The Meeting

After the parade we went to the Morpeth Arms for the meeting, a nearby pub famous for being the haunt of spooks, the CID variety. Benedict Hislam read from a work of his father, Lawrence, a pacifist who took to task the political personalities of his day. Angela and Peter Netmail 'cooked' a book-cake and Bernd Reichert brought another book-cake ready to eat, with a topping of dark Belgian chocolate. These cakes were to honour the bi-annual visit of David Dellafiora to Britain where he is lecturing at Plymouth University.

As usual we had great fun although we discussed serious topics as well, like the end of an era in Mail Art. No, not the STG but President Bush, a great loss for many of us for whom he provided a wealth of opportunities for political comment. No doubt other public figures will step up to fill the vacuum.

The photos

To the photos taken by my husband John I have added some sent to me by Alan Turner and some by David Dellafiora. The trolley at the bottom of this page will take to them.

I also took a video but I cannot mount it on this site because I have run out of memory. 

It is shown in my page in IUOMA and in Open Fluxus. I have invited all of you of whom I have an email address to join me there so you can see it. If I have missed somebody please email me.

The Show

At the beginning of my Mail Art activities, a changing display on my shopping trolley worked very well for quite a while but then it grew to unmanageable amounts. 
For this project the artwork sent is well above what the Shopping Trolley Gallery can carry, in several group shows it will take well over a year to display all the work, given monthly hangings. Over 140 artists have sent postcards, quite a few of them several postcards at a time. I have displayed most of them here but only one from each artist are on the paper posters representing the trolley at the meeting and that has filled fourteen posters.
With these posters the Last Show of the Shopping Trolley Gallery was staged at the front of the Tate Britain on January 3, 2009, on a glorious day, quite unlike the previous rainy and blusterous occasions.

If you follow the trolley below to the list of all the participating artists you can see their work   when clicking on their names.  

Postal documentation will be sent to all participants, please be patient, it might take a bit. 

THANKS FOR THE EXCELLENT ART WORK THAT YOU SENT