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 [...]

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 [...]

Drawing women I saw today in Ennis. Just shapes. Used banana paper I take from Aldi to draw on as I love its bumpy rough texture.

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) [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Thinking about the use of strength. sat here in the studio with strong, beginning of period period pains, shoulders and body achey from this morning's training. I'm interested in how necessary that feeling, physical tiredness and muscular ache, equals redemptive qualities, a box to tick that allows the mind to calm and clear, and focus on other stuff. My mind gnaws and worries on the [...]

I say 'Again' as I operate in this perpetual belief that I used to be stronger than I am now. Given that this is true, as I used to spend significantly more time lifting weights and kettlebell training (as I competed in kettlebell sport) than I do now. I also used to teach up to 7/8 classes a day, each of which operated as a [...]