Day 11 of @artpedagogy.bsky.social’s #AbstractAdvent2025 is a pink-haired woman blowing a party horn 🥳 I really struggled with the shape! But seriously enjoyed colouring in the hair. Hair has always been my favourite part of a drawing, ever since I was a wee pre-teen making Harry Potter fanart.

Day 10 of @artpedagogy.bsky.social’s #AbstractAdvent2025 is the giant face of a fantastical reptile! A dragon, perhaps? 🐉

I missed yesterday’s #AbstractAdvent2025, so today I made a drawing that incorporates the shapes of both day 8 and day 9! An underwater scene 🐠🪨

Day 6 of @artpedagogy.bsky.social’s #AbstractAdvent2025 is a wee bunny rabbit wearing oversized pijamas and a woolly hat 🐰 I think I immediately gave the bunny pijamas because I used to have Peter Rabbit bedsheets as a child and I LOVED them! 🥰

That's him. This year's GOAT, Aryan #ToyShow #LateLateToyShow

It's just not the #LateLateToyShow if a 9 year old doesn't sing with the voice of a 94 year old pub singer who looks like they're made out of turf.

✨ Flax zines/posters! ✨ The last pieces I want to show you from the InterWOVEN exhibition are this series of zines/posters. Each of them represents relationships, knowledge, and invitations related to the history and resurgence of flax in Ireland.

Day 5 of @artpedagogy.bsky.social’s #AbstractAdvent2025 is a funky fly licking a yummy jam spill 🪰

Day 4 of @artpedagogy.bsky.social’s #AbstractAdvent2025 is a pair of young friends in ushankas having a lively chat on a snowy day ❄️ It was fun to do the designs on their woolly jumpers! And lovely to draw while sipping on my capuccino at my favourite local coffee shop ☕️✏️

Day 3 of @artpedagogy.bsky.social’s #AbstractAdvent2025 is an angry geometric man 🤷🏽‍♀️ I had to finish colouring the forehead using my left hand, because my tennis elbow has flared up these days and colouring becomes painful 😫 There may be more left-handed drawings in the coming days.

Another piece I had the privilege to make for and exhibit at the ‘InterWOVEN’ group show. This is made of wild clay from the Poulaphouca reservoir and flax from my garden and from Mallon Linen farm. It shows the interconnected relationship us humans have with the flax plant, Linum usitatissimum 🩵

Day 2 of @artpedagogy.bsky.social’s #AbstractAdvent2025: a sort of Little My wearing a ridiculously regal headdress 😂🫶🏽 I’m thinking I’ll make a little hand-bound book with all of these at the end of advent! ✨

My friend Ione invited me to participate in @artpedagogy.bsky.social’s #AbstractAdvent2025, so here’s my interpretation of the first shape! 🌼 Love a fun excuse to do a bit of quick illustration, especially in December, as I start to wind down after the flurry of summer and autumn 😌

@ingoldsbyben.bsky.social’s auntie celebrated a big birthday on Saturday, and she asked us to gift her a Mexican recipe 🌮

Now that the ‘InterWOVEN’ exhibition has finished, here’s a walkthrough of one of the pieces I had on display. This is a very personal piece that I think of as a self-portrait of sorts. It will surely keep changing and evolving if and when it’s shown again ✨ youtu.be/x38jPf3RUtc?...

“Ireland’s proud history of better-things-aren’t-possible centrism” cracked me up 😂 www.thejournal.ie/readme/surre...

Glad you liked it, a chara! 💖

WHAT DO YOU MEAN MY SCRATCH DISKS ARE FULL?!? I have 50GB free space and I’m trying to open a 1GB file. I cannot, #Adobe. I don’t even use all the new AI features that make the apps unnecessarily heavy. Will definitely be cancelling my Cloud subscription afted this job.

🇮🇪 new substack looking at flagmania in ireland and why it's complete hypocrisy for the government to condemn this, while simultaneously choosing to spend €5 million on a deportation contract that exists solely for optics

Let’s play a little game! 🎉 As you know, I’m doing a FREE call this Monday 15 September at 6:30pm Irish time to give you my best tips to identify dye plants in the wild and help you guess the shades they could make. In advance of this, I thought it would be fun to do a little guessing game! 🧵

Ever wonder… 🤨 Is that dye plant? 🎨 What colour does it make? 🌺 Will this brightly-coloured flower dye my shirt that colour? 🍃 Why is it so hard to get green? I’ll be answering that+ more next Monday 15 Sept @ 6:30pm (Irish time) on Zoom! It’s FREE, just register guides.talu.earth/what-colour

2023 tweet; still valid. Global North academics repeat after me: Since I did not raise objections to the genocide, I shall not teach courses on decolonisation, decoloniality, post-genocide literatures from Palestine or other cognate ‘radical’ courses that advance my career & help me procure grants.

One of the less known aspects about the Easter Rising is that Indian students at UCD also took part & were then deported by the British authorities for it. Among those students was V.V. Giri who became president of India and said “when I am not an Indian, I am an Irishman”

One week to go! 🎉

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Join us for a weekend celebration of flax! 🌾🩵 🗓️ Sat 30 – Sun 31 Aug ( 📍 An Creagán & Mallon Linen, Tyrone 🚌 Subsidised transport to and from Dublin (with stops en route) & on-site accommodation available! 🥪 Meals included 🎟️ fibreshedireland.ie/the-flax-mei... ___________ #spéirghorm #spéirgorm

Petition to make the seagull pause a regular of the @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social podcast. I laughed so hard when he gawked! 😂

Thanks to Go Leor magazine for featuring me in their 2nd issue, alongside Esther O’Kelly and Judith Logan 🙌🏽✨ Go Leor is the latest magazine covering the arts, creativity and therapy throughout #Ireland. In this issue, you’ll find… (a thread 🧵) go-leor.co.uk —————- #spéirghorm #spéirgorm

Why do you think I go through the trouble of organising a festival in a different jurisdiction?! (And it *is* trouble when you're trying to get funding) 🙄

To all those who use the phrase “unchecked capitalism”, could you please explain to me exactly what “checked capitalism” looks like?

What if there was a Patreon but it was built on the co-op model? The creators are also the owners. www.comradery.co

Just clarifying to the world that this was *my* idea #irishaffogato ☕️🍦

This is the thread I needed to read on a Sunday!

The best thing about being a dog has to be not knowing that the zionist entity exists.

The 1st step in #naturaldyeing is “scouring” or washing the textiles to remove excess oils and waxes and allow the dye to penetrate inside the fibres. Learn this and every foundational step of the natural dye process in my online course ✨Finding Joy in Botanical Dyes✨ 👉🏽 talu.earth/learn-natura...

I don't* know who needs to hear it, but socialism would fix all this. *I do, it's everyone.

Hi everyone, I'm excited to announce this new project: a website dedicated to research and data on imperialism and inequality. You're going to love this... globalinequality.org

⚠️ Warning: The Trump administration is circulating footage from 2020 to make the situation in L.A. appear more chaotic than it is. This is an intentional effort to manufacture a larger crisis. Stay alert. Pay attention. The propaganda machine is in overdrive.

I just wrote and sent this email to government ministers in Ireland, urging them to sanction the Zionist entity NOW. Feel free to copy, paste and edit! docs.google.com/document/d/e... #spéirgorm #spéirghorm

Online course now open for registration! 📣 ✨ Finding Joy in Botanical Dyes✨ A beginner-friendly introduction to the captivating world of natural dyeing for textiles After a successful first run, this introductory online course returns this summer! 🌿🌈✨ talu.earth/learn-natura... ____ #naturaldyes

If you’re still scratching your head about why #Ireland is such a pro-Palestine nation, yet the 26 counties are the biggest per capita economic supporters of apartheid Israel, @daraghcogley.bsky.social has broken it down really well in this excellent article 👇🏽 www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/30/i...

✨Early bird tickets!✨ ARCHIPELAGO FESTIVAL OF COLOUR A weekend of playful activities for crafters and families to explore botanical dyes, pigments & inks! 🗓️ 26 - 27 July 2025 📍Willow & Lore, Co. Antrim, North of Ireland 🎟️ festivalofcolour.co #spéirgorm #spéirghorm

This is fucking brilliant! 😂

This year’s ✨Archipelago Festival of Colour✨ poster is here! 🤩 Once again, illustrated by the incredible @pameqa.bsky.social, who is a brilliant animator, illustrator & painter. She painted last year’s ceremonial bell tent, which will once again make an appearance in this year’s fest! 🌸 #spéirgorm

Lobo (my dog) has a mortal enemy down the road and they hate each other with a passion. We pass by his house almost every morning during our walks, but we’re usually too early and the enemy is still sleeping inside. Today, the door was open…

🔥 KNEECAP ABÚ! 🔥

Can you please donate and/or share this Nakba day? 🇵🇸 gofund.me/f570ffde

Saturday in Roundwood was so fun!

"..You have the right to be angry sometimes" - Little My, character in the Moomin books by Tove Jansson who first appeared in 1950. She is small, determined, mischievous and fiercely independent and partly based on the author herself. #WomensArt #Monday

Love this smell so much 💜