After sleeping on it, I woke up yesterday and decided I would not be defeated by my own idiotic ambition. What could help me align those goddamn arrows? I decided on a cardboard base that would be meticulously measured. I roped in the wasband you know the way men love to work with a ruler,…
Back to Gorey School of Art Print Room to test the big plate. Here is the Instagram reel summary of a disastrous day of printmaking. Guest Talk After the coffee break, I took an inspired break and accepted the invitation from the Printing and Drawing course to join them to listen to Patrick Redmond talk…
A busy day in the print room of Gorey School of Art yesterday. 5 plates to test, various papers/materials, and two colours. Here’s the summary on an Instagram reel. Below is the write-up of what happened and what I learned. Key Findings from Testing: Implementing the Findings from Testing: To be continued…..
So I’ve decided on the lips and zips motif for verbal expression but pairs of lips in isolation won’t tell this story. I need the lips to be saying something. In my mouth research on Pinterest, I came across an image of ‘Visemes’ which are images of the shape of our lips when we’re saying…
I realise I wasted a whole lot of time cutting out the lips and fitting in the zips just to see if it looked like a mouth when I was only really testing one material – leatherette. A far better use of my time would be to prepare a swatch of a variety of materials…
Having covered tactile sensory dysfunction in my Polyester Makes Me Panic series of prints, it’s now time to tackle verbal expression. If you go along to any ASD community group, the first question the parent beside you is likely to ask is: ‘is your child verbal?’ not ‘do you have a boy or a girl?”…
I do not have a background in visual arts. I am a storyteller by trade, usually words, sometimes data. I interview people and help them articulate what they want or need to say. I trawl through thousands of rows of raw data and spot patterns and the stories that they tell. In April 2021, in…
This is a piece I wrote while doing the Sustaining Stories CNF workshop with Sylvia Cullen as part of the Gap Arts Festival. I also gave a reading but I can’t seem to find the video of the recording. You can read all the output from that course here. Zaventem From January to March 1993,…
I may have mentioned somewhere on this site that I did a part-time course in printmaking at Gorey School of Art. I’ve always loved prints as an art form and justified taking five hours off on a Thursday to attend because it might be a new avenue to explore with my greeting cards. The thing…
So how do I account for the hiatus in blogging during the pandemic? Was I busy baking banana bread and binging boxsets? Absolutely not. I accidentally published a poetry archive I was in lockdown two weeks before the rest of the country because my son had managed to get out of Madrid the day they…
