So I didn't get 'Conference of Trees' accepted for the RWA's open exhibition in Bristol (sad face), but I did have 'Lone Pine' hanging at the Manchester Contemporary this weekend. Or possibly Buy Art (I'm confused). Hot Bed Press has had a stand there, anyway, complete with a mini functioning print workshop - today there was a letterpress demo and later a woodcut demo, and it all looked rather good.
Centre: Oliver Flude preparing to ink up and print one of his woodcuts. L and R: a mini letterpress area, complete with Adana press
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Bristol is my first experience of getting through the digital selection but not through the real thing (well let's be fair, my experience is pretty limited). Obviously I wanted to be selected, but part of that was about the getting there last week. I wove such a tangled ribbon of a route through the city that I didn't (don't!) fancy doing it again too soon. However, at least I shall be at the right end of the country to collect when I'm meant to, which is something. Shall I try again, another time? I don't know.
And the UWE Bookmarks XIII has gone live. We've all had our sets of bookmarks long since, but now they're out there for everyone else too.
And the UWE Bookmarks XIII has gone live. We've all had our sets of bookmarks long since, but now they're out there for everyone else too.
Apart from that, the annual Manchester Artists' Book Fair blocks out everything. It just seeps into every corner of my thoughts and by the time it's all (checks time) very nearly over, 3 weeks from now, I might have forgotten how to print altogether. Still, I seem eventually to remember how, each year, so I guess no harm done. I don't think I'm terribly good at compartmentalising, is part of the problem, and if I haven't sorted that by my age, I don't imagine I'm going to acquire the skill any time soon.
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