My artistic adventures really started when I became an Artist-in-Residence at Galerie Serrencia in Sigean. Then I became one of the founders of the Collectif de Sigean – an ad hoc grouping of international artists, photograpers and sculptors that had some connection with the village. The Collectif held a series of exhibitions and organised the 1st Sigean Festival of Contemporary Art in 2014.
In the Spring of 2015, the Collectif – in my opinion, mistakenly – became a legal entity, the Sigean Association of Contemporary Art (ASAC), and I became it's first President (because no-one else wanted the job). ASAC organised the 2nd Sigean International Festival of Contemporary Art in May 2016. I resigned immediately after this Festival when it became abundently clear that the majority of ASAC's members were neither interested in contemporary art, nor shared my visions of establishing Festivals and exhibitions that featured non-French -- and essentially non-local -- contemporary artists, but preferred the type of 'touristy' art that is found all around here..
o one from Groucho Marx, “I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member'';
o the other from Lyndon Baines Johnson, “It's probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.”;
Moving on to the summer of 2020, the Collectif de Sigean had imploded (again!), and, at the request of the Mairie, I reluctantly agreed to terminate the alternative ASAC (Association Sigean Art Contemporain), so I am all on my own – but that's not a bad place to be. Just before the confinement started, I had a solo exhibition 'Ego Googling', and participated in an exhibition called 'Art et Rugby' – but that only lasted two days before it was closed down by the confinement in mid-March. Now there are no exhibitions on the horizon in the forseeable future.