Wednesday 11 November 2015

Leaving the Dublin Studio

I've had to move out of the studio at A4 Sounds. The reason being that I've been so busy around home that I was getting time to use it. Just with travelling between Dublin and Laois, if I wasn't on the bus early the day was gone and that was that. I have a couple of weeks left on the lease but I'm working from Mountrath again. I was only managing one or two days a week in the Dublin studio at least this way I can work on paintings whenever I'm home.

I'll stay in contact with the artists in the studio and hopefully manage to get back at some stage but for now I'm happy enough to be working back out in the country again and I'm currently working on a fairly large scale commission that I was asked to do during my MFA end of year show.

Tuesday 10 November 2015

New Residency in Iceland

I've been accepted onto a new residency in Iceland for November 2016. I'll be working at Here Creative Centre in Stodvarfjordur. I'm looking forward to going back and after doing a 3 month residency during the summer in 2012 I decided to apply for a winter residency this time around. It's also on the Eastern side of Iceland. It's just for a month but I'm hoping to possibly have a small exhibition at some stage before I come home.





I'm hoping to use this opportunity to incorporate Icelandic folklore into my work but I'm not going to concern myself too much with tying it in immediately with my current practice, I'll wait and see what happens and play a little bit.