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Moss Collective Open Studio: Rock Paper Stitch. IMMA Earth Rising 2024.

On the left, a paint brush made with sheep's wool and three pens, all made with bamboo. They rest on a white paper drawn with fluid brown marks, the ink is pomegranate ink. A cluster of dried rushes project shades on the paper, while the top right corner of the paper is darkened by a shadow.

Rock Paper Stitch is a series of workshops we designed and facilitated for IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Arts) during Earth Rising Festival 2024. Drawing Tool Making, Collective Pomegranate Ink Drawing, Stitch As Mark-Making and Dandelion Twine were entry points for the conversations and series of actions we are interested in generating.

Moss Collective is formed by Ciara Brehony, Joanna Kidney, Elida Maiques and Susan Montgomery. Things we are about: thinking with our hands, restoring bonds between crafts, science and arts, making friends with plants, being slow as a form of resistance, livable futures for all.

For one week early in 2024 we became a household of women with no children, no wives, no husbands, no parents. The kitchen table went from porridge to sharp tools, making paint brushes and cane pens, testing pomegranate ink, crushing rocks with mortar and pestle, drawing with thread and needle. Our workshops and ethos stem from that residency.

Brush making detail
Brush Making workshop with Elida Maiques
Dandelion Twine workshop with Joanna Kidney
Brush Making workshop with Elida Maiques
A scroll of white paper with abstract marks in grey and black inks, which we made with pomegranate. This is the aftermath of a collective drawing workshop where we test the drawing tools we just made.
Pomegranate ink collective drawing
Stitch As Mark-Making workshop with Ciara Brehony
Compost after your workshop with the worms

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Wax rhapsodic exhibition

The LAB Gallery, Dublin, January 2022

Curated by Astrid Newman

“Wax rhapsodic brings together the work of Dermoth Blighe, Anthony Cleary, Frances Hennigan, Oona Hyland, Diaa Lagan, Elida Maiques, Gillian O’Shea, Lucy Peters, John Roch Simons, Cathy Scullion and Izabela Szczutkowska. The exhibition is an invitation to consider the present through a collision of visual, aural and kinesthetic prompts, to reflect upon our relationship to the external and to embrace the quieter moments within the work that are, at times, difficult to reconcile.” [Astrid Newman]