All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy @ Burlington Fine Arts Club – Manchester

I’m in an interesting show at the Burlington Fine Arts Club in Manchester over the coming week. Myself and three other artists from the Royal Standard have been invited to work alongside Manchester artist Andrew Bracey to see what we can come up with over the course of a week long residency.

Photo blog of proceedings here

All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy

Without time off from work, a person becomes both bored and boring.

How could anyone be bored at The Burlington Fine Arts Club?

For one week 5 artist will come together to work, play, read, talk, eat, write, make, crit, plan, faff, drink, dream, listen and try not and be bored. They will, for a week, follow the example of the original Burlington Club members, such as Luytens, Rossetti, Ruskin and Whistler. None of them know what will happen in this week.

In the spirit of collaboration and connecting that the Burlington encourages Andrew Bracey has invited 4 artists (Fran Disley, Dave Evans, Kevin Hunt and Emily Speed) from Royal Standard studios in Liverpool to spend the week with him in the club. There are no rules and no outcomes anticipated. A clean slate has been drawn. They must all remember though that no work and all play can also make Jack a dull boy.