Leaving party...

TOTAL SHAMBLES!

I went away for 10 minutes and when I came back there had been a mini riot and the police were just taking away the drunken mentals that caused it....

Obviously the rest of the night went just as well, but thank you to those who did turn up and endured the obvious pain of having to stay!!

:)

The countdown is on!

We are on 3 days to go, and counting!

Organisation is a sepia nightmare!! ;)

We are having a photo taken for the Evening Post tomorrow and getting the ambulance out of the garage with fresh new (safe!!) breaks ready for you all to check out at Monkey bar tomorrow night at our leaving do... Please come along if you can, you will regret it when you start to miss us if you don't! :P

Thanks to everyone who is supporting us!

DO MY BIDDING!!

Postcards, t-shirts, business cards...

Got these in the post today....

Feel free to use the address you can see to post wonderful, or not so wonderful stuff to...

No padded envelopes of poo though please ;)

Technology hates me :(

Why doesn't anything work?

I think I have an electromagnetic field, my superpower....

Netley's map....

Really important stuff....

Myself and Netley have been working ever so hard today.....

A few thank-you's

We are throwing out a few more thank you's....

Thank you to Lush in Swansea for providing us with the stuff we will need to stay beautiful (;P) while we are away....

Thank you to John Abell, who is an awesome printmaker, for doing my bidding and donating me The Wave (loved it forever!) which will accompany us across many borders!

Thank you to Thom O'Sullivan for the totally useful sugar tongs which shall be used with a stiff upper lip on many a tea fuelled intercontinental occasion!!

And finally, but most importantly, thanks again to docscanning.co.uk.

Please come and send us off with a good night!

Fundraiser/Leaving do!

New Elysium Building....

We went to check out the new Elysium Gallery building today and sort out our space for the opening exhibition... We have a whole floor dedicated to us, it's huge. We found a hideous artefact of the buildings previous use...

Here are a few pictures of the space we will be using which we are quite excited about.....

One last thing, some douchebag has keyed one of our windows quite deeply. Whoever it was a little message to you; Jealousy is a nasty thing and it's only going to mess you up inside. Chill out and try to focus on improving your seemingly sad life, it's not hard to think positively and to respect your fellow humans.

More rushing around....

We seem to be fighting a losing battle trying to get everything sorted.... The main problem being that I have 4 kids and so limited time to do stuff before they need picking up from school. We are plodding along slowly sorting everything out, just not as much as I had hoped.....

If you are in Swansea Metropolitan University tomorrow expect to see me underneath the ambulance attempting to tighten the handbrake cable!

So today's photo doesn't have Netley or myself in it looking stupid, it is of some of the things we have had to buy today...

We will be checking out Elysium gallery's new building on Friday morning, there is a possibility that we will be able to drive the ambulance into the building (through doors, not smash and grab style) for the exhibition, which I am quite excited about! A quick spin around the new building until I get the ambulance firmly wedged in somewhere to become a permanent exhibit!!

I was right, today is another day!

To wash or not to wash, that was the question!

The answer we decided on was; "Aye!"

We scrubbed our little hearts out but to our dismay she still looks as grubby as before...

Smells a lot better now though! :)

We have also completed some other bits and bobs too, honest guv!

Embarrassing pictures numbers 2 and 3:

So much to do, so little time!

According to Sod's Law, section 6, paragraph 3 we were forbidden from doing too much today!

Having had the internal lights left on inside the ambulance for 2 days by my kids we were off on a mission to buy jumper cables!

Back at the ambulance all went badly until I realised I had the cables attached to the wrong battery, silly me! so half the day wasted we popped off to Dunelm for (totally essential) retail therapy....

Got ourselves the things we needed and had an embarrassing photo taken for your perusal because I'm sure you all want to see everything we do!!

Tomorrow is another day and I am certain we will be more efficient then!!

One more little thing, if you are ever in Victoria Park in Swansea you can see this....

;) Has been there a good year now.. see if you can find it, Do My Bidding!

Tactile Bosch!!!!

WE HAVE BEEN OFFERED A SHOW IN JULY OF THE CULMINATION OF THIS WORK IN TACTILE BOSCH!!

So, some people having been asking where we are going....

Clearly I am not very good at this blogging thing yet as obviously I should be letting you all know where we are going! Div :P

Starting off late on 31st of March we will be leaving Swansea for Harwich where we will get the ferry to Denmark....

From Denmark we will drive to Sweden where we will be working at our first gallery, tapper-popermajer. Next we go to Saksala ArtRadius in Finland. The next gallery, Sabot, is quite a drive, it's in Romania! To get there we will go through Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary. From Romania we head to Serbia and Elektrica and then we go to Croatia's Labin Art Express (the place I think Netley is most freaked out by!!). From Croatia another long drive through Slovenia, Austria and Germany to Belgium, we are still waiting for ultimate confirmation from this gallery as the dates have changed,Gallery-Gabrichidze. From there it is through to France and then back home where we will be exhibiting the entire work in Elysium Gallery's new building.

So, now you all know where we are going. For Netley's sake if you don't hear from us in this blog after each country (dates may or may not be posted here soon - bad memory, will forget) send out International Rescue... 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!

Oooops, this should've been the first post!

Many thanks to our sponsors docscanning.co.uk

Luckily for us (and him because he now has a very good job) the managing director of the company went to university in Wales and was therefore willing to fund our project as we are promoting Wales across Europe, also probably because he is a well educated man he has a great appreciation of the arts!

Hum, so I was contacted by the paper....

The Evening Post called today, I gave an interview over the phone. It was most embarrassing as I used words like "discourse" and other anal art talk. I did however make my view on art/artists known.... (if you know me then you will know I think it's pretty much mainly bullshit).

So keep those peepers out for the Evening Post so you can read all about my inability to communicate properly!

Will let you know when we will be featured, start saving your pennies to buy your copy!

Stage 1, Procuring a vehicle....

So, off we go to Weston Super Mare by train (thank you Swansea Metropolitan for the tickets) to collect the vehicle that will be our home for a month from 1st of April 2010.

An henceforth it shall be done, we go off into the realms of mystery and intrigue...

It has been decreed by a power almighty that we are to journey off into distant lands to bring a message of joy and goodwill to all people.

Europe...

Do it!