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so far the Norfolk and Norwich Festival has thrown up some interesting events - The James Plays at the Theatre Royal by the fantastic National Theatre of Scotland was awesome - three 2 hour plays in one day! for The Tempest in Great Yarmouth it actually rains indoors and people drown in the Hippodrome Circus where they usually have water spectaculars. last night I  went to see the wonderful Hollie McNish - reading from her book and telling her story of pregnancy was quite mesmerising - if you missed it - check her out on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCO-YmLT8t4 

after meetings in London I got to see the conceptual art in Britain show at The Tate http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/conceptual-art-britain-1964-1979 a wonderful experience - it was like going back in time - a quiet gallery - 6 people in the space looking and reading and thinking about art - everything black and white, work heavy with thoughts and ideas

in teaching terms - the marks are in and we are now in the middle of hanging work on the Textiles course at NUA - we have created a great space to show work - it all looks good so far.

meanwhile another classic example of i couldn't give a F**K car parking and the poster for a show organised through the printmaking course at Camberwell.

 

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Well some imaginative house building is going on locally – maybe destined for the owners of such considerately parked cars. Meanwhile I’m surrounded by diagrams of room layouts with notes over it them. It’s planning exhibition time and for me that means an extended time of flexible negotiation. I try to enable the individual work to shine, finding the space that works for it within mass group show. Last night I was at a great event at Wensum Lodge in Norwich at the private view of the foundation Course. The show an eclectic mix of fantastic, intense work from young people at the beginning of their creative careers - it lasts until Friday - go see. Bob had a body of work exploring the idea of embedding emotions within objects, including 4 bookworks and around 30 sculptures for the hand, as well as 4 sited pieces over Norfolk and Suffolk. http://www.bobbicknell-knight.com/

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my work is in a couple of group shows that are coming up - Resurrecting the Book - in the Library of Birmingham - The exhibition opens on the 6th of November and runs until the 23rd. See the blog - http://thelibraryoflostbooks.blogspot.co.uk/ and go to the conference. The Sheffield International Artists Book Prize opens on the 5^th October at Bank Street Arts in Sheffield http://artistsbookprize.co.uk/ there are many events and exhibitions linked to it that are worth checking out. http://bankstreetarts.com/uncategorized/sheffield-international-book-prize-2013-catalogue/ - looking forward to flipside at Snape in Suffolk at the weekend http://www.flipsidefestival.co.uk/welcome.aspx - I’m up for Will Self on Saturday.

meanwhile another ‘I really don’t care about other people’ parking and the question - does the large car or the attitude come first?