Well, I know we did promise to have the Art Awards preview event video and photos uploaded onto the Art Awards website before Christmas, but apologies to those of you who’ve been waiting and watching. It was like this, you see……

First of all, yours sincerely flew off for a week to the warm and sunny climes of Andalucia, before the Art Awards exhibition was even finished, and then, landing back in cold and grey Britain, a certain natural sloth took over. You’ll therefore, I trust, be delighted to hear that normal service is about to be resumed.

Today the draft film of the preview event has arrived, and the photos are on the way to being edited and captioned. We hope you’ll be really delighted with them, those of you who attended the event, and also hopefully, those who weren’t able to, as they give you the flavour of a most special day.

We will, however, have to ask for your help with a number of the photos, where unfortunately, even putting our heads together, we were not able to name all the people. So, it’s a do-it-yourself job! Please contact me where you can put names to those pictures that are uncaptioned; I’ll be very grateful.

So…what’s the time–scale?

Hopefully by Christmas Eve, the video will be uploaded onto the Art Awards website under Galleries/Videos, whilst the photos will have a link from the Home Page to a Picasa web album, which will play the photos individually, or in a slideshow. If we miss Christmas Eve….  you’d better just get on and have a wonderful and very happy Christmas, and hope we do better in the New Year! An Art Awards 2009 newsletter will also be out in the New Year, viewable on the website, and also intended to be posted out to those without internet access.

With very best wishes from all at EAC. Have a very happy Christmas.