we now have the final descriptive sentence for the art trail...

In the 2011 pilot year, we have 9 artists across 7 venues, a peripatetic work and a performance.

bringing it all together.

with less than a week until 11th, i turn my attention to the art trail again after 3 fairly solid weeks concentrating on my arts council funded snee snaw project. i am quite tired from the performance on sunday, however the later stages of co-organising the art trail is giving me some space from the snee snaw. i reflect that in later years that maybe leaving it all to the week before might not be such a good idea.

having said that, i contacted the participating artists and their collective responses to mounting the exhibition has been brilliant. we're on course for the exhibition to be viewable by the 11th. i acknowledge the help and support of chris and all of those other artists exhibiting at this year's belper art trail.

in terms of learning about mounting the trail, i am certainly doing that and there is a slight risk that the downloadable brochure might not be ready until the 14th july.

as a pilot scheme, i feel i am learning loads and i can't wait to see all the work installed in all the shops.

on a personal note, i have been over ambitious with attempting a new piece of work for the trail. i had hoped to show the new work in lester and nix. it is looking very likely that i will be unable to show any work this year, as the involvement with organising the trail this week leaves me no viable time to make the new work. the work was going to be thinking about the artist as potential. in this case i have not reached a potential i had set out for myself. i hope to make this new work in the future and show it at another opportunity.

I'm thinking of a strategy to include lester and nix in the trail, even though i am unable to show within the premises.

Lovely Sunny Derbyshire

I'm very excited about having this blog to write in, I will be recording my thoughts and the experience of setting something up in the town I live in.

I love Belper, it's full of creative, interested and genuine people. There are a lot of artists based here, so it feels good to have an opportunity to show off all we do and maybe an excuse to go to one of the excellent pubs to discuss the whole thing.

So far we have some interesting premises to work with, the offer for an installation, six windows in the Black Swann on the Market Place to consider and a spiritual shop on the A6, so a really good mixture of venues to suit our different artforms.

making a contribution

i'm happy to be contributing to the 2011 Belper Art Trail. i look forward to seeing this project evolve and look forward to meeting with and working with contributors and collaborators from belper.