09 Mar TYB “In here it feels…” Test Audience Feedback
The use of the materials attempts to capture and deliver desired outcomes for audience: Babies: Puzzle, play, touch Mothers: Comforting, cocoon, restful In here it feels...
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09 Mar TYB Mantle Installation (with Test Audience)
I installed a hook in the ceiling of the studio to use as a suspension point for the next part of the TYB project. To utilize the capes for a different context, build a tent form to dwell in a space for mothers and babies...
09 Mar TYB Floor Installation – Labyrinth Rug and Platonic Playthings
Model for Floor Installation Labyrinth Rug and Platonic Playthings : Soft Sculpture forms - based on the Platonic Solid Shapes. The labyrinth rug was based on a ink drawing, the trace of the brush marks are still evident despite the digital printing method used. This...
20 Feb The Infrastructure of Public Art
While waiting on tenants to leave the Creative Spark building on Tuesday night so I could lock up, I spotted a little booklet. Produced by Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts in Ireland it contained some very relevant little nuggets of information. A set...
20 Feb TYB – Critique with Hayley Locke
What is the work? Creating a space for encounter for Mothers & Babies at the Craobh Rua Community House. Considering site specificity and the social context, allowing the work to be a space for non art audience and create a platform for their responses...
15 Feb Rituals ‘do things’ as well as ‘say things’ (Blier, 2003)
This sentence triggered a series of memories which, for me encapsulated the doing and saying of ritual. The context of Valentines Day, and its commercialized symbols. I woke with the memories brimming. The blog has become a reflective ritual so an appropriate place to put...
12 Feb TYB – Meeting Mothers & Babies
Although we were slightly scuppered by the weather, freezing temperatures and snow - we met two of the little babies and their Mothers today. (Everybody comes on foot). We set up a space and observed what worked, what didn't and asked the Mums for their...
09 Feb TYB-Test Audience 5th Feb 2020
Today I had the pleasure of having 7 of the little artists to the studio who created the initial drawing on the white cape. I wanted to introduce them to the fabric made and the shapes made from the fabric. What would they see/feel/say/do when...
05 Feb Documentation fails
On opening night of the Installation exhibition last year a disposable camera was circulated - the intention being it would capture an authentic varied photo response. A basic model with a built in flash. One button, click, point and snap. What could go wrong hahaha? It's...
04 Feb TYB – Meeting Craobh Rua*
Things are progressing nicely with the TYB Craobh Rua project, inside and outside the studio. Two of our artists met for with our grant funders and handled the admin side of paperwork required to draw down funds. While myself and Jenny Slater met with the...