I must admit that I have been a bit slack lately when it comes to playing my part in the postal art project,
Collaborations, that was recently set up by the Finland-based photographer and artist,
Adam Monaghan. Although I completed the first two of the four pieces straight after receiving them many months ago – I have only just now got round to completing the second two and posting them all off to the next artist on the list. Now I just have to get round to starting the next four that have arrived.
This is the third piece in the set – BEFORE I added to it.
This is the third piece in the set – AFTER my addition (note the naughty tentacle).
This is the fourth piece in the set – BEFORE I added to it.
This is the fourth piece in the set – AFTER my addition. I’m not quite sure where the long armed egg thing came from – I think it was getting late and I was getting tired.
The basic premise of the project is that Adam sends out sets of four 18 x 18 cm paintings/collages (that he has started) to various artists around the world. These artists then add to the works and post them onto another artist in the group, who does likewise. Once an artist feels the work is complete they return to Adam. Eventually, when all the works have been returned, we’ll have a small show somewhere and exhibit the end results. The artists currently taking part in the project are
Tony Deleon in New York,
Dale Devereux Barker in Ipswich,
Katie Waller in Brighton, Larry Crittenden in Texas,
Irene Runayker in Eastbourne, Carmen Dominguez in California,
Kunigunda Dineikaite in Lithuania, Saara Konttinen in Helsinki,
Peter Scribetta in New York, Adam Monaghan in Finland and myself here in London.
This year looks like being a pretty good year for international art fairs. As well as being invited to exhibit at Frieze and represent VZ Art Gallery at the Liste art fair in Basel, Switzerland, I’ve just booked (OK, my mate Holly has done all the bookings as she’s the organised one and secretly loves being in charge of everything) my flights and accommodation for this year’s Venice Biennale. I went for the first time two years ago and even though I lost my mobile (and 10 years worth of none backed-up phone numbers) in one of the canals I had the most amazing time. It’s incredible how small the art scene is because at the last Venice Biennale I bumped into so many people that I knew from London – a prime example being that on our first night there my mate popped next door to see if he could borrow a cork screw and found out that we’d booked a room next to a group of artist friends from back home. This year we’ve made sure that we arrive in Venice a few days ahead of the official opening weekend so as to take full advantage of the many opening parties – oh yeah!
