Liverpudlian Residency
A few weeks ago I was invited over to Liverpool by Gary and Lena, who run The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home. I had a residency with them in 2008, just before I started my Masters course, and I always felt horribly guilty that I’d never sent them anything. After all, it was a paid residency – shouldn’t they get something for their money?
To assuage my guilt, I had sent them a few postcards in the mail in 2010 and ’11. I was quite surprised, however, when they got in touch and asked me to come and do some watercolours of their local area, but I grabbed the chance to get out of Bedfordshire. We agreed that I’d stay in their house whilst they were away over Easter, and I spent about two and a half weeks in the city.
I never completed that Masters course in 2008 because I got really sick. I’m mostly better now, but I live with my folks in Bedfordshire because I’m not entirely better, so going to Liverpool was a chance to measure how recovered I was. The answer? Not as much as I like to think!
At the minute, I’m working on collating the drawings I did in Liverpool into some form of document – more than a blog post, perhaps a ‘zine – that I can distribute, somehow. I’m interested in getting it printed as a real document, so if you have any tips on printing, please let me know.
I’m not sure if there’s a minimum page requirement, but for book printing on demand, try somewhere like blurb.com or lulu.com. I think they can both do ebooks as well. That’s assuming you want to charge, of course. If you want to distribute them for free (or for a minimal fee to cover costs), no doubt you’d have a local printer or office supply store with printing services that you could use.
Gorgeous drawing
Hurrah…finally.I can comment :) I hate to have to say it to wordpress – but my iPad doesn’t like their iPad versions of sites. They just don’t work properly :(
I’m here via sustainably creative – trying to slowly work my way thru the list of people’s sites. You’re number two…I suspect this is going to take me a while.
What a cool surprise – your post is about the Pool! That’s where I am :) love the drawing and can’t wait to see the others.
What format did you want for the book of art? Lulu and Blurb are both great. There’s a magazine type place too iirc…though I’d need to look it up. I have no idea how much local printers would be – an online photo site would be better I think. I’ve tried quite a few over the past year or so (not books but other printed stuff) just let me know if you want more info.
Pleased I stopped by :) Have a happy day.
Sand