2013 was a great year and though not without it’s difficulties they were firmly in the minority, I am happy to say. I am a lucky sonnovabitch.
Hello! to the new year, with an over long to do list, new job and a inexhaustible mine of new projects and plans for more adventures.
And so, a quick update of the older things:
-The Written Image Exhibition Photographs –
‘Exhortation’- Morvern Odling (artist) and Samuel Tongue (poet) , Edinburgh Printmakers 2013
This collaboration between myself and Samuel Tongue added new conceptual heights to both our work, the link between Text and Textiles being something that we’ll continue to collaborate on. The exhibition itself was something I was proud to be a part of, the exhibition space at Edinburgh Printmakers full of the joyous meeting of words in poem and image in print.
-The Dye Book –
when needs must, any container will do
Honestly this took more time than I could ever have imagined. The organising mainly seems to have been the greatest time sink, with hours of time going into the preparation of the fabric and now, in the last throws, the presentation of the finished article. The colours are truly vibrant and I can safely say I’ve nailed dyeing (this will probably be my epitaph).
And an update of the new things, work in the beginnings:
(The lack of photographs of current projects can be attributed to the person who stole my phone on new years. Though it happens to us all I’m feeling the sting of loss of a month’s worth of research photographs- its time to draw up a new ‘don’t forget to back things up’ poster..)
-The Hidden Door – Jill Kirkham and I are joining forces once again and are in the preliminary stages of a collaboration for one of the outside structures of this grass roots underground Edinburgh arts festival. I’m also going to be designing some rather unusual black light props and stage make-up.
-Textiles and 3D printing (!!!!!!!!!!!) – PHD student and 3D printing maestro Diego Zamora and I are currently exploring the possibilities of the combinations and applications.
-The Green Gathering. I am curating and co-ordinating the visual arts at this sustainability and social conscience festival in Wales this summer. Finding funding for a festival in Wales should be suitably tricky.
And ofcourse my residency at Edinburgh College of Art in the Textiles Department continues, alongside and involved with everything I do. The research work for my next project is no where near where I want it to be, but then it never is.
Happy turn of the year folks.