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August 2011
I am a very happy participant in the new Black Church Print Studio group exhibition, Box ID III. Please come out to show your support for this wonderful establishment.
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August 2011
Brian Rideout is part of the BEST OF SHOW exhibition in the new Toronto gallery FORGETUS COLLECTIVE opening August 26th at 7pm. I wish I could be there.
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March 2011
I was recently very fortunate to be able to spend an afternoon with typographer Con Devlin in the Dublin Print Museum learning how to letterpress. It is such a lovely process and I’m very happy with the results. (more photos to follow soon....)
March 2011
Please check out the gorgeous photos of photographer and designer Peter McDonagh on his new website. If you like coffee and mountain biking you’re in for a treat!
February 2011
Drama Llama (found on a motorcycling adventure website)
January 2011
Having treated myself to a wonderful Wacom Bamboo with Christmas money (thank you Dad!) I was on the hunt for a case to protect it. I couldn’t find any that I liked enough so I decided to knit myself one. It took 30 hours of painfully slow knitting and sewing (I’m only a beginner) but I am very pleased with the outcome! 3.5 balls of Sirdar ‘big softie’ Super Chunky wool and one ill fitting H&M hoodie were used to make the bag which has separate fleecy pockets for the pen and tablet.
October 2010
Ever had a sandwich in a bowl? Well I have....
November 2010
Laura Buckley’s show WATERLILIES in Mothers Tankstation is a beautiful and captivating sound and reflected light installation. The venue is perfect; a renovated factory in the heart of old Dublin, it’s walls are ideal to display the gentle moving images and the gallery space almost seems built for this show. The following review by Gemma Tipton captures the essence wonderfully:
The act of remembering becomes uncomfortable when one thinks about how the mind actually works. As memories fragment and fade, others become embellished, more powerful. The only constant is the distorting nature of memory itself. The challenge of representing this mental space is reflected in the gap between the mechanisms—the synaptic processes of the brain—and the physical tools available to the artist. This is the territory explored in Laura Buckley’s installation Waterlilies, 2010. Film, mirrors, mirrored Perspex, motors, projected light, and sound coalesce to capture a sense of the fleetingness of memory.
A view of Northern Ireland’s iconic Giant’s Causeway is projected on to one wall; on another, a film of a backyard garden flickers, together with a glimpse of a child dragging a toy away from the camera’s framing gaze. Fragments of sound can be heard: tentative notes from a piano, a rain storm, traffic, the clink of a spoon in a teacup. Wires and plugboards on the floor link the scattered turntables that shower the space with moving colored light, echoing the synaptic pathways of neural activity. Their seemingly random placement is a study in successful juxtaposition, and following the allegory of Plato’s Cave, one sees the forms become visible only when their light meets the physicality of constraining walls. Buckley has created a space where memory is not held in an idealized frozen moment; instead, and more accurately, it plays out as unfixed, forever changing, and “familiar,” as the Irish poet Thomas Kinsella wrote, “if I can hold it.”
The show runs from 3 November - 11 December 2010
PLEASE NOTE: Exhibition is open Thursday/Saturday 4 to 6pm. For more details see the website...
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