I know I've been quite slack on the posting side of things lately - I do have a couple of artists features still to share with you all and I need to catch up on the lesson posts. My students have been doing some wonderful work: I'm so impressed with them all!
But in other news, I had applied for an arts residency and
while I wasn't successful I had contacted them for some feedback and was
very excited at their response. After being just a little down in the
dumps that I hadn't gotten the residency when he gave me feedback it certainly cheered me up no end!
He said that my application was fantastic and it was more of a testament to the overall quality of all the applications, rather than anything being wrong with mine. Mine was one of the top 5,
and of those the 4 'runners up' were so close that they simply couldn't
decide on a second winner.
So
when I went in to meet with him yesterday he offered me a two week City
funded exhibition, plus they'll employ me to run a 3 hour workshop
concurrently with the exhibition! He said that they were very excited to
be working with me, and he loved my work and thought it was unique to
the area and will definitely be a great thing for not just me but also
the City!
The exhibition will be run in the last half of September, and there will be an official opening with City Dignitaries present! I'm super excited about it, and just a little bit nervous as well. I have to now decide on how many works I want to do, placement of them within the 83sqm gallery space and invitation and catalogue design. And then also of course who I want to attend the opening!
I guess there's nothing left but to get painting and creating!! Wish me luck!
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