A Portsmouth Novel – by Matt Wingett
Here’s the Preview of the Exhibition! You can probably tell that here I was really buzzing and happy to see the finished set up of The Snow Witch Art Exhibition. It was an utter delight, and a genuine honour to have had my work as the launch pad for so money hugely talented creatives! The …
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Wow! It was quite something when the day came for the setting up of The Snow Witch Art Exhibition… Nothing like this had every happened to me before, and the mixture of emotions as I arrived at Cascades Shopping Centre to find an entire unit given over to 40 artists’ work was really extraordinary. Here’s …
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Getting the message across After getting a hostile reception from writers who we thought would be fascinated to join the Snow Witch project, Roy and I went down a different route. Use the media! Richard Stringer, a reporter for That’s Solent TV agreed that our story was interesting enough to put out on his show, …
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Curmudgeonly writers It is a truth universally acknowledged that writers can be cantakerous gits. Used to working alone and with set ideas about what they expect from their work, some types of writer can view with suspicion or hostility those coming to them with ideas that don’t fit their current take on the world. I …
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Big ideas… To help us get a handle on the project to come, Roy called a core team together. That was me, Portsmouth arts impresario Johnny Sackett, artist and researcher Ausra Vaisvilaite and a handful of others to attend a presentation at his house. He present us with a Gantt chart – a collection of …
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