Welcome to my twelfth newsletter
Last summer’s show, ‘Worse Things Happen At Sea’ at Townmill Galleries in Lyme Regis was a great success, with many visitors on every day and a couple of sales, including the recently reframed and renamed ’No More Birds In Bushes’, the original shotgun shells collection exhibited in my first show of plastics works in 2014.
Really pleased that it has gone to a creative local home.
Following on from that show, creative momentum was sustained over the summer, a lot of new smaller works that I have constructed new cabinets for, some based on the KinderEgg series, others as maquette exercises for larger works, and a variety of medium sized works, mainly figurative based. When I built the first large scale work, Poleaxed, I was thinking a lot about how to upscale the feel of works that I make from the smallest of fragments from toys, parts and pieces. I now think a lot more about how to make larger works that retain the excitement I get from assembling the smaller ones.
Shortly after the summer I received my first ever commission, a new work based on the ‘In Persuit Of Happiness’, the first collection of party poppers. This new work consisted of 4 panels, my entire collection of party poppers, spanning 2 decades of foraging.
And the most exciting news of all, my first Dyson vacuum sculpture, DysonDC03sect, after many rejections form various applications has been shortlisted for the RA Summer Exhibition 2022. Maybe it also gets through to the actual show though I am already really pleased that it has got this far.
Starting on the 14th May, I will host an open studios event as part of the Dorset Art Weeks 2022, and it will be a big event for me as I will be showing a lot of works this time, virtually everything I have, and a lot of works in progress too. The new cabinets are ready to display all the smaller works and I will also create a separate environment to preview ideas for a future show, ‘Tales From The Deep’. I am very excited about this, but it is a surprise, I cant wait to set this up!
There will be a late opening on Saturday 14th, until 9pm to celebrate the opening of the event, so do pop by if you are in the area that afternoon.
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