Art & design related update.

Spoiler: I didn’t get a spot for the exhibition but I didn’t walk away empty handed either!

I found out about Artworks 2022 exhibition application process before Christmas. It was one of those things that I wistfully signed up for and didn’t really think too much about how I would carry it out if I did get chosen. Winged it, basically.

Got invited to the selection process to show my work as displayed. This was initially booked the same weekend the UK had power-cuts and gales galore. It got postponed for another month. I drove a 2 hour round trip to give it a shot on the Saturday 26th March.

I spoke to a lovely lady whose work was simply breathtaking. Incredibly inspiring. Might I add, her work was soft and sensual but also hot as fuck!

She took the time to take a look at my table as displayed and said some really lovely and encouraging things to me. I could see instantly when I was setting up that my work was like no other displayed there.

A lot of other artists had more traditional processes and I do feel this may have been my ‘downfall’ in this scenario. The committee had a preference that ‘Giclée’ prints weren’t really something they were looking for as they’d rather display mono, screen and lino printers. Why? I’m not really sure.

I know that my process is just as valid as a relief-printer for example.

If there’s one thing I do wish I could have done that whole trip; it would have been to have been able to record the scenery and drive.

I drove out to a little village called Botesdale. Sweet little area.
The whole drive I kept appreciating how grateful I am to live in the gorgeous Suffolk.

I pretty much received a call the next morning to say I hadn’t been selected. The Chair added that she was impressed with how I presented myself in my application and that she would still like to offer me some opportunity to promote myself.

Oh well, you win some you lose some. Quite literally in this case though.

My thoughts: very conflicting that I would be rejected from the artwork perspective but left such an impression in person that they wanted to offer me at least something.

I’ll keep y’all posted if this materialises into anything!

I wanted to use this opportunity to be transparent about something that was kinda a lil side-quest in my life.

Sometimes we don’t win, folks. And that’s okay. ✌

I hope you enjoyed the read.
Catch y’all in another life.

Lex 💚