Projects - Na Cailleacha

Mid 2020 I was invited to join an art collective of older women, Na Cailleacha. We are eight women, all, except myself, over seventy. We are six visual artists, one musician and a writer/curator.
We spent the month of September on an artist residency at Ballinglen, Co Mayo where we explored issues ranging from ageing to creativity, feminism and collaboration. 
​I am currently collaborating with film maker Barbara Freeman
​For more information go to Na Cailleacha
​An article from the Irish Times

The Dance is a piece composed for a group exhibition- In Reference to Paula Rego, 2023

Here are Paula Rego’s dancers on a beach under the moon, dancing in silence. And here is the music made for them (and us) to dance to. It begins with an echo of the fado singer I heard in a Lisbon bar, a song of pain and resilience that penetrated body and soul. Then slowly, the rhythm begins. So slow, it is like slow riding a bike before it begins to wobble and fall.
Rego has painted herself into this painting. Her husband is there too, modelled by her son after the death of her husband during the making of the painting. So she looks at us: pain and resilience.

The sounds you hear are played and recorded in my home: alto saxophone, piano and some percussion.