https://youtu.be/l3JGDsYImLA Raw Footage sound removed - A,K,S Mulholland May 2020 The Reliquary box was delivered on the 29th of April and collected on the 8th of May. During this time Amber, Kai and Sarah produced this video. I was delighted and amazed by what they created...
Invocation: To call on, invoke, to give - may take the form of (but are not mutually exclusive) - A spell, prayer, supplication, a form of possession, a command, a conjuration, self-identification with certain spirits. The words, an incantation - a verbal landscape of time spent...
Yesterday I presented a 10 minute 'Show and Tell' with Visual Artists Ireland as part of a showcase for Co. Louth. https://visualartists.ie/advert/online-visual-artists-cafe-and-show-tell-28-april/ It was a good experience to assemble the slide deck and content and have to speak about the work. There were 6 people presenting...
Aspect Cards Parceled I am always exploring ways to use my interactive objects and sculptures by creating encounters. I have reached out to three actors (living near me) that I have worked with previously on the 'Cloaked' performance. They are three sisters. I propose...
Reliquary Box in progress Making day plans centered around using the pyrography tool on the lid of my wooden box. I replicated the Metatron's Cube design - it also features on my embroidered cape and contains 2D drawings of all the platonic solid shapes. Its...
Acts of divination, spinning strophalos Triadic phases waxing waning, waxing lyrical Poets Healers Smiths. ...
One speaks of individuality, two speaks of duality and 3 speaks of otherness. Entrance Stone featuring the Triple Spiral at Newgrange dates to 3200BC. Triple symbols are prevalent in ancient cultures, the mystic qualities of the number 3. Nicolai Tesla was obsessed by the number three,...
The 18th March is known as Síle's Day in Ireland. A long forgotten and un-celebrated Saints day following St. Patrick's Day. Síle is an ancient female deity of fertility and re-birth. There are over 100 stone effigies of the Sheela-na-Gig (Pronounced Sheela-Naw-Geeg) in...
My practice uses a collaborative approach with participants, space for encounters with soft sculptural objects to interact with, communal drawing as a means to making new objects (co produced with participants). Capes Installations (2019) AAEX Installations In non art environments (outside a gallery context) we...
The presentation is available to view on the gdrive. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13d4Lu1AFfZcZGkqHiCCmHYgRFyO3vtAlvbIRq5at0PA/edit?usp=sharing Notes taken from the feedback: Layers in work, engage on surface or journey in deeper (Jo) Look at Tim Ingold 'Making' (Sally) Welcome Trust, Play - look it up. Multiple audiences recognised and engaged (Les) Children's drawings...