August 5th 2009

Line-Up Confirmed

All 40 projects have now been confirmed, and the countdown to create the work is well and truly on. Over the next 5 months the artists involved will be thinking, sketching, experimenting, making, doing and everything in between to come up with their final piece for the exhibition in January.

We’ll see installations, sculptures, moving image, books, posters and lots more besides before we start to fill the gallery at the beginning of 2010. From now on, this blog will document how all of the contributors are getting on, giving you a behind the scenes look at how things are coming together for the grand unveiling.

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July 3rd 2009

Peace and Quiet

Ian and Riitta’s ‘Peace and Quiet’ proposal

We imagine a formalised autumn/winter collection of the time when we admitted that life was hard. We will craft artifacts that are without life yet are not dead.

‘Look at what the cat dragged in’

March 18th 2009

Ian Wright & Riitta Ikonen

Mr Ian Wright has been a supporter of the If You Could project since day one back in 2006. Since then we’ve worked on many projects together and we’re pleased to have him involved in the collaborate project this year. When we heard he’d arranged to work with If You Could debutant Riitta Ikonen, not even we could hazard a guess at what they might come up with. Pictured above is Riitta, and no more words are needed.

Ian Wright
Riitta Ikonen