Process Visible Open!
My curated show in Monster Truck opened last Thursday, hope you get along to have a look before it closes on the 16th of June. It features the work of 3 painters I really like: Séamus O’Rourke, Emma Roche and Adam Bohanna.
My curated show in Monster Truck opened last Thursday, hope you get along to have a look before it closes on the 16th of June. It features the work of 3 painters I really like: Séamus O’Rourke, Emma Roche and Adam Bohanna.
I’m curating a show for Monstertruck which opens on June 4th. It’s a painting show featuring the work of Emma Roche, Adam Bohanna and Seamus O’Rourke. Each of the artists produces work which somehow touches off the notion of process painting, but each has their own twist that I hope will bring something very special […]
Cliona Harmey and myself made this piece representing Blackletter’s working methods, the show took place in the IMOCA space on Jamestown Road. It was curated by Sally Timmons and Paul Murnahan, who invited art groups to create work together to represent their idea of who they are. Our idea was to show that Blackletter exists […]
Some photo documentation of my recent show in Monster Truck Gallery.
Magnhild Opdöl @ Project Platform Project Platform was the emerging artist section at the centre of Dublin Art Fair 2008 in the RDS. Monster Truck Gallery & Studios were invited to select an artist for inclusion. They chose Monster Truck Award winner Magnhild Opdöl. The event was curated by Niall Flaherty and Alan Butler. Magnhild […]
Grid Paintings I’ve recently been making some watercolour paintings on paper, using the idea of the modernist grid as a starting point. These watercolours were started on a residency at The Mantua Project, Ballinagare, Co. Roscommon.
Mantua is the townland in Roscommon where my maternal grandparents, great grandparents and great-great grandparents hailed from. This boggy townland with an Italian name was home to the Mantua Artists Residency, where I stayed during the Summer 2008. The video is about art-design, rural-urban, natural-manmade and the other tensions implied in revisiting a place where […]
Conspicuous Consumption (After Mondrian) Multimedia installation with office furniture and customized file boxes fitted with switch operated computer case fans, part of ‘X-Marks The Spot’ Christmas Show, 2006, Draiocht Arts Centre, Blanchardstown, Dublin.
This is an audio piece derived from Rene Magritte’s famous surreallist painting, ‘The Betrayal of Images’, (Oil on Canvas, 1929). Magritte’s Pipe, that is not a pipe but an image of a pipe, is represented not by an image but by the sound loop digitally generated from that image. The referenced still image is discarded. […]
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