Hello there….

12.12.09: It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas. Yes…I’m feeling a little foolish. Only days after using my blog to moan about the lack of opportunities I get an early Christmas present in the form of a  SUCCESSFUL application for an open submission. Egg on my face. I am really excited about this one. It’s a mutli-venue group show with a combination of invited artists (obviously not me) and selected artists (that’d be me). In particular I’m totally amazed that my name will feature in the same breath as some of the invited artists. It’s almost overwhelming. So I should say the show is called ‘Invisible’ and it’s part of he Black Church Print Studio programme for 2010. It will open Feb. 11th so I certainly have no reason to be dragging my heels between now and then. Follow the link below for more information.

http://www.print.ie/detail-list.php?category_id=4&sub_category_1_id=38&sub_category_2_id=48&sub_category_3_id=

08.12.09: It’s officially Winter which means my brain dies a death, shrivels up and refuses to participate in any kind of artistic endeavors. I had hoped to have a deadline to work towards in the new year to get me through this black hole but alas I’ve had an incredibly unsuccessful round of open-submission applications lately. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Open submission. Open submission. They never seem quite open to me.

Once I stop feeling sorry for myself and taking it absurdly personally I’ll perhaps be able to move on! Silly me. So anyway…if you know anyone putting on a show who might like my work…let me know!

29.10.09: New piece finally up and working (no thanks to Vimeo though!). Click on “New Work – ‘My Best Friend’” in the Pages menu to the right, to navigate to it.

26.10.09: Frustratingly the new piece I mention below is not working on Vimeo so it can’t be viewed yet! Hopefully it’ll get sorted though. All other video pieces should be fine – you can just ignore the ‘New Work – My Best Friend’ page for the moment. Thanks!

25.10.09: So, so…I’ve been working away on a few things lately and I’m just finding the time now to start uploading them. Today I am uploading a new video piece called ‘My Best Friend’. It is a work-in-progress of sorts and I’m hoping it has potential. I would like to think it will make people laugh, which let’s face it is not my usual modus operandi. I’ll leave it up to you to judge! Click on New Work – ‘My Best Friend’ in the pages menu to the right to navigate to the video. It’s mainly dialogue so you’ll need your volume turned up.

It’s about time I updated this page me-thinks. So busy, busy times here. Straight after the NGG show I started preparing for ‘Preponderance of The Small’, a project with the Douglas Hyde Gallery in Trinity. I can safely say I’ve never worked so hard in my whole life. And bless, even then, without certain brilliant friends I still couldn’t have done it on my own. So after an intense few weeks and (of course!) a few drinks last night to celebrate, the work is finally up and ready for critique! I am showing my drawings in the Arts Block in Trinity. You can find out more about ‘Preponderance of The Small’ (and indeed download a map to follow the art trail) from the link below:

http://preponderanceofthesmall.blogspot.com/

If you’re having trouble finding my work, which to be honest is part and parcel of it, pop into the Douglas Hyde Gallery and the lovely people in there will tell you what to look for. In typical Hannah-style of maximum-work, minimum-impact I am expecting a lot of my pieces to last no longer than a week…they are quite transient in their nature so catch them while you can. Since you’ve read down this far I will also let you know that there are lots of hidden pieces in the space as well. So wander around the Arts Block, look closely at the walls and maybe a public telephone or water fountain and you may discover some hidden words. Happy art hunting!

Good folk helping me with the installation.

Welcome to my world. This site is my metaphysical desk space, if you will, and below is a picture of my physical desk space. My practice is multi-disciplinary (whose isn’t these days) and consists of performance-based video pieces and drawings. You will find a combination of both of these on this site. Use the ‘Pages’ list to the right to navigate between the pages. ‘New Work’ will hopefully be updated ridiculously frequently or intermittently, depending on my mood. Other pages are a combination of drawings and the ones with titles are generally video pieces. And I’m happy to say, thanks to the wonders of Vimeo you can now view my video pieces as well as some stills. The posts within the ‘Categories’ section are just random little thoughts that are important to me and possibly of no consequence to anyone else. They are non-essential and you can easily skip-over them if you wish. Though, if you’re nosey like me you’ll probably poke around in every corner. Feel free to leave comments and let me know what you think…good or bad. It’s always nice to know who all you people are that are rifling through my thoughts.