Dear Subscriber,
Apologies that it has been nearly a year since my last email newsletter. I aim to send these more often in future.
First, music news. My latest album Pi was released a few months ago and is now available by download from my website. A CD version will follow if more than 20 download copies are sold. Pi is an experimental album where the mathematical constant pi is converted to different number bases which are played as music. Initially, an experiment to see if a hidden structure could be heard, the project began to gain momentum as I added different orchestration and production to try and represent pi in different musical forms. Some tracks for example use pi in binary as timing, and a sine wave of pi hertz that lasts pi seconds is played at one point too.
Pi was my first new music in over a year, and I hope to write more before the end of the year.
In painting, my second solo exhibition took place in March at The Cubby Hole, Wistaston Road, Crewe, and was such a success that I'm the first artist to be invited back for a second exhibition in the same year. That will take place October, and precede a fourth exhibition at the Lyceum Theatre, which will be jointly held with my friend Ray Perez.
In August I'll be taking part in The Oneiric Image, an exhibition in Weston-Super-Mare. Featuring five or six artists, it is the first genuine contemporary surrealist exhibition in years or even decades.
I currently have a painting on exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art Wales in Machynlleth, and will be exhibiting in the annual Bickerton Summer Exhibition on the 30th of July to the 9th of August, and a new weekend exhibition in Richmond Park near Nantwich on the 21st and 22nd of August. One of my paintings Cat Lost in the Grass will be my first paintings to be exhibited in America soon, when it goes on display in the offices of Jeff Parker, 156 Pike St., Port Jervis, New York, July 26th to Sep 10th, to benefit shelter animals.
One last piece of art news is that one of my paintings has been acquired by The Grosvenor Museum, Chester as part of the Cheshire permanent collection. The public announcement and subsequent unveiling will probably take place in October. There are less than 20 contemporary paintings in the Cheshire county art collection, and I'm proud that after less than ten years as an artist my first painting has entered a museum.
Game news now. A lack of funding has caused Wisp Games to cease further development of Flatspace iPhone, although the game apparently continues to sell at a steady rate. It is a pity that features such as a tutorial which would have substantially improved the game were missing but it looks like further development is unlikely. Flatspace II will shortly be distributed solely by Stardock using their Impulse system. Version 1.04 will probably remain the latest and last Cornutopia (ie. my) version, but an update for the Impulse version is possible. I aim to collaborate with Stardock to ensure that Cornutopia customers can upgrade to the Impulse version (if that is ever needed) without the need to purchase a second copy of the game from them. More news on this will be posted on the Flatspace website.
That is all for now. Thank you for reading.
Mark Sheeky
http://www.marksheeky.co.uk
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