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Last week I had one of those ‘you wait and wait for a bus and then three come along at once’ moments but instead of buses it was in terms of having my work acknowledged in print. First of all I got a mention in the Magic Circular (the magazine of The Magic Circle) in a review of the recent Collectors Day event where I showed the series A Sage of the Stage, not a Beast in a Cage for the first time. The review was favourable thankfully, calling the exhibition “imaginitive and rewarding” which was nice. The next one is a slightly more tenuous link because I don’t actually know if it’s in *print* anywhere yet, but the press release for the Cut-Click exhibition has a paragraph about me in it, and the reason I’m including it is that for once I didn’t write it! It does say I’m London-based which of course I’m not, but it’s not a big deal, and as a friend of mine pointed out, I do occasionally don headwear that makes me look like I’m from London. The final bus, or instance of me in print this week if you prefer, was in Printmaking Today. Yay. Where I am delighted to have had an image of one of the prints from the series reproduced in the ‘forthcoming exhibitions’ section. It’s the yellow one second from the right…
Image from Printmaking Today, Summer 2009
Finally for today, here are some more pics from the Cut-Click exhibition. Here’s my print of The Learned Cats on the right, next to work by Julian Kimmings…
Image from Cut-Click exhibition at Abbey Walk Gallery © Caroline Twidle 2009
And here’s one of people on the opening night with my print in the background.
Image from Cut-Click exhibition at Abbey Walk Gallery © Caroline Twidle 2009
Tonight is the opening of the Cut-Click 1st anniversary group exhibition at the Abbey Walk Gallery. Sadly I can’t be there but they are posting up photos on Twitpic as the evening goes on. Here’s one that shows my print The Learned Cats from the series A Sage of the Stage, not a Beast in a Cage displayed in the middle.
Image from Cut-Click exhibition at Abbey Walk Gallery © Caroline Twidle 2009
I’m feeling completely worn out this week. Last weekend was the first public outing for the new series of screenprints at The Magic Circle as part of the Collectors’ Day event – which was brilliant but also very tiring in terms of the amount of effort required to transport everything to London, set it all up and then get it all back to Edinburgh. It was great to be there though and to get some very very positive feedback on the project and meet lots of interesting people, as well as get to listen to some great talks on magic history.
Munito, Life and Talents; screenprint, image © Sharon Whyte 2009
Since I’ve been back I’ve been struggling to do anything useful at all. The sun is out and I hate being stuck indoors doing the kinds of things I really need to be doing such as continuing to look for venues to exhibit in, putting together a catalogue for the show in August, sending out more funding applications etc etc. I’m also desperate to get back into the print workshop and do some actual proper work for a change – this year has been far too much about the administrative side of being an artist for my liking so far and I can’t wait to get stuck into the next project.
Some more good news has been forthcoming recently, however, firstly that I’ve been chosen to take part in the Cut-Click exhibition at the Abbey Walk Gallery…
And that on the horizon there is the possibility of a touring exhibition of the Highlands – more news on that as I get it. It sounds very exciting though and would mean that the series would be permanently on show from August this year until February 2010 as it would follow on almost immediately from the show at the Tron Theatre. There is also another little piece of exciting news for something happening August but again I don’t know if I’m officially allowed to talk about it yet – so much secrecy!
I think one of my main aims for the next week is to make it down to the Ingleby Gallery to see the Francesca Woodman exhibition before I miss it completely. Woodman is absolutely without a doubt one of my all time favourite photographers, her work was introduced to me by my lovely friend and talented author Nova Ren Suma, and I’ve been trying to get to this exhibition since it arrived in Edinburgh in April. I stupidly missed the talk at the Gallery of Modern Art about her work in May (part of the Artist’s Rooms series) so I absolutely cannot let anything get in the way again.
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