There is a great show at Messums
in Cork St of one of the current strands of Laurence Edwards body of work. It focuses on an interesting public
art project where the heads of former miners are being modelled and cast in
bronze for a proposed piece in the centre of Doncaster. I love the original
waxes they are full of movement and energy and genuinely seem to be alive. I'm
clearing shelves in my studio, getting rid of stuff that no longer makes sense
to have in my life, mainly materials and expired technology no longer needed
but I found the notes from the first book makers conference organised by Stefan
Szczelkum which was a moment of odd time travel for me. click to go to a
powerpoint link to see what we were doing in 1993. https://www.slideshare.net/secret/z5E5tJGV4wlC1A
on a short weekend break to Sète in the South of France in between eating
some extraordinary food I slotted in a visit to see apres a multi-part exhibition by Eric Baudelaire at CRAC. It was a mixed show that included some
interesting work of other artists to build context for a long community project
- it was good to see the work of The
Gorilla Art Action Group and some early video work including John
Akomafrah's Handsworth songs with dub cinema and Partially Buried by Renee
Green which explored ideas around loss and nostalgia. back to the food Sète like most of France has specific
speciality - this area has Tielle - an octopus pie - https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tielle
truly wonderful.
