24/7-Vessels was developed for the online project 24/7 with the National Sculpture Factory in Cork during lockdown in 2020 so that artists could have a platform for showing their ideas and work throughout the pandemic. Written and recorded as a video dialogue to accompany a slideshow of images, it is presented here in its written.

Here I have created a visual mind map to explore the thought process that went into the creation of Vessels (painting project) 2020. Included are source materials and other possible outcomes.

This work has developed out of explorations of the idea of post-romanticism and looks at notions of the post-representational. I know ideas about what post-representational art might look like or be are in flux, with arguments for non-object-based, socially integrated arts practices abounding and I don’t for a minute suggest that I have achieved a post-representational practice, but these ideas inform my choices. I have tried to be brief here.

Also, see videos Vessels / Research 2020 and Artwork Vessels (parts 1 & 2) 2019-22

Image: Sarah Iremonger, Visual Mind-Map, digital image of antique book & photographs, 2020