Given the somewhat limited opportunities for art exhibitions throughout this horrible year, me and Amy nevertheless managed to get a couple of pieces of work into shows. We've already the "Get Carter" exhibition (at Scunthorpe) in a previous post, and here is the next one, which featured work by Amy. This project came about both through lockdown and through some experimentation with photoshop at work.
Back in the lockdown there wasn't a lot to photograph when confined to quarters, so Amy decided to focus on photographs of the various flora and fauna of the garden (and the surrounding countryside when the restrictions were eased a little towards the summer).
Not sure if things were more verdant or not, or if us not having as much else to see or do made the garden look brighter, busier, and more vibrant; in any case there were plenty of flowers and plants to photograph.
Back at work in September, Amy started to experiment a bit with collage and photomanipulations of some of the images, as example pieces for work some of the classes were doing. She then started doing more of them just as a hobby, and to create some nice, abstract pieces.
They were produced really just for personal satisfaction, but an opportunity arose to submit one of the pictures (tweaked afterwards a little to make it more abstract and graphical) for an open call show. This call, for the Postcard Project at a London gallery, has more info here;
The picture was chosen by the organisers, turned into a postcard, and also featured in this rather nice book, compiling the various entries to the call. Sold through galleries in both London and Glasgow, it's our first publication in a book (rather than a magazine) for a while, and was a pleasant surprise.
This makes the second exhibition of the year, and marks something of an upbeat note on an otherwise very trying 12 months. We've some other stuff in the pipeline, and Amy is waiting to hear back about an international show, so hopefully we'll be able to share some more information on the blog in due course.
In the meantime, we wish our readers a safe and happy Christmas.
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