{"id":1669,"date":"2023-10-06T19:04:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T18:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaces.oca.ac.uk\/wallet6\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2023-10-06T19:04:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T18:04:56","slug":"melting-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/?p=1669","title":{"rendered":"Melting Pot VIII"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last Sunday I had a search on Facebook for #latenightart on Facebook, and found that the late night art gallery openings  in Belfast were running again on the first Thursday of the month &#8211; that meant this week. Also, that there was a late night viewing of an exhibition at Artcetera gallery for emerging artists on Thursday. I thought I was too late to get an entry in, but I contacted them anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-zoooom\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaces.oca.ac.uk\/wallet6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3554\/2023\/10\/melting-pot1-1024x583.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1680\" width=\"768\" height=\"437\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-zoooom\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaces.oca.ac.uk\/wallet6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3554\/2023\/10\/melting-pot2-1024x650.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1682\" width=\"768\" height=\"488\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-zoooom\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaces.oca.ac.uk\/wallet6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3554\/2023\/10\/DSF4380-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1677\" width=\"512\" height=\"768\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaces.oca.ac.uk\/wallet6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3554\/2023\/10\/DSF4379-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1684\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaces.oca.ac.uk\/wallet6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3554\/2023\/10\/DSF4377-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1686\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaces.oca.ac.uk\/wallet6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3554\/2023\/10\/DSF4376-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1688\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I went to the viewing on Thursday night. It was quite crowded, mainly young people. I was not too impressed by the art, and most of the presentation of it &#8211; due to the artists or the gallery? But I&#8217;m no expert. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I took along some of my work too. I didn&#8217;t know Olivier, but made a guess and I was right. In the past I would not have had the nerve to just introduce myself, but I&#8217;m getting a bit more thick-skinned in my old age!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-zoooom\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaces.oca.ac.uk\/wallet6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3554\/2023\/10\/Poster-erasure-extraction-cutout-poetry2-small-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1698\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Erasure\/cut-out\/blackout poetry poster<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-zoooom\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaces.oca.ac.uk\/wallet6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3554\/2023\/10\/Poster-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1699\" width=\"768\" height=\"614\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-zoooom\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaces.oca.ac.uk\/wallet6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3554\/2023\/10\/majastina-cubic-poster_small-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"I made these  2 days earlier\" class=\"wp-image-1700\" width=\"512\" height=\"768\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">I made these  2 days earlier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-zoooom\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaces.oca.ac.uk\/wallet6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3554\/2023\/10\/93A2791-cubic1-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1701\" width=\"512\" height=\"768\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-zoooom\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaces.oca.ac.uk\/wallet6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3554\/2023\/10\/93A2791-cubic2-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1702\" width=\"512\" height=\"768\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-zoooom\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaces.oca.ac.uk\/wallet6\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3554\/2023\/10\/DSF9129-1024x687.jpg\" alt=\"My wallet and its contents\" class=\"wp-image-1703\" width=\"768\" height=\"515\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">My wallet and its contents<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I gave him about a 2 minute tour of these posters and some individual images. He seemed a bit impressed, especially by the presentation in the posters,<strong> I asked him about the next Melting Pot exhibition, I&#8217;m on the waiting list, and he said it would be in the spring.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also suggested I contact the NI Science Festival (https:\/\/nisciencefestival.com\/) as he had worked with them beforehand say that Artcetra were interested. I looked at their (NISF) site, but couldn&#8217;t really find an area where my present work would fit in. Olivier was very vague about this and seemed to be in a hurry, so I didn&#8217;t press him, I&#8217;ll have to think more about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday I had a search on Facebook for #latenightart on Facebook, and found that the late night art gallery openings in Belfast were running again on the first Thursday of the month &#8211; that meant this week. Also, that there was a late night viewing of an exhibition at Artcetera gallery for emerging artists&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/?p=1669\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Melting Pot VIII<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,52,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ma-2-contextual-persp","category-1-2-oct","category-home","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}