Well the press is done and it looks handsome in the space and I am glad we are there if only to be near Dan Holdsworth photographs - which i covert. The press as we said is problematic for me on all sorts of levels and to then end up drawing landscapes for days on end has been a conceptual compromise, and makes me again ask the question - what do they do? - the drawings that is = that i can draw, look, reflect on my position in relation to the farm, to see, to consider the sublime etc...all of which is fine but i suspect there's more that could be done in the world.
It was interesting that our working methods and characters are so different and revealed themselves through-out the construction and i will take that forward for our future making. This alongside our ability to quickly problem solve aesthetic/formal problems is interesting. We have a very similar eye and sense of when a works working. Im not sure its from ongoing collaboration or an arts school training? either way i think its a strength.
I do think we should look to show the work again alongside other artists, a show curated by us, that ask questions around reconsidering representations of landscape. For example how do we show what we do in the wider world - not this piece but the stuff to do with the Poly etc. The website David Gilbert sent over is interesting but related very clearly to Clare Bishop and Grant Kester but i think it touches on ideas around our work, although i am keen that the show does not have a relational aesthetic feel as i believe we have something to say about Propositions and the legacy of the APG and perhaps in there, there's room for our Ruskin Archive.
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