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To-Do List Finish Book (v urgent – only 8000 more words to go) Call publisher – extend deadline to Dec 6 as been ill Take off writing head and put back art head Printmaking – remember to swap Saint Ronans […]
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Working collaboratively – journeys through current projects.. It has been a busy time – reflected in how little I have been able to blog recently. Several substantial projects appeared, started and developed within a few short weeks of each other […]
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The challenges of working in creative collaboration……… Our ‘how’ appeared like a bolt from the blue. Six disparate artists from across the spectrum of multi-disciplinery practice, sitting, talking, standing and gesticulating in fervent exploration, seeking the one thing that would […]
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Working with other artists on a single project is always a daunting prospect. How will the intentions and skills of each individual maker conform into the mesh needed to create a ‘something’ which is of equal ownership? How do the […]
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More mulling this week. I am torn about whether to carry on blogging under the title of In Memorium as it relates to a specific piece of work made during a residency in a crypt. The residency finished a few […]
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The Outcast Dead…………… I have been mulling over the title of my blog in recent weeks. After the ending of my residency in the crypt, I have been asking myself whether I can continue to blog as In Memorium. The […]
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Dead moths and petticoats in the crypt…. There was a feeling of something special happening in the crypt on Friday when artist Franny Swann moved her Moth Boxes into the space. From the moment I asked Franny to share the […]
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Time is really creeping on. I can’t believe the opening night for In Memoriam was two weeks ago. Everything builds up to the private view and then there’s this space where the work just has to be itself, and I […]
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The crypt is really getting to me now. When I’m not there, I think about it, and when I am there I sink into the dark crevices of the distinctive space like a creature terrified of the light. It is […]
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The more time I spend in the crypt, the greater the emotional impact the space has on me. I am aware that I feel a superstitious fear about sitting in the burial site, in the actual space where bodies lay […]
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I have spent almost the whole of July sat in a crypt, in the places where exhumed bodies once lay. People keep asking me, can I feel the presence of any of the poor creatures who died and were buried […]