A busy week of teaching - completing assessments, a bonding with
fabrics, sublimation and rubber workshop and feedback tutorials at NUA. For OCA
I ran a writing workshop where we began to talk about how to write about work,
specifically looking at our relationship to making and the work. Friday was
mostly spend in a 4 hour meeting at The Bookartbookshop in Hoxton, (a gem of a
place) thrashing out a plan with Tanya, with much tea, for the next phase of
the MA Book Art course at Camberwell - lots of guest speakers and more group
crits and opportunities to discus our work. Despite its context - that of
closing - the course is experiencing some good work as it drives off a cliff
into being taught out to its demise. During a fantasy artwork seminar this week
we rethought the Grand Tour for the Internet Generation - using Google Earth
and instructions to send each other around the world from the comfort of our
phone screens. #someofmybestteachingistakingplace. Other work includes being
invited to run an Artists Book surgery at The Tetley in Leeds as part of PAGES
and its New Voices project and running master class workshops with The Design
Crafts course at Middlesex University. Both of which will be interesting
opportunities and I'm really pleased to be part of their worlds.
At the weekend a quick jaunt around some east end galleries to check out
this years edition of Condo http://www.condocomplex.org/london/ - where galleries
give their spaces to galleries from around the world - some interesting work in mixed shows - Andrew Bick at Hales Gallery was a graphic geometric
feast and I enjoyed the knitted maps and dictionaries at Flowers East. Whilst
walking around the back streets I came across some magnificent examples of
smoking architecture - buildings built as a result of the smoking
ban for the express purposes of smoking.
