So I did the night crawl through Ennis town on Saturday night. I know I am going to struggle with how to describe the experience as it was a strange and surreal one. Describe the event on a practical level: See below for the map of the route I took. Its exactly .5k, and takes not even 5 minutes to walk. First mistake was thinking [...]

I am planning to do a durational performance this weekend, Saturday night, here in Ennis Co Clare. Why crawl? See pic above, and also: I’m interested in the juxtaposition of the functionality of crawling- as opposed to the emotive response people might have towards seeing someone. A baby crawling = delight A drunk person crawling = disgust A disabled person crawling, like my child, who [...]

Last Thursday night I performed with a Limerick based collective of artists at their 4rth Live art event, called Collective Evil IV. I had had a normal thursday with the usual schedule, so by the time I got into the car to leg it up to Limerick I was tired and a bit nervous. But I didn't have time to stress as I was late [...]

Sat here in the kitchen trying to do some administrative work that has been hanging over me for the weekend. I'm not getting very far with it but then again the weekly shopping is done, I've made dinner and cleaned up, made the school lunches, the kids are bathed, uniforms have been located and music practice is done so I've not exactly been dossing or [...]

Three Hellish Furies I brought my 1948 copy of the Divine Comedy with me to the studio this morning. It’s very precious to me. I love books anyway and collect them as objects as well as to read. This has illustrations by Gustav Doré an illustrator whose skill, gothic gloom and drama has always affected me. I am going to pick out some of my [...]

My latex draped over a chair in glór studio I only got this far with my week 3 task from my course- I brought in this material which has a lot of resonance for me- and only got as far as draping it over a chair and looking at it..

Showing Up. Why I am here. My situation is: I changed careers from fitness (14 years working in fitness industry) to art. I moved from Cork where I worked as a personal trainer and fitness instructor, to Ennis, Co Clare, where I had no job. Did this exactly 3 years ago. I started my MA in Fine Art with OCA, UK in September 2016 and [...]

I had a better day today, in terms of mental ability. I had trained before coming to glór, and arrived already warmed up and not unfamiliar to movement, so it was easier to get straight into it. I had given myself the jobs today of crawling all over the floor of the studio. Tara who teaches the Performance course I am doing mentioned that I [...]

I arrived this morning with no drive.. I just didnt have my usual focus. I was pleased to have just come form a meeting with my photographer friend and collaborator, where I put a date on the performance Night Crawl I have been working on, but I still felt anxious and distracted. That was ok, I just went about getting through my list of tasks [...]

Thursday 5 September: To do this morning in glór: (you cant beat a good to do list, typed in bold for added fervour) crawl sit cross legged and practice laughing at intervals practice body alphabet repeat gestural exercise- exaggerated So I did my crawling around the room as my warm up- I use a cross crawling pattern where you employ contra-lateral limbs to move, keeping [...]