As well as the BBC website, and The Evening Standard, it has also appeared in Time Out, and the Guardian website. I also got a query about it appearing in the Sunday Mail Live magazine, but I don't know if that happened. This little pop can took on a life of its own.
The exhibition ended on Sunday, and the curator, Josh Knowles brought my motley collection back to me this week. But there was a wonderful surprise for me. He had got the can signed by Sir Peter Blake, no less!
When Josh picked up the Jubilee stuff from me, we had had a short conversation about collecting and the work of Peter Blake. Josh had been at the Art Car Boot Fair alongside Peter Blake, and I was pretty envious of that.
Being the lovely guy he is, Josh remembered that, and when he met up with Peter Blake again, at a radio interview about the Jubilee exhibition, he took my can along to get it signed. How bloody brilliant is that?
Absolutely can-tastic (pardon the pun). How lovely to get PB's signature too!
ReplyDeleteThat's amazing. I had a fleeting thought of: 'But what if you didn't want your special collector's item signed in pen' but then it was swiftly overwhelmed by, 'Coo, Peter Blake's signature!'. Does that make the can a Peter Blake work now?? Amazing that your can has been featured so widely, too.
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