Wysing, originally uploaded by wysingartscentre.

We’ve got space on the Flickr photo-sharing website, so if you want to see photos of the site, the artists, the team and the re-opening you can find us there… and here too, of course.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wysingartscentre/ for the photos

We also have a Flickr group where you can add your own Wysing photos - it’s at http://www.flickr.com/groups/wysing/ so come along - anyone can join.

We certainly hope you have all heard about our reopening and if you cannot join us for our Open Weekend - when all 24 artists studios will be open and the artists present - then we hope we can welcome you very shortly to Wysing Arts Centre in Bourn - only a few miles out into the beautiful Cambridgeshire countryside.

At the moment I am frantically answering press enquiries and at the same time chasing key press locally and nationally that we would like to see our new site and review our new artistic programme !

I am covering everything from the local community radio station 209 Radio where I am being interviewed by Justin Coleman this coming Sunday at 1030ish - 105 FM - through to contacts we have within the BBC both nationally and locally, as well as hosting the Black Thunder crew from Q103 radio on the night of the launch - and that’s just the radio coverage!

Tonight I am doing the rounds at Anglia Ruskin University to ensure everyone at the Fine Arts Department there knows about our launch. Alongside that I am ensuring that the local Cambourne Weekly News cover the local South Cambs Councillor cutting the ribbon at our Open Weekend.

After that I may have some time to go back and chase the national newspapers and their visual arts critics and writers.

Our online space is growing and we are trying to keep an eye on our website at least weekly, to update areas and ensure technically it all works.

Wysing Arts Centre re-launches on Friday 18 January 2008 after a 17 month closure.

Matthew Collings, art critic, curator and broadcaster will officially open the new Wysing Arts Centre (WAC) on Friday 18 January. Matthew will also be attending the event’s Press Preview and be on hand to talk about the significance of WAC within an international art context.

The new WAC offers state of the art facilities to 24 professional artists working at the top of their profession, who are regularly exhibiting nationally and internationally, as well as selling to regional and national art collectors. A special showcase of their work will form a key part of the re-launch, with work including the traditional media of sculpture and painting as well as video, animation, installation and performance.

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