CR drinks and

Got the stats for the last week of my blog - 209 visits in a week! That's almost as scary as looking at the number of hits my website gets (scary in a good way, but still... scary!)

The night out with CR crew was great fun... I didn't get there until 7.30pm or so because I had to go to my exhibition opening first. Caught up with Tesso, Karisma, Clairie, Bellthorpe, Kato, Einstein, Lady Jove and many more... and, I got to meet my fellow kindergarten corner'ers which was lovely. So nice to put names to faces and there were talks about the possibility of dinner one day soon. Seems half of CR was also watching via the pub webcam. So you were all there in spirit, if not indulging in spirits! I also took my camera, but left it in the bloody car *smacks head with hand* How stupid am I? *L*

On mentioning my art exhibition at drinks, I also managed to 'out' myself to CR as an artist who makes (how shall we say?) fairly controversial artworks.... normally when I first meet people, I tell them I make artwork about people. Which I do, but that's a very basic way of putting it. I guess partly I say that because it takes ages to explain what I do and sometimes, it's nice just not to worry about whether people think you're psychotic or not. To be more specific, I make work about the imperfect or 'grotesque' female body. I use my own body for a lot of the images and they're generally quite sexually explicit or charged works. I guess it springs partly from my own history of obesity, but it's really about exploring and subverting the notion of the 'ideal' female body - making work that makes us think about why we think the things we do about issues of identity, sexuality, the body and difference. It's not the sort of artwork everyone is going to like and that's cool :) you can check out my website (www.hannahbroom.com) if you're curious, but either way, now you know!

Anyway, back to running type conversations!