http://www.nigelgrimmer.com en-gb nigelgrimmer.com 2010-9-8T00:00:00Z nigelgrimmer.com http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#75014 As Ive been on a roll as far as competitions are concerned I decided to have another go at a competition in the UK. I entered three photos in The Discerning Eye show at The Mall Galleries today I found out all three were chosen Two were picked by the editor of Art Review Mark Rappolt the other was chosen by artist Ishbel Myerscough. Now I have to cross my fingers for a prizeThe show is on 1121st November 2010. 2010-9-8 12:55:49 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#49442 Next weekend my art studio will be open to the public as part of Lambeth Wide Open and Lambeth Open Studio. The opening hours are 116pm on both Saturday 3rd October and Sunday 4th October.I will hang a selection of my work in the studio including my best known series Roadkill Family Album and Places I Call Home as well as newer sculptures and prints. Hopefully you can see me working on three new photographic series you can let me know what you thinkMy studio is in Brixton opposite Brixton Academy above Dr Barnados charity shop.Just turn right out of the tube station walk along the High Street until you see Dr. Barnados on the other side of the road. Cross over the street the entrance to the studios is on the far side of the shop a big door with glass bricks each side. Im on the 3rd floor turn right out of the lift door. Its less than 5 minutes from the tube to my studio.Over 200 artists are opening their studios that weekend so you can do a tour I think it will be well signposted.For m... 2009-9-25 22:41:44 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#49477 Im currently in Venice for the first time attending my first Biennale. I love it Favourites include Hans Peter Feldman Miranda July and Elmgreen and Dragset. Ive found an amazing shop that sells handmade papier mache animal masks so am going to raise the funds for a Venetian Roadkill series in the near future. 2009-9-21 16:53:39 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#49478 I have quite a bit of lecturing coming up Ill be working with the new batch of Fine Art first years at University of Hertfordshire from October to December then Ill be giving lectures at The University of Middlesbrough and Bradford College in January. If you study at those Universities come say hello 2009-9-6 16:54:27 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#49476 On the last day of my Plastic Life touring exhibition it was confirmed that The Portland Collection are buying 27 of the photographs from my Places I Call Home series. Hurrah This is the first time Ive sold work to a large collection it includes Leonardo and Michelangelo The sale means I can fund some new art projects that Ive been wanting to create for ages and can get some new equipment for my studio. 2009-8-16 16:51:42 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#43604 Today my new show was reviewed by Robert Clark in The Guardian Guide httpwww.guardian.co.ukartanddesign2009jun20nigelgrimmerharleygalleryworksop Exhibition preview Nigel Grimmer Worksop Robert Clark Saturday 20 June 2009 Nigel Grimmer takes the conventions of family album snap photography and gives them a weird twist that is at times amusing and at others faintly unnerving. Here the selfconscious poses the banal compositions the suburban settings are infiltrated with the kinds of surrealistic incongruities that one might experience in particularly bizarre or embarrassing dreams. His Roadkill Family Album is a collection of prone portraits of family members dolled up in joke shop animal masks and seemingly abandoned as roadside victims. Grimmers mother is an owl his father a frog. His use of plastic masks and dolls imbues the images with a particularly kitsch and almost perverse form of nostalgia. Its as if childhood memories have been inextricably confused with some kind of met... 2009-6-20 16:30:01 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#43134 Today I made some new pages for the website. In the current projects section you can now see Baskerville Family Album and Minor Monuments. Both sections need some installation shots from The Harley Gallery but give people an idea of what Im working on. Next I want to add a section of work in situ and a shop where you can buy my catalogues and limited editions. 2009-6-11 17:54:17 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#43135 I HATE thinking up titles for my work And the rarely come easily... This week Ive been pestering a couple of my friends running ideas by them. Ive now decided that the new sculpture series Ive been working on will be called Minor Monuments I like that the title embodies the idea that the subject of the sculptures may be monumental to me but minor to anyone else. Also the sculptures recreate a memory of mine in 3D for which no snapshot exists and monuments are nostalgic scultpures. Im going to call the screen prints Baskerville Family Album after the font Ive selected for the work. I really like that the work blurs fact and fiction in the telling of stories from my past and that Baskerville captures this slippage perfectly giving the work a fantastic framework. Ive still not thought of a title for the new photographs set in the artworld though they are currently lumped into Places I Call Home I already know they are growing away from that series and will be printed on a different sca... 2009-6-9 17:57:37 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#43136 Ive decided to give my website a bit of an overhaul during the run up to The Harley Gallery opening. Firstly Ive spruced up the home page and added an image and made all the fonts match. Ive added a new gallery called I could have done that inside are images that other people have taken based on my work. Some have been sent to me by teachers who have based school or college projects on my work and some are from flickr. At some point I will contact the galleries that have run workshops alongside my exhibitions to see if they have any images to add. 2009-6-3 18:07:55 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#43133 I did an interview with Gay Times magazine today we talked about my work and The Harley show. The article should be in the July issue out the last week of June. 2009-5-29 17:52:14 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#41406 I was just selected as the artist of the month for the Axis online resource for contemporary art.I was chosen by the curator Paul Harfleet.You can read the related article here httpwww.axisweb.orgatSelection.aspxSELECTIONID19618 2009-5-11 10:43:38 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#40118 Nigel Grimmer Art News 15 SpringSummer 2009 Dear All Please find below details of three opportunities to view my art projects in the next few months I have work in the Made 2 Measure show in Norwich ArtampMuseum in Korea are showing my projects in their online gallery and in the summer I have a solo show Plastic Life at the Harley Gallery in Welbeck Nottinghamshire. I hope you get a chance to see one of them Best wishes for the summer Nigel www.nigelgrimmer.com Made 2 Measure I will be showing twelve images from my Places I Call Home series in Made 2 Measure a fortnight long exhibition on the theme of miniature worlds which will be shown in The Forum in Norwich Norfolk. The exhibition runs from Monday 27 April Saturday 9 May 2009. The private view will be at 6pm on Monday 27th April. The project has been organised by Suzie Hanna Norwich University College of the Arts NUCA and Richard Fair BBC Norfolk. The exhibition will be displayed on the Fusion highdefinition digital... 2009-4-19 16:57:22 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#35279 Ive been contacted by lots of students lately asking for help with projects or for tutorials. I AM on the visiting lecturerartist circuit just speak to the head of your lecture programme to request that I come to visit your University or College. This week Im at The University of Northampton then Bedford College and The University of Teeside in February. Im going back to the University of Hertfordshire soon too. If you go to any of those colleges remember to say hi 2009-1-20 18:59:03 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#32121 Today Gaywise opens at McKenzie Pavillion in Finsbury Park. Im showing two works form Places I Call Home. The show is open everyday 126pm up to the 28th November. 2008-11-10 15:13:05 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#32120 Today my work was reviewed in the Italian website Artsblog httpwww.artsblog.itpost2548lalbumfamiliarealternativodinigelgrimmer 2008-11-8 15:10:15 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#32123 I got a new studio today on Brixton High Street. The studio is quite big and has 24 hour access so I hope to be able to do a few open studio sessionsdrinkies for curatorsbuyers and anyone interested in seeing what Ive been working on I hope to do the first event in the spring when Ive got to grips with the sculptures Ive started... 2008-11-1 15:33:19 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#29337 Tomorrow is the last day of Time and Fire destroy all things at Milton Keynes contemporary although the catalogue will continue to be available from Amazon and my website. Im currently working on the next part of my touring show Plastic Life which will be shown in 2021 Arts Centre in Scunthorpe beginning 18th October. Im also starting to think about what to show in two group exhibitions Gaywise that will be shown in McKenzie Pavilion in Finsbury Park and Collectible at Bargate Gallery in Southampton. Both of these shows will take place in November more details for follow. 2008-9-6 16:26:54 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#29336 Today I did an interview for the Czech TV programme Q. Q is an alternative gay lifestyle programme a bit MTV style. We talked about my different art projects the programme will be shown in October. 2008-8-4 16:24:00 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#27129 Tonight is the opening of Time and Fire destroy all things at WHITEWALL in Milton Keynes The private view is from 5.30 to 7.30 all welcome Details can be found here httpwww.miltonkeynescontemporary.co.ukMK20contemporarynigelgrimmer.html 2008-7-17 13:35:47 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#27130 Today I did an interview with Joseph Cattell from BOYZ magazine for the section on people and their passions. We talked about my work inspirations influences and my relationship to art education. The magazine will be out next week. 2008-7-16 13:38:08 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#27132 The Norwegian fashion terrorist Kjell Nordstr246m blogged me on his site today Nigel Grimmer is one of the most interesting artists in modern art. httpbaronvonbulldog.blogspot.com200807nigelgrimmerroadkill.htmllinks 2008-7-12 13:54:50 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#29334 The Gay Doll Museum was censored from the gay Pride exhibition at City Hall because the curator there couldnt see what forty years of dolls depicting famous gay people and gay characters had to do with gay culture and heritage Thank you Boris ALL the decisions from City Hall lately are rubbish 2008-6-24 16:20:30 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#29335 Its been quite an eyeopening experience working on a public art commission for Milton Keynes shopping centre. There are a lot of rules when it comes to what can actually be shown. My Roadkill series wasnt allowed to be exhibited as it could upset small children and families even though the Roadkill show has proven my most popular series to be used for workshops with school groups and features in the new book Watch this Space Artists working with schools I was just told that five images from Places I Call Home are not suitable for the show as the general public could stumble upon the imagery unawares. Im going to try to get them in the catalogue as you cant really use the same argument for a book that you have to buy 2008-6-19 16:22:54 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#25262 For the last few months Roadkill Family Album has been projected in The New Life Shop gallery in Berlin my work was selected from the wooloo website as part of their New Life Visuals project. On Saturday 28th June from 9pm until late the whole of The New Life Visuals project will be displayed and there will be a closing party. The gallery address is New Life ShopChoriner Strasse 8510119 Berlin GERMANYUbahn Rosenthaler Platz U8 www.wooloo.org 2008-6-8 17:11:35 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#24837 I spent the week in Berlin catching up with friends and checking out the Berlin Biennial. Ive never been to a Biennial before and they are such a major part of the artworld. The show was truly awful I can still hold out some hope for future Biennial visits though as the general consensus is that this is really poor in relation to previous shows. So Venice 2009 here I come I dont think Ill even mention any of the work in particular as two days after my slog round the Biennial Ive already forgotten most of the pieces and Id prefer it to stay that way... 2008-5-29 19:48:34 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#24838 Today I went to the degree show of the students I had in my seminar groups earlier in the year I went begrudgingly as I was tired and was meant to be packing for Berlin. I was soooooooooooo glad I went though I had a really nice time and some of the students really made my day I was surprised that some of them had really paid attention to what I had said and felt it had made a difference with their practice. It was the first experience Id had of job satisfaction for a looooooooooooong time. Its made me more determined to hunt out some more lecturing for next year. It was nice to finally meet Alison Dalwood who organised the seminar groups for me. It was a great surpise to bump into Rod McIntosh who I knew from my degree in Sheffield hes now the programme leader for the Continuing Professional Development course at the University. Kimi Adam Vicky Liz Bonnie and Anna Marya good luck for the future and see you at your show in the Truman Brewery 2008-5-22 19:55:50 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#24840 Ive done quite well with my resolution to just get on with my practice and to ignore any applications proposals statements and even this blog Ive just worked on new photographs for the Milton Keynes show for the last eight weeks. My only slip was accidently sending portfolios to Photoworks and Foam magazines there was hardly any writing involved though... Both operate open submission programmes check them out 2008-5-18 20:09:08 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#20749 Today Lisa Gee the director of The Harley Gallery in Welbeck contacted me to say the gallery is going to take the tour They will show Plastic Life next summer at last another summer show All my private views have been in foul weather lately Im glad the tour will carry on after 2021 in Scunthorpe. It would be nice of we could fill one or two of the gaps in the schedule Bedford Creative Arts stills hasnt got back to me... www.harleygallery.co.uk 2008-2-28 14:29:47 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#20750 Ive done quite well with the things Ive applied for lately I got almost everything except the show at Elevator Gallery. I got the show in Southampton my Arts Council Grant and the show at Icetwice. Now Ive decided to be a bit more selective about the things I apply for. I dont think Im going to apply to be in anymore group shows unless they are in London. Im also going to only apply for things that will really make a noticable difference to my life as an artist. If I get asked to do things thats a different matter I just want to start getting more work done and ditch some of my paperwork Ive seen residencies in Tokyo and Vienna that sound really good and Ive applied for the Artsway residency and put in an application to Whitewall gallery space in Milton Keynes. 2008-2-26 14:51:15 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#20752 This evening I was at Rugby Art Gallery and Museum for Artist Question Time with Nigel Grimmer. I was on a panel to answer questions from new artists mainly about funding getting shows and living as an artist. Also on the panel was Sian Prime from StArt an organisation that provides business support for creative practioners Jessica Morgan who is now the curator at Rugby Art Gallery and Museum and Monica Fernadez who is their Arts Development Officer. We got quite a few questions and it was good fun. I really enjoyed it and was very pleased Id taken some time to revise my knowledge of the different funders Ive worked with. It was nice to meet everyone and to see the staff of RAGM again. It was good to meet Jessica she may have already found a potential new venue for the tour Sian and I went for dinner afterwards and nearly missed the train back to London which could have been a disaster For information on Sians work at StArt check out httpartworksmk.co.ukstart 2008-2-12 15:06:31 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#19166 Today was the opening of the group show Im in called Everything You Never Cared About at Arlington Arts Centre. The show was in Newbury Id never been there before so I went and looked round the town for a while. I didnt find anything I could use for photos in the junk shop but I did some clothes shopping After a massive dinner I met up with Matt Lippiatt and we got a lift to the Arts Centre. It was cool to see Matt again hes always entertaining it meant that we could have a chat about the group show we hope to do with Craig Fisher. I got to see some more of Matts work in the real world this time the series of tiny placards hes made produced from photos of dozens of different protest marches from various points in history. I liked the tiny scale and know that this kind of work will go really well with my own. We watched some amazingly accomplished films by students from Bournemouth Arts Institute. It was a really long day but I was glad I went Everything You Never Cared About Mon 2... 2008-1-25 18:42:43 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#19161 Today I was mentioned on the Eyestorm website they had a copy of The Guardian review by Robert Clarke. They described me as Aspiring Emerging and Possibly one to keep an eye out for this year 2008-1-24 18:16:48 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#19162 Today I saw myself on the cover of The Pink Paper with a doll of Big Gay Al from Southpark. The photo was taken to promote the opening of The Gay Doll Museum at Rugby Art Gallery and Museum. Sadly they got both the name of the gallery and the contact email address incorrect so I dont think it will help publicise the show as much as Id hoped Weirdly enough the first ever time my work featured in the press was exactly ten years ago this week on the cover of The Pink Paper A gay doll from my installation Passing was used for the first ever colour cover 2008-1-23 18:23:00 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#19165 Today I discovered that I had been mentioned in a real grown up book The installation I created in St. Martins windows in 1998 called Passing was mentioned in The Tropics of Desire Interventions from Queer Latino America by Jose Quiroga. I presumed the book must be new as Id not know about the mention before but it was actually published in 2000. Ill have to check out a copy httpbooks.google.combooksidQcB4vCm2TAkCamppgPA178amplpgPA178ampdq22nigelgrimmer22latinampsourcewebampotseqw428WGCampsigjIpyjkekhX7X6E8WImdu0AaGXcc 2008-1-21 18:32:50 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#18739 Today I posed for a photo for the cover of next weeks Pink Paper.The photo will be used to advertise the opening of The Gay Doll Museum at Rugby Art Gallery and Museum. 2008-1-16 19:40:42 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#19169 Tonight was the private view of my touring show Plastic Life opening at Rugby. It was a shame I couldnt get any of my mates to come along but the train prices and times from London were awful Luckily I was showing alongside local artist Eric Gaskell so he had a posse with him. I chatted to the staff who work in the gallery who are all pretty cool Vicky Mitchell and The Jackson Twins who work as gallery assistants and I had our photos in the local paper. We were outdone by the photos of Rugbys first page three stunner though... The weather was so awful I couldnt beleive it But it was still a nice evening I got to meet the mayor of Rugby who was the most enthusiastic person in regard to my work who I can remember meeting for a long time 2008-1-15 20:10:52 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#18514 There was a review of the Rugby exhibition in The Guardian Guide today Nigel Grimmer and Eric Gaskell Rugby Nigel Grimmer takes the stuff of personal and pop obsessions and builds up narratives that are as touching as they are daft. His raw materials include action figures comic books and trash film stills. Carefully collaged together these become components of tableaux that are then recorded with digital photography. His Roadkill Family Album pictured consists of prints of stretched out humans masked variously as foxes or badgers. Grimmer is good at pop pathos. The accompanying Community Space exhibition The Family Line features paintings prints and drawings by Eric Gaskell in which old tombstones and census records are composed into semiabstractions. Robert Clark Rugby Art Gallery and Museum Tue 15 to Mar 9 2008-1-12 12:30:26 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#18517 Today I went to Rugby to see The Plastic Life exhibition get hung up. I also installed part of The Gay Doll Museum in the museum I think its really cool that they are showing this. Everyone was really nice and helpful. 2008-1-9 12:44:45 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#18519 Today it was confirmed that I will give my lecture at Camberwell College on the 6th February. Afterwards Im going to give tutorials to some of the photography students. Im really looking forward to it Now I have to think of some other colleges to contact The Head of Photography Martin Newth had the show before me at Focal Point. He took some photos of tube stations at rush hour he used such a long exposure that the stations look empty cool He also took long exposures of suburban houses at nighttime so they end up looking like they are taken in the day but the streets are abandoned. 2008-1-3 12:48:30 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#17936 Today I got a small award from the OppenheimJohn Downes Memorial Trust. The award means Ill not have to carry my pictures between galleries any more and will be able to get taxis The charity gives awards to artists over the age of thirty who are of British descent. www.oppenheimdownestrust.orgdownloadsoppenheimapplicationform2008.pdf 2007-12-29 15:29:04 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#17674 The comments on the internet page for The Brently Weekly News are really making me laughI hope they get some morehttpwww.brentwoodweeklynews.co.ukmostpopular.var.1906192.mostviewed.headlightsshineondeadanimals.php 2007-12-20 22:16:02 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#17675 It was nice to sell a copy of the girl with the telephones from the Be Careful of Things Left Behind series today. 2007-12-19 22:19:25 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#17676 There is a short article on the last page of Christmas The Big Issue the one with Take That on the front.There are nice photos of my Mum and Pasminda inside...SnapshotRoadkill Family AlbumRoadkill Family Album is an ongoing project by the artist Nigel Grimmer. Each photograph depicts a member of Grimmers family or a close friend lying apparently dead by the side of a road wearing the mask of an animal. Although explicitly staged events the images conjure up feelings of abandonment and sorrow within those viewing the pictures. The animals seem to have expired or to have given up the will to live but the underlying human presence creates a curious tension.Helena Drakakis 2007-12-17 22:21:10 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#17515 Ive had a few people ask to buy my work in the last few weeks. I think in the new year I will produce some multiples. The multiples will be cheaper than my usual work but may be in larger editions. Im being quite inspired by the defunct Canadian art group General Idea at the moment they were kings of the multiple I think I will start with a jigsaw puzzle and one of those concertina postcards that you used to get at the seaside. This could also be a good way to use some of the images Ive made lately that dont fit into any of my series of exhibition work. 2007-12-15 16:13:36 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#17672 Today my exhibition at Focal Point was reviewed by the local newspapers.httpwww.brentwoodweeklynews.co.ukmostpopular.var.1906192.mostviewed.headlightsshineondeadanimals.php 2007-12-14 22:06:59 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#17504 Today I was the visiting lecturer at South East Essex College Southend. The lecture was part of the education programme accompanying my current Plastic Life tour this was my second lecture with tutorials in the programme the first was at The University of Hertfordshire. Im so glad to be finally getting experience of something Ive always wanted to do. Ive previously found the entry into the education circuit completely impenetrable its so nepetistic. In January I will be giving the third lecture in the series at The University of Northampton with a day of tutorials. I will also be giving a lecture and artists surgery at Rugby Art Gallery and Museum. In February Im going back to Hertfordshire to give tutorials for a few days. In the new year I think I will begin to contact other universities not just the ones near the touring venues. 2007-12-12 13:56:58 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#17511 When I found out that Matt Lippiatt was in the Bump in the Night show with me at 2021 in Scunthorpe I sent him an email. I really like his work and told him so I was so pleased when he wrote back and we have kept up a dialogue I finally met him at his group show on Redchurch Street on Saturday hes a really nice bloke When I went to 2021 to document the show I was surprised to see Craig Fishers work in the show hes another of my favourite artists. I wrote him an email too and didnt really expect to hear from him. It was so cool that he wrote back The three of us have now formed a mutual appreciation society and are discussing showing together with the show possibly curated by Dominic Mason from 2021. I think our work would go so well together so Im really excited by the prospect In the new year I will try to find a space in London who would be willing to show our work. httpwww.rokebygallery.commatrixenginecontent.phppageid394ampimage713 httpwww.mattlippiatt.co.uk 2007-12-9 15:44:07 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#17238 My new assistant Patrice Lovelace started today.We worked on a brand new series of work.We worked on photographs I took when I was in Italy in the summer.I think the series will be called The Autographed Landscape its quite different from the rest of the work Ive been doing... 2007-12-5 21:15:05 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#17242 The website has had 1000 hitsThank you to everyone who has checked it out over the last three and a half monthsI intend to add images to some of the text pages and to finish off the archive.Hopefully the shop will appear soonishCome back soon 2007-12-3 22:24:33 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#17239 For the first time ever I had two private views on the same day.At lunch time I went to the opening of my touring show at Focal Point in Southend.In the evening I went to the opening of Think Pink in The Arts Forum in Hastings.It was nice to see some old friends at both venues and it was cool that some of my friends made the journeys with me. I met some teachers from schools and colleges who are running workshops with their students about my work getting the children to either dress as roadkill in front of blue screens or making masks to act out different characters outside.Laura Bowen at Focal Point and I discussed further venues for the touring show Ill send out some more touring brochures next week.It was a really long day but it was good fun and both shows looked really great. 2007-12-1 21:18:44 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#17241 A complete stranger told me that my work reminded them of Miranda Julys work.Ive only seen her feature film Me and You and Everyone We Know and while I liked it I couldnt see the connection. The stranger told me to read one of her books that they reminded him of my text based work.So Ive started reading Noone Belongs Here More Than You and I love it I usually loathe short stories but this book is really cool. July always talks in the first person but creates so many characters that she plays out with complete sympathy a real achievement especially when some of the stories are only 4 or 5 pages long. Thank you for the compliment and the recommendation 2007-11-30 21:36:37 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#16848 Today is the final day of Roadkill Family Album at The Margaret Harvey Gallery in St. Albans. The exhibition marked the first stage of The Plastic Life tour the work will move to Focal Point in Southend next week. Ive taken photos of the show and will post them somewhere on the blog when I have time. The exhibition has been a good experience. It was good to meet both curators Sanna Moore who initiated the project and Matthew Shaul who helped with the completion of the project. Matthew is going to help publish The Roadkill Family Album book. There were some cool people at the rpivate view I also got to give my first proper lecture and met lots of cool students. Hopefully Ill get to go back for some teaching. 2007-11-24 17:12:43 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#16575 Today was the private view of the gaywise festivals Visual Arts Exhibition at The Drill Hall in London. I exhibited one of the images from the Places I Call Home series and it sold straight away Hurray The show is on until 30 November Mon Sat 128pm Sun 116pm The Drill Hall 16 Chenies Street London near Goodge Street tube www.gaywisefestival.org.uk 2007-11-15 18:50:25 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#16576 Today I gave my first ever visiting artist lecture at a university. It was at The University of Hertfordshire in conjunction with my touring exhibition. It took such a long time to write the lecture When I got there the lecture theater was massive and there were more than a hundred students in the audience The students were second and third year degree students as well as those from the masters course. It was quite hard reading out a lecture and trying to make it sound spontaneous I much preferred the question session at the end where I could tell stories and make the students laugh I was worried Id been boring but lots of the students came and thanked me at the end. One student said it was the first lecture he ever stayed awake in Several of the students asked for tutorials which I was really pleased about. The Head of Fine Art is trying to arrange for me to come back for a days teaching. 2007-11-5 18:56:51 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#15826 Ill be showing some work in the Christmas themed exhibition at Eyestorm Gallery. The show runs from 27th November until 14th December 2007. Eyestorm LondonUnit 4 Bankside Estate511 Sumner StreetSE1 9JZ44 020 7928 8877 Opening timesMonday Friday 10am 6pm 2007-10-26 19:00:07 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#15828 Today was the private view for my Roadkill show at The Margaret Harvey Gallery in St Albans. It was a pretty quiet opening but the work looked really good in the space. Mark the technician did a really good job. I was pleased to see a few old friends who Id not seen for ages. It was also nice to see some new people especially the couple who traveled from Milton Keynes for the show. Ill have to try to get a show at The Milton Keynes Gallery and get them to star in some local Roadkill photos. Matthew Shaul the gallery curator is going to help me publish the Roadkill tour book. 2007-10-25 19:05:09 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#15830 Even though they are sometimes stressful I think its worth having your work on online gallery sites. I got work in Zoo through the Saatchi site on The Apprentice through Eyestorm and got exhibitions from people seeing my stuff on Axis or Britart. Today I got messaged from wooloo.org wondering if I would be interested in having some of my work projected in the Wooloo New Life Gallery in Berlin I think the projects they run are really interesting 2007-10-24 20:16:11 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#15829 Today I found out I got my funding from the Arts Council second time lucky The grant is to help produce new work for my touring show Plastic Life. I had all my files ready at the printers in case I got the grant so I called them today to tell them to print everything It means I will be able to show a few new works in each of the venues. 2007-10-21 19:15:33 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#15477 Ive had a great response from the advert I placed with the University of the Arts.All the students who have applied sound ideal.Im going to be really busy this week preparing lectures for the touring show but Ill choose somebody as soon as my writings done. 2007-10-14 23:07:19 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#15475 Zoo Art Fair opens to the public today.The Fair is in the Royal Academy this year in the old Museum of Mankind building.The Fair is open Thursday to Sunday 128pm and on Monday 125pm.My work is in the Saatchi OnLine Exhibition gallery. 2007-10-11 22:53:08 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#15476 Today I got a message from Arlington Arts Centre in Newbury.They saw my work in the Cork Street show and wondered if I would be interested in being in a group show exploring contemporary and future ideas of Britishness. They said there was a common element of doomed beauty running through the work theyve selected so far Sounds like it will go perfectly with my workThey also asked if I knew any sculptors who worked on similar themes to me so Ive suggested Matt Lippiatt. I think itll be cool to be in another show with him I think our stuff will look good together. 2007-10-9 23:00:22 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#15462 Today was the last day of the Lautieri Moores Open exhibition. Im very grateful to all the people who came to vote for my work during the show. Unfortunately I didnt win but I did get offered an exhibition by someone who saw my work in the show. I also made contact with Vicki Kerr who is a cool artist I met a long time ago she made my favourite work in the show and deserved a prize 2007-10-6 16:32:49 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#15067 Im currently advertising for a new assistant.It will take the form of a work experience placement probably from The University of the Arts.I need someone to scan my archive of work and to work on some paintings for me.Im spending too much time on administration and want to get some more work done 2007-10-3 16:26:17 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#15008 Dear AllIve been shortlisted for an art prize along with nineteen other artists Im quite excited as Ive never been shortlisted for one before.Work by all the artists is being shown at The Gallery on Cork Street this week.Anyone visiting The Gallery is eligible to vote for who should win.If you are in the area and like the work Ive submitted please go and voteIve put some photos with animemanga type characters in that I made in Tokyo called Be Careful of Things Left Behind. I only got a brief look at the other work but some of it looks cool.There is a party with drinks and the prizegiving on Saturday let me know if youd like to come cheers NigelLautieri Moores OpenThe Gallery in Cork Street28 Cork Street Mayfair LondonOctober 2nd 6th 2007Open daily 10.00 5.30pmNearest tube Green Parkwww.lmopen.co.ukwww.nigelgrimmer.compage3.htm 2007-10-1 22:49:53 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#14611 Ive been asked to host an Artist Surgery or Question Time in Rugby on February 12th 2008.I will be giving artists information and advice relating to getting shows studios funding etc.I think it should be good experience. 2007-9-18 18:34:48 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#14568 Ive added some more series of work to the archive section the newest is the Bender series. Superhero Family Album will be next. 2007-9-16 16:06:32 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#14610 Things That Go Bump in the Night opens today at 2021 Art Centre in Scunthorpe.Im exhibiting four images from the Places I Call Home series.My touring show will be shown at the Arts Centre at the end of next year. 2007-9-15 18:31:41 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#14569 I got some good news today Focal Point Gallery in SouthendonSea confirmed that they will take the Roadkill Family Album touring show. They will exhibit the show from 1st December to 5th January they will take the show straight after The Margaret Harvey Gallery and deliver it to Rugby Art Gallery and Museum. We could still fit in some more venues between Rugby and 2021 Arts Centre slots between March and November 2008 are still available. 2007-9-14 16:09:21 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#14572 Today I found out Id been selected for the GFest Festival. Ive been asked to show one of the photos from the Places I Call Home series in The Drill Hall in London. The private view for the show is on the 15th November 2007. The show is from the16th to 30th November.httpwww.gaywisefestival.org.uk 2007-9-10 16:25:45 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#14397 I read the new leaflet of forthcoming events at the University of Hertfordshire today. My exhibition at The Margaret Harvey Gallery is advertised as well as the lecture I will be giving on the 5th of November at 2pm at The University which is apparently open to anyone. I also noticed that there is a childrens workshop where they can make animal masks and then be photographed in the gardens of The Museum of St Albans I think I may volunteer to be the photographer maybe some of the photos could be used in my work or put on this website... 2007-9-9 15:34:30 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#14574 I ventured to Vyner Street today for the first time this year. On the whole it was a bit depressing the galleries were all showing pretty similar stuff. Nettie Horn was the only one with a show I liked.Im glad that my work is now confirmed for Zoo Art Fair two of the Annihilation by Blandness series will be on the SaatchiOnline stand. The fair is at the Royal Academy this year.I was asked if I would submit a photograph for a fashion magazine called CeCi but later found out that they were asking different artists designers and photographers to create their version of the magazine cover. The project sounded like too much work right now and I only wanted to do it if I had time to do it well I cant believe I turned down paid work 2007-9-6 16:38:42 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#14233 Today I went to see Blair Kelly sing in a gig in Kilburn.Blair has written an EP based on Roadkill Family Album with each song named after one of the animals in the series. It was the first time that I heard him sing one of them live. It was pretty cool he also did an amazing cover of Amy Winehouse singing Back to Black.Blairs songs definitely hit the same kind of register as lots of my work particularly Places I Call Home lots of my texts could be lines in his songs. I really wish that we could both add one or two upbeat tracksimages to our collections which would probably make the whole seem much stronger. In our work we both take a position of an outsider observers of a broken world.Blair is the latest model in Roadkill Family Album and I hope to add him to the dunce series soon.httpwww.myspace.comblairkelly 2007-9-2 21:20:42 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#14008 Hurray I heard from the person who was interested in buying my work earlier in the week. He had gone to Eyestorm on Friday and bought a copy of Roadkill Family Album Emma Paris 2006 I should chase up a few of the other people who were interested in buying work.httpwww.eyestorm.comsearchkeywordartistNigelGrimmer.html 2007-8-27 16:02:21 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#13957 Today I got an email from the Saatchi online site saying that someone was interested in my work.Ive never had any emails from them before and was surprised to find not one but two messages waiting for me on my Saatchi page.The first was from someone wanting to buy one of the big Roadkill Family Album prints but the message was a few days old and they needed the picture this morning I cant believe I missed out on such a big saleSecondly Saatchi sponsors Zoo Art Fair. Each month a curator picks their top ten artists on the site any artist that has been selected can show two works at Zoo Art Fair in October. I got selected a few months back so Ive been asked to submit some work Ive never been in an art fair before. October is a bit tight because Im already in three shows that month but I think itll be a good opportunity to sell stuff and Saatchi arent taking a commissionhttpwww.saatchigallery.co.uk 2007-8-25 18:31:17 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#13958 Today I found out I got shortlisted for the Lautieri Moores Art Prize. This means that Ill be showing some of Be Careful of Things Left Behind in The Gallery in Cork Street for the first week in October. The public pick who gets the cash awards.httpwww.lmopen.co.uk 2007-8-24 18:50:57 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#13960 Today I got a call from the organisers of Homotopia Arts Festival in Liverpool. They are interested in showing some of my work. They really want to show Passing which I made about ten years ago at St. Martins because the festival has an underlying theme about homophobia this year. Ive sent them some more images of my work as Im not sure I want to do an installation.httpwww.homotopia.net 2007-8-21 18:55:44 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#14188 I got asked if I would be interested in having some of my photographic work critiqued by Martin Parr on a new Channel 4 television programme called Picture This. They were interested in showing images from my new dunce series. As I wouldnt be there to defend it and the section will be called The Viewers Wall I decided not to participate it sounds a bit like The Gallery on Take Hart 2007-8-18 12:55:59 http://www.nigelgrimmer.com/page27.htm#14187 Today I had a meeting with Medeia Cohan who is in charge of selecting new work for the art collection at The University of the Arts. The University is interested in collecting work by some of its Alumni and I studied at St. Martins. She was interested in some of the new images from Places I Call Home as well as the models from the Annihilation by Blandness series. Shes going to see what her budget is and then get back to me. 2007-8-15 12:49:51