Countdown for [start from scratch]

It is now Monday the 6th of September and in just a few days which will be Friday 10th September; I will be involved in one of my first exhibitions that is organised outside of an educational facility. This is the first of the exhibitions that I will be involved with this month and in October. By sheer luck and guts and of course a fair amount of networking allowed me to go as far as I have. I wasn't just three months ago that I bumped into a stall holder at BeatHerder and began talking about Polaroids, Tee-Shirt designs and Graffiti appreciation that got this ball rolling.

Start From Scratch will start for me on Friday at 6pm and end the morning after a private party at Koko's. This is a great opportunity to networking and make friends with fellow artists, musicians and the like. I have a guest list with names that I have added for moral support. Andrea and her boyfriend, Charlie and Chrissy are coming and hopefully Neil [recordshop owner guy] will be there.

I have printed the large scale Polaroids at a professional company and they look fantastic now that they are mounted and framed at a little lace called [tilt]. tilt has customised three frames at cost price and he also mounted and framed the two digital prints that I am displaying at Free For Arts. I need to settle on a pricing system now that it is getting serious. I obviously have to recoup my costs, make some profit and pay the commission to the curator/gallery owner. For the framed photographs (in Burnley-Start From Scratch), I will have to charge in the region of £75- each...they are supposed to be a triptych but who knows. The Adidas five piece are lovely and can be sold individually for £10- each...

I had a meeting this afternoon with James Moffat, the leader of the Mute-Free For Arts exhibition where we talked about the venue, spaces, limitations and set pieces. It was a balls-up at first though with the venue being closed for the inspection that was going to take place but we had a comfy chat and generally got to know each other.

The third exhibition is the Collective Vision v's Creative Transit show. My set pieces are framed and ready to go. They do look good and I am quite proud with what I've achieved and reckon the concept is spot on. University starts in two weeks and that is going to be a social stirrer