Almost There Blog

Things are more than a little frantic at the moment, with moving house, learning to drive, trying to paint paintings three times the size of the ‘Almost There’ canvases in half the time etc.  So the blog is less of a blog, but more of a news bulletin board for the time being.  With that [...]

The exhibition is launching up North in two weeks, at the Waterside Art Centre, Sale.  It will run from April 4th - June 27th (an extended run), Open Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm, Admission Free.
There is a super duper launch night being held on Friday April 3rd 7.30pm - 9.30pm, featuring special live performances [...]

The launch night took place on Friday night (20th February) - and it was a huge success.  I would like to thank everyone who came along, all musicians who played - Ric Neale, Jose Vanders and Matt Trinder and everyone involved in making it a really special night.  A serious amount of wine was consumed [...]

It’s promotion mania in the ‘Almost There’ camp (that’s me in my bedroom by the way).  I think I’ve settled on a design for the posters, check it out:

Also, a few nice people have mentioned the project on their blogs - check out lovely words and download a free track from the soundtrack, Matt Cameron [...]

I’m stressing out. After eating and drinking my way through the Christmas holidays and not doing much of anything else, I’ve put off a lot of work. Now I’m faced with preparing everything for the exhibition which will launch in about six weeks. There’s so many little jobs like designing the launch night invitations, posters, [...]

So I finally found out the verdicts of the two decisions I’ve been waiting on - and by some great chance of luck - both are good results.  The Arts Council England have approved my application for funding for the ‘Almost There’ exhibitions, and P&O have green lit commissioning a new series of paintings by me.
Firstly, the Arts Council - [...]

Here is the first in a series of trailers to be released in the lead up to my exhibition.  I’m really pleased with it, the song featured is ‘Answers’ by Nizlopi.  If you like it, please feel free to post it to your blog/website/facebook etc.
 Almost There - Trailer #1 ‘Answers’ from Joe Simpson on Vimeo. [...]

Breaking news!  So, the dates and venues of the ‘Almost There’ exhibition are:
 
20th February – 1st March 2009
Candid Arts Trust,
Angel Islington, London
 
4th April – 13th June 2009
Waterside Art Centre,
Sale
 
I’m planning on getting my funding application sent off asap now.  Still no word on headphones though…
 
To celebrate this news, I’ve compiled a few MP3s [...]