While it’s not easy to get together as a group, given how scattered we are around the island of Ireland and the difficulty of accommodating eight women in one space, we did manage a hectic but rewarding working week-end at the end of October at Barbara’s house in Belfast. Thanks, Barbara, for that, we had a great time.
Helen had a critical success with her solo show at the Taylor Galleries, and Patricia is busy getting ready for her exhibition at IMMA in February and we are all making work for the Na Cailleacha exhibition at The Dock in Carrick-on-Shannon which will open in April. Meanwhile we are refining plans to present a public collaboration with Art Nomads as part of Age & Opportunity’s Bealtaine Festival. In May of 2022 we commissioned Andrew Macklin, the London based actor and mentor in cultural practices to review and evaluate our activities to date, in consultation with each member of the group, with some of the curators we worked with and with audiences in Garter Lane in Waterford. We now eagerly await his report, which we will use to inform future development. We would like to thank all the people we worked with in 2022, the Director and staff at Garter Lane, the team at ArtLinks and Wexford Arts Office, the Director and staff at Wexford Arts Centre, Sinead Keogh and the Kilkenny Arts Festival, the team at Dublin City Gallery the Hugh Lane and all the people who facilitated or attended the many workshops and panel group events that we were invited to participate in. A Happy, Healthy and Creative Christmas and New Year to Everyone.
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