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Funnily enough, I haven't actually been involved in a hanging for many years now. I've been lucky in that all the shows that I've been involved with over the previous long period, (at the Royal Cambrian Academy, or the Williamson Museum, etc) have all been put up by others. And others who know their jobs very well.
But this latest show involved old friends (from my old secondary level school - The Manchester High School of Art), and we were all putting up our own work. So it was interesting to be involved in this exercise. Firstly to see the work by my old chums, and to see the efficient way that things happened.
When I arrived at the Museum after journeying from North Wales, the work of hanging the show was well underway.
This being a self-selecting show, being staged by friends, everyone was doing their own hanging in a space which had been allocated by lot.
Here are a few pictures showing the process...........
N.B., Click on images to zoom.
......and here is a quick preview of some of the work on show..
. . . Dave
. . . Ron
. . . Ted
. . . Neil
. . . John
. . . Steve
. . . David
. . . Reg
. . . and Phil.
(I'm still sticking my own stuff up).
Having completed the hanging, Ted took some formal photos of the individuals. . .
. . . and he had also produced some very elegantly designed graphics for each of the artists.
This is one of the publicity articles which appeared in the press. There were others, and I may put them up here at some future point.
The private view is next Saturday and with luck, I hope to see you there.
Funnily enough, I haven't actually been involved in a hanging for many years now. I've been lucky in that all the shows that I've been involved with over the previous long period, (at the Royal Cambrian Academy, or the Williamson Museum, etc) have all been put up by others. And others who know their jobs very well.
But this latest show involved old friends (from my old secondary level school - The Manchester High School of Art), and we were all putting up our own work. So it was interesting to be involved in this exercise. Firstly to see the work by my old chums, and to see the efficient way that things happened.
When I arrived at the Museum after journeying from North Wales, the work of hanging the show was well underway.
This being a self-selecting show, being staged by friends, everyone was doing their own hanging in a space which had been allocated by lot.
Here are a few pictures showing the process...........
But this latest show involved old friends (from my old secondary level school - The Manchester High School of Art), and we were all putting up our own work. So it was interesting to be involved in this exercise. Firstly to see the work by my old chums, and to see the efficient way that things happened.
When I arrived at the Museum after journeying from North Wales, the work of hanging the show was well underway.
This being a self-selecting show, being staged by friends, everyone was doing their own hanging in a space which had been allocated by lot.
Here are a few pictures showing the process...........
N.B., Click on images to zoom.
......and here is a quick preview of some of the work on show..
(I'm still sticking my own stuff up).
Having completed the hanging, Ted took some formal photos of the individuals. . .
. . . and he had also produced some very elegantly designed graphics for each of the artists.
This is one of the publicity articles which appeared in the press. There were others, and I may put them up here at some future point.
The private view is next Saturday and with luck, I hope to see you there.
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In which painting do we find this newspaper, and who painted it?
(The answer will be in the next posting.)
And here's the answer from the last posting -
by Gustave Courbet, 1849-50 (Destroyed during WW2)
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"Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality."
Edgar Degas
. . and now, a Recommended Read . .
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Music
Click here to find a few songs on YouTube, and I'll add more as time goes by.
Music
Beyond painting, my other preoccupation is music - particularly songwriting.
I've recently started, just for fun, linking the two preoccupations together, by featuring a few paintings along with one of my recorded songs. If you have a spare minute, you're welcome to take a look. . .
These songs can also be found on (and downloaded from) iTunes, Spotify, CDBaby, and many other platforms, - (my intention is to upload a different song each month)
Also in the last period I've been recording some songs with some friends - have a listen here if you have the time.
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I remember reading this many years ago and being struck by the realism, and by the harsh barbarism of life in the labour camp. This grimness was underlined when one realised that this particular day was one which Ivan regarded as a 'good' day, - because most things had gone well for him.
First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature. The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, it graphically describes his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin's forced work camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most extraordinary literary documents to have emerged from the Soviet Union and confirms Solzhenitsyn's stature as "a literary genius whose talent matches that of Dosotevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy"--Harrison Salisbury
This unexpurgated 1991 translation by H. T. Willetts is the only authorized edition available and fully captures the power and beauty of the original Russian.
Review from Amazon.
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