250 - Tourist Trap

Cambridge was horrible today. Narrow streets choked with people looking for trinkets. One of those faux-pop and bluebells galleries packed with buyers sipping sickly bubbly.

The crowds negged me out.

Kettles Yard was between shows.

We visited two new art galleries though. I had a chat with a young woman helping out at ArtSpace 5-7. It’s a lovely Art Deco style space in the centre of town, along a tiny pedestrian street, overlooking a green garden churchyard. Interesting show straddling the digital / analogue divide. The artist had asked AI for prompts, which is something I proposed recently for a residency. Thinking along the same lines.

The other was Corpus on King Street. A bold space run by a young man with an art history background. My parents were very enthusiastic. Whilst we were there, an artist called Helaine Blumenfeld arrived to take a look around. Funnily enough she has a sculpture outside Salisbury Cathedral. She is quite elderly now: of my parents generation. It was good to see her out and about and on the scene.