What a week it was last week setting Reggie up at the Ruthin Craft Centre! - it was the private view on Friday and officially opened on Saturday - I must say I am absolutely thrilled with the results. Ruthin Craft Centre have invested so much into the installation including building bespoke platforms for all the dogs to sit on so it the dogs themselves have much more of an impact then they did just sitting on the floor, a catalogue has been produced with a wonderful essay by Jane Audas (these are available mail order from Ruthin Craft Centre priced at £10) and an extra gallery space has been dedicated to my animation and film of me making a dog - I am so pleased with it - It was my first attempt at filmmaking and animation and it has been entered into a ceramics film festival in France so fingers crossed it will be selected. Two of my adverts have been made into huge billboards which look stunning and there is now a super rotating mirrorball!, one of my favourite additions is the neon sign that has been specially made by neon workshops.com based in Wakefield, Yorkshire - it really ties the whole show together. We got huge amount of help from Artworks exhibition logistics as due to the increased size its no longer an installation we can manage on our own - we simply couldn't have done it without them, so a huge thankyou to everyone who helped set up the show and if you havent made plans to see it yet please do - its well worth the trip - even if I do say so myself!
