I have a little boy waiting quietly by my side, sucking his thumb. He should be in bed. I don’t much talk of my family here, but the two small boys who occupy a lot of my life are inspiring […]
54 days into 2010 already…. That is what I woke up feeling with acute gravity as I tried to emancipate myself from a brain fogged with illness this morning… …..that and suddenly through the fog…. it’s time to regroup (and […]
So, did I need to kill the little darlings?(see previous blog) I ran into Nigel Boonham who is my neighbour where I’m staying and is a really interesting English figurative sculptor (www.boonham.com, he has been here since September carving 2 […]
we had the meeting on monday. afterwards i felt that i had been over prepared and some how not prepared at all. i do have the dvd of what i presented for my archive. i have a lot to consider […]
I went up to Bristol briefly last week to give some radio interviews, it was actually very good to reconnect with the work but understand that it is separate from me now and is having a life of it’s own […]
Supermarket 2010 and other stuff I have lost all sense of time. On one hand it feels like an age since last year’s art fairs, and on the other hand it feels like no time at all. For me this […]
NEW WORK I’m finding progress slow. I have lots of new ideas but I’m also experimenting with mark making and technique so have repeated some images. I’m pleased with the folded raven and will make a series of these. I’m […]
I was allocated a space near the toilets when I was doing a residency in Limerick City Gallery of Art last June. At first I was slightly uncomfortable at this proximity as it might encourage my growing (and nauseating) fascination […]
What is my work about? This is a difficult question to answer however I am obliged to answer it for college and I have prepared this for my post graduate forum. I make work about what I see and hear […]
Public Facilities is a sign-posting project which will hopefully divert some traffic into some of the “semi-public” places in society. The project will be launched on Wednesday 3rd of March with a public intervention in Temple Bar, Dublin, where participants […]
‘The aspiring art fair has become a force to be reckoned with’ Global Art Magazine, Feb 2010 http://www.globalartmagazine.com/magazin.html?id_extern=10751&page=1&language=en Phew! Returned from Supermarket 2010 in the early hours of yesterday after an experience that counts in my top 10. It was […]
Art allotments started as a weekly swap of images and ideas, like packets of seeds. We posted and received A4 envelopes of collage materials made up from what came to hand, a mix. The idea was to have an artist¹s […]
My my my !What a couple of weeks! My head aches…..! The race for ideas workshop was indeed a race- a half term festival of learning and it went very well. I organised 10 primary school children to visit between […]
A respected on line source of music provided an ideal, and easy, option for the sound . Luckily, after deciding to switch off last week- with some easy viewing telly, I realised how popular! A BBC tour of rural Spain. […]
Suffering from mid point exhaustion.
I just can’t wait to get into the studio! I pick up the keys on Friday and my palms are itching. Since I finished my residency in January, i have been frustrated by my lack of production. I am not […]
I awoke this morning to discover one of my sideburns was shorter than the other. I remembered a strange dream with three whispering women. Then an hour ago I received the following email from my companion which explains all. I […]
A blog on the design of the Gallery Practice Poster. 5/01/10- Our first meeting of the new term took place in Studio 121. Amongst other topic of the agenda for discussion was the mention of the design for the gallery […]
This may be just a post for the sake of it, but I felt the need to put some thoughts down somewhere for consideration later. The last couple of weeks have seemed pretty good in terms of better understanding my […]
I didn’t do much in college today. The third years were busy preparing their work for the options, so I helped Scot for a while and then went home. I took prints home with me though and I’ve been working […]
The display issueTrusting yourself or allowing others to help you grow… So, over the past week or so I have been having a number of trials and tribulations over my first wax. The main part of the piece developed easily, […]
