advent art show...

later in the year i'll be curating an advent art exhibition at leftbank leeds, a beautiful old church on the outskirts of the city that fell into disuse and is now being lovingly nursed back into life as a community arts space.

the idea for the exhibition is not a huge departure from the walk-through-advent-calendar that we've done in the past, except that this is definitely an art show, and not set up as a worship event. but there will be twenty-five different bits of work there, each created by a different artist, designer or arts group, and each one relating to a different character, place or 'thing' from the advent narrative.
today i had the fourteenth contributor confirm their involvement, so it's shaping up nicely [ and now i'm confident enough to start posting about it here :-) ]

there's a bloggy thing that i've set up to plot the progress of the show and to allow folk to see how everything is developing - i have this idea that the contributing artists and art groups will be able to post images [and video even] of their work as it comes together, which will hopefully generate some interest and a bit of a communal buzz around the exhibition...

there's not much on the blog right now, but feel free to bookmark it and check back occasionally to see how things are coming together...

fat croc, coloured cityscape...

on the desk this week...



this is the coloured-up version of the rough that i posted a week or so back. it took me ages - the best part of a day to ink up, and two days to colour...



and this is a rough from a batch that i've been doing for yet another educational thing - some interactive software this time...

camping...

we have a camping trip coming up... so i've had the tent out to check for mould [none discovered, thankfully] and we've located the camping stove, foldable chairs and sundry other outdoor essentials.

so this rough for a job that i'm working on seemed quite appropriate...

city scene pencil rough...

another greenbelt visual arts plug...

...this time for a photo 'flash swap' event that we're hosting in the hub tent.

so get snapping!

martin wilson...

last year at greenbelt an undoubted highlight of the visual arts programme was martin wilson's little exhibition of photographs. each composite image was meticulously shot in sequence and printed up as contact sheets. [and if he makes a mistake he has to go back and start the whole sequence again from scratch, there's no photoshoppery allowed!]
he's just gone live with a new website and you can see some of the images here.

or, if you're in leicester, you can go see them in the flesh next month at the bishop street methodist church.

if you're in london on wednesday...

...then this guided tour of an exhibition that's coming to greenbelt is really worth seeking out.

and while i'm banging on about greenbelt, the monthly festival podcasts are worth a listen. you can access them from here - in this month's episode there's an interview with vito from the welcome wagon and a guy called mark vernon saying some good stuff about why the church needs agnostics. april's 'cast has loads of stuff about the festival's arts programme and why it's important [and includes an interview with our good mate derek sounding ever so slightly camp in a cafe]