Putting the finishing touches on a few last pieces for my exhibition at Graphic Studio Gallery Dublin with Clare Henderson and Yoko Akino. from islands to other seas opens next Thursday October 6th and will run until October 29th. Here's a detail from one of my collage prints. Dropping it to the framer today!
I'm busy working on some printed collage constructions for my upcoming show at Graphic Studio Gallery. I will be showing works along with artists Clare Henderson and Yoko Akino. The exhibition opens on October 6th at Graphic Studio Gallery, Temple Bar, Dublin, and runs until October 29th. It's about islands and the spaces around them, and the sea. Here's some of what I think about islands!
I am interested in the paradoxical nature of the islands in my prints – they can represent an ideal world, a perfect place on the horizon; or an exile away from the world, a confined geographical prison. The expanse of space between us becomes exaggerated – looking at an island is like looking at another world
I've been working on a few new pieces as the Autumn closes in around us. I'm loving these bright crisp days and the change of season. This is one that I started working on when I was on residency in Cill Rialaig in January - only got around to finishing it a week ago! It will be part of the Winter Exhibition at Graphic Studio Gallery, which runs from December 3rd at the gallery in Temple Bar.
I've been busy working away on a few projects over the last while, some of them finished, others are works in progress for an exhibition I am having in 2016. I have just finished my print for A lonely impulse of delight, the group exhibition at the SO Gallery in Dublin. The exhibition celebrates the 150th birthday of WB Yeats, and artists and writers have been asked to respond to a poem by Yeats. The show will travel both nationally and internationally after its opening at SO Fine Art Editions in November, and I am delighted to be a part of it. The piece I made was in response to The Lake Isle of Inisfree. It was great to revisit the poem and it is one that ties in with the current project I am working on about islands. The piece I have made is called impossible futures: shadow worlds and the seeds of dreams. My lake isle is cast in shadows, and truly unattainable, trapped in the dark glass of a snow globe. Some dreams never come to pass! More information on the exhibition, and the exciting Fundit campaign are at the links below. http://www.sofinearteditions.com/a-lonely-impulse-of-delight-wb-yeats-150-years/
http://fundit.ie/project/a-lonely-impulse-of-delight-wb-yeats-150
I am just back from a wonderful week at Cill Rialaig in Ballinskelligs, Co Kerry. It is a pre-famine village on Bolus head, at the end of the Iveragh peninsula, which has been converted to living and studio spaces for artists, writers, composers and poets. Myself and Clare Henderson went down to undertake research for a project that we are working on based on some of the islands off the coast of Ireland.
The winds were mighty and the waves crashed over the headland. The mountains appeared and disappeared under heavy hanging veils of cloud. The hailstones fell frenzied upon the roof. The cold snaked its way around the head and into our bones. It was thoroughly inspiring to be surrounded by such a dramatic landscape. I spent the week drawing, walking, talking, mono printing and of course battling with the elements!
The works are still in progress, but I have a couple of etching underway, and am hoping to continue with the mono prints in the near future. Monoprints are a funny thing - they seem like they should be quick and easy, but they take a long time to figure out, and it's very easy to go to far with them! I hope to get the better of them before long!!
Lots of workshops coming up over the next few months with *Mobile Print Project*, I will post pictures and info as they happen. Happy 2015!
