One of my extramural students (Merle Bradshaw) came up with this great idea which I thought might be of use to others.
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I like the Groucho Marx line that he didn’t want to be in a club that would accept people like him as a member. In 1988 I left the education club and started The Learning Connexion. Actually I would have stayed in the club if it hadn’t insisted on taking me away from what I wanted to do.
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Back during the distinctly nasty winter months we’d all rather forget, students Rebecca Fordyce and Catherine Sinclair were out braving the elements in a rather unusual creative endeavour.

Inspired by a TLC course they’d taken on ‘installation performance’, the women came up with a bold goal – to one day exhibit together at the Michael Hirschfeld Gallery (at the City Gallery). In the meantime, they needed to gain some experience to strengthen their proposal, so they began brainstorming ideas for a performance work they could do in the short term. This led to the idea of painting each other’s portraits in public over a select period of time – to be, in effect, both artist and model simultaneously. The site – outside the entrance to the City Gallery – was chosen to inspire them towards their future goal.
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One of the many vocations available to the artistically inclined is that of Art Director for stage and screen. The Art Director’s responsibilities are many, but aside from designing the sets they are responsible for keeping everything within budget and deadline. The latter are fixed in stone and often every minute is important. Samuel Goldwyn said “the harder I work the luckier I get” – true, providing the end goal is always in crystal focus.
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