tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4396364651221188992024-02-01T21:45:32.878-08:00Anna KiffAn unusual story of a sudden new job - running my dad's estate, Ken Kiff RA. An exploration into the London art scene from an inexperienced novice.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17569114327551783356noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439636465122118899.post-91628281438841791592018-03-18T01:33:00.003-07:002018-03-18T01:33:37.149-07:00What Storage Staff Have For Lunch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Storage units. </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">So</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> interesting, no? So necessary, so expensive, so bloody cold. From the <a href="https://www.gold.ac.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">Goldsmiths</span></a> student summer sofa storage in East London to the lunatic hugeness of <a href="http://www.martinspeed.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">Martinspeed</span></a>, the creme de la creme of art world storage in North London. The latter situated just past the <a href="http://www.theoldvinylfactory.com/history/" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">Old Vinyl Factory</span></a>. The ceilings were as high as a London townhouse and then some. Just huge. Full of wooden boxes with all kinds of famous artists's names printed on the side in black. Jeez! I walked up and down the aisles quietly gasping. I tried to look cool for half a second but it didn't last. They were just boxes, but, you know, the art was seeping through. And what I couldn't see was obviously growing more amazing by the minute.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I then froze my socks off with my colleague Georgia as we photographed the works. On my phone, of course, very technical. I had called in advance so the handler could get everything ready for us. Our handler this day was great. It was so cold he took us to the staff room to warm up over lunch. The staff room was a huge office with 2 desks one end and a tennis court sized space with tiled grey carpet squares, and a table at the other end, full of burly guys having lunch. It all went a bit quiet as we sat down. I broke the sudden silence with 'Oh my god, look at your salad' followed by ' What are you eating...but you're a bloke'. I took the subtle approach. Two men had the most incredible salad, beetroot, chicken, peppers, loads of salad leaves, purple and all shades of green. Just gorgeous/beautiful. We got chatting. They gave us fresh<span style="color: purple;"> Panettone</span>. Everything was good. And delicious. And (very slightly) warmer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We put each painting up against the grey felt low level stand and snapped away, crossing items off on our list at quite a speed. We didn't book the viewing room for cost reasons but actually, it worked really well. Georgia wore my wooly hat and jumped up and down to keep warm. I had multiple layers of thermals on which almost restricted my movement. But I did manage to lean a huge ladder up against some large containers on wheels (with the names of an elder male artist duo on, but empty I hasten to add) whilst I tried to get height to photograph some prints. Didn't work. Also not very Health and Safety. We'd do the prints properly on the next visit...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oil on canvas</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Martha has been a huge help on many levels since dad died. She is a <a href="http://www.poetrypf.co.uk/marthakapospage.shtml" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">poet</span></a> and <a href="http://poetrylondon.co.uk/editorsstaff/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">writer</span></a> and lectured at <a href="http://www.arts.ac.uk/chelsea/about/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Chelsea School of Art</span></a> where she met my dad. She wrote his <a href="http://archive.li/lDBD1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">obituary</span></a>. We spent many happy summers picnicking up in Hampstead Heath with her family, mine and Chris <span style="color: #990000;">Yetton's</span>, also in the art history department at Chelsea. When asked if she wanted a car as her wedding present, she said no, she wanted a Ken Kiff painting. This piece (above) is on her wall, between a zillion books by the kitchen table, now in fashionable Dalston, alongside several other works by dad. It does feel mighty weird to be around so many of dad's works, I must say. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As the show came to an end, we went to a little cafe round the corner from the Marlborough and celebrated with a glass of wine and the most enormous salt beef sandwich ever, even bigger than (and almost as good as) the ones at Gaby's. Dad and I would often go to Gaby's or to the Stockpot basement or share tables with strangers at Poons in Soho, 30 odd years ago when <a href="https://www.timeout.com/london/things-to-do/soho-then-and-now-in-pictures" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Soho</span></a> was a little less sanitised. In hindsight, I think my life as a teenager was actually quite exciting though of course at the time it was the dullest ever!</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17569114327551783356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439636465122118899.post-19647713935402265832017-06-26T08:33:00.001-07:002017-07-09T11:13:18.640-07:00Diaries, Etchings and a Mad Dash to Balham<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I cleared out all dad's stuff from mum's enormous but ramshackle house I left dad's diaries. I didn't want them, they weren't mine and I wanted no one else reading them either. This is before blogging and selfies where people can edit them selves as they choose and present themselves to the world. I'd had to open them previously to see what they were as the diaries, sketchbooks, logs of customer addresses, teaching notes etc all had similar exteriors. I absolutely hated having my dad's diaries. Within seconds of opening a book I could tell if it was a diary or not. It actually made me feel slightly nauseous, repulsed even. I'd thought about burning the diaries. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6m3SAOZ7NA" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Dr Wurtenberger</span></a>, one of the most knowledgable experts on estate management (she runs <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/jean-arp-667" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Arp</span></a>'s estate) said that often grandchildren were a better choice than children in estate management as they were too close to the parent. This wasn't definitive but I get her point only too well. I told Bill, one of dad's closest friends,of my diary burning idea and he said 'Nooooooo, think of <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/ted-hughes#about" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Ted Hughes</span></a> and <a href="https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/sylvia-plath" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Sylvia Plath</span></a>!' (He famously burnt some of her diaries after her death and just before he died)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, left in my mother's house were dad's diaries plus all his etching plates and carved woodblocks. These were exquisite but soooo heavy it was ridiculous. What happened is, my mother had a short stay in hospital and the council decided it was going to do a 'deep clean' (their words) on her house the next day, outsourcing it to a private company. The last thing I wanted was for them to 'clean' away lots of tatty cardboard boxes full of etching plates, lumps of old wood and diaries so I called dad's great friend Bill who lives up the road. We swooped in early the next morning, grabbed the boxes and legged it. In a car. My god, have you ever picked up a stack of etching plates?! Bill had a bad back so watched as I loaded the car. Am thinking now that was a bad idea back-wise but it seemed a good one at the time. We took them to the storage unit and wiped the sweat off our brows. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17569114327551783356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439636465122118899.post-51538701901709166582017-06-25T03:44:00.000-07:002017-06-25T03:44:04.757-07:00At Last - The Private View!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This came round pretty damned quick. I had spent several hours (days) contacting people I knew and people I didn't, inviting them to the PV. I felt hugely embarrassed sitting in my living room, flinching, thinking, 'Jeez, can I really contact so and so?' Then I soon realised no one really cares so I chucked my nervousness in the bin and became rather gleeful, emailing whoever I thought might be interested. It was rather freeing actually. The act of writing the email was all that mattered. If someone wanted to come they could, it was up to them. And boy, did people come. The room that night was packed. One of the gallery staff said very excitedly that she'd not seen it so busy in ages (I think she actually said years but I may have mis-heard, being somewhat intoxicated by the evening myself). It was dad's first show in 14 years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, I got a taxi to the opening as I thought today of all days I don't want to use the bloody tube. I had palpitations all the way from South East London to town. On arrival I dived into the disabled loo and emerged radiant and calm, a bit like a Marvel superhero. Not quite <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/dec/05/wonder-woman-the-feminist" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Wonder Woman</span></a> but you get my drift. I went back upstairs looking rather fabulous actually, my <a href="http://www.chiemihara.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Chie Mihara</span></a> shoes helping enormously. The first people I saw were The Collector with <a href="https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/people/view/barry-phipps/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Barry Phipps</span></a><span style="color: purple;">.</span> The Collector owns many of my dad's works and is especially keen on the<span style="color: #990000;"> <a href="https://www.kenkiff.com/ken-kiff-sequence/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Sequence</span></a>,</span> a series of 197 works, acrylic on paper, done throughout the entirety of dad's career (more of which later). I had had a lengthy phone conversation about what I wanted to do with the estate prior to the show. We had similar plans so decided to work together - it was great to meet him! And he was a nice bloke, which always helps. Barry was great, a (young) Fellow at Cambridge who's done just so many interesting things it's on the verge of bewildering.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The show looked fantastic.I was thrilled. The place was packed. Result. We had <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/allen-jones-1368" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Allen Jones</span> </a>talking to Ian Keen from Australia - they went to art college together with dad, various poets and psychotherapists, musicians, translators, art historians and, of course, fellow artists. Dad would have loved it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">So I phoned the Marlborough and
told them I was now running the estate. We were all very relieved and decided
to have a show. It was actually that simple. Maybe there were lots of
machinations behind the scenes but I didn't see any. I was wearing the most
incredible pink trousers the day I sat down with the directors. They came up
with a date, we discussed the rough content and that was that. At least initially.
I hadn't considered THE FRAMES. My dad used to be obsessed with frames. As
a kid we'd go to exhibitions all the time whether my brother and I liked it or
not (not, usually) and dad would talk about the frames even more than the
picture itself, the pictures within seeming relatively incidental. And I
thought this was normal. Mind you, to take great or interesting art as a given,
as part of the normal fabric of life was a gift. And growing up paying
attention to how works are presented is really great training on many levels, although I'm not exactly sure what for. Other than framing. But the aesthetics, colour, tone, hue, lighting of and indeed cost of the frames all come into play. Flat works can become sculptural depending on the
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif , serif; font-size: large;">I
wanted to be involved in the choosing of the frames and the Marlborough very kindly agreed
for me to be at the meeting with Simon Beaugie who had done dad's frames
years ago when he was alive. I felt really strongly that I wanted to stand up
for my dad's concerns /passions/irritating yet somehow admirable obsession with
frames. Everyone who knew him would sigh and run their fingers through their
hair when you mentioned the word 'frames' in the same sentence as dad. The
meeting took place in a small and seemingly airless beige room in the basement
of the Marlborough gallery. Lots of paintings were stacked up and others laid
out, all potentially to be exhibited. Present were myself, one of the directors, Mary Miller, Will Wright, who
seemed to be a spokesperson for John Erle-Drax, Simon and two of my dad's friends,
Bill and Sheila. The latter two were pretty silent but were there for moral
support. Boy, it was bloody stressful. We had costs vs aesthetics and fashion
as the primary opposing forces. They were, not unsurprisingly, strong forces. I
stood my ground and I left feeling proud but like my head had gone through a
mangle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">One
of the most interesting (and less painful) discussions was about the above
picture. It has several holes bashed into the board, something my dad did
periodically to his pictures and other things around the house in general. It
was typical of him. He had a foul temper. When I was older, I would open
packets of bacon by stabbing it vertically with a sharp kitchen knife and
ripping it quite violently along each side, fast and with speed. That's how we
opened things in the Kiff household. (Milk or orange cartons were opened with
similar vigorous aggression and enthusiasm and as such never poured straight, edges always
jagged) As I grew up it became pretty clear this
wasn't usual or indeed necessary. I still do it though. Old habits etc.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Anyway, the
thickness, width and depth and also type and quality of wood used for the
frame was up for debate. Would the wood be washed with a colour or not? And if so, which wash and
for which pictures? And which wood? What would the mount be like? We spent hours deciding on various combinations. Much discussion ensued. Simon
had a bag full of lumps of wood with washes. Holding these up against the paintings we gradually got an idea of what worked. We kept some pictures in the show purely because they'd already been
framed and you saw how cost inevitably dictated contents of a show. Yet these
old ones were, by today's fashion considered too thick and clunky. And I could
see this. My fight was to not include things just because of the cost. I was battling with my pride, my naivity and my aesthetic integrity. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">But
now we had the back of the board to consider. T</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.5pt;">he colour of the mount board was as
important. How how far in front of the mount board should the painting be placed? How much shadow would there be? And how did this alter the painting itself? We were effectively adding another colour to the painting. And that's before we considered the lighting. And so we segued into discussing what
the painting was actually about. All totally fascinating. Riveting in fact. </span></div>
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<!--EndFragment-->Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17569114327551783356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439636465122118899.post-75697511017956079802017-03-25T04:58:00.000-07:002017-04-17T08:34:03.407-07:00Tom and Jerry, biscuits and family life<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dad did seem to have home and work
pretty clearly defined, basically everything was work. At home he had the two
biggest rooms in the house, one as his studio, one as the store room for his
paintings. He worked all the time, every day. Although our shelves were
laden with Dostoevsky, Mayakovsky, Dickens, Colette and others, he relaxed by
watching snooker or Tom and Jerry cartoons. Seriously. Or eating chocolate
biscuits; the Kiffs spent many years on biscuit quality control checks. He was
also brilliant at helping me with my homework. I found out I was dyslexic when I
was 35. Turns out all the training they give you these days to help you study,
dad was already doing for me, though no one really believed dyslexia existed then. I did because I was. We frequently reduced all my written work to pictures, diagrams, shapes and colours. At
times my homework became 3D, modelled out of plasticine. I'm pretty damned
sure he and my mother were dyslexic, it's all the rage now. My brother escaped
this gift. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Nice anecdote:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">In class at school, I must have been 8 or 9 years old. We were doing a class on jobs/careers. I asked the boy next to me:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Me: What does your dad do?</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Dominic: He's a painter.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Me : Omg! (or a 1970's version)
So's mine! What does he paint?</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Dominic: (Looking at me oddly) Walls. What does your dad paint?</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Me: (Looking at him oddly) Pictures. </span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17569114327551783356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439636465122118899.post-1943388872878563012017-03-25T01:31:00.000-07:002017-03-26T06:32:58.284-07:00Andrew Lambirth, Anselm Kiefer and a chat with the Marlborough<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.flowersgallery.com/artists/view/john-mclean" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Norbert Lynton</span></a> (foreward)</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, I go to the <a href="http://www.marlboroughlondon.com/about/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Marlborough</span></a> to meet one of the directors, John Erle-Drax. He walks into the room preceded by his hair. He's been an excellent help and I really enjoy his company. Direct, blunt, cheerful. Quizzes me about some recent acupuncture research on lower back pain (my day job). We are in the downstairs room at the Marlborough where we are about to meet <a href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/author/andrew-lambirth/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Andrew Lambirth</span></a> who'll be writing the catalogue for dad's next exhibition. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The room, a kind of showroom I guess, is large, well lit and has several of dad's paintings on stands for us to look at. It also has a massive <a href="https://www.artsy.net/artist/anselm-kiefer" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Anselm Kiefer</span></a> on the side wall. I'm a little nervous so I find myself making a comment to John about the Kiefer not being all that, when actually I think Keifer is pretty damned good. John slightly contradicts me but I can't then say 'well, actually yes, I agree with you' for fear of looking stupid/lame/sychophantic. So I say nothing. Damn!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Andrew arrives. We all chat. John leaves. Andrew and I chat some more. I am SUPER pleased he's writing the catalogue essay. I was going to say all sorts of nice things about him but actually he's just a bloody good writer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Read his article on dad <a href="https://issuu.com/marlboroughfineart/docs/1704_mfa_ken_kiff_artwork_02-issuu?e=10236032/11377737" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">here.</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Letter to Andrew Lambirth, 2000</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">September 2014</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dad was a prolific letter writer. Somewhat weirdly he photocopied <u>every</u> letter he sent. I have many childhood memories one of which is that dad was always going to the corner shop to photocopy his letters. I grew up thinking that's what you did - you wrote a letter then you photocopied it. Can you imagine! This is obviously in the day before emails which is great as he sketched on the letters a fair bit, obviously not possible on emails. I'm currently going through 10+ boxes of letters, writings, lectures as well as things ripped out of magazines, Private View cards etc. What's great with the letters is that there are copies he adjusted and tweaked, re-arranging paragraphs, sentences and thoughts, often repeatedly, giving a great insight to his thought process.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/allen-jones-1368" target="_blank">Allen Jones</a> and <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/allen-jones-1368" target="_blank">Ian Keen</a> were in the same year as dad at Hornsey College of Art. Allen obviously carried on painting and Ian went back to college to study anthropology, moving to Australia with his wife Libby in 1974. Twenty seven years of regular letter writing followed,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">each letter containing a rough balance of family stuff and art stuff. Thoughts on galleries, people, works of art, his work processes, observations on his health, my brother and I at various stages of our lives and so on. Fascinating. My aim is to get some of dad's letters published at some point. Editing them heavily,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> separating the personal from the professional where possible, extracting the most interesting...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">September 2014</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I committed an ethical crime...I stole a patient and made her my friend. Willingly I have to add. I should explain. My day job is an acupuncturist. I've been practising for 21 years, worked in a hospital in China, done research for the NHS on pain, men's mental health, been nominated for a BMJ award. Yes, really. The British Medical Journal recognises the value of acupuncture now. I adore art, it was the oxygen in my house as I grew up. Poetry too. But my dad was such a massive presence I rebelled by becoming something (almost) totally unrelated to art. My parents pretty much let me do anything I wanted so actually there was nothing to rebel against, except getting a job in healthcare of course...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My patient was (is) a metaphysical poet. I had to do my 'OMG, what an interesting person! no, I can't make her my friend... professional boundaries and all that' conversation in my head.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But week after week, as her health improved, it was:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Me: 'Oh, do you know so and so? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oh yes, and I was chatting to X... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Shit, you know X?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Only because I was introduced by Y</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Y? You know Y?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And so it goes...I met someone from my past that I never knew at the time. My dad's love of poetry and poets that he knew shaped his work and my childhood hugely. My new friend was part of that group.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Later in August 2014</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">I forgot to mention! Rather fabulously and with great timing, Richard Lloyd, the head of Prints International at Christie's New York, emailed me that summer saying he was a huge fan of dad's prints. And could we meet when he's next in town. I thought about it for about half a second, then thought, 'yeah, ok, if we must'. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Next thing I know I'm sitting in a cafe with Richard in Mayfair drinking mint tea with a silver spoon resting heavily and beautifully on my saucer. Richard is very English, not American at all. He has thick hair, a sharp suit, and Joe 90 spectacles. He politely listens to my story and tells me a few of his. We get on. I'm thrilled that a non friend of dad's likes his work. My confidence increases as I do think my dad's work is bloody good!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Richard was to become my 'rich uncle', rich in terms of advice and support. He flies in for business, we meet at Christie's, he whisks me off at high speed to a local coffee shop (he walks bloody fast). We speed chat and leave. It's great!! I'm very lucky. I have to say I'm slightly perplexed by this whole new world, it seems rather like a foreign language to me, a bit like Russian or something, but with beautiful objects so I'm going to carry on...</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17569114327551783356noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439636465122118899.post-71921590306137258802017-02-05T05:34:00.001-08:002017-02-05T15:19:21.186-08:00Legal stuff.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">'Official' by Ken Kiff</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">August 2014</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Legal stuff...that's important, no? Contracts (sharp inhalation of breath). Jeez, what to do? For some bizarre reason lots of my friends are lawyers, I seem to stumble across them from all walks of my life, and they told me to jump to it. I immediately dug the old contract between mum and the Marlborough out. Faded, crumpled, dog eared, 13 year old, rolling contract from 2001. I scanned through it, underlined things I wanted clarified thinking 'what the hell do all these words actually mean?' A friend translated it. I re-read it. 'Aha!' I thought. I decided what I wanted changing and went along to see a music contract lawyer, naturally. David Gentle. And he was. He had a stinking cold. I was sat far enough away from him to hopefully not catch it but close enough to see how lawyers are brilliant wordsmiths. They are verbal WD40. We twiddled and tweaked the contract and I was very pleased. And he was a nice guy which frankly always helps. And he had a nice red cashmere jumper on. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Marlborough were happy, the contract was signed. All good.</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17569114327551783356noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439636465122118899.post-43399562874651484272016-08-14T14:46:00.000-07:002016-08-15T08:54:17.266-07:00How it all began...<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Actually rather unglamorously, it all started with an argument, as it often does, disrupting the status quo. Which sometimes needs desperately to be disrupted. It was November 2014. I shouted down the phone to my mum 'for God's sake, at least bloody let me look after dad's estate!' (she rejects help for absolutely anything, shopping, tidying, painting walls etc etc. Drives me insane. Literally). To which she said 'Ok' after 14 years of saying no. Within 5 minutes I was on the phone to her financial advisor who can do no wrong in her eyes. In 2 days we were at her house, wading through the crazy debris to get to her kitchen table with her officially handing me over the estate to run. This took the symbolic form of what the <a href="http://www.marlboroughlondon.com/" target="_blank">Marlborough</a> calls 'The Black Book' - an inventory and valuation done at my father's death in 2001 by Bill Jackson. All pre-digital so the pictures are sometimes a little fuzzy and/or a little wonky. Initially rather charming, eventually rather annoying. But bloody useful. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The journey begins...</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17569114327551783356noreply@blogger.com1