02/01/25
Sketching - coming back!
05/01/25
Early studio session - Looking at “Gathered” … it’s finished.
Bit of a push and pull on Commission.
NOSFERATU - GREAT!
06/01/25
First day back in Belfast - COLD!
07/01/25
Double deadlines and an open call.
08/01/25
Personal interrogation - double mirrors? Will be good to dust cobwebs off.
What to put into xxx?
Popped round to Golden Thread Gallery on lunch.
Shirin Neshat installation in the Golden Thread Gallery.
Such a headache but it will pass.
09/01/25
GET IT DONE!
Three in the Morning by Charys Wilson at PS2 - fab!
Ran around … but no joy.
Sarah Maple Call me Mother in the Naughton - wonderful show.
(…. add mirror plates).
11/01/25
,,, Done all here I can at the moment.Seemd flst at the minute Still to br
12/01/25
Sketchbook studies in the morning.
13/01/25
Double Submitted!
15/01/25
Dropped '“Gathered” over for Catalyst Members’ Show. Should be a good one!
16/01/25
17/01/25
It might look like a phone induced dopamine hitting laziness - but I do want to try and utilise certain aspects better. Are multiples worth it or is it better to do just one really well?
Will mull this over but in the meantime, gather images to set into … folders.
Late Night Self Portrait sketch.
18/01/25
Should have seen this coming - getting too caught up. Yes, it’s a good idea to curate some meaningful aspects but, and this will always be the case, making the work is and always will be top of the pile.
Less scrollin’, more rollin’.
Setting distractions away to write really helps.
Watched ‘Longlegs’ tonight. The dolls shrouded in a black sheet - but with the demonic red eyes showing through - it has really unsettled me. Like one of Magritte’s lovers but on a bad trip.
19/01/25
Sunday Studio Session - (and pre-session list).
…colour restructure? Starting over isn’t the end of the world. It could be that it’s too small to tackle the source material properly.
And restarted I did. Got to the point of the second looking further ahead than the original pretty quickly. Should use the little canvas as a guinea pig - test out ideas.
Change the background - make it my own. It’s too safe at the minute.
21/01/25
A late night (probably too late a night) of sketchbook studies.
23/01/25
‘Misaligned’ by Katherine Penney in Ulster Presents. Moving work - beautiful use of space.
Bracing now for storm Eowyn.
24/01/25
Guts of three trees fell out our back and power has been off since early morning.
Saw part of one of the trees come down this morning. The thud it made!
Ambient candlelight.
26/01/25
A sketching and scanning day.
29/01/25
Dublin. Eileen Leonard Sealy’s paintings in the LAB Gallery - excellent.
30/01/25
I’ve veered more and mroe away from raison d'être.
Stick Shed. Personal motifs. Untapped.
Dervla O’Flaherty and David Dunnes’ shows in Cultúrlann.
