It has been a persisting puzzle to me as to which is the best system for storing photographs of my work. A couple of years ago a colleague mentioned the Dropbox system to me, and in fact registered me with them. For a variety of reasons, I have never had the occasion to familiarise myself … Read more
I’ve just returned from a party held at the South Square Centre. Although not the summit of sociability it was a thoroughly worthwhile experience. I had conversations with three other artists, and a chance to get to know the new junior curator at the Centre. It did make me think (as I have often done … Read more
Yes: that is what I was told. It seems that there is such a thing. I had a somewhat overdue discussion today with the person who is redoing my website. Actually, I was quite proud of the fact that I had devised a system for collating and presenting material for the new site. My system … Read more
Well, I certainly had that feeling today invigilating our winter exhibition at The Gallery Upstairs.* Invigilating an exhibition on a Sunday afternoon in the middle of winter is not usually looked on as an exciting prospect among our members. I confess that the realisation that this is my spot on the rota doesn’t normally see … Read more
Today the Unit 9 gallery at there South Square Centre changes its name. From now on we will be known as The Gallery Upstairs. When the Centre first began to operate, the various elements in it continued to be known by the numbers of the retail units in the building. The area which became the … Read more
I encountered an interesting discussion on the radio the other day in which it was mentioned (in passing) that during the “Reformation” English churches underwent a radical change in their appearance. Whereas, typically, the walls of churches had been covered with pictures depicting Biblical themes, the dominance of Protestantism had resulted in the whitewashing over … Read more
A large part of the past couple of days has been spent in the revision of this web-site. An essential element of that process has been an inspection of everything both on the current web-site and in my records in order to decide what should go in and what deserves to be left out. My … Read more
Several years ago we went to one of the last performances given by the celebrated stand-up comedian Ken Dodd. It was a very memorable occasion, and one of the gags which has remained with me was the following. Doddy was from Liverpool, of course, and the performance was in Harrogate. At one point, admitting to … Read more
The task of preparing material for the revision of this web-site is well under way, but I had not anticipated the labour it would involve. I have been through the existing “galleries” identifying old material I want to eliminate. Then I have constructed an elaborate table in which I record, gallery by gallery, the items … Read more
Over the past two days I have become even more convinced than I always have been of the potential of contemporary technology actually to suffer from insanity. At last I have begun to make serious progress with the preparation of material for the revision of this website. I congratulated myself on having devised a routine … Read more