30/04/2010

Sharpened up the proposal a bit and re submitted it; it was very stressful as there was a noon deadline, and things were not quite going smoothly. Nevertheless, got it over in time; will leave it up to God now.
Carried on editing some video work. Got some UV glue from Pat Biestey; tried it out on the mirror on Saturday but it has not worked; I am going to have to try another approach. Went to Duggan glass during the week to see if they would be prepared to sponsor me some materials, but never heard back from them. Wrote to a plastics firm with the same intention, hope to hear from them on Tuesday.

29/04/2010 Contd.

We had a meeting about the "Art in the Making LSAD" spirit store event coming up; it sounds like it is going to be an interesting 3 hour spot. It is strange really, even though we are free thinking group, it seems to be more focused when we have a "leader", perhaps that is human nature. Aaron did well as leader/facilitator even though he was not entirely comfortable with concept of leaderhood. (I have just invented another new word; it sounds so much better than leadership). Steve Maher mentioned his 'anti-protest' protest that is on next week, that should be fun.

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.