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Mail Art UK

I'm just interested to see how many mail artists in the UK right now. Are you one?

Website: http://a1mailart.blogspot.com/
Location: Cheshire UK
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Latest Activity: Feb 3

The UK Embassy

Some stamps that me and Vittore Baroni in Italy collaborated on a couple of years ago.

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Sad news just in that Dawn lost her long fight with cancer recently.  Deepest sympathy goes out to all her friends and family.Continue

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Comment by Michael Leigh on October 16, 2019 at 12:15pm

Mark Pawson did a lovely long rambling talk at the PV of the exhibition and said in effect that these things look very nice in vitrines and framed up beautifully but mail art really is "taking part" and you can't just show a tiny fraction of it  and expect people to undertsnad what it's like to receive things in the post every day for 40 years and all the interactions that go on "behind the scenes" - the scenes being many networks and many "nodes" and every mail artist has their own "node" that is different from everybody else's. It says it's a "glimpse" and thats what it is.

Comment by Michael Leigh on October 16, 2019 at 12:06pm

I do get the irony - I really do!

Comment by Mary Anne on October 16, 2019 at 10:25am

Comment by Michael Leigh on October 16, 2019 at 9:19am

Glad the poster etc. arrived. Here's a short video the library staff made -https://gramho.com/media/2142130003654029333

Comment by Ruud Janssen on October 16, 2019 at 9:17am

the original poster arrived!

Comment by Michael Leigh on October 16, 2019 at 6:36am

Glad you enjoyed it Jennifer. There is a lot to see - we keep spotting things we'd put in the exhibition and forgotten about ourselves!   We had to leave a lot of good stuff out too which is a shame. They promised us more cabinets but they didn't materialize!  Was the bowler hat shaped post box in place? Did you get a chance to play with the rubber stamps?

Comment by Michael Leigh on October 15, 2019 at 6:07am

Float on......

Comment by Mary Anne on October 14, 2019 at 9:56pm

I think it will not be long before we will be using plain old 'England'.

I have artistamps from the 'Disunited States of America' so maybe we could follow suit . . . or should we be banging the drum and emphasise the 'United'?

Comment by Mary Anne on October 5, 2019 at 8:40am

Two brilliant answers giving me new perspectives and plenty to think about.  I wonder how the rest of the world think of us (if at all)?  It seems that U K is the one to go for (as I already do) both pedantically and romantically though I am determined to try 'Ukogbania' as soon as . . . 

Comment by Alan Brignull on October 5, 2019 at 8:12am

Officially we have one the longest names of all world states; "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", which I take to mean the United Kingdom (of the two kingdoms England&Wales + Scotland) plus N.I. But who has big enough envelopes for that?

Just 'England' or 'Scotland' are unambiguous but not fully correct for those with literal minds, UK or GB should be enough but doesn't it theoretically exclude Northern Ireland? So I advocate the term 'Ukogbania' to include everyone.

 

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