Thanks for all of your comments, it was a great night and we are pleased that so many of you were there to enjoy it with us.
A4art China work has now been uploaded to our Flickr page.

We have just finished uploading the A4art China book to Blurb.com. Inside you can read about the A4art story (and a very interesting one it is), as well as the artists who contributed. ‘Tis a ripping good read, as they say, and there are lots of pictures, too, so I think the only question is paperback or hardback, really…

The book is available here. Please note that the book is sold at the cost of production. A4art is a 100 percent non-profit project.

Just finished taking the exhibition down. The end of A4art China, for now at least.

We’ve uploaded some of the photos we took on the A4art China private view night. They are on the Sense Worldwide Flickr photostream, in the A4art Exhibitions set, along with a lot of nice photos of previous exhibitions… Click here!

We are just putting the finishing touches to the A4art China book. It will be available from Blurb.com. We will post the details here when it’s all done, so please stay tuned on that front.

Here’s a video of last night’s festivities…

We used some lovely little Flip video camcorders to shoot what was going on, get the vox populi and whatnot. People were actually very eager to discuss the work and the theme.

And here’s what Senser Tom Wynne-Morgan said about the exhibition!

Here are some shots of yesterday’s private view, which went really well. Lots of people came, everyone had fun and the feedback was brilliant. Moreover, one guest expressed an interest in taking the exhibition on to Brunel University, and another yet another guest (actually a graduate of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute) is keen to recruit some of our artists for an exhibition she’s curating in Holborn in March. What a fantastic result!

Joe preparing the A4art boards for later today

Some prepared A4art boards

The beer's on ice. (Don't worry there's more than this. This is the back-up fridge)

Thursday 29th January (Private View) 6.30pm – 9.30pm

Friday 30th January 6.30pm – 9pm
Saturday 31st January 11am – 6pm
Sunday 1st February 11am – 6pm

Sense Loft, 68-70 Wardour Street, Soho, London. W1F0TB.

Just buzz ‘Sense Loft’.

Those of you who can’t make it to the private view on Thursday 29th can now watch it online! Not sure what there will be to see yet, but we’ll try and set it up so that a) you can spy on people, and b) you can chat with people on location.

The show will be broadcast / webcast live on Thursday 29th, 7pm (GMT). Please click the link for A4art TV on the right, or click here.

As I sit here preparing the A4art China exhibition materials, listening to some of the Chinese music I picked up in Beijing the day before my flight home last month, looking forward to a dumpling feast down the road in China Town… and so on, it occurs to me that I am living with one metaphorical foot firmly fixed on the other side of the world. I think a lot of people are like that nowadays, whether they are migrants, wanderers or, like me, cultural moths.

Most of the preparation work for A4art China has already been done. It’s all looking really good and I’m very excited. One of our guests at the private view on Thursday evening is a graduate from the Sichuan Fine Arts Academy, who is now working as a photographer and curator in London. We should also have a post-grad student coming over from China especially for the exhibition, so there will be opportunities to discuss the realities of living and studying in a city like Chongqing.

We are also preparing a Blurb book documenting the A4art story and the artists who contributed to A4art China. That should be ready for distribution pretty soon, if not immediately, after the exhibition launch on next Thursday evening.

We’ve just sent off an order for 300 Moo postcards to provide some very tasty takeaways for the A4art China exhibition this month. The Moo site links quite nicely with Flickr, which makes the whole process a bit easier to manage… Still it took quite some time, but the end results should be perfect.

So remember to come along to the exhibition and you can get your own piece of A4art work for free, although it will of course be A4art in A6 format, but really it’s that magical root-2 ratio that counts, isn’t it.

Below is a sample of the work to be exhibited. Actually, this is my favourite piece of work, I think. The story behind the work is really very curious. The background is actually a large ground-level billboard that was put up in the district neighbouring that of the school (Sichuan Fine Arts Institute). However, it was not actually advertising anything so who knows what it was doing there… (And I really do wonder how an image featuring a copy of the statue of liberty on Tiananmen Square made it past the censors, but that is entirely irrelevant to the artist, who was completely unaware of the significance I attached to this symbol.) Anyway, the artist started taking photos of the image, whereupon this guy, a bang-bang man (a migrant worker who makes their living by carrying things on a bamboo pole, called a bang-bang) started performing in front of the billboard, just for the hell of it, and the artist kept snapping away. The bang-bang men are really unique to Chongqing, and so this piece really has a lot of Chongqing flavour, as you would say in Chinese.

Here’s the poster for this month’s A4art China exhibition. And here are the crucial details:

Time:
Thursday 29th January, 18:30 to 21:00 (private view)
Friday 30th January, 18:30 to 21:00 (with drinks and nibbles)
Saturday 31st January, 11:00 to 18:00
Sunday 1st February, 11:00 to 18:00

Place:
Sense Loft, 68/70 Wardour Street, London W1F 0TB (ring the buzzer for the Sense Loft).