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Deirdre Colgan Jones
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Artist - Mother - Coach
Chicagoan via Dublin, Taos & San Francisco
Attempting Art & Life integration through “Collage Mentality…”
Currently separated & co-parenting - 5-5–2-2 - you feel me?!
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My happy place is knitting within a sculpture by my friend and fellow artist mother Amanda Mulcahy. Go see all of the amazing work (along with my quilt!) at Dank Haus in Lincoln Square. “No Ordinary Light” - Open weekdays 10AM - 4PM & Sat 10AM -2PM 🌀
A woman with a grey bob haircut sits inside a soft sculptural installation knitting a piece that matches the colours of the artwork. She wears a striped shirt and is relaxing on a turquoise fuzzy carpet-like surface A woman in a snazzy navy suit with a handmade silk shirt-jacket points to a handmade quilt that took her two years to make. It’s called the “Tír na nÓg” quilt and tells her immigrant and ancestral story using patchwork and appliqué. A white horse leaps across its surface and a pink version of herself follows a star constellation to America - a new land.
March 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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A composite collage from last year in a new place in my home. Just loving this March light. Watch out Venus is in Retrograde! This Libra Rising is having all the feels 💗🌀😳✨😥
Light flows through the window of a vintage Chicago two-flat rental apartment on the first floor. The light is casting strange shadows and shapes on the surface of the window pane and the screen behind it. There is a composite collage on Yupo paper with ink and acrylic paint made in the studio of Chicago artist-mother Deirdre Colgan Jones. The piece is framed in scale lumber basswood, an architectural modelling material. Also in this still life image is a lantern slide from the collection of friend and Chicago punk-rocker, Lorna Donley, gifted to the artist before her death. A silver candlestick holds miscellaneous driftwood from the beaches of Lake Michigan. Stones from the Lake are also visible. This text was written by Deirdre Colgan Jones as an act of emotional labour to make this image accessible to all beings
March 1, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Some recent Chicago moments on the go…
Hint: read the alt text
A building in Edgewater that looks like a quilt (IMHO!) It is masonry and concrete in the modern International style and is part of the complex of buildings that make up the Sacred Heart Convent. This text was written by Deirdre Colgan Jones as an act of emotional labour for accessibility Clouds over Lake Michigan along Lakeshore Drive during the golden hour on Friday, February 28, 2025 on the quiet, calm Rush-hour 147 Express Bus. Some people are walking and running and they are silhouetted against the blurred fence in the foreground and the dramatic cumulonimbus clouds in the background over the water. This text was written by Deirdre Colgan Jones as an act of emotional labour for accessibility Artist, mother and creativity coach; Deirdre Colgan Jones stands on the Michigan Ave Bridge facing the sun. She is wearing a dark blue navy mac raincoat and a brown tweedy hat which she purchased in NYC in the year 2000. Her hand-dyed indigo scarf billows slightly in the wind. She turns her head upwards to look at the surrounding skyscrapers. In the background you can see three famous Chicago architectural structures - the Wrigley Building is in the left, the Chicago Tribune Tower is on the right and the John Hancock Building is visible in the distance. People walk over the bridge as she stands close to the maroon coloured rail protecting pedestrians from traffic. This text was written by Deirdre Colgan Jones as an act of emotional labour for accessibility An artifact stolen from a previous civilization protrudes from a building which was erected in 1934, but is designed to look like a Gothic cathedral. The text reads: “Stabian Baths Pompeii Italy” and is inscribed into the Chicago Greystone which comprises the primary building material. The architectural fragments appears to be pale marble or alabaster and has three horizontal lines inscribed into its form. Mortar grout lines are also visible. This building is the Chicago Tribune Tower. This text was written by Deirdre Colgan Jones as an act of emotional labour for accessibility
March 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Yesterday I sent back my original from the five-person collaboration collage project organized deftly by Marty McCutcheon from Berkeley Commonplace. This is my second year participating in the “Round-table Postal Collage Collective” Feeling good about this two-sided original. Better late than never!
March 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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It’s been awhile since I left the house - because: sick kid… but this is Lake Michigan beginning to freeze over - last time I saw it
Image of an icy lake with sunset reflections in the sky. A pier reaches out into Lake Michigan and some rocky limestone paving gently deteriorates
December 12, 2024 at 3:37 AM