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Sláinte to chapter one in Ballyvaughan
🪨🪾🐑🍻🌷

No art featured in this one, just artists <3

Sláinte to chapter one in Ballyvaughan
🪨🪾🐑🍻🌷

No art featured in this one, just artists <3

Sláinte to chapter one in Ballyvaughan
🪨🪾🐑🍻🌷

No art featured in this one, just artists <3

Sláinte to chapter one in Ballyvaughan
🪨🪾🐑🍻🌷

No art featured in this one, just artists <3

Sláinte to chapter one in Ballyvaughan
🪨🪾🐑🍻🌷

No art featured in this one, just artists <3

Sláinte to chapter one in Ballyvaughan
🪨🪾🐑🍻🌷

No art featured in this one, just artists <3

Sláinte to chapter one in Ballyvaughan
🪨🪾🐑🍻🌷

No art featured in this one, just artists <3

Sláinte to chapter one in Ballyvaughan
🪨🪾🐑🍻🌷

No art featured in this one, just artists <3

Sláinte to chapter one in Ballyvaughan
🪨🪾🐑🍻🌷

First year at BCA all finished up 🥲 so proud of everybody and happy to know some more super special people now !

These are the pictures from my end of year installation courtesy of @robincarlsonart2, the mvp of this year’s cohort.

The family photo tapestry is made from local raw sheep’s fleece, processed by hand into spun yarn and dyed using nettle, dock leaf, and madder root.

Sending out love and gratitude 🌱

#tapestryweaving #tapestry #fiber #backstrapweaving

First year at BCA all finished up 🥲 so proud of everybody and happy to know some more super special people now !

These are the pictures from my end of year installation courtesy of @robincarlsonart2, the mvp of this year’s cohort.

The family photo tapestry is made from local raw sheep’s fleece, processed by hand into spun yarn and dyed using nettle, dock leaf, and madder root.

Sending out love and gratitude 🌱

#tapestryweaving #tapestry #fiber #backstrapweaving

First year at BCA all finished up 🥲 so proud of everybody and happy to know some more super special people now !

These are the pictures from my end of year installation courtesy of @robincarlsonart2, the mvp of this year’s cohort.

The family photo tapestry is made from local raw sheep’s fleece, processed by hand into spun yarn and dyed using nettle, dock leaf, and madder root.

Sending out love and gratitude 🌱

#tapestryweaving #tapestry #fiber #backstrapweaving

First year at BCA all finished up 🥲 so proud of everybody and happy to know some more super special people now !

These are the pictures from my end of year installation courtesy of @robincarlsonart2, the mvp of this year’s cohort.

The family photo tapestry is made from local raw sheep’s fleece, processed by hand into spun yarn and dyed using nettle, dock leaf, and madder root.

Sending out love and gratitude 🌱

#tapestryweaving #tapestry #fiber #backstrapweaving

First year at BCA all finished up 🥲 so proud of everybody and happy to know some more super special people now !

These are the pictures from my end of year installation courtesy of @robincarlsonart2, the mvp of this year’s cohort.

The family photo tapestry is made from local raw sheep’s fleece, processed by hand into spun yarn and dyed using nettle, dock leaf, and madder root.

Sending out love and gratitude 🌱

#tapestryweaving #tapestry #fiber #backstrapweaving

First year at BCA all finished up 🥲 so proud of everybody and happy to know some more super special people now !

These are the pictures from my end of year installation courtesy of @robincarlsonart2, the mvp of this year’s cohort.

The family photo tapestry is made from local raw sheep’s fleece, processed by hand into spun yarn and dyed using nettle, dock leaf, and madder root.

Sending out love and gratitude 🌱

#tapestryweaving #tapestry #fiber #backstrapweaving

First year at BCA all finished up 🥲 so proud of everybody and happy to know some more super special people now !

These are the pictures from my end of year installation courtesy of @robincarlsonart2, the mvp of this year’s cohort.

The family photo tapestry is made from local raw sheep’s fleece, processed by hand into spun yarn and dyed using nettle, dock leaf, and madder root.

Sending out love and gratitude 🌱

#tapestryweaving #tapestry #fiber #backstrapweaving

First year at BCA all finished up 🥲 so proud of everybody and happy to know some more super special people now !

These are the pictures from my end of year installation courtesy of @robincarlsonart2, the mvp of this year’s cohort.

The family photo tapestry is made from local raw sheep’s fleece, processed by hand into spun yarn and dyed using nettle, dock leaf, and madder root.

Sending out love and gratitude 🌱

#tapestryweaving #tapestry #fiber #backstrapweaving

First year at BCA all finished up 🥲 so proud of everybody and happy to know some more super special people now !

These are the pictures from my end of year installation courtesy of @robincarlsonart2, the mvp of this year’s cohort.

The family photo tapestry is made from local raw sheep’s fleece, processed by hand into spun yarn and dyed using nettle, dock leaf, and madder root.

Sending out love and gratitude 🌱

#tapestryweaving #tapestry #fiber #backstrapweaving

My first reel! Commemorating the first warm days of spring in Ireland. Almost finished with a tapestry I’ve been working on this semester using wool I spun from local 🐑 dyed with plants picked up around the @burrencollegeofart

🌞🫶

#tapestryweaving #tapestry #westofireland #handspunyarn #plantdye

Last of the three seaweavings! A bit more fun again with the magic of iPhone photo adjustments as well. I reallllllly liked using such an oversized branch for displaying this tiny tapestry. Definitely getting into some more sculptural stuff with these guys.

I’ve done this type of work for a little while now, putting found objects in conversation with woven fibers, making little maps or incantations using what I encounter in a given place. But with these three, the focus was totally ocean oriented, which wasn’t a conscious move at first, but it makes sense I’d be drawn to this liminal space living in a coastal place for the first time.

With these sorts of weavings I’m often thinking about bizarre encounters between far away places and things held together by tapestry. The ocean, and certainly the shoreline, functions quite similarly. Things from all sorts of different contexts float around together, get caught up in a current, and through no clear rhyme or reason, wash up on the beach for some passerby to encounter. I’ve enjoyed giving some of these things I found a new place to be held together, looked at, and thought on with some intentional appreciation or curiosity.

Any luck with this Dúlamán? Either way, I recommend listening in full to the version by Celtic Woman 🪸

seaweed, wool, limpet shells, tin can, sycamore branch

#backstrapweaving #wovenart #seaweedlove #ecoart #westofireland

Last of the three seaweavings! A bit more fun again with the magic of iPhone photo adjustments as well. I reallllllly liked using such an oversized branch for displaying this tiny tapestry. Definitely getting into some more sculptural stuff with these guys.

I’ve done this type of work for a little while now, putting found objects in conversation with woven fibers, making little maps or incantations using what I encounter in a given place. But with these three, the focus was totally ocean oriented, which wasn’t a conscious move at first, but it makes sense I’d be drawn to this liminal space living in a coastal place for the first time.

With these sorts of weavings I’m often thinking about bizarre encounters between far away places and things held together by tapestry. The ocean, and certainly the shoreline, functions quite similarly. Things from all sorts of different contexts float around together, get caught up in a current, and through no clear rhyme or reason, wash up on the beach for some passerby to encounter. I’ve enjoyed giving some of these things I found a new place to be held together, looked at, and thought on with some intentional appreciation or curiosity.

Any luck with this Dúlamán? Either way, I recommend listening in full to the version by Celtic Woman 🪸

seaweed, wool, limpet shells, tin can, sycamore branch

#backstrapweaving #wovenart #seaweedlove #ecoart #westofireland

Last of the three seaweavings! A bit more fun again with the magic of iPhone photo adjustments as well. I reallllllly liked using such an oversized branch for displaying this tiny tapestry. Definitely getting into some more sculptural stuff with these guys.

I’ve done this type of work for a little while now, putting found objects in conversation with woven fibers, making little maps or incantations using what I encounter in a given place. But with these three, the focus was totally ocean oriented, which wasn’t a conscious move at first, but it makes sense I’d be drawn to this liminal space living in a coastal place for the first time.

With these sorts of weavings I’m often thinking about bizarre encounters between far away places and things held together by tapestry. The ocean, and certainly the shoreline, functions quite similarly. Things from all sorts of different contexts float around together, get caught up in a current, and through no clear rhyme or reason, wash up on the beach for some passerby to encounter. I’ve enjoyed giving some of these things I found a new place to be held together, looked at, and thought on with some intentional appreciation or curiosity.

Any luck with this Dúlamán? Either way, I recommend listening in full to the version by Celtic Woman 🪸

seaweed, wool, limpet shells, tin can, sycamore branch

#backstrapweaving #wovenart #seaweedlove #ecoart #westofireland

Last of the three seaweavings! A bit more fun again with the magic of iPhone photo adjustments as well. I reallllllly liked using such an oversized branch for displaying this tiny tapestry. Definitely getting into some more sculptural stuff with these guys.

I’ve done this type of work for a little while now, putting found objects in conversation with woven fibers, making little maps or incantations using what I encounter in a given place. But with these three, the focus was totally ocean oriented, which wasn’t a conscious move at first, but it makes sense I’d be drawn to this liminal space living in a coastal place for the first time.

With these sorts of weavings I’m often thinking about bizarre encounters between far away places and things held together by tapestry. The ocean, and certainly the shoreline, functions quite similarly. Things from all sorts of different contexts float around together, get caught up in a current, and through no clear rhyme or reason, wash up on the beach for some passerby to encounter. I’ve enjoyed giving some of these things I found a new place to be held together, looked at, and thought on with some intentional appreciation or curiosity.

Any luck with this Dúlamán? Either way, I recommend listening in full to the version by Celtic Woman 🪸

seaweed, wool, limpet shells, tin can, sycamore branch

#backstrapweaving #wovenart #seaweedlove #ecoart #westofireland

Here’s the next seaweave. I’ve been weaving these on the backstrap loom, sometimes sitting on the beach while I work. This one has a scrap of fabric I found by the shore that I’ve stitched to the piece with strands of blue fisherman’s rope. The needlework of that sorta took me back to the briefly lived scrappy quilting days that got me started down this path of fiber arts.

I’ve really enjoyed the textures of working with seaweed, the way it gets your hands all slimey while you’re weaving and then turns the piece very fragile and solid once it dries. And so many transformations of smell!

Apparently the song I added to the last post isn’t playing for some. Hopefully this version of Dúlamán will reach you. It’s a song about two seaweeds, one that wears a nice hat and one that wears yellow shoes.

seaweed, wool, fisherman’s rope, fabric scrap, fossil stone, sycamore branch

#backstrapweaving #seaweed #tapestry #weaving #mfa

Here’s the next seaweave. I’ve been weaving these on the backstrap loom, sometimes sitting on the beach while I work. This one has a scrap of fabric I found by the shore that I’ve stitched to the piece with strands of blue fisherman’s rope. The needlework of that sorta took me back to the briefly lived scrappy quilting days that got me started down this path of fiber arts.

I’ve really enjoyed the textures of working with seaweed, the way it gets your hands all slimey while you’re weaving and then turns the piece very fragile and solid once it dries. And so many transformations of smell!

Apparently the song I added to the last post isn’t playing for some. Hopefully this version of Dúlamán will reach you. It’s a song about two seaweeds, one that wears a nice hat and one that wears yellow shoes.

seaweed, wool, fisherman’s rope, fabric scrap, fossil stone, sycamore branch

#backstrapweaving #seaweed #tapestry #weaving #mfa

Here’s the next seaweave. I’ve been weaving these on the backstrap loom, sometimes sitting on the beach while I work. This one has a scrap of fabric I found by the shore that I’ve stitched to the piece with strands of blue fisherman’s rope. The needlework of that sorta took me back to the briefly lived scrappy quilting days that got me started down this path of fiber arts.

I’ve really enjoyed the textures of working with seaweed, the way it gets your hands all slimey while you’re weaving and then turns the piece very fragile and solid once it dries. And so many transformations of smell!

Apparently the song I added to the last post isn’t playing for some. Hopefully this version of Dúlamán will reach you. It’s a song about two seaweeds, one that wears a nice hat and one that wears yellow shoes.

seaweed, wool, fisherman’s rope, fabric scrap, fossil stone, sycamore branch

#backstrapweaving #seaweed #tapestry #weaving #mfa

Photos of one of the seaweavings I’ve done recently, this is the first of three. As you scroll you’ll see me descend further into photo editing madness. I’ve been enjoying the tension?drama?conflict? of conjoining eco art practice with digital representation lately.

seaweed, wool, bone, styrofoam, sycamore branch

#weavingart #seaweedbrain #backstraploom

Photos of one of the seaweavings I’ve done recently, this is the first of three. As you scroll you’ll see me descend further into photo editing madness. I’ve been enjoying the tension?drama?conflict? of conjoining eco art practice with digital representation lately.

seaweed, wool, bone, styrofoam, sycamore branch

#weavingart #seaweedbrain #backstraploom

Photos of one of the seaweavings I’ve done recently, this is the first of three. As you scroll you’ll see me descend further into photo editing madness. I’ve been enjoying the tension?drama?conflict? of conjoining eco art practice with digital representation lately.

seaweed, wool, bone, styrofoam, sycamore branch

#weavingart #seaweedbrain #backstraploom

Photos of one of the seaweavings I’ve done recently, this is the first of three. As you scroll you’ll see me descend further into photo editing madness. I’ve been enjoying the tension?drama?conflict? of conjoining eco art practice with digital representation lately.

seaweed, wool, bone, styrofoam, sycamore branch

#weavingart #seaweedbrain #backstraploom

Photos of one of the seaweavings I’ve done recently, this is the first of three. As you scroll you’ll see me descend further into photo editing madness. I’ve been enjoying the tension?drama?conflict? of conjoining eco art practice with digital representation lately.

seaweed, wool, bone, styrofoam, sycamore branch

#weavingart #seaweedbrain #backstraploom

We had a lovely gallery opening @kavacourthouse on Sunday with the oppurtunity to collaborate on the back strap loom.

It felt live a fiberous blessing to be visited by this tiny spider during the install process. 🐑 🪸 🕷️

#backstrapweaving #weavingart #feltingwool

We had a lovely gallery opening @kavacourthouse on Sunday with the oppurtunity to collaborate on the back strap loom.

It felt live a fiberous blessing to be visited by this tiny spider during the install process. 🐑 🪸 🕷️

#backstrapweaving #weavingart #feltingwool

We had a lovely gallery opening @kavacourthouse on Sunday with the oppurtunity to collaborate on the back strap loom.

It felt live a fiberous blessing to be visited by this tiny spider during the install process. 🐑 🪸 🕷️

#backstrapweaving #weavingart #feltingwool

First exhibition in Ireland with my fellow first year MFA friends! Exhibitions can sometimes heighten the nerves and it was really good to get down to the ground and do stuff with my hands, and even cooler to do it with Kyrstyn! And even even cooler that people wanted to get down there with us and chat! Thanks @kyrstynemm.art for doing this durational performance with me and thanks to everyone who came out for the opening! More pictures soon to come <3

#weaving #felting #backstrapweaving

First exhibition in Ireland with my fellow first year MFA friends! Exhibitions can sometimes heighten the nerves and it was really good to get down to the ground and do stuff with my hands, and even cooler to do it with Kyrstyn! And even even cooler that people wanted to get down there with us and chat! Thanks @kyrstynemm.art for doing this durational performance with me and thanks to everyone who came out for the opening! More pictures soon to come <3

#weaving #felting #backstrapweaving

First exhibition in Ireland with my fellow first year MFA friends! Exhibitions can sometimes heighten the nerves and it was really good to get down to the ground and do stuff with my hands, and even cooler to do it with Kyrstyn! And even even cooler that people wanted to get down there with us and chat! Thanks @kyrstynemm.art for doing this durational performance with me and thanks to everyone who came out for the opening! More pictures soon to come <3

#weaving #felting #backstrapweaving

Early experimentations in a collaborative project, bodily oceany fibery things underway. Wool felting on one end, seaweed weaving on the other. Very interesting to navigate the physical challenges of sharing the tension of the backstrap loom. More to come on this🐬

Thanks to @gm_alone for the camera work!

#backstrapweaving #felting #fiberart #fiber

Early experimentations in a collaborative project, bodily oceany fibery things underway. Wool felting on one end, seaweed weaving on the other. Very interesting to navigate the physical challenges of sharing the tension of the backstrap loom. More to come on this🐬

Thanks to @gm_alone for the camera work!

#backstrapweaving #felting #fiberart #fiber

Early experimentations in a collaborative project, bodily oceany fibery things underway. Wool felting on one end, seaweed weaving on the other. Very interesting to navigate the physical challenges of sharing the tension of the backstrap loom. More to come on this🐬

Thanks to @gm_alone for the camera work!

#backstrapweaving #felting #fiberart #fiber

Early experimentations in a collaborative project, bodily oceany fibery things underway. Wool felting on one end, seaweed weaving on the other. Very interesting to navigate the physical challenges of sharing the tension of the backstrap loom. More to come on this🐬

Thanks to @gm_alone for the camera work!

#backstrapweaving #felting #fiberart #fiber

Early experimentations in a collaborative project, bodily oceany fibery things underway. Wool felting on one end, seaweed weaving on the other. Very interesting to navigate the physical challenges of sharing the tension of the backstrap loom. More to come on this🐬

Thanks to @gm_alone for the camera work!

#backstrapweaving #felting #fiberart #fiber

Early experimentations in a collaborative project, bodily oceany fibery things underway. Wool felting on one end, seaweed weaving on the other. Very interesting to navigate the physical challenges of sharing the tension of the backstrap loom. More to come on this🐬

Thanks to @gm_alone for the camera work!

#backstrapweaving #felting #fiberart #fiber

Early experimentations in a collaborative project, bodily oceany fibery things underway. Wool felting on one end, seaweed weaving on the other. Very interesting to navigate the physical challenges of sharing the tension of the backstrap loom. More to come on this🐬

Thanks to @gm_alone for the camera work!

#backstrapweaving #felting #fiberart #fiber

Just a lil post in appreciation of the sites and slimes of working with wool and plant dyes, thanks to my partner in fiber @kyrstynemm.art for grabbing some drippy process shots

Just a lil post in appreciation of the sites and slimes of working with wool and plant dyes, thanks to my partner in fiber @kyrstynemm.art for grabbing some drippy process shots

Just a lil post in appreciation of the sites and slimes of working with wool and plant dyes, thanks to my partner in fiber @kyrstynemm.art for grabbing some drippy process shots

Just a lil post in appreciation of the sites and slimes of working with wool and plant dyes, thanks to my partner in fiber @kyrstynemm.art for grabbing some drippy process shots

Just a lil post in appreciation of the sites and slimes of working with wool and plant dyes, thanks to my partner in fiber @kyrstynemm.art for grabbing some drippy process shots

Just a lil post in appreciation of the sites and slimes of working with wool and plant dyes, thanks to my partner in fiber @kyrstynemm.art for grabbing some drippy process shots

Just a lil post in appreciation of the sites and slimes of working with wool and plant dyes, thanks to my partner in fiber @kyrstynemm.art for grabbing some drippy process shots

Just a lil post in appreciation of the sites and slimes of working with wool and plant dyes, thanks to my partner in fiber @kyrstynemm.art for grabbing some drippy process shots

I made this last semester trying to make something functional but it ended up feeling a bit too wonky in some unintended ways. I guess now I am sort of thinking about it as an embodiment of the stage I’m at right now in the MFA, one dominated by uncertainty and shaky steps in many directions.

I wove this tapestry on the backstrap loom I made from hazel wood, and one of the directions I tried moving towards with this piece was taking the loom back out into the forest it came from and capturing the process on video. I secured the loom to the remaining portion of the branch I had harvested the wood from and propped my phone up in the brush behind it.

Film work and live performance are things I’m hoping to try more of with the weaving, and this was definitely a wobbly first step to match a wobbly tapestry. I wove into the dark that evening, it was good to hear the birds and other woodland/farmland sounds around me, and my fingers were very very cold.

#backstrap #backstrapweaving #tapestry

I made this last semester trying to make something functional but it ended up feeling a bit too wonky in some unintended ways. I guess now I am sort of thinking about it as an embodiment of the stage I’m at right now in the MFA, one dominated by uncertainty and shaky steps in many directions.

I wove this tapestry on the backstrap loom I made from hazel wood, and one of the directions I tried moving towards with this piece was taking the loom back out into the forest it came from and capturing the process on video. I secured the loom to the remaining portion of the branch I had harvested the wood from and propped my phone up in the brush behind it.

Film work and live performance are things I’m hoping to try more of with the weaving, and this was definitely a wobbly first step to match a wobbly tapestry. I wove into the dark that evening, it was good to hear the birds and other woodland/farmland sounds around me, and my fingers were very very cold.

#backstrap #backstrapweaving #tapestry

I made this last semester trying to make something functional but it ended up feeling a bit too wonky in some unintended ways. I guess now I am sort of thinking about it as an embodiment of the stage I’m at right now in the MFA, one dominated by uncertainty and shaky steps in many directions.

I wove this tapestry on the backstrap loom I made from hazel wood, and one of the directions I tried moving towards with this piece was taking the loom back out into the forest it came from and capturing the process on video. I secured the loom to the remaining portion of the branch I had harvested the wood from and propped my phone up in the brush behind it.

Film work and live performance are things I’m hoping to try more of with the weaving, and this was definitely a wobbly first step to match a wobbly tapestry. I wove into the dark that evening, it was good to hear the birds and other woodland/farmland sounds around me, and my fingers were very very cold.

#backstrap #backstrapweaving #tapestry

Thanks @burrencollegeofart for grabbing a few nice photos of me weaving <3

Here I’m using the backstrap loom I made this semester from hazel harvested behind the college (pictured in last post). The weft is raffia from a big bundle gifted to me by a fellow weaver in Japan a couple years ago.

Maybe some more open studio pics to come soon taken by the wonderful Dr. Lisa Newman.

#weaving #backstrap

Thanks @burrencollegeofart for grabbing a few nice photos of me weaving <3

Here I’m using the backstrap loom I made this semester from hazel harvested behind the college (pictured in last post). The weft is raffia from a big bundle gifted to me by a fellow weaver in Japan a couple years ago.

Maybe some more open studio pics to come soon taken by the wonderful Dr. Lisa Newman.

#weaving #backstrap

Thanks @burrencollegeofart for grabbing a few nice photos of me weaving <3

Here I’m using the backstrap loom I made this semester from hazel harvested behind the college (pictured in last post). The weft is raffia from a big bundle gifted to me by a fellow weaver in Japan a couple years ago.

Maybe some more open studio pics to come soon taken by the wonderful Dr. Lisa Newman.

#weaving #backstrap