News
of developments will be thick and fast over the next few weeks; lots of things are coming to fruition – finally.
The first is the
announcement that Bury’s exhibition spaces are being expanded, with the
creation of the Bury Sculpture Centre. Following the Borough Library Review, large
new spaces have become available and given our long term leadership of the Irwell Sculpture Trail project,
the logical or maybe visionary conclusion is to create an international focus
for sculpture in Bury. We've got some Arts Council funding and the first year’s
programme well developed. Barring accidents we should open the new venue with
the Text Festival – and who better to
inaugurate in the context of Sculpture and Language than Lawrence Weiner. (How many more reasons do you need to be at the festival opening weekend?)
After Lawrence's show there'll b Europe .) And big moment in this will be the venue’s first
international conference: the European Sculpture International Forum. I’ll be
heading off to this year’s event in the Hague Bury Art Museum
So there’s my excuse for
not blogging recently: I’ve been busy.
