Tuesday, November 14, 2006
NOVEMBER 10th (Meeting)
Friday's meeting was almost a washout! First the show (Darwaza Khula Hai) was cancelled and then only 3 Ambassadors turned up. However, on reflection it wasn't such a bad thing and it forced us to get real about the exhibition's timescale. We decided that there's no way we could turn round a fantastic exhibition in Space C by early February + create all the publicity! It also makes sense to time an exhibition created by the SAAmbassadors around the public live event in May 07. Hence, I took our reflections to Jonathan Kennedy who will change the dates accordingly (tba).
At Friday's meeting were Nadia, Moksha, Nasreen and myself. We concentrated on finding a theme for our exhibition - and although we didn't come up with anything solid and conclusive, we did agree that the exhibition should reflect South Asian diversity and be a celebration of culture in Croydon. Nadia spoke about her work as an artist and described the wonderful techniques she uses to create 'layered' photographs that use all kinds of materials to convey particular expressions or moods (these are often produced as gifts). From this we were inspired by the idea of inviting local South Asian artists to portray Croydon's SA community.
Some ideas for who the artists might be at this stage include, Sohail Anjum (photographer), Parminder Sekon (photpgrapher/actress) and of course yourselves, the Ambassadors! This will involve some research and decision as to who we might approach. We decided to meet again on Tuesday 28th November at 6pm to advance our plans further and then we can also stay on and see Too Close To Home together.
Since the meeting.......
Nasreen has been thinking about the concept for the exhibition and the word that came to mind was layers. rather than rip off one person's specific idea of layering a photo, she likes the idea of taking the term and applying it to differnt mediums. She likes the idea of making a short film that would use the notion of layers. She has also been talking to a few SA artists to see who might be interested in contributing......
At Friday's meeting were Nadia, Moksha, Nasreen and myself. We concentrated on finding a theme for our exhibition - and although we didn't come up with anything solid and conclusive, we did agree that the exhibition should reflect South Asian diversity and be a celebration of culture in Croydon. Nadia spoke about her work as an artist and described the wonderful techniques she uses to create 'layered' photographs that use all kinds of materials to convey particular expressions or moods (these are often produced as gifts). From this we were inspired by the idea of inviting local South Asian artists to portray Croydon's SA community.
Some ideas for who the artists might be at this stage include, Sohail Anjum (photographer), Parminder Sekon (photpgrapher/actress) and of course yourselves, the Ambassadors! This will involve some research and decision as to who we might approach. We decided to meet again on Tuesday 28th November at 6pm to advance our plans further and then we can also stay on and see Too Close To Home together.
Since the meeting.......
Nasreen has been thinking about the concept for the exhibition and the word that came to mind was layers. rather than rip off one person's specific idea of layering a photo, she likes the idea of taking the term and applying it to differnt mediums. She likes the idea of making a short film that would use the notion of layers. She has also been talking to a few SA artists to see who might be interested in contributing......
