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E&B: more broken down shapes- dissembling the school run lady from last week

Last week I spied a lady holding hands with her small child, about junior infant level looking, and took a sneaky shot of them walking towards a supermarket. See below: I am looking at this drawing again, and have tried making drawings of the shapes as opposed to trying to make finished 'drawings' that resemble something. I made these yesterday and am looking at them [...]

2020-10-14T12:41:55+00:00October 14th, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

E&B: out looking

I drove to Quin, Newmarket and Clarecastle today in search of the 'rural' Well no, I just went to draw people. But there were no people, I saw 3 men, that was it, in Quin. This statue of Mary, in front of the abbey ruins, was the only female there. I walked about a bit and listened to the birds sing and the occasional landrover [...]

2020-10-07T13:07:15+00:00October 7th, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

In Dialogue With The UnKnown

Some photos from the install stage of our group show, In Dialogue With The Unknown, opening today in a gallery called Die Linz, Austria. Feeling weirdly discombobulated re watching remotely as Kirsty installed the show. Then tonight was our opening, Kirsty had asked would we the other artists be 'there' on zoom, while she gave her speech, so as to give moral support. We are [...]

2020-10-05T20:55:16+00:00October 5th, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

E&B: making notes of some notes I took last Friday

Last Friday I had a skype meet with Moran, and we talked about the upcoming group show she is curating for Dec/Jan in glór. I was a bit discombobulated as a lot of my head space was taken up with the following days performance at Revision Festival but it was rally good to talk and helped steer my thought process in a useful (to me) [...]

2020-10-01T16:36:01+00:00October 1st, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

An essential contribution: post Re-Vision performance thoughts

I had a full day of experiences yesterday- driving to Belfast from my parents house in Dublin, getting utterly lost and stressed in city centre traffic, finding the gallery, Catalyst arts, watching 4 hours of very different performances before it was my turn, getting through my own performance piece, negotiating traffic out of Belfast again and then settling into the 4.5 hour drive back to [...]

2020-09-27T17:10:28+00:00September 27th, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

ongoing ideas to execute

I am writing, to remind myself, of the art actions I want to get made. I put these into my phone in a compiled note to make sure I don't forget them. The ones that resonate at present are two, that would A: work as durational pieces that would develop over time, weeks probably, and come to a natural end. B: are to do with [...]

2020-09-23T08:49:37+00:00September 23rd, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

WTF Trial

I got to trial a version of Working Through Feelings over the weekend, on Saturday morning. I have wasted the last hour this morning trying to upload a video I edited last night of the performance. Fucks sake! I just tried deleting loads of stuff off my phone (after finally managing to get Airdrop to work again) to make enough space to save the video [...]

2020-09-21T10:18:04+00:00September 21st, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

E&B: strong women- research

Made some drawings thinking about how strength is SEEN and how its expressed in women. Some people who symbolise strength. This is just me visualizing my thoughts right now.. The first image is Joan Of Arc, as illustrated in a propaganda poster from WW1, to inspire US Women to buy food stamps apparently. Interesting that they used a teenage girl who was burned at the [...]

2020-09-18T09:54:33+00:00September 18th, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|
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