I would just like to thank everybody who helped out and came along to the private views or any of the events in the gallery. It was great fun to do, and a great success. I would especially like to thank those who came out to bring me cake! (Eemyun Kang)

It’s going to be hard to critique my own curation, so any comments would be appreciated. The show is a mixture of artists from the Slade School of Fine Art. The artworks range from large kinetic copper sculpture (Candida Powell-Williams) through to four colour silkscreen printing (Sonke Faltien), with touches of brilliance dotted around the gallery. I formulated the show as way to enhance my own practice as an artist and also to engage with the local community.

We started the wee off with a bang on Sunday when more than 90 people came into the gallery to take part in the ‘Big Draw’, which was tremendous fun. Children and adults were literally sprawled out everywhere, even on the pavement outside. Within the cacophony there was some amazing drawings going on. It was brilliant to see children remonstrating their parents for not drawing properly as if they had switched roles and were not holding their knife and fork with proper etiquette. The whole event has to commended and a special mention has to go to the lead role, Diana Schiler.

The week rolled by so fast and so much happened but the highlights have to be the Punch and Judy (Andrea Greenwood) which was performed in the marketplace on Thursday lunchtime and at the private view on Friday evening. Both were a riot, the mishaps seamlessly sewn into the plot line as these ancient rivals battle it out but not in a traditional beachside manner. The other sculptors in the show were Susan Stainman with her abstract sculptures that play with your perceptions of objects, and Luke McCreadie who produced smaller but just as cryptic artworks. You visually rummage through his secret number 1, but to no avail. One guy spent 20 minutes pouring over the piece, shouted ‘got it!’ and then left. He never told me if he had got the answer or not.

On the painting side there was a great diversity. Sam hackings miniature landscapes attracted a lot of attention, as they were dotted around the gallery. As did Tom Yeomans’ 9 panel painting that bedazzled and bemused all who walked in, as it seemed to bring everybody who passed in the street. Another major artwork was Eemyun Kangs the skull that also seemed to hold peoples attention as they deciphered the fungal shapes and realised the skull shape. Last but no means least were Chloe Le Tissier who had some beautifully elegant portraits in the show and Jack Killick who exhibited his fantastic abstract drawings.