Having finished uni and moved back home, the original plan was to work (probably at the pub I've been doing part time since I was 16) apply for an MA and maybe travel a little.
However, things have changed. I had written to a sculpture garden in the next village, asking if they had anything I could do (to get a bit of artistic experience) - even cleaning would have been fine! So they called me, and I trotted along to have a chat.
Turns out, the assistant curator is leaving mid July, and I had applied just at the right time. They (well the owner of the garden) wants ME to train up and become the new assistant curator!!!!!! I've been there for two weeks, and its so much fun. There's a lot of emailing etc - to customers and artists, and other admin, but I also get to take all the photos that go on the website and any promo material!!
www.hannahpescharsculpture.com
Its a really beautiful place - all landscaped but done to fit in with the english countryside. The house is a lovely black and white cottage right in the middle of the garden, with a line of connecting ponds and streams home to masses of ducks. They have some pretty wellknown sculptors there - Peter Randall-Page, Almuth Tebenhoff to name a couple, and my old tutor's husband has work there too!!!
I still can't quite believe it. To have gotten such a great job, especially just after leaving uni. It still feels like part of my education, so its a total bonus getting paid for it!!!
Sunday, 28 June 2009
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