catching up post...

sorry for the lack of postings here lately...
that's partly because i've been a bit busy blogging stuff elsewhere [here and here]

just to catch up a bit...

a lot of folk have asked me how bodge's memorial service went...
i'm not sure that i have the words to describe it really. it went well, it felt like we did right by him, and i want to say that it was good, except that something so sad can't really be 'good' [if you see what i mean]
there was a big turnout, and an opportunity for folks to mourn and to show their love for bodge and to maybe express some of what he meant to them. it felt momentous and surreal and desperately sad.

taking things to the opposite extreme, the advent show that i curated with gav has been a tremendous success. a brilliant preview night, great art created by lovely artists displayed in a beautiful space, plenty of visitors, lots of very enthusiastic and appreciative comments... it's been a huge effort, it's taken me way out of my comfort zone, but it's been utterly brilliant. go visit the blog [if you haven't already] and have a look. we're open for one final weekend - 11am - 4pm saturday 19th/sunday 20th - so if you're up this way it's your last chance to see it in the flesh...

on a way more trivial level, our family weekends have recently been blighted by joe and eddie's sudden and peer-inspired enthusiasm for the X-Factor :-(
it is, of course, unbearably crap tv and thankfully now over for another year. i discovered that the best way to watch it is with headphones on playing mogwai at very loud volume. that works for me...
that said, i won't be joining the anti-cowell rage-against-the-machine-for-number-one protest though...
[steve lawson blogs intelligently about all that nonsense here...]

lastly, work's gone a bit slow of late. that's partly because i haven't gone looking for it - i knew that i'd have to make some space in the schedule to do the exhibition; also i had a large job lined up for january, but unfortunately that's just fallen through. it's hard to know if the recession is beginning to bite in the sort of markets that i work in [mainly educational and religious publishing] or if it's just a little blip for me - i'm hoping that it's the latter... but if you know anyone who needs some illustration doing...