I'm really excited to have one of my pieces shortlisted for the RA Summer Exhibition. This is the first time I've been shortlisted, and the painting they have selected is 'The Towers II' which is, of course, part of my Visitors project.
I won't hear whether I have been successful until after my final degree hand in date, but even to be shortlisted feels like a great ending to my three years at University, and a culmination of all I have learned.
I'm not usually one for art fairs, as they tend to be filled with very commercial 'art for walls'...which normally constitutes far too many flower arrangements and bowls of fruit for me, but this was quite different.
I was initially drawn to the fair due the work of Tommy Fiendish, who's exhibition I hadn't managed to to catch at Saatchi in London previously, but the walls were filled with some fantastic contemporary artists, a few of which I will no doubt expand on later in this blog.
It was certainly worth seeing what other up and coming artists were doing, and how new ground is being made in art - and also whether this fair is something worth investing in at some point in the future.
