Well what a lovely weekend and a great Friday night. It’s so good for the soul to be around like-minded people all trying to make sense of things in a creative way. How fascinating to see the different responses to the same starting point. Thank-you all for being so lovely, I had only met Antonio and Nick prior to the private view and was a little nervous of feeling a bit on the outside of the loop. But not a bit of it! I had a great time and it was really lovely to put some flesh on those facebook profile pictures. Right from first walking in on Friday everybody went out of there way to help, thanks Nick for sorting those pesky screws!
In the absence of my artists statement during the show I thought i would explain here my take on the theme for this first exhibition for anyone who I didnt get to speak to, who may have been wondering. I took the hyphen from the name B-VAC, which is defined as ‘ a short connecting line joining 2 seperate parts’. To me that spoke of the connection i have to my babies, both born and unborn and it immediately threw up images of the umbilical cord that for one magical moment in time allows that connection to become physically tangible and to take on flesh.
Great to see everybody elses translation of the same theme coming together in such a diverse show. Have added some of the pics I took of you all with your work and am now wondering why on earth I didnt get shots of everyone.
And finally a big thank-you to Nick for all your hard work. Bring on the next one i say!
