Oct 5, 2022 | BLOG, FRESCO
In 2022, I received a QEST Anthony and Elizabeth Mellows Charitable Settlement Trust Award to gain further training in fresco painting. The first part of this, in June, involved working on a wall. I was keen to get practice in this as I had previously mainly worked on...
Aug 9, 2022 | BLOG, RESIDENCIES
In March 2022, I spent eleven days on a residency in Cill Rialaig, County Kerry, Ireland. I had broken my hip the month before, so arrived with a crutch and the help of my wonderful artist friend, Hazel Walker, who drove me from Shannon airport and helped me get...
Oct 30, 2021 | BLOG, NEWS, VIDEO DIARIES
Earlier this year, I received a Creative Scotland Open Fund Bursary to research and develop ideas based on my family. I spent time gathering information in the places I was brought up – Kilmarnock, Cults, Aberdeen and Banff – and in my mother’s current...
Oct 30, 2021 | BLOG, EXHIBITIONS, NEWS
When does form become story? How does a story reveal its forms? Three artists Olivia Irvine, Linda Kosciewicz and Michele Marcoux present an installation of new work – painting, drawing, printmaking & video – to consider how artists create this...
Sep 12, 2021 | BLOG, EXHIBITIONS, FRESCO
I took part in Byre, a site-specific exhibition in a barn in Northumberland for one weekend in September. I showed charcoal drawings which I had made two years ago whilst on a mini residency here; they were of trees, lanes and farm buildings. Alongside, I...
Aug 10, 2021 | BLOG, EXHIBITIONS, NEWS
