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I expect in future to prioritise work outside of the gallery space.  

 

I have much to clarify in terms of making contemporary artwork which is challenging and also works for and with a non-artist audience.  I want to contribute to a regenerative future, being an activist creatively on behalf of the planet and its inhabitants.

 

So I hope to make performance work that is of the New Genre, that is collaborative and in some way revolutionary.  I will continue my work with SAL and with Extinction Rebellion Wandsworth in the Arts team, the Wellbeing team and my local Affinity Group.  I also intend to make closer relationships with artists in Culture Declares Emergency.  I want to think further about if and how activist art can be combined with the world of galleries.

 

I would like to organise events that bring people together and I like working locally as well as more widely.  At present of course it is unclear how much travel is going to be possible.  I have ongoing involvement with Transition Town Tooting and I would like to help expand their local work as it is already a successful and dynamic group. Developing the annual autumn Tooting Foodival into a banquet, or creating a carnival to bring all communities together spring to mind. 

 

I will continue to apply for residencies, especially AER and others related to climate and environmental issues. Making applications to AER, although unsuccessful so far, has taught me a lot about how to develop my own ideas within a framework of what is required.

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I will be happy to continue my involvement with Dogma 19 and other groups setting up exhibitions together.

 

I am keen to develop the Pudpics photographic project into something more challenging, involving more artists communicating online across the world, perhaps developing a more specific theme.   I would like to professionalise the project, consider incorporating more stringent parameters such as historical factors connecting our countries or neo-colonialism, and perhaps pull in artists form other continents. 

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I want to advertise myself and my work more widely and particularly to improve my engagement with social media.  I am considering developing a series of workshops around Listening and Making, which combine my teaching, facilitation and personal development skills, which include an element of encouraging people to connect around their identities.  While an element of lockdown continues this may be a good way of ensuring that I continue to engage with people on or off-line on the basis of their creativity.

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I am fortunate in that I do not have to make a living from art as I am retired on a pension and have lodgers in my house to make up any shortfall.  It could be a disadvantage however to not feel the pressure to make work.  My experience of volunteer and community art is that it does not always provide enough in-depth challenge.  I will plan in future to share my house with artists and/or share a studio with artists outside of my home so as to remain connected and visually involved.

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