Trip to ennis abandoned mental hospital today Last night on my walk I went for a wander around the grounds of the old mental hospital on the gort road, ennis. See the following lifted from wiki: The hospital, which was designed by opened as the Ennis Asylum in 1868. It became Ennis Mental Hospital in the 1920s and went on to become Our Lady's Hospital in [...]

Was in the shower, where thinking can happen as I get to be by myself. How to make the next part of the performance? I am thinking of sprinting, standing up and lying down, doing some push ups, maybe going through some scales and arpeggios, and oh I don't fucking know it seems so ridiculous and non constructive on any level when I even write [...]

today is nearly 4 weeks since the schools closed, due to the corona virus pandemic. At least I think it was 4 weeks ago, time has blurred. Any entries here are sparse and brief and disjointed due to them being started and unfinished or hurriedly recored. As there is pretty much no work going on and this is supposed to be a record of my [...]

https://youtu.be/CoPinMU7zvE Body morse Code, 2019 I made the piece of work above, with the help of my photographer friend Paul, who shot the photos in his studio. Id been thinking about how the human figure can look so graphic and shape like, and I wanted to experiment with lots of these shapes changing rapidly, sort of emulating early photography sequences, Eadweard Muybridge style. Early photography [...]

Equipment for today’s performance I went to the base of Mullaghmore mountain to film some art actions this evening. My friend Paul TY photographer came too and we drove separately and stayed apart observing social distance as per the current guidelines. I felt a little unsure re making this but as it was technically within the covid -19 parameters- keeping social distance, not being in [...]

I like putting on nice clothes. I like training. I like challenging myself physically. I dont like waiting. Time to combine. Thinking about wearing one of my occasion dresses, like one of the ones in my box upstairs in my cupboard, and going somewhere barren, wild, (social distancing) and flipping my tyre or swinging my seldgehammer. Or crawling about on some rocks. Combining the following [...]

Have applied for: RHA annual Show: painting Tactic Gallery Oileann Show: performance Livestock in assoc with Mart Gallery: performance Artist in Schools Scheme: collaborative education Women on Walls, DCU (partially submitted, to finish by 17 April): painting Thinking about the Curator in residence for glór. (deadline 18 March) I had completely ruled this out thinking I do not have enough curatorial experience. Then I looked [...]

I started today's session with a short piece to video about how I can sporadically feel literally imprisoned inside my own flesh. I can be caught unawares in the mirror and be so unsettled by what I see that it acts as a deterrent to get anything done as I am so distracted by the negativity I feel. Now, having sent a sizable part of [...]

I love an overtly expressive title. I couldv'e written 'getting back into it' but I prefer the above. Besides I havn't been out of it, Ive just been managing other suff. Like my kids. And a period of anxiety, isolation (partial) and despair. Which culminated in a mini emotional breakdown last Saturday and me driving to limerick by myself to walk around TK maxx and [...]

Drove to Cork last night to perform with the Limerick based EVIL collective. I performed with them last October in Limerick, when I answered a call out they made for artists to join them for their performance night. I was super impressed with their energy and group and singular creativity that time. And so it was again last night. It was a more intimate venue, [...]