Contact details name: Bridget Lucey email: luceybridge@gmail.com phone: 087 7432333

Please visit www.bridgelucey.wordpress.com Follow link to see work I was an over-anxious child that grew up to be an over-anxious adult. As a child, I would agonise over a million miniscule things on a daily basis. I used to worry about people dying, about wasting food when I couldn’t finish my sandwiches, about my parents forgetting to collect me from school hours before that time even came, about my stomach rumbling in class and other minor embarassments… One thing I was particularly uptight about was my art materials. I worried about my markers wasting whenever I was colouring in and I used my crayons as sparingly as possible to avoid having to tear the paper on them when the wax wore down. Nowadays I have similar anxieties about ridiculous everyday things, including my art practice. Rather than worrying about snapping crayons or leaving markers uncapped, however, my apprehension now lies in concerns about the validity of my work and my conceptual and technical ability. I knew someone once that used to never allowed me to tell any stories from my childhood as she found them incredibly boring. My art work has always been an exploration of myself as I feel unqualified to comment on anything else, yet it concerns me that my subject matter will be uninteresting to a wider audience as the content is so banal and self-absorbed. I’m anxious about wasting the viewer’s time. I wish to display work about my childhood art anxieties within the formal conventions of the gallery space that creates my adult art anxieties. I want to retain a childlike element to my work yet display it in a fashion that does not seem childish and relative to a fine art context through methods of display

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