Folding, Snowing, Folding, Snowing, Folding, Snowing…

Well, what can I say, since we have been back at school I don’t think any of us have stopped. Arriving back with little idea about what we would be putting in our exhibition in less than 2 weeks was kinda scary… however last tuesday pheebs brought in an amazin 3D swan made by her genius of a little brother Fen, which inspired us. we have decided to make something life-size in relation to this little wonder, using folded A2 bits of paper and lightbulbs.

After deciding what we would be doing, these past 6 days have been manic. I don’t think my inbox has ever been so full with emails from one person (becks) as it has been over this weekend… To top everything off last, Wednesday evening it started snowing. I’m not talking about rubbish slushy/icy snow, real snow that is still lying around… it has become more and more treacherous, I have slipped over so many times I cant remember and it has made everything 10 times harder. For one, school was canceled for three days, and there was still the problem of where we were going to get 5000 pieces of A2 paper from?! however becks was to the rescue and found a paper supplier, a lovely man called Richard at ARBORETA PAPERS  0117 9636699. He was so kind and sympathized with the urgency and delivered all the paper to the Arnolfini for us!

Over the weekend everyone has been folding crazy, little triangles for our paper sculpture, of which we reckon we are gonna need 10,000!!! Even Georges’ nanny has been getting involved! Yesterday a couple of us went into a year 8 class at school to teach the kids how to fold the paper so they could help us get as many as possible, talk about ‘making art more accessible for young people’ eh?

While all the paper folding has been going on, last week Alex worked his ass off to get the flyer together which looks just fabulous, we are starting to distribute them so watch this space… As well as this him and Rob have been sorting out the zine which looks incredible also, well done guys..

The launch and our exhibition is becoming more known, E shed have even featured us in their newsletter;

'So, here's the first newsletter of 2010- we've got two really exciting
opportunities for you, one with a chance of winning a very plush piece of
filmmaking gear, one a chance to get some amazing work experience. But
first, let's start with some news on new work from the Arnolfini's young
artists collective.
EVENTS: Young Arnolfini Artists Collective (YAAC) Preview of Work and
Website Launch Thu 14 Jan, 6pm - 8pm
For those of you who are into contemporary arts and performance, this is a
great chance for you to see new work by some fresh young talent! This Launch
night is an opportunity to see YAAC's new exhibition entitled #10 in
Arnolfini's Light Studio plus their co-produced artwork in Gallery Three.
YAAC is a collective of ten young artists from Cotham School, aged 17-18
based in Bristol. Working with Arnolfini to make contemporary art more
manageable for young people, they will infiltrate the gallery with an
abundance of ideas, artwork, talks, discussions and workshops over the next
seven months.
In the auditorium at 7pm, there will be two dance performances by Swindon's
Youth Dance Academy followed by a YAAC presentation launching their website
and Zine.
It's absolutely free, although booking is essential as it looks like places
will fill up fast!'

Tom (our website designer) has been working like crazy to sort our website out… we got a sneak preview yesterday and looks brilliant, so we are all very excited about that too.

If you still havn’t booked a place for our launch on thursday you need a ticket, go the Anolfini website. If you can’t make that then come to our exhibition this weekend anyway!! Everything is coming together and it looks like with only 2 days to go we might just be able to pull this all off! The only drawback is the fact that we may be joined by another helping of snow. shit.

I need to go do some more folding, but will no doubt give you an update in the next few days…

Thanks to… Phoebes genius little brother Fen… Richard the paper man … Nanny Hann … Tom … and of course Becks.

adios JP