Not Pop

A while back I previewed EP artwork for Cork band Slow Motion Heroes' upcoming new EP, Not Pop. The lads released the artwork on Facebook this week so now I can show the full thing here! Not Pop is the follow on EP from Pop, the idea was to create two very contrasting EPs in terms of musical style, I was contracted to do art work for both so I tried to reflect this in what I produced. Looking forward to the Not Pop release on Oct 8th in Bradleys on Barrack St and seeing the work in print!

You can download the EP from here, strongly recommended, it's fantastic!

The Market Bench Project Pt 1.

I made my first market bench maquette! Based on a chilli, it's made from recycled clay so unfortunately we won't be firing it. Can't wait to paint it!

We're all making a number of benches, my second bench is based on fish fillets, hopefully not obvious from ground level but very apparent in an aerial view. I'm thinking of Jean Jullien's work here! In the New Year we'll pick one bench from all of our designs to make.

Beginning the Market Bench project

BIG NEWS!! I'm a first year undergrad student at Applied Art in Crawford College of Art and Design as of this week! Wooo!! As a result i've bid a sad goodbye to DEIS. I've had a good 5 years here and have great colleagues. I'm really excited, also scared about money but mainly really excited.

We started our first ceramics project yesterday. Making a bench based on the theme of market. I got myself down to the fine English Market and took some snaps. I was thinking of doing a ridiculous / hilarious tacky bench commemorating the Queen's visit, covering it with fish motifs in reference to that brilliant photo, in the style of the typical ridiculous / hilarious tacky ceramic monarchy memorabilia! I've kind of gone from that idea now though, instead i'm thinking of making a giant chilli bench, bright, colourful, and I love chillies, is that enough of a reason?! Art college: you tell me! I was at Electric Picnic earlier this month and they had this great art piece in the Body and Soul, a giant table & chairs, it creates a lovely surrealness sitting on something that makes you feel tiny, so I guess that's what i'm going for with this chilli! I'm also thinking of the fab Mae West couch created by Elsa Schiaparelli and Salvador Dali.

Here are some of my pictures from today, I love the market!

In Other Words

I visited the Glucksmann current exhibition "In other words" at the recommendation of my friend Lauren Baylor.

Language and text and their construed meanings are the central theme of the exhibition. The works explore both the subjectivity and objectivity of text, abstracting that most defined of human expression. Micheal Stumpf's sculptures (photographed here) were among my favourite work, as was Tim Etchell's "The Future will be confusing" and Kay Rosen's clever and playful paintings exploring the connections between the literal meanings of words and the graphical formation of the words themselves.

Interestingly, the gallery is also exhibiting the Book of Lismore at the moment. While the antiquated rendering of text in the 15th century manuscript is in stark contrast to the thoroughly modern and often witty exploration of language in the In Other Words exhibit, similarities can also be drawn in that in both cases the artists are attempting to push the boundaries of text.

It took me back to the Mira Schendel and León Ferrari exhibit I visited in Madrid last year. That exhibition explored language in a way I had never encountered before and left the viewer with questions relating to the dual nature of human expression in terms of spontaneity and restraint.

If you can't make it there yourself, more photographs are available on the Glucksmann facebook. Some of the photos in this post have been taken from the websites of the artists themselves, namely Kay Rosen, Joseph Noonan Ganley. The Micheal Stumpf image is via artnews.org.

Wanderlust.....

I have such wanderlust at the moment... been looking at my trip advisor travel map:



and my flickr.... feet itching so bad!!

Wedding Invite

More messing with wedding invitation typography, embellished type this time, still not sure where exactly it's going!

Animation Summer Camp Work

So here are the rest of the animations the young people did in our animation summer camp. So proud of them all! They all did so well and it was so great to see how happy they were with their work!