This week...

The former Halifax building (now known as Nomad Creative Space) in Hastings town centre is fully up and running, the current exhibition 'WOOD' opened this evening, and runs until Sunday (1st November). Featured artists/ makers: Hastings & Bexhill Recycling Project/ Jim Roseveare/ Scott Robertson/ Patrick Burton/ Lorna Crabbe/ Barry Dodgson/ East London Printmakers & Friends. I've included three small portraits on wood.

HANDMADE AND BOUND is this Sunday 1st November, 12-6pm at St Aloysius Hall, Euston (www.handmadeandbound.co.uk). I'm sharing with Ed Boxall & Christina Borsi. I've a new bird woman book in production... (images above).

OMIYAGE exhibition- Crabbe Palace- Sept/ Oct '09

OMIYAGE exhibition booklet (exhibition closes Sunday)

The closing event is this Sunday (18th October) from 6pm- last chance to catch it, before the work is carefully packed up and sent back to Japan. I'll post more photos of the exhibition on here, soon.

Eric settles down and prepares for winter

Top five most prententious photos of me taken at art school. There are others, just too humiliating to put up here.

No. 1- Art Foundation course, Bath, 1996. That was my boyfriend, Clive, dead on the floor behind me.

No.2- Art Foundation again, 1997. God, I loved that tree.

No.3- This is probably the most pretentious, because, clearly, I can't play the guitar. This was my room on Magdelene Road, Oxford, 1999.

No.4- Queer Bop, Laura's halls at Wadham College Oxford, 1996.

No.5- From a series of polaroids of me dressed up in odd locations all over Bath, taken by Clive, 1997.


Didn't realise the quality is so bad- I'll scan properly at some point, when I mend my scanner.

Coming up...

I've been sorting out my study, finding all kinds of odds and ends, but my next post will be the top 5 pretentious photos taken of me, while at art school. It's going to be hard narrowing it down..

The Office, and other things...

So, Coastal Currents has finished for 2009, though some of the outdoor projects will stay up for Hastings Week, which starts this weekend. Also, we have now secured the former Halifax building (next to Jempsons) which has been taken on temporarily as a project and events space, and is housing several artists, collectives and creative businesses.

Creative Coast is moving it's HQ to a small office there (see image above!) where we'll be based for the next couple of months. The hope is that once we have to move on, we can trot over to the former House of Hastings, Queens Road. So, we're applying for a small grant to help us get things running, and we're looking to build up the workshops/ events/ projects we started as part of this year's festival. We're also putting in a bid to manage the festival for the next two years... (I know?!) Watch this space...

Other things coming up....

I'm taking part in Handmade & Bound artists' book fair - 1st November, St Aloysius Hall, Euston (www.handmadeandbound.co.uk)

Ed Boxall and I have a show at Eat@Claremont, Hastings during December of lino and drawings.

I'm taking part in the grand Plasto-Baader-Books (2-24th December), a 'cavernous assemblage of unique artists' books selected for their originality and conceptual response to the book form'. It'll be at Kaleid Editions, Unit 2, 23-25 Redchurch Street, London, E2 7DJ

And TIG (The Illustration Group) are having an exhibition at Christmas time, at McCarrons of Mercatoria, Norman Road, St Leonards, more details to come, and hopefully another exhibition (Beyond the Clouds) at Trinity, Tunbridge Wells at Easter.

And... if we all make it to September 2010, I'm taking part in a group show based around the Hastings Rarities Affair collection, at Hastings Museum & Art Gallery. Feathers and beaks galore.

I'm also looking for a temporary P/T job. Some of my skills/ attributes listed below:

* Highly skilled at catching, removing, and killing fleas from cats
* Competent at removing matted fur from cats (I've pioneered a new technique)
* Enthusiasm for folding jumpers
* Very polite
* Owns lots of nice dresses
* Can draw things with a reasonable likeness
* Actively likes sherry
* Can assume an air of moderate intelligence (heightened when wearing glasses)
* Very neat handwriting
* Can open an Excel document, scroll down and carefully close it again.
* Unusually good at mirror writing
* Can smooth down the corners of a case bound book cover very neatly, with or without the use of a bone folder.