OK yesterday was the opening of Clare Haven- Behind Closed Doors- Hidden Truths Here is the speech I wrote for the opening night. I don't give many speeches :) 'Hello and welcome etc etc. I am one of the project managers for the installation. Paul Corey is the other project Manager- he and I have worked together on various projects over the last few years [...]

since FIX21 got the opportunity to perform again, this time in glór, with Emma Breadman. We called it Chop Chew. It was discombobulating but also very convenient, given that it was a 10 minute journey so I could get the lunches made etc before leaving. More of that later. Now I am going to Revision Festival again. I think it was some time early this [...]

Paul and I have have worked together on various projects over the last few days and he first contacted me about this particular project in February 2021. These words from the initial brief sent by Siobhan come to mind, and stuck with me: Domestic abuse is not a newspaper story or tv news bulletin, it is not something that happens to those kinds of people or [...]

Thoughts on performance- catalyst arts, as part of FIX21 Biennale Arrived in Belfast after a long train journey and a run through Dublin trying to find Connolly station and being too embarrassed to ask any one because I couldn’t remember where it was. I ended up arriving at Connolly 5 mins too late for the Belfast train but got the next one, all good. Arrived [...]

And spent many hours writing applications for despite having vowed not to do this any more.. project intensive project arts got email confirmation that this was received. Responses due early October. https://projectartscentre.ie/open-call-project-intensive/ revision festival got email confirmation this was received. Not sure when they are replying. https://visualartists.ie/advert/open-call-re-vision-2021-performing-arts-festival-belfast/ https://visualartists.ie/advert/open-call-re-vision-2021-performing-arts-festival-belfast/ https://visualartists.ie/advert/open-call-re-vision-2021-performing-arts-festival-belfast/ https://visualartists.ie/advert/open-call-re-vision-2021-performing-arts-festival-belfast/ artist in schools- applying with one school at present. deadline due 17th October performance art [...]

Carolin Armada farm visit 1 and NewMarket On Fergus research visit More Carolin Armada Farm visits 1 and 2 drawings Women I drew form O' Connell Street, Ennis, and Carolin Armada Farm drawings Visit 1 Large Scale drawings in paint of Carolin - brown paper roll section 1 of brown paper landscape roll section 2 of brown paper landscape roll section 3 of brown paper [...]

Lady in waiting (room) SoonWaiting rooms are a special kind of hell. Sitting here 4 hours now, trying to endure the hospital system, sat meekly waiting, as staff breeze by carrying clipboards and doors indeterminably slam.. with that wheezing air push that heavy hospital doors do. Old man sat next to me muttering under his breath giving out, very now and then emitting loud snorts. [...]

Worked more on this today Multiple renderings of Carolin building a poly tunnel . I wanted to work on some images which conveyed her movement. Her movement was constant and repetitive, bending, reaching, stopping, pulling, walking up and down. The other images are of her IN and AMONGTh her garden as she is the garden and who made the garden, the two entities go together [...]

How do you decide what to do each day, do you have a schedule? I asked Carolin today, and she said no, I just come in and decide on the spot, I go around putting out lots of little fires before they become big ones. I liked this description a lot. I was in the Armada Kitchen Garden today which is now a lot more [...]

Just like my head, thinking about what has to be done in the next few weeks, how the days literally hurtle by and how dystopian life is- worrying about my own shit, then opening my phone and reading about Afghanistan, seeing people reaching up small kids to the soldiers, young guys who look panicked and scared shitless trying to deal with an impossible situation.. and [...]