Working towards 3 exhibitions in different states - The upcoming
show in Bristol is now on the Bristol book arts web site http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/les-bicknell.htm
and the work is packaged up – apart from, as ever, the new books I am making
specially for the space....
Now working on the proposed show in August/September for
imprints in France http://www.imprints-galerie.com/
- at the moment I think that it’s an opportunity to show some of the more
appropriate pieces from the unpicking and rebinding body of work.
The proposal for cley14 is evolving – I have a meeting
with Polly Binns in a couple of weeks as carrying out my initial idea is proving
to be not so straight forward.
The latest faster than sound was quite sublime – an example
of really solid high quality - what Aldeburgh music does well – https://tickets.aldeburgh.co.uk/Online/richardskelton
Richard Skelton has an interesting hybrid practice which involves text, sound,
image making and the book – all published from some intriguing web sites - http://richardskelton.wordpress.com/
the first piece called EA was like listening
to the sound of a painting of a river by an artist from the Norwich School –
someone like Crome or Cotman.
Finally the true detective series is remarkable – from the
thoughtfully disturbing opening credits to the final comforting conclusion via
the brutal but elegant episode 4 raid and episode 8 set dressing - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Detective_(TV_series)
