Islands Show

The show at Canfas Gallery was great. All the work looked really good, and the opening was a chance to catch up with lots of people I hadn't seen in ages. Adrian has done an excellent job of hanging the show and there were also some beautiful glass cases with all sorts of ephemera related to Islands. A. and P. and I went and A. had a lovely time, though clung to me like a limpit and then we took her to Chapter for tea and cake.

Saw a great show in Chapter.. nothing in it!!

THIS WAS THE BLURB:
Chapter Arts
Exhibition Sat 7 Oct – Sun 5 Nov

Simon Pope invites you to recall, from memory, a walk through a gallery space, and explore the spatial, social and professional relations contained within it. you are asked to summon-up these remote spaces - through memory, body, speech and movement – so that they exist at two locations simultaneously, both here and there.

All are welcome to ‘walk and talk’, recalling a description of a familiar gallery space, as if you were walking through it. Simon Pope questions the consequences of this for the gallery as a ‘site’ of artwork? Can the gallery be ‘empty’ space waiting for work to fill it? What does it mean to think of this ‘place’, not as unique and differentiated, but rather deeply related and connected to other ‘places’? What is produced when professional ranks, such as curators, administrators and trustees other than the artist, are invited to be itinerant in the production of an artwork?

This exhibition has received generous financial support from the arts council of Wales.

Simon teaches on the Design for Interactive Media BA/BSc (Hons) programme at CSAD and is a research associate at Goldsmith’s College, London and Transmedia, Hogeschool Sint Lukas, Brussels."
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I am sorry but this was well and truly taking the piss, and as an artist who actually makes things I get so grumpy with this kind of crap. A. (10) thought it was shtoopid!! And P. was just completely baffled and thought I was pulling his leg and the show had not actually been hung yet.

Diane Arbus

There is a new film about the life of Dianne Arbus coming up, with Nicole Kidman. Looks quite interesting, and worth a peek when it comes out.

The Spiders and the Acorn

N. told us that Spiders are frightened of Acorns. I can't remember if the acorn is supposed to be poisonous to the spider, or if there was originally another reason. It has all become so entangled with various theories and silly stories that we cannot now unravel fact from fiction. Me an A. made up some great stories about how the spiders became enemies of the acorn..little knowing that they grow into Oak trees. Also myths of the Spider women..

Kept us amused on a rainy blustery walk on the beach at Penarth.