I am officially an ’emerging artist’ with Triparks

I've landed myself an emerging artist position on the Triparks project. I did not know anything about the project until an email came through today inviting artists to apply.  With the prospect of spending 2 days working alongside exhibiting artists and getting funded for it I filled out the short application form and emailed it off with my CV.  Within 2 hours I got a phone call offering me a place on the project!

As far as I can gather it is like an apprenticeship role. The exhibiting artists, who have been working on this project for months, are the main spectacle and I am one of 3 assisting artists who are being brought in to produce little bolt-on projects.  So this Friday I am off to meet the artists and learn about their work, I will then spend the weekend producing my own piece of art in response to the knowledge I have gathered and then we install it along with the main works on the following Monday.  So I will actually be exhibiting alongside established professional artists and I will get funded for it!  Pretty cool eh?

I don't know which artists are in which location or even how the pairing up is going to be done but I quite like the look of Volkhardt Müller's work.  But to be honest whoever I end up working with it's gonna be interesting!  To read more about the project visit http://www.auneheadarts.org.uk/dartmoor/projects/triparks/index2.html