I've been accepted onto the AA2A scheme, and plan to use the time to create a body of work on the theme of Alice In Wonderland for a proposed exhibition in March 2010 to coincide with the Tim Burton film due for release at that time. This is for the Lincoln Artist's Network, a group I set up for undergraduates and graduates of Lincoln University, funded by Enterprise Inc at Sparkhouse Studios at the UL.

This will involve dolls, and/or animation to follow on from previous work. I hope not to follow too closely the version by Jan Svankmayer, but instead will incorporate something more contemporary. The theme of Alice In Wonderland is a Simulacrum worth exploring and I hope to add a visual commentary on the traditional elements and reconstruct a narrative within it that draws on contemporary issues and relative philosophical discourse. For instance, references to Alice In Wonderland appear in the film The Matrix, so I hope to look at where that's relevant, and perhaps to introduce additional elements, for instance, what happens if Alice meets The Lady of Shalott? Or what if I were the protagonist? Or my Dad?

I noted that Through The Looking Glass was dated Nov 4th - that was the day I got married and spent 6 years in a wonderland of my ex husband's creation, so I may decide to include that somewhere.... on Nov 4th 2009 I am due to see A-ha live at the 02 and will exhibit some work from The Unreal God And Aspects Of His Non-Existent Universe, so this could form a point of departure from which to begin the new body of work.

I'm going in for my first AA2A meeting at Greestone tomorrow. As a lone parent and recent graduate I've been itching to create some form of animation since graduating, but not only have I not had sufficient income, I have to balance being a (lone) parent with work, and at the moment, parental demands are taking over. I look forward to getting out of my studio space at home and escaping the distractions that stop me from creating anything remotely useful, and having the time, resources and space to actually create work.