Making omelettes
We’ve dust everywhere again unfortunately as the joiners have been in for a few days doing all sorts of jobs but they had to be done and you can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. Various odd jobs have been done but fixing the stairs was most important – at least they no […]
Further progress
Since hanging the first artworks on the right side walls (looking down into the gallery/project space), there are now hanging rails along the old mill wall on the left hand side. Being a solid old brick wall, we did not want to have to keep drilling and plugging it every time we change the work […]
We’re in!
At long last, after all of the cleaning up and work being done, we have finally moved in to our studio spaces and have hung the first pictures on the project space walls. Quite an achievement, considering the time and budget we have had to work with. We all met up last night in our […]
Our logo
After much deliberation and several versions, we are all finally agreed on our logo, shown here. This will be used on all print and web-based materials and should help with our branding. A square version has been launched on Twitter and will be used on a new Facebook page, coming soon. Signage for the mill […]
Setting up the studios
Each artist chose the spaces they wanted for their own studios and luckily, there were no arguments as everyone wanted a different space for different purposes. Joe chose the basement and set about building a partition wall to create a self-contained unit. Simon chose the first floor where he could create a green screen room […]
Operation clean-up
Since we got the keys to the mill in early April, we have made some great progress. As you might imagine, having stood empty for three years, the building was rather dirty and in need of some TLC. We set to, armed with buckets, mops, paint, brushes, brooms and Henry the vacuum cleaner, on a […]