by jabrenna | Oct 27, 2022 | Uncategorised
‘Ciaran Carson’s Dream’ is a new work installed outside The Garrick Bar in Belfast. It’s part of a series of works created for a project involving Seedhead Arts, Form Native and Belfast City Council. I was commissioned to make three pieces...
by jabrenna | Jul 3, 2020 | Uncategorised
‘Mamalujo’ is my most recent video piece. It premiered at the Northern Ireland Mental Health Arts Festival, which took place last month – online. The video tracks my dealing with the situation I was in: lockdown with three primary school children and my wife working...
by jabrenna | Apr 15, 2020 | Uncategorised
How’s it going Jonathan? It’s going fine. I can’t complain: I have a garden and I have access to other humans. I know many people who don’t have these simple things, so I feel very lucky, and every time I’m about to complain, I remember what I have and I shut my...
by jabrenna | Jul 1, 2019 | Uncategorised
‘A Harlot’s Progress’Karen Daye-Hutchinson ArtisAnn Gallery, Belfast2 May – 1 June 2019 The title of the show refers to William Hogarth’s series of the same name ¬– a moral tale of the short life of one ‘Moll Hackabout’ who travels from the country to London, falls...
by jabrenna | Apr 6, 2019 | Uncategorised
Whatever you think about Robin Noel Pecknold, an essay he wrote for the liner notes of Fleet Foxes’ eponymous debut album has stuck with me and I feel is worth sharing. In the short piece, Pecknold describes some of what he calls his ‘most distinct and persistent...
by jabrenna | Nov 28, 2017 | Uncategorised
Like all children, I drew a lot growing up. It was an immediate medium and the tools, pencil and paper, were simple and easy to find. It was something I continued doing for years, but very sporadically. I was methodical and meticulous – too much so – but I used...
