What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Three weeks in Connemara.
Which historical figure do you most identify with?
Barbara Hepworth.
Which living person do you most admire?
The writer; Maggie Farrell.
Which is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Bossiness.
What is your greatest extravagance?
Being a full time artist.
What is your favourite journey?
A plane journey to London
On what occasion do you lie?
I don’t lie.
Which living person do you most despise?
Boris Johnson.
What or who is the greatest love of your life?
My husband, Shane.
When and where were you happiest?
Last weekend, installing my own exhibition at GIAF and then celebrating my brother, John Gerrard’s, Mirror Pavilion in Connemara.
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Which talent would you most like to have?
The art of shipping navigation.
What is your current state of mind?
Organisational mode.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Bringing up my three children while sustaining a career.
If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what do you think it would be?
A dolphin.
What is your most treasured possession?
My home.
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Poverty.
What is your favourite occupation?
Working in the studio.
What is the quality you most like in a man?
Kindness.
What is the quality you most like in a woman?
See above, alongside gravitas.
Who are your favourite writers?
Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison
What is your motto?
Be kind.
Joy Gerrard is a visual artist based in Belfast. She makes painting, drawings and multimedia works, often based on ideas of congregation and protest. Her exhibition, Precarious Freedom: Crowds, Flags, Barriers, runs at the Galway International Arts Festival Gallery until this Saturday.
