- Jan 19, 2018
I have now set up a separate blog - Steve Brown Art Walks - to record my occasional art walking, which can be accessed here. As I say in the blog: I’m not keen on physical exercise and have a low tolerance for the colour green – which tends to rule out much walking in the landscape. So this blog is really just a record of a few short – mainly local – walks. There’s no clever exploration of psychogeog theory, just a diary in words and pictures.
- Jan 14, 2018
Great news - Today we heard that the Analogue Collective has been successful in an application for a table at Counter, Plymouth's art book fair, on 17th March 2018. The Analogue Collective consists of a wide group of artist friends: Whitney-Anne Baker, Cress de la Fosse, David Harbott, Clare Heaton, Angela Hilton, David Mylor, Dan Pritchard, Laura Reeves, Rachel Rose, Karen Tarr, Matt Thomas and me. We're looking forward to participating in this brilliant event, which features in Kevin Hunt's artist-led Hot 100 artist initiatives.
- Jan 3, 2018
In November 2017 I attended a class at CVS CoLab to sharpen up my recording skills and make a podcast. The subject of the podcast - Exeter's Vanished Rock Venues - was triggered by my finding out that Exeter had been host to many chart-topping bands in the 1960s, including the Beatles, Stones and Led Zep. I wondered why it was that now we have to travel to Bristol to see major bands and decided to make a podcast about historic rock venues in central Exeter.
One of my early sources of information was the excellent Exeter Memories web site run by David Cornforth. However, I wanted to get some personal reminiscenses, and so made an appeal on the Exeter Memories facebook site. This resulted in an unexpected deluge of information, which I couldn't reflect in a 15 minute podcast.
I've now nearly completed the podcast but am hoping to extend the project to record those who responded to my appeal for information.