So, Lotte and I have spent the past two weeks looking at hundreds of 2015 residency applications every single day, in my case including evenings and weekends. It has been fascinating to read them all and the many ways that people have approached the subject of The Multiverse. Because we group people in residencies, we've been looking at shared interests and themes alongside what stages people are at and what they want to do next. The last bit of selecting is always the most difficult. We're at that stage now but it will probably take another week to finalise things. I got into London on Thursday though to catch The Granchester Pottery show at Jerwood Artspace. TGP are Giles Round and Phil Root who met at Wysing in 2011; Giles was doing a residency under the theme 'Wrong Answers' alongside Cally Spooner, Laure Prouvost and Rob Filby, and Phil was doing a nine month residency in our live/work studio, where artist Rachel Maclean is working from at the moment in fact. She came to the pv as well. It's so amazing that Giles and Phil are still working together on this project, and now Cally is also collaborating with them and has a new text work in the show, which includes all the artists who have been involved with TGP attributed for the first time. It's a really stunning exhibition and definitly worth a look. Took a quick photo - that chair was sat beside my desk for about a year.

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