02/03/25
…it’s finished! Hallelujah!
This work is taking a lifetime to work out the kinks.
05/03/25
Admin work and a load of stretcher bars home. Had planned on more but literally ran out of time.
06/03/25
Fell asleep on the bus while writing in here… Subsequently have lost my favourite pen to the 212!
Late Night Art Belfast: Majella Clancy in Ulster Presents; Steph Harrison at Atypical Gallery; The Irish Palette in the Engine Room Gallery; Last night of the Catalyst Members’ Show and ‘Cailleach’ at Vault.
08/03/25
09/03/25
Stretching and priming, followed by another round of priming in the evening. No RHA this year.
10/03/25
Been offered a solo for 2026! All chuffed!
13/03/25
Wonderful to be at the opening of 'The Crush' by Sian Costello in PS Squared.
The paintings seem to echo the softened, shifting edges of camera obscura projections, where details are suggested rather than fixed, teasing at recognition before slipping away.
Of the work Sian writes: 'I use my own body and a series of camera obscurae as instruments to magnify and distort the boundaries between what is real and what is the art "work" of composition, lighting, and painterly flair. Through this fractured lens, space opens up beyond the controlling hand of the artist for the narratives told by the subjects themselves.'
'The Crush' runs until the 17th April.
14/03/25
Achilles is banjaxed! Minor injuries is a joke!
15/03/25
A morning of sorting out reference imagery. Feels like nothing productive has been done I know it will prove helpful in the long run.
18/03/25
…RETHINK…
24/03/25
Fancy transit.
27/03/25
It’s been quite a week: Helpdesks, Training in Dublin, More training in Belfast and a student Fair at UU… now first C.H. event.
Imogen is three today. Hard to believe but we can’t picture life without her!
…wisdom to know the difference… It’s not going to be easy.
30/03/25
Studio - drawing up, mapping out structure / composition of a few new canvases.
