The gallery has been busy this week with all of the artists working on their individual projects for Common Ground. The phone has been ringing a lot, with various press enquiries, and I have been along to Cross Rhythms Radio Station to do an interview.
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Kate has been in preparing the green man costume, ready for the workshop on Saturday morning.
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Kate, Andy and I trawled a little trolley from the gallery up into town to buy some hanging baskets, soil and flowers for the
repopulation of the Bandstand.
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We brought them back to the gallery and created the
baskets - and I have been watering them each day since - they look great and I
am sure once they are on the bandstand they will look brilliant.
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I was hoping that we could leave them in
situ after the event, but we can't as once our event has finished they become the Council's responsibility - and so if they fall on someone....
Andy has also been working hard creating the Usherette's ice cream tray, which is just so beautiful!
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At first it looked like this (above) - which actually I was tempted to keep - I like the wood look.
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But then once painted it really does seem to reference ice cream. We have purposely not specified the goods that the Usherette might be selling - so that perhaps I can use the Usherette tray again.
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This was one of those weird moments of serendipity - I laid out the Common Ground Maps into the Usherette Tray, and they fit exactly!
It is just 4 days until the event kicks off, and though I am feeling the burn, I am also really looking forward to seeing what happens. Join us!
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