Eté 2013 résidence de Georgia Nelson à la N.A.C (Nieuwe Ateliers Charlois) dans le cadre d'un partenariat collectif R / N.A.C Foundation (Rotterdam).

After my Rotterdam, experience I wanted to go straight back. I felt as if I could live there. My stay in Rotterdam was so attractive at many different levels. The residency, at the south of the city in a residential area and is a 20-minute bus ride from the main station. It felt very familiar and had some resonance with southeast London where I am from. Pauline came to meet us (the first 5 days my sister Laura was with me, this was pre- arranged with Kamiel who said that family and kids were welcome!)) at the bus stop and walked back to the flat/studio space. I found in the flat my bags of materials that Kamiel had driven from Nantes on his last visit, I felt at home. The flat is on the first floor of a block. The flat is spacious and decked in wood. The shower looks a bit shoddy but is actually powerful and enjoyable. The kitchen is equipped and the prior resident Jean Bonichon had kindly left me some beer. Pauline pointed me in the direction of a supermarket. Beware that most supermarkets do not take Mas...

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Eté 2013 résidence de Georgia Nelson à la N.A.C (Nieuwe Ateliers Charlois) dans le cadre d'un partenariat collectif R / N.A.C Foundation (Rotterdam).

After my Rotterdam, experience I wanted to go straight back. I felt as if I could live there. My stay in Rotterdam was so attractive at many different levels. The residency, at the south of the city in a residential area and is a 20-minute bus ride from the main station. It felt very familiar and had some resonance with southeast London where I am from. Pauline came to meet us (the first 5 days my sister Laura was with me, this was pre- arranged with Kamiel who said that family and kids were welcome!)) at the bus stop and walked back to the flat/studio space. I found in the flat my bags of materials that Kamiel had driven from Nantes on his last visit, I felt at home. The flat is on the first floor of a block. The flat is spacious and decked in wood. The shower looks a bit shoddy but is actually powerful and enjoyable. The kitchen is equipped and the prior resident Jean Bonichon had kindly left me some beer. Pauline pointed me in the direction of a supermarket. Beware that most supermarkets do not take MasterCard. The bedding that Jean had washed wasn’t dry when I arrived, I would take some sheets just in case that happens to you. The bed was comfortable and opened up onto the communal garden space. Mosquitoes were rife in August; go armed. All the residents are artists but everyone had gone away for the summer. My 2 weeks were spent drawing. I had been looking forward to dedicating all my time away from daily commitments and that is exactly what I got, inventing and finding new forms, space and time for experimentation. I have almost never spent four consecutive days without speaking to anyone. Quickly I got into a work pace and a certain work rhythm. I would wake early and spend 3 hours in the sunny studio. I would then get on my borrowed and consequently stolen bike (use 2 padlocks) and peddle through The Maastunnel to the other side. The first time you take the tunnel is quite hairy. You guide your bike down steep wooden escalators hanging onto the handles; I was really scared not to drop my bike all the way down to the bottom. When that is mastered you get to 585-scooped tunnel that you almost do not need to peddle through. It is magical, sensational and freeing. You feel like a Rotterdammer. I spent the afternoons in my favourite district Witte. I recommend Bazar Hotel, Witte de With Contemporary art, Palace Café and Vanilla. I came away with a series of drawings for a forthcoming show and a new sense and conviction of being an artist. Thank you Kamiel who arrived a few days before I left and treated me to an amazing dinner; spicy Thai mussels and a few too many whiskeys in a local bar and to Pauline whose bike I had stolen, I am so sorry.

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