Last Post and Chorus of 2011

Last post of 2011 and first for a while I admit I have lapsed in my literary aspirations. To be fair, we've been very busy in this neck of the woods. The past 6 months has seen a lot of changes in the direction that Resolution Art is taking. We're still doing all that we did before, photos, life books, graphics etc but we have also branched out in other areas, following our own individual interests. J has been working at the PlayHouse Theatre since July and has enjoyed stage managing the sell out successful show The Wood of The Crows the story of half hung McNaughton. It has now been picked up by The Millennium Forum and he has been asked to stage manage another couple of shows off the back of this one. He has also appeared as an extra in a couple of TV productions, such a Lovey :) mwah mwah xx

And since October I have been Artist in Resident as an Arts Care Artist for The Western Trust.
I've spent a couple of months getting lay of the land, working on small art projects with different service users and bringing a photographic essay series into one of the wards and now I'm ready to develop a bigger project across the board. I'm really looking forward to that. I've a number of projects on the go, A Tree of Life Collage, A Music project in development, a digital project, a literary idea, and another Ward to bring a participatory art project to life in, as well as making plans to bridge the arts at the Western Trust in partnership with other arts bodies in and and around the city to the wider community. I'm only working 15 hours a week!

Aria, Me and J at with some of the production team
at Evita soot.

In 2011, I also teamed up with Indonesian Photographer Aria Fikriyah and her husband and working with J and Elayne McNicholl with the rest of the Bedlam Vintage and Retro Market team, we pulled together a photographic exhibition of Recreating Hollywood for Culture Night in September. It was exhibited again in November at The Void Art Gallery in association with Foyle Film Festival. Great Fun to do, I'm looking forward to working with Aria again before she returns to Indonesia at the end of January.

We're all seemingly very arty but promise not farty....well much.

Musicians of the future..? hmmm

Speaking of smelly things,  the boys have had a great Christmas! :) ach they're not so bad, infact they've definitely been on the good list this year.  As the intention is to drum some musical ability into them in 2012, Santa conveniently, brought a guitar and a keyboard, so stay tuned for musical updates, hopefully they'll can get a Handel on it! Santa also brought earphones, it was written in the Claus! ho ho ho!


Tomorrow, I start my annual detox, again I ask God again, that this year he makes me thinner and my bank account fatter, and please not to mix it up like he does other year!
This year, once again I resolve.....it will be me losing the pounds. Like c'mon I can't use baby fat as an excuse any more, my babies are 8 and 9.
9 months to put it on and 9 years to take it off, I say...

In seriousness though, I just want to offer up thanks, I have my family and we're all in good health, I pray that this continues for a long long time to come. When I take stock of the events of the last year and give thought to all who have departed from us leaving holes in heavy hearts, I have to take count of our blessings and raise a toast to all the Hs,  health, healing, hope and happiness for 2012.  Sláinte.