ANNABEL TILLEY writes: The tenth Coastal Currents has proved the best Festival ever, thanks to all the hard work put in by festival organisers, and contemporary fine art gurus: Sarah Yates, Lorna Crabbe at Creative Coast, and Christine Gist. I can see many of us will need to invent a new shorthand to express our pleasure. Here’s one I thought of earlier: MLTP! (More like this please), and here are two of the things I enjoyed:
EAT@CAFE: 10 Slides, 10 minutes was a funny, moving and serious quick view of ten artists’ work, including: architect Hugh Davis, illustrator Hannah Rollings, artist Roz Cran, film maker Saffron Summerfield, and bibliotherapist Lucy May Schofield (visiting from Manchester).
It was a pleasure to see examples of the hidden talent that does exist in Hastings. 10 slides, 10 minutes is also a great new format for artists and their audience. It means the viewer gets a quick overview of an artist’s practice, while the artists themselves have to perform the discipline of distilling their practice down.
I particularly enjoyed the dry sense of humour across the variety of projects that Scott Robertson showed us, and I laughed out-loud when Hugh Davis explained the estate agent’s rhetoric behind his Sea Glimpse mirror project, on view in the sunken garden on the sea front near Debenhams. 10 Slides, 10 minutes would be ideal as a regular project, and with the addition of a glass of wine and informal questions at the end could also become a useful and enjoyable networking opportunity. MLTP!
BULLET COFFEE HOUSE: East London’s Vyner Street comes to East Sussex’s Robertson Street.
How seriously do you take your practice? What are the five steps to artistic success? And, do you know: what not to do when you enter an open-submission art event ? These were just some of the searching, poignant and fascinating questions Matt Roberts, founder of Matt Roberts Arts and the renowned annual Salon Open Submission Exhibition (www.salon09.co.uk), posed to the lucky artists who attended his talk at Bullet. Those non-attendees sadly missed out on some timely advice if you have ambitions to show your work beyond 1066 country. MLTP!
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