The project began in 2006 when I had a studio at Spike Island (Bristol). I had made a new piece of work, part of a series of ceramic figurines which I had altered using plasticine. Some of the pieces were a run-off from the series 'Animals with iPods'. I decided that one of the ways I would show the work would be on a billboard. Billboards interest me. They bring contemporary art into the public realm in a palatable form, interfering with societal expectations of advertising without involving the bureaucratic reams of red tape that other public works attract.

I started to research billboards and decided if/when I found one I would invite other artists to also make a piece, one billboard for three months with myself and two other artists each having a month.

A while later when Plan 9 found its new space, myself and others were invited to join - mainly those who had previously taken part in the Plan 9 Projects, a curatorial project of sorts. I had already curated a couple of shows with Plan 9 including Crazy Golf at the original space and later on (as part of the project group) Martin Kippenburger (a tribute to burgers) at a temporary space at Spike Island.

We were asked to forward proposals and one I put forward was the billboard show. Sophie Mellor (one of the founders of Plan 9) went to see the local council to discuss our plans and came back with the news that the council could offer me not one billboard, in fact no billboards - rather nine Adshell Poster sites for one month, yay! So the search began for eight other artists.

Finding artists is easy, we are a dime a dozen, finding good artists is another thing... I decided that as there was no curatorial line I would just pick artists whose work I liked and might lend itself to the task at hand. So I asked a diverse group (one of whom I found through Facebook) and they all agreed.

The artists are: Brian Griffiths, Craig Fisher, Ellen Wilkinson, Laura Bel, Nim-jo Chung, Sophie Mellor, Karen Difranco, Simon Buckley and myself.

Well, we are swimming if you know what I mean, and I am keeping calm. What is it with artists who can't deliver to deadlines? and online ftp sites (whatever they are) not working?

On Sunday I tried uploading my image onto the cyber-storage-ftp-whatsit that the printers' guy set up and it didn't work (panic, eek, can't go work in London this week, not with this s**t going on). It's the final couple of days before print and the artists are meant to be uploading - they are all waiting til the last minute to do so (apart from one) and it doesn't work! Luckily the printer has options - even on a Sunday (gosh I want a Blackberry too, I think). So I ignore his advice and send out a panic e-mail, quick, send me your work on disk, ASAP!! Phone Spain, Help Nim, send yours and Laura's work by Fed-Ex QUICK! £70 later, got all the work, yay. So all stuff got to the printers and the prints are looking better than great.

Suddenly catastrophe struck. A quick call to Adshell to confirm arrangements and I'm told there are only eight poster sites, what? Turns out the ninth site has been removed for some re-paving, eek, what to do? Why didn't the council tell me, as if they have anything better to do? Well.. there is only one thing I can do, take out my own poster from the show. Gutted. Now I am left with a really big expensive poster with nowhere for it to go, for now.

So, flyers are done and slowly being distributed and I just noticed I forgot to include the Plan 9 web address.

Now it's just the opening, or rather the launch, to contend with. It's difficult to know how to open a show when there is at least half a mile between artworks - rick-shaws? Tour bus? Stilt walkers and clowns? So we (me) decided on a soup kitchen. It's gonna be a Monday and cold so who needs booze? (Unless I can get a St Bernard with a barrel of rum hanging from its neck).

So on the opening morning of the show I phoned the poster people to make sure all was well, they said it was all fine and I could expect the posters to be put up any time in the next three days, ouch, ok breathe easy.

I called them back and stressed the importance of the day, 'it's the opening' I said, 'a Korean TV station is coming to film' (and they did; they gave me a pen set - bonus) 'and the mayor is coming' I lied (but it made them sit up) 'why didn't you say?', they said, anyway, an hour later, the posters were up, more or less, well less.

They couldn't access one of the sites, so I went down, spoke to the foreman and the next day, the last poster was up.

The opening night went well, Toby (Huddlestone…no he isn't a hobbit) and myself made soup, lots of soup. I made leek and potato, he made carrot coriander, orange and something soup, they ate it all, nice, then Sophie and Karen took everybody on a tour whilst I manned the Soup Kitchen.

The following weekend was the big official tour with the curator (moi), one person turned up, and she had some difficulty walking, no really, so I tailored a tour around her, and we had a nice chat.

The next week the local paper (Metro), ran a story about the show, advertising a tour the following week, eek, luckily nobody turned up. Despite this, the audience numbers for the show are great, nearly every commuter in Bristol has/is seeing at least a couple of the pieces.

Architecture weekly (or something) are running a story about the show, as is the Evening Post (who are running a competition soon around the billboards). It all went well, and still is, now I just need to get the lights fixed on Sophie's site and then get the work back to the artists, amen. Gonna leave the curating to the curators….till the next time.