Breaking the Boundaries within the environment I live is to show my work within the neighbourhood, and to gauge people’s reactions.
This project started back in May 2011 with a visit to the local tattoo shop. The meeting which took place was a difficult meeting, the gentleman really seemed disinterested and he really wasn’t particularly forthcoming. However he did give me permission to use the shop front to shop a variety of prints reflecting the paintings I have been producing.
So to start with I thought I had found the ideal situation location amongst the local shops. The pieces would be shown in a clear and reasonably sized area. I thought that I could then concentrate on creating the work.
Then in July I found out that the management of the tattoo shop changed hands and the new manager would like to show my work, he was very keen not only to show the work but to be part of the work by volunteering to be a model for a piece of work.
I spent a long time within the shop being shown the sketchbooks of the tattooists who worked in the shop, however as the conversation continued, I became aware that the new management where making a lot of changes to the outside of the shop therefore I would be unable to show the work on the shop front. The only place the manager was willing to show my work was on a small area of the door. After discussions with Sue Weinstock and Sarah Lundy, who are parts of the team from the M.A with whom I was to share my ideas for this task. I decided that the tattoo shop wasn’t the right place to show my work.
