I also ran a couple of workshops for young people in the gallery space last weekend with Tessa Asquith Lamb, using watercolours, inks, Chinese brushes and stamps on a range of scales and in folded books. It was great to chat to the young people who dropped in with their parents (most of them around 9 or 10 years old) about our work and get some of their very honest feedback.

 

 

 

 

 

The private view for the exhibition was a busy night, with live poetry readings from Rafael Torrubia and Colin Will and music from Wounded Knee. A range of workshops and events will take place in the gallery and along the river bank as a part of the whole River Crossings project, whilst the art works in the gallery including mine and Tessa's will be evolving until the end of October.

 

 

 

 

Myself, Tessa Asquith Lamb and Juliana Capes, two of the other artists involved in the River Crossings project began working in the gallery prior to the private view opening event on the 28th of September. A range of other artists are involved in a variety of other ways, creating outdoor installations and temporary interventions. (I will post a copy of the private view card in here soon).

Tessa has created a series of hanging papercuts which cast shadows across my paper panel (paper mounted on aluminium, 6 x 4 ft) and move as the light shifts through the gallery. I am interested in how these shadows will dictate the kind of composition my organic drawing will take as it grows in the space, whilst Tessa will be adding elements of my imagery to papercuts she creates in the space. Although we are making two separate art works, we have decided to title our work as one installation: Between Shadows.

 

 

I have just begun work on this project, which is in part a collaboration with my friend, the artist Tessa Asquith Lamb and me; we are both making separate art works which will come together and complement one another as an installation. More updates will follow soon...