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OPEN STUDIOS 10th and 11th September

Throwaway World Exhibition

See more of exhibition at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Scunthorpe-United-Kingdom/20-21-Visual-Arts-Centre/116940305470

Campaign to reduce street clutter

Have spent the week conducting vigorous campaign to stop an absurd forest of unnecessary street posts appearing throughout Hammersmith.  We already spend so much time dealing with visual information in the city, that surely is aesthetic as well as financial and environmental madness to increase it simply to comply with pointless bureaucracy.  The Council claim that, even in well signposted streets they need to comply with the law meticulously, instead of find a different, creative solution.  This means signposts in every bay and every 15 - 30 m apart - a total of 15km of steel tubing in Hammermith alone.  Does this mean the whole of the country will be filled with steel posts too?  We are trying to find out.

Paris

If you go to Paris go to Musee de la Bourdelle near Montparnasse.  It's the house and studio of a 19th century artist (not that interesting) but a fantastic place with a crowded basement of plaster casts, and interventions by contemporary artists.  The current Director is leaving and at the moment there's a really good show with several artists including Boltanski and Deacon and others until September.

GREY MAY 14

Solid or not?

Have just finished this series of drawings and taken them to the framers to see how I can protect them but keep them uncluttered.  Am enjoying how they are read as either solid or deep holes.  I experimented with digging holes into the plaster of the studio - it did look like a hole but no more really than the shapes do on paper, and it felt more as if I were playing with illusions.

RBS Council

Have just been elected onto the Council of the RBS (Royal British Society of Sculptors) - am very excited about it.

The Perfect Gallery

Went to a fantastic exhibition at the Pump House Gallery in Battersea Park- just opened.  "Pump House Gallery has invited German artist Christian Jankowski to realise an ambitious solo project that will take place in spring 2010. With the artist’s aim to create ‘The Perfect Gallery’ this will mark a significant development in both Jankowski’s practice and the programming aspirations of Pump House Gallery.

 

For ‘The Perfect Gallery’ Jankowski has contracted an interior designer and team of builders to undertake real renovations to the gallery and in conjunction will produce a video that follows the format of an interior-design makeover programme presented by Gordon Whistance. The episode’s aim will be to create ‘the perfect gallery’ from the Pump House Gallery’s idiosyncratic fusion of 19^th-century architecture and 1980s interior styling.

 

As dictated by the reality TV genre, the narrative of the transformation will include dramatic and emotional episodes, discussions on architectural and aesthetic decisions and matters of taste, and inspiration visits to other galleries in London in the quest for ‘The Perfect Gallery’.  " http://www.pumphousegallery.org.uk

THE ICELANDIC VOLCANO GREY

The ash has obscured the sun.