more experienced talking about things you are also into. Good advice. Crucial. Buy it / Borrow it / Steal it.

Still working towards this Newcastle exhibition, got some sketches here of stuff I may work into bigger stuff. Basically most of my work has ended up being based on 2 pages from Peter Camenzind by Hermann Hesse, and Ivor Cutler. Going a bit better though now,

So hopefully we will have enough stuff to make the space feel sort of used. I'll post up some more things next week, but not too much. Been making some test zines which i messed up a bit, so will get them up for sale asap and i'll take some to the show.

Oh yeah, thiought this was interesting, and tied in with the book i'm reading too...what he's actually saying probably only lasts like 5 minutes without the jokes, but still worth a watch perhaps....

Ken Robinson talking about creativity in education

Ok thats all from me this week i think

Bye-di-byes