studio shot
RDH: OCTOBER 2023
01/10/23
Three white rabbits.
Studio: ‘Passive Study’ going well - bouncing between the brush and the drawing mark. It’s always interesting to see which of the two (if any at all) comes to the fore.
“A Brush With… Sarah Lucas”
‘A Séance in London’ - slowly building layers but, more importantly, working through structure and composition. Very early days.
03/10/23
Anxiety overload!
05/10/23
WOW! Can’t remember a late night art quite like this one in a very long time. Belfast was buzzing!
09/10/23
Put the bloody phone DOWN!
11/10/23
12/10/23
Easy to say, but difficult to implement.
15/10/23
Studio - A.H. portrait study: A good start. There was one point where the charcoal became a little too much but thankfully it wasn’t difficult to rectify. Just before adding the last layer of charcoal, all the previous drawing marks were pushed back with just the paint taking the stage. Some nice areas of tonal quality but overall the image was flat. You would think that adding a charcoal line would make it even more flat in appearance but the opposite is the case! The crux of it - that interplay between the drawing line and the painting mark.
17/10/23
Second straight day of jury service but on the flip side, a good chance to see Kwok Tsui’s new exhibition in the CCA.
18/10/23
QSS - ‘Messy Business’. Great group painting show.
21/10/23
…worth sticking foot in the door.
22/10/23
Studio time. A long session but very little to show for it. Slow progress on all fronts. Perhaps working on multiple pieces (four canvases) is biting a little more off than I can chew?
Setting a couple of pieces off to the side for a while should make it more manageable. It probably hasn’t helped that the palette is in a poor state and needs cleaned badly. Not a complete loss of a day but it could’ve been a lot more fruitful. Several factors at play but, lesson learned.
Palette given a good scrub before finishing up.
25/10/23
Dublin - too dark to write on the bus down - too dark to write on the bus home. The Autumn evenings are here.
Atoosa Pour Hosseini’s ‘The Magic Circle’ in Temple Bar Gallery + Studios is excellent. Remnants of vintage horror films in the video piece.
RDH: MAY 2023
02/05/23
First day…
Make time for practice.
03/05/23
04/05/23
…the drive to help.
Late Night Art Belfast. The first in a long time.
07/05/23
“Boy Soldier” - finished.
Two new little pieces started this afternoon too!
09/05/23
13/05/23
Sent feelers out…
14/05/23
Need to tread carefully with this one.
19/05/23
Supplies!
20/05/23
A good tidy up of the studio.
21/05/23
Studio time.
Going somewhere and then damn near destroyed ‘Mugshot’ piece. Taking some time and stepping back helped save the day.
Looking is still working.
Brought it back. Relying too heavily on the charcoal mark can sometimes lead to images turning into a caricature of itself. Pared back the drawing line - focussed on the tones and limited palette that don’t stray too far from each other. Much more successful as a whole now. Bit more to go but good otherwise.
25/05/23
Luc Tuymans - surgical precision. All working out is done beforehand - composition, colours, size, materials all planned in advance so that intelligence goes from the brain (in the preparation stages) to the hand (in the making). I don’t know if that would work for me. That split second spontaneity - yes it can go wrong and often does - is needed for play with materials. Having a regimented script when painting would not work for me.
Need to catch a grip. Too easily distracted by shiny things.
27/05/23
“Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires” on Iplayer.
28/05/23
Studio.
“What fascinates you about that bastard?”
Definitely evokes a response. Is it worth it to get response based on the sources for the work rather than the work itself? A pickle. It’s not a glorification of a person’s actions. It is a study, an investigation of a portrait of evil. Aesthetic response to traumatic event.
Ethics vs Aesthetics.
In the end, I’m never speaking or working for anyone but myself.
Wee bit of progress on little prayer canvas. Could the two be companion pieces?
31/05/23
Dublin bound.
RHA show - an art overload but in the best way!
Quick stop in Temple Bar and glad I saw performance for Fanny Gicquel’s show “breathing with heels, walking with eyes”. Also popped into Project Art Centre to catch “Got Damp / Púscadh Anuas” by Avril Corroon.
RDH: OCTOBER 2022
02/10/22
#Mousegate
Strange events
08/10/22
…notes complete. Need refined for easy consumption.
13/10/22
Royal Ulster Academy opening. Craig Donald won an award for best portrait! A great night all round and chuffed to see my little painting up on the wall with some wonderful artists.
14/10/22
Early start. Perhaps the X in X4 stands for extra-long.
Talk in the Hugh Lane couldn’t have gone any better. Pleased with the reaction and feedback from everyone and profoundly grateful to Basic Space for the opportunity to speak.
15/10/22
‘A Brush With… William Kentridge’.
charcoal - the indeterminacy of the point.
… at the edge of meaning.
“Give an image the benefit of the doubt… there is a danger in certainty.”
William Kentridge.
21/10/22
NB: Melancholic apostle image interesting.
22/10/22
World of proximities.
23/10/22
26/10/22
David Lynch “The Art Life” - documentary
27/10/22
“The Art Spirit” by Robert Henri
30/10/22
“Cherish your own emotions and never under value them”
Robert Henri
RDH: AUGUST 2022
02/08/22
Getting a little anxious as word gets closer…
03/08/22
“Girl with Red Hair” has been preselected!
07/08/22
Work dropped off to the RUA.
Visit to the MAC for Ron Mueck exhibition.
14/08/22
15/08/22
Can’t just be sitting around waiting…
Some sketchbook work started.
16/08/22
Drawings finished up from yesterday. Studio time now and some painting with the niece.
GOT INTO THE RUA SHOW!
17/08/22
‘A Brush With … Lina Iris Viktor’
“I think using a limited palette gives you more freedom.”
L.I.V.
Another layer on ‘lovers’ piece and a clean palette needed.
18/08/22
One Year!
20/08/22
Studio. Bit of burning on “Catherine Study”.
21/08/22
Good progress on “A Lovers’ Harvest”… man’s face works and doesn’t at the same time. Need to come back with fresh eyes.
There are aspects about “A.L.H.” I need to jot down:
Fracture
Loss vs Hope
Memento Mori / Passing of the Seasons
27/08/22
Adam Pendelton on “A Brush With…”: “Masks conceal and evoke.”
Studio time: Grass - too much? Go lighter? Lovers - more sculpting? Background - more solidity?
A lot more questions than answers at the minute. Less writing, more doing. Retrospective analysis is much more succinct and compelling (?)
PTO…
Although, in hindsight, creating a short, concise list of things to look at, attempt / rectify seems to pay off more often than not.
“A Lovers’ Harvest” finished.
31/08/22
Submitted… finger’s crossed.
Never far from thoughts.
RDH: JANUARY 2022
03/01/22
Paranoic Critical Method - Dalí
08/01/22
Studio.
Starting two pieces. Smoky feel in a cold studio.
16/01/22
Short but interesting stint in the studio. Peaks and troughs with little P.P.E. piece.
Heaven is a half pipe.
22/01/22
Another Saturday not in the studio but will make up for it tomorrow.
Serial Works: Paintings in a series - leaves out imagination?
23/01/22
“A New Normal” finished.
Different disciplinary artists working together! It’s happening!
24/01/22
Head is buzzing with ideas. Renewal.
25/01/22
Home / Displacement
Urgency
27/01/22
Some fun reacting to S.T.’s drawings.
29/01/22
The Loup. Kept in the…
30/01/22
Day and Date. A dark day remembered.
The Chameleon lays in wait,
Knuckles pressed white on the oak armrests.
There you’ll find an empty place at the table.
Under the fire’s amber glow,
Home is where the hearth is.
31/01/22
H.B.A. You are always missed.
Felt good to get some sketchbook work done tonight.
RDH: MAY 2021
01/05/21
NB: Take a little more time…
"History Repeating”: Good Start!
02/05/21
Admin all day long!
03/05/21
Sketchbook work with snooker on in the background. Not a bad combination
04/05/21
passing-time.org : great concept for a website showcasing work.
05/05/21
Submission unsuccessful.
Studio time eventually… come the weekend I will probably try and figure out a way to block out the planes so that I can paint the red container background in one motion. Right now its all a little scrappy and stop/start.
07/05/21
Belfast bound. When walking around the town I hear ARRAY have been nominated for the Turner Prize! Amazing news and thoroughly well deserved! This feels like it could be a huge boost to Belfast / NI art community going forward.
08/05/21
Rodin’s “Gates of Hell”
…has to reflect your own practice. We all think and experience the world differently.
Weekend screening of ‘Painting After Postmodernism with Barbara Rose’ courtesy of The Brooklyn Rail.
… permit the accident and then aim to control it afterwards.
Concept of space - innovation of contemporary painting regardless of abstract or figurative work.
09/05/21
Initially didn’t feel in form for studio today but it really does pay off to just do it and go in regardless.
Masked planes and now I’m fairly content with the more solid / rusted container in the background.
10/05/21
Sketchbook work.
12/05/21
The over-thinking / perfectionist side is in overdrive.
Perhaps it’s the large scale that is showing up it’s flaws. Embrace the flaws? Easier said than done - however I do seem to appreciate other artist’s little oddities in their work that could be seen as inaccurate. One person’s poor areas are another person’s highlights I guess.
There’s a lot to be said for confidence in the work and/or the process. Here’s to letting go.
13/05/21
Finally bit the bullet in some respects. “T.H.T.H” sold!
14/05/21
Memory is so imperfect.
15/05/21
A lot of doodles and not much substance.
Joan of Arc will be the elephant in the room today.
Figurative -> Genre
Abstract -> Colour / Editing
Perfectionism is stifling “History Repeating” It’s getting there but extremely slow and frustrating. Straddling between realistic and looser motifs. In two minds when in the thick of it all.
16/05/21
17/05/21
OFFSITE from Catalyst Arts. Peer Support / crit group was excellent and definitely well worth expanding on.
Patterns of People.
The act of Keening / Post-memory.
18/05/21
Paint the fence.
19/05/21
That ‘I want to be on my own’ kind of feeling.
“H.R.” - truly, these planes are the bane of my life at the minute. Whatever the case, regardless of how they are (in my eyes) I’ll want to push on and be done with this canvas by the weekend….
…are they finished? Dare to hope.
IMMA talk with Chantal Joffe and Katy Hessel - ‘The Artist’s Mother’.
‘Attempting the impossible’ - the best definition of portraiture and painting.
Just submitted “Shock” and “Gathering Thoughts”.
20/05/21
21/05/21
‘The Training of Memory in Art and the education of the Artist’ by Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran.
Cart and standing figures worked on today. Trying to strike a balance between the light tones of the ground, the bodies and the cart.
22/05/21
25/05/21
Work and yard work.
26/05/21
“History Repeating” finished!
28/05/21
Saltz v Scully.
Started putting paint down on one of the smaller pieces and just decided to call it. Whether the smaller works are tripping me up on where to go next or they’re just not exciting me enough to push on. I’m not sure.
30/05/21
When asked if I would be willing to help Ciara McMullan, an architecture student with a project, I was happy to fill out a questionnaire and make some small works on canvas and glass to include in a study model of a studio / exhibition space. I was blown away to see the final results of the project. Some fantastic ideas.
31/05/21
Late night sketching to finish off the month. The past few weeks has seen an unusually singular focus / pandering to one specific canvas. Typically I jump from one work to another with usually three on the go at once. I always thought this helped keep the head and the eyes fresh. I wonder if this may explain May.
Slight sense of fatigue creeping in. At least there are avenues to explore in terms of going about fixing it.
RDH: NOVEMBER 2020
01/11/20
Focus required…
…reaching it back to integrity of practice.
Large scale drawings?
02/11/20
03/11/20
Great to get imagery into some semblance of order.
“Thinking through making.” - Joy Gerrard during interview with GTG. Watch here.
06/11/20
07/11/20
08/11/20
…settling back into a new routine… still healing.
10/11/20
11/11/20
IMMA Talk: From the Rego Studio.
13/11/20
Limbo-Land yet again.
14/11/20
Finding it difficult to concentrate with all going on. Just wish that aspects were sorted so that some kind of routine could be adhered to.
Some results but not all.
…giving up the ghost on the little ‘go cart’ piece. It just went stale but that’s OK. It wasn’t the right time.
16/11/20
19/11/20
Absolutely baltic in the studio.
20/11/20
Mostly focused on “Norwegian Nude” today but building up layers on other pieces too.
22/11/20
Really good progress today.
23/11/20
BP 158/113
26/11/20
Site update
27/11/20
Really great online talk from the Garter Lane Arts Centre: Chloe Austin in conversation with Matt Higgs, Kitsch Doom, and Ciara O Neill.
Did a few quick sketch of the speakers as they discussed their practices.
29/11/20
…readjust, centre, breathe and focus on what matters.
30/11/20
After having a long, hard look at “Troublesome” - came to the realisation that figure is complete. Nice to leave it loose in parts. It explains what it needs to without having to divulge anything else.
Bit of building work in the background and it’s finished.
Decorations are up and a little winter halo to round off a very odd month.
RDH: JULY 2020
01/07/20
Some more Matisse-inspired bamboo work for shapes in the foreground and that’s the large painting finished! Title to be confirmed later.
02/07/20
Abrupt awakening.
So “The Hill of the Red Witch” it is. Very close.
Eventually got some good ground work down on two new pieces. Some human hair included.
Great Julie Curtiss talk with Brooklyn Rail.
03/07/20
LOFT
2013 - 2015: 14 works (over 3 years)
LISNAMUCK
2016 - 2018: 36 works (over 3 years)
2019 - June 2020: 16 works (in 18 months)
That’s crazy!
04/07/20
05/07/20
QUESTIONS
07/07/20
Working out left hand on “L.O.” is tough. It’s not the shape of it but the lay of the fingers that’s the bother. Pre-mixing … is needed to unify the hands and face. It’s the difference in definition between the upper and lower hands that are jarring a bit.
Days that just don’t go your way. THUMB NEEDS TO BE A FRACTION LONGER!
08/07/20
Working method today is attacking the canvas in micro stages.
NON FINITO = nice idea.
Does something have to look finished before being deemed complete?
…I limped home tonight. Painted for nearly 11 hours. Not sure if “Left Out” is done, but it’s bloody close.
09/07/20
… Yes it’s there!
10/07/20
Priming, studio cleaning and two little pieces drawn up. Interior one has promise.
11/07/20
The Ruination of the World.
“Rock Pool Memory” - the original drawing is not exact and so the dimensions are a little skew-whiff. Possibly why the painting is not coming together.
12/07/20
Horrible day painting but at least it beats not doing anything at all! “Rock Pool Memory” is just that - a memory.
A sense of critical…. ?
14/07/20
Such as strange pain down arms and shoulders last night. Shake it off or…
Trip to A&E - allergic reaction to insect bites. The usual then.
15/07/20
Studio time.
Nice chat with Chloe, Dominic and Niamh - some interesting discussions.
16/07/20
A nice dull background on “Seashore Jester”.
17/07/20
Applied … again.
18/07/20
Solid studio day. Resurrected “Rock Pool Memory”. Tonal values not there on “Seashore Jester” just yet but happy enough so far. Stumbled across the old Enfield painting that I abandoned four years ago. Decided to give it another crack.
19/07/20
21/07/20
Been a few days of home improvements.
24/07/20
Sketched out little commission and cleaned out palette.
Martha Tuttle talk on Brooklyn Rail excellent! Links to antiquity and the tactility of the work is fascinating.
26/07/20
The past few days I’ve literally been going round in circles with “Rock Pool Memory”. Originally I thought executing the proportions properly would have solved any issues that were cropping up but no. I think I’m in two/three minds as to how to approach it so perhaps shelving it isn’t a bad idea for now.
27/07/20
I think it’s important to take a step back sometimes and focus on other elements of practice. So today is a drawing and research day.
“ARS LONGA, VITA BREVIS”
“ART IS LONG, LIFE IS SHORT” the reversed first two lines of Hippocrates’ ‘Aphorismi’
Nearly six hours of sketchbook work today.
28/07/20
Did not expect to but “Rock Pool Memory” is finished. It really has been an unprecedented time of creativity. Silver lining in a weird and unnerving time.
29/07/20
The Troxler Effect - monsters in the mirror.
30/07/20
Short stint today, Slow progress but progress nonetheless.
31/07/20
Parts looks OK and then others are close to the point of madness. At least the dead crab looks well.
RDH: JUNE 2020
01/06/20
Clarify your eye.
Mixed what was left on the palette after 7 weeks of caking. It produced this gorgeous black / green hue perfect for the large canvas. Dad gave me a hand to clean it as I only have one at the minute.
02/06/20
In two minds but some good ground work. VAI café now with Alan Phelan and Ursula Burke.
UB: Being a witness to what has been happening.
UB: Bridging the gap between antiquity and the contemporary.
AP: John Joly Photography method
03/06/20
Hospital appointment: I can take the wrist support off!
Painting again. Very very rusty but such a nice feeling to be standing in the studio again.
…there are areas that work really well (the transparency of the plates in the skull). Painterly approach. Pretty much the rest is just clunky and stale.
04/06/20
The following quotes are from ‘Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics’ by Herschel B. Chipp:
“The source of all inspirations. Whether the artist works directly from nature from memory, or from fantasy, nature is always the source of his creative impulses.”
Hans Hofman - on the topic of nature.
“…a synthesis from the artist’s standpoint of matter, space and colour. Creation is not a reproduction of observed fact”
Hans Hofmann - on the topic of creation.
05/06/20
Mucked up.
06/06/20
Built up layers on two smaller pieces. They are at that stage when there is something missing - limbo.
‘Circular Lapse’ was in that place until the overlapping discs were added. Patience.
07/06/20
“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”
Salvador Dali
Put the brakes on today.
08/06/20
New projector at long last. It doesn’t move an inch!
09/06/20
Got to using a brush at the end of a bamboo cane like Matisse used to.
“It was in me like the rhythm that carried me along. I had the surface in my head.”
Henri Matisse - on the use of bamboo tool
Visual and bodily. Some good progress today.
10/06/20
Troy Michie Talk Art was very good.
Finished “Beatrice Study” but paid the price; head is banging. Am I doing too much too soon?
11/06/20
Well today was a write off. Spent several hours at the Royal in Belfast looking for answers to the pounding head and the potential CSF leakages. Feels like recovery has taken a step back by a few weeks.
13/06/20
Trebuchet magazine has arrived and some updates to website.
15/06/20
Slept in.
Would love to visit the Christo and Jeanne-Claude covering of the Arc de Triomphe in October 2021.
Studio time feels a little panicked for some reason. Settle the head.
Now I.N.A.R.P. but I think there comes a level of pressure when you are personally and emotionally connected to a person to try and capture them as they once were. Settle the head and shake it off!
Well - you do get days of going backwards. Pre-mix before committing?
Cinematic tropes to frame personal trauma - à la Roxanna Halls.
16/06/20
Really early start. Seems to have worked - finished “Back in my Day”. When in a certain frame of mind I seem to work quickly. Time is something I have in spades at the moment. Have probably over-painted areas (hands) but best leaving it as is and moving on.
17/06/20
Drawing and tonal work to “Race to the Bottom” - working title.
18/06/20
…any shout of a practical day in the studio has disappeared. May be a blessing in disguise though as it’s probably best that I don’t spend every day standing in the garage through this recovery period.
20/06/20
…in terms of “RttB”, washes are or will probably key to keeping the action / immediacy of the figures alive.
Really pleased with how some of the facial work turned out today and I think the differing tones of navy/blue/grey will work.
22/06/20
2pm start - better than not starting at all I guess. After a few hours of frustration it was decided to just omit the second figure from the left. Eventually made more sense compositionally - balancing out the tumbling ensemble.
Need to be careful.
23/06/20
Different perspectives - slightly out of focus.
Am I too picky?
Over six hours of really solid drawing time today.
24/06/20
Two canvases primed. Focus vision and work on that one element. It isn’t a race.
25/06/20
Before I literally wipe the slate (palette) clean - could I use those silky black colours on the large canvas? Probably shouldn’t have got up at 5am. Eyes are rolling in head and its only 10:16am…
…waiting on a phone call. It was 47 minutes later than scheduled and on the phone call they decided to reschedule and to expect a phone call next week…
On third wind now but thought it best to call it a day before setting out the stall entirely.
‘A cup of clarity from the clarity flute.’
26/06/20
Unified the sky of the large canvas with a thick thick covering of velvety black paint. Pushing the oppressive sky downwards closing in on the running figures. Claustrophobic.
Now, learn from previous over meddling mistakes and move on!
Michael Armitage talk from Brooklyn Rail was fantastic! Got to ask a question too!
27/06/20
Really need to sort out a decent sleeping pattern.
28/06/20
Charcoal work today and not much else. Notes and revising for a presentation.
29/06/20
Very very close. Addition of the poppy. Centuries ago, the poppy was known as the witch’s flower. This is where the Irish for poppy comes from as ‘cailleach dhearg’ translates to ‘red hag’.
30/06/20
VAI Show and Tell: Northern Ireland addition. Delighted to have taken part.
RDH: APRIL 2020
Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’ - The ethics of looking.
05/04/20
Not sure if attempting “The Ferryman” on this scale is the right move.
The falling boy: “Full of Grace”.
Blocking.
06/04/20
Commissions
“If your art doesn’t reflect your family and community then what’s the point?”
Dale Harding - Tateshots
07/04/20
Happy anniversary JG!
Applications.
Never rains but it pours! Buckets needed.
08/04/20
Very funny search for a protractor.
09/04/20
Farcical.
Eventually got to painting after helping with a birdbox.
10/04/20
Should have been “Confessional” exhibition’s natural end.
11/04/20
Such a battle with “Inside Man” at the minute. Struggling with that balance of realistic approach and the drawing mark.
It’s been a while: “I AM NOT A REALIST PAINTER!”
12/04/20
13/04/20
Not overly happy with the finality of “Inside Man” but best to finish up now before I properly overcook it.
14/04/20
All but finished another painting. It’s very strange times indeed.
15/04/20
16/04/20
Six hours and I’m pretty much no further forward than when I started. Going to have to take a completely different route to accomplish this. It would help if I had a goal in mind. Detailed vs Out of Focus. In between? Trying to tackle the green slab all at once isn’t working.
17/04/20
18/04/20
21/04/20
Little talk with VAI’s online café went well with really nice feedback on work in progress and the studio set up.
22/04/20
Meetings.
23/04/20
24/04/20
Need to box up and send off!
25/04/20
Reset. Breathe.
26/04/20
Looking. So important. Doesn’t mean you can’t allow for spontaneity or randomness in the process.
“Ferryman” is finished!
27/04/20
A cartwheel with no floor. CT Scans reveal right-sided skull vault fracture and subdural haematoma. Off to Royal Victoria Hospital.
30/04/20
Out of hospital. Time to start recovery process.
RDH: FEBRUARY 2019
01/02/19
Slight change of tact…
02/02/19
03/02/19
05/02/19
Lagging behind.
06/02/19
Applications submitted.
09/02/19
DISTRACTIONS leads to NOT DOING WORK leads to FEELINGS OF GUILT leads to DISTRACTIONS leads to NOT DOING WORK leads to FEELINGS OF GUILT leads to DISTRACTIONS leads to NOT DOING WORK leads to FEELINGS OF GUILT leads to DISTRACTIONS leads to NOT DOING WORK leads to FEELINGS OF GUILT leads to DISTRACTIONS leads to NOT DOING WORK leads to FEELINGS OF GUILT leads to DISTRACTIONS leads to NOT DOING WORK leads to FEELINGS OF GUILT leads to … etc etc.
How do you combat this?
“Discipline is key" - JG
Break the cycle by physically setting time aside for practice. Depending on the day of the week and other commitments, the type of productive work will differ.
10/02/19
12/02/19
16/02/19
“What’s for you won’t go past you.”
Reworked pattern and colours on clown today.
17/02/19
Great to get painting today albeit a little later than I would have liked.
Counting works - didn’t realise there were so many!
23/02/19
Belfast. Great to see the last day of ‘The Question of Feeling at Home’ in PS² - curated by Moran Been-Noon. Bonus to get a run down from Moran about the show and to see Cecilia Bullo’s work in the flesh! Been excited to see it since her talk in the DLR LexIcon last year. Next was a visit to Belfast Exposed for the ACNI collection show with a solo show by Linda Conroy in the upstairs space. Conroy’s work is disturbing and utterly absorbing at the same time. Removing notions of the individual from religious ritual resonated with me personally. Then it was on to ‘Porous Plane’ by Lennon in the Golden Thread Gallery. The sheer scale and vibrancy of the work was immense. In the information leaflet it says that “no knowledge is required to enjoy the beauty of these paintings” and that Lennon “invites each of us to find ourselves and arrive at our own inclusions”. Leaving room for the viewer is something I’m particularly keen on.
Lastly onto the wonderful ‘Alternate Perspective’ in Platform featuring work by Aimee MeLaugh and Karl Hagan. Both reflect on ‘memory, people, places and trauma’. The grandeur of history painting coupled with highly personal and intimate narratives. Wonderful painting exhibition.
25/02/19
Project profile submitted.
27/02/19
It’s the journey not the destination.
28/02/19
Nearly into third month and nothing really to show for it. Plenty of works in progress but not enough progress being made.