Layers 800

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2GmGy0mXTE

Link to video of Installation of Layers 800 in Kilkenny Courthouse

Arts Week - Endangered in Shutterbug

Steve & Alan

Andy & Patrick

Steve & Alan

Andy during Installation

Close up

Yesterday evening Julie, Andy, Patrick and I installed our work in Shutterbug. We were helped by Steven Aylin (luckily because he is tall) and Alan Ragget (who has a straight eye). The space is a fantastic venue and worth a visit to see the building and to meet Eoghain and Blainaid Hennessy who run an exciting creative photography and styling service.....the Endangered Crew could defininetely do with a a makeover!

Endangered Studios Invite

Arts Week

Arts Week..... working towards opening at 5pm on the 7th August in Shutterbug. Steve Aylin and Andrew Ryan designed the invites. I will post the invite when I get a version that I can blog. They look amazing.

Caroline Schofield: Endangered Open Days & Exhibition

Caroline Schofield: Endangered Open Days & Exhibition

Endangered Open Days & Exhibition

Endangered have 3 Open Weekends during the Callan Festival and Arts Week.
Four of the group, Julie Cusack, Andrew Ryan, Patrick O'Connor and I are exhibiting in Shutterbug from 7th August for Arts Week.

Endangered Open Days in the Workhouse in Callan are on Saturday 31st July, Sunday 1st August, Saturday 7th, Sunday 8th, Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th from 11am to 2pm.

Installed

Ross Costigan's photograph of the installed work.

Installation in Courthouse

  Today was the second day of the installation by 'Nail to Nail' of my work in the Courthouse.

Its fantastic to see this project in the space it was made for.  The building is beautiful and eco friendly with geo-thermal heating.

We finished today with the sculpture in place, leaving the string to be cut to correct level in the morning. Everything was locked up when Alan saw a swallow flying through the building. The building was reopened and eventually the swallow left (it must have some form of radar to find the door) after a discussion about bird droppings and whether the bird would peck at the fleece. Not good for my blood pressure and definitely not in my job spec!

Studio work

Im still waiting to finish the Courthouse job, so in studio slowly building up new ideas. The top photo is of a piece in progress (or stopped!) that I hung up out of my way. I didnt like the face so I covered it......way more interesting!
The other photo is of dry felt building up into the base like a canvas for stitch. I love the fact that I can work into 3D pieces and get to the back.

Studio Work

I have just learnt to crochet thanks to Cristina. I don't think I will ever make anything practical with it but I love the ability of growing the fibre anywhere using this technique.
I have started to stitch into the felt....its exciting to be able to stitch onto built shapes. The photos included here show working ideas.

Studio Work

Back in my Studio today, supposedly cleaning the space (that was the plan) when the sun came into the space and I got excited about the shadows it was creating. I started to photograph and draw the shadows created by this wire and stitched form. Its brillant to play again.

Easter

Today we bagged, weighed and untangled all the pieces. There was lots of help from people home for holidays including Richard and Omar.

Health & Safety

I received my Health & Safety Statement today. Interesting document which was obviously taken very seriously, looking at these photos of me tied up and Sarah up a ladder untieing knots.....mine apparently.

Cristina ties up all the spare fibre into beautiful little bundles.

Seriously though I have a fantastic Health & Safety Document if anyone wants to read it.

Rain

Richard, Liam, Daniel and Martin put up scaffolding to thread heads onto. I managed to get a photo here of Richard but the others were wearing hoodies!

On the way home, stuck again at the train tracks I photographed the rain on the window.......must be school holidays.

Groundhog Day

Groundhog Day.......the Stringing goes on and on and on..... but there were some highlights today. A visit from Roger and his mobile phone....a major unravelling of a knot which I have to take full blame for....a visit from Nail to Nail (obviously a highlight) to look at how the work will be hung in the Courthouse.....more stringing.....

Courthouse

The stringing continues....actually this blog could probably stay on stringing for the forseeable future.....the highlight today was a visit from my friends Elma and Cathy. So good to see them and all the right things said by them!

Courthouse

Sarah's Grandad Charles skyped us from Manchester today to see how we are hanging the heads and to talk through the technical issues involved in doing it. I think he is happy with what we have come up with!

Courthouse

We were given a new handle for needles today made by James Carroll. It feels good and is giving Charlie's handles a close run.

We also had loads of visitors today including in the photo my Mum and niece Katie who has been accepted to Glasgow Art College. (Totally jealous....would love to go there!)

Courthouse

Sarah and Roger hung the first head today in Studio 2. They were able to hang it through a balcony in the studio. It gives an idea of the height and how well the fibre hangs. It also shows where the points of hanging are. The other heads are photographed waiting, having already had their fibre attached.

Thank you to all who offered suggestions and theories on how to hang the heads. Some of them include Ken, Martin, Howard, Sheila................

Patrick's Day

Worked a half day on the project today and then went to see the parade in Kilkenny. The photos included here are of 3 amazing projects/iniatives happening in Kilkenny. The first is boarding made for the day by local artists. The second are heads made by students/artists in KCAT and the last two projects are women from the 5-6 Women's Project in Kilkenny.