A View from the Chair

ANDREAS KLATT ARPS

Any motivational speaker worth his or her salt would want us to believe that every problem is an opportunity in disguise.

Take our annual members’ print exhibition. You may have noticed that the current edition of Visual Art magazine has not included the usual entry form for next year’s show. The simple sounding reason is that the 2020 exhibition, should we have one at all, will not open in February. We are rightly proud of our exhibition which for many years was smoothly and efficiently organised by a small team of volunteers who in their commitment to the cause went well beyond the call of duty. But in the end the need to look after our health must take priority, and so the exhibition team has to be built up from scratch and find a way to understand and master the complexity of this all-year operation. An epidemic of weak knees and nightmares of egg in face broke out. And yet we have to move on. What a wonderful and timely mishap then that a question mark rose over the availability of our traditional opening venues where redevelopment and redecoration could not guarantee that come February we would have access. Have you tried to find exhibition space at short notice for more than a hundred framed prints?