ESOL comments

All the written comments from the ESOL mini exhibition by it's visitors.

We were all (artists and ESOL students) having our photo taken with the work at the end and one woman came and asked if she could stand with me. I said of course she could. She said one day I will be famous, and she will have a photo of me with her :) This was one of the best things ever and made me really proud. When she said goodbye she said she hopes I have a happy life :) ...just awesome.

Ferens exhibition opening!!

Just been to the 'private viewing' (that sounds so cool) of the new maritime exhibition at the Ferens art gallery where I have a piece on display :D Was a really good night with free orange juice and small-bread-with-cream-cheese-and-strangely-wait-for-it-strawberries-on-top-things!! Of course I just stood next to my own work all night and earwigged to boost my own ridiculous ego :) No, really. For a little bit anyway. Heard some people say "She probably used one of them laser cutters" and I so wanted to scream that I didn't!! Only thing wasn't happy with is that each piece has a caption about its inspirations etc and mine was NOT what I had written AND had a spelling mistake so I look retarded. Tomorrow I'm going to see the person who organised it to get it changed so that it also says it is HAND cut as I had actually specified on the sheet, but nevermind :) After so much sophistication and culture, I went to Godfathers and got a large kebab.

Fundraiser :)

All actually went REALLY smoothly!! First up - Big Joe singing songs about his mums boobs and Osoma Bin Laden... Pigsty next with an impressive set (actually REALLY enjoyed them). Then we did the raffle. What can I say about the raffle. Noone was really listening so we had to call out 39 numbers for each prize but hey it worked out all the prizes went in the end!! Sold all the Tshirts and a bag. Last up were Counting Coins - everyone was up dancing and that made my night really nice and sweaty about 400 degrees in there. Raised a SPLENDID £180 for advertising our final exhibition at the college. Flyers and invitations to be designed, made and distributed now... Thanks to everyone who helped organise, run, get drunk, danced, turned up, had positive thoughts and made it a really good night. Bit different for some people so hope they enjoyed it too, I am at my second happiest at a shithole gig with a glass of lemonade :)

My first happiest is the cinema. I REALLY love going to the cinema.

Swell :D

Well, that went fantastically today!! I thought perhaps 'a few' students would attend... not 20 :) They were all really interested it was great - got a lot of comments in our book from them and from other people passing by. Nice idea to have that I think. Had some guy filming us as we discussed with the ESOL students as they asked questions and I asked them some. The piece I had done about drinking water where I had included some text in Lithuanian was correct and I was surprised to find that the girl who had written it, Margarita, is actually a girl I work with! Small world. Small town... very happy with this exhibition after a lotta work and even my dad came to see it. Link for the video will be up next week some time. Ugh, I am not looking forward to seeing my face or hearing my voice on a video. I don't get how actors don't get sick of the sight of their own face.

Mini-exhibition for ESOL

My little display :)

Tomorrow some of the people who wrote these stories are coming to see the work and someone is coming to film me and the other artists about our work which is swell, I love talking about my work and I am very fortunate I have so many people that let me go on and on and on about it :D

Poster number 2

They wanted moooore so I did a female version too...

ESOL poster

I was asked to make a poster for the exhibition so here it is. I used stark black and white contrast for obvious reasons (equality and diversity week) and a silhouette like on police interviews when the person wants to remain anonymous. Yes, it is Lewis. He just has a good face for photos. Lucky bastard. I used individual lines from stories and poems within the booklet to entice people - like a blurb on a book or headline in a newspaper, to hopefully make people want to know more. Shock factor usually works, I know I'd be interested in reading their stories. Well I was interested or I wouldn't have done the work. BABBLING.