29/04/2010

It's official, Mary-Clare Lyons (Scan) has finished her thesis ! This will come as a bit of shock to those in the academic world who were of the impression that it was going to be a life-long affair! LOL

Scan and Anne the Librarian print off the final page of the thesis.

28/04/2010

Alan Keane showed me the proposal he wrote for me, and I have to say it was a glowing proposal; fair play to him for putting in so much time to it. Had another tutorial with David Brancaleone regarding the proposal; he went through it with a fine tooth comb, fair play to him too, as it was in his own time. David suggested a lot of changes, which I was in the process of doing, when Alan asked me for the proposal to send off. As a result, the proposal was not as 'sharp' as it could have been. Worked until nine filling out the other application form.

27/04/2010

Carried on working on the proposal. We had another critique; two painters who use people in their paintings but with very different concepts, it was a good contrast of styles, there was good discussion among the class. It is my turn next week along with Mary Hickey. "Art in the Making lsad" had David "Dobs" O Brien from "the sculpture factory" giving a talk (or should that be a non-talk)! It was quite interesting to hear what an outsider had to say about what we are trying to do with our group.

26/04/2010

David Brancaleone has read my proposal and said it was still too 'general'. I realise that it is and have rectified this; it is far more 'tight' now. Uploaded video work eventually; all the macs were in use, and the ones that were free did not work for some reason. My course tomorrow has been cancelled so I will go in. My mirror box did not stay together; tried silicone, araldite, and hot glue. Will try some UV glue later in the week.Worked until 9 to get the proposal sorted.

23/04/2010

It seems I have become an appropriator of other peoples work; especially of the recent EVA exhibition ! As previously mentioned, I had appropriated a couple of pieces from Fionnuala Hannahoe's "Piecing together 2009" I have also added to the list an adaption of Janus Stark's piece: "The essence of freedom" (See photo)
Started to prepare a piece for next week; I had to cut 'squares' of mirror for a performance work that I will do on Monday next.




"The Essence of Freedom" by Janus Stark "Appropriated" by Richard J. Williams, Artist.

22/04/2010

GRO again today got it finished finally. Went to the "Art in the making" LSAD lunch time; Steve Maher and Mike O Brien have pulled out which is a shame; they contributed well to it. We were trying to organise things for the upcoming "Spirit Store" talks. Peter Morgan and Roisin Lewis mentioned that they were looking for proposals for "Table of Contents" LSAD; it sounds a very interesting project.

21/04/2010

GRO all day. Tried sending off the draft of it to both Alan Keane and David Brancaleone who said he would also give a quick look to it. OMG it took me until the small hours to finally get it sent; the file was to big for e mails (did not realise that until I had sent it 2-3 times) so had to take out all the images and re arrange the proposal, then send the e mails in 3 parts ! An absolute nightmare!