May 29th 2013
Richard Alston Dance Company dance a mixed repertoire of Cunningham dances within the Barbican Art Gallery. I am there with my sketch book and pencils.
Archive for May, 2013
Dancing around Duchamp
Wednesday, May 29th, 2013Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
Tuesday, May 28th, 201327th May
I am delighted to tell you that my etching: SUB (Rambert Dance Company) has been selected to hang at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 10th June – 18th August.
SUB (Rambert Dance Company) Sugar Lift and Aquatint
SUB is an all-male work by Israeli choreographer Itzik Galili
Charlotte Spencer Projects
Wednesday, May 22nd, 201322nd May 2013
I am at Greenwich Dance (GDA) for a meeting with Charlotte Spencer to discuss a summer children’s project we will doing at GDA 12- 15th August, Summer Shake Up. I draw the workshop one of her colleagues is leading while I wait to chat with her.
Later I join them for a fascinating Walking Story in Greenwich Park.
Amstatten at The Place
Thursday, May 16th, 201327th May 2013
On 5th June at 8.00pm you have the opportunity to see Amstatten at The Place, an extraordinarily haunting, beautiful and moving dance. Choreographed by Robert Clark, the dance is a solo. I drew during the rehearsals at The Place (look out for my drawings on The Place Social Media).
Some of the many drawings of Janina Rajakangas rehearsing
The last few months…
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013November 20th 2012: the day my beautiful extraordinary Mum died
May 6th 2013: the day that would have been her birthday
Not a conscious decision to stop writing during this time, just that my heart went out of it. I have continued small work, drawing and etching but no painting, no sculpture, just work fitted around the necessity of sorting out my Mother’s house and all the contents. A huge sad job, going through her papers, clearing her house of furniture, pictures and possessions, cleaning and organising, with the aim to put the house on the market.
Not just down to me but as I live nearby and was her main carer and now the executer, the responsibility seems to lie with me. I have siblings, my sister lives abroad and my brother is a couple of hours drive away, however we’ve managed to all get together to work out who should take what, thankfully we are each so different from each other that the possessions haven’t split us apart. Our tastes and style so entirely different, the spaces we inhabit so different and it seems that the memories we associate with the objects are different too. Over the last few months we’ve been able to appreciate each others strengths. My brother’s ability with everything mechanical, he is a fixer, arriving with his van full of tools and his happy positive outlook. My sister’s strength lay in her cataloguing, there were so many books and I was at a complete loss as to what to do with them all. And me what was my strength? No idea, maybe just the ability to keep at it until the job was finished.
Now I am back in my studio, preparing work for the Open Studio and it feels good to be here.
Open Studio May 2013
Sunday, May 5th, 2013OPEN STUDIO
Saturday May 18th and Sunday 19th 11.00am – 6.00pm
Studio 17, Unit 0, SFSA
Harrington Way, Warspite Road, London SE18 5NR
Force Fields. 2012. Oil and acrylic on paper