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!

20/04/2010

Forgot to mention that I got some video footage of O Connell street Limerick on Sunday last; I will edit it and put it on the blog later. Carried on with GRO application; hard enough to type with the the fingers strapped up. Could not go to "Art in the Making" session today; way too busy trying to get the application form completed. Peer Critique/seminar this afternoon; two very different painterly styles, it was interesting to hear what they had to say about their respective work.

19/04/2010

AM; moore work to the GRO. Went to see nurse about hand that got injured; she sent me to the Doctor who in turn sent me to the hospital. Spent the rest of the day utill 21.45 getting x rays, tetanus injection etc.

16/04/2010

Carried on working on the MA GRO proposal. Went to the launch of Kieran Cashell and Peter Morgan's individual book launch; the artist Richard Billingham was meant to launch the book by Kirean Cashell, unfortunately, the flights were cancelled due to the ash cloud from the Icelandic volcano. Peter introduced me to the artist Judy Kravis.