Andrew Carroll (Visual Art)

Vortices

2011-11-07T01:42:00.000-08:00

Moving out (to be exhibited elsewhere on this website) is the first series of a number of bodies of work (collectively titled Vortices), which, in terms of structure, are influenced by Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations and by research into the recently created antihydrogen, the antimatter version of the Hydrogen atom.

Elgar's sequence of orchestral works was arranged in the whole around an 'unknown centre', thus the 'enigma' of the title; he spoke of a 'dark saying' that was 'never played' throughout the series of Variations:

The Enigma I will not explain - its 'dark saying' must be left unguessed, and I warn yoiu that the connection between the Variations and the Theme is often of the slightest texture; further, through and over the whole set another and larger theme 'goes', but is not played...So the principal Theme never appears, even as in some late dramas...the chief character is never on the stage.

- Edward Elgar

In Enigma Variations, Elgar announces the 'void' at the centre of the series, and casts it as a positive fulcrum, the way that a secret is paradoxically both a lack and a positive figure at the same time; so too, in the Vortices projects, the connections between works will be clustered around an indeterminate centre of gravity.

The painting Urchin Heart, recently completed, alludes to a theme that unites all of the bodies of work within the Vortices projects.

Urchin Heart

Oil and Acrylic on Canvas 60 x 110 cm

We Could Own The Air

2011-05-17T04:26:00.000-07:00

We Could Own the Air was an experimental installation conceived of for the MAVis. (MA Visual Arts Practice at IADT Dun Laoghaire) Public Gesture exhibition in 2010; the title of the exhibition was Pirate Capital.

W.C.O.T.A purposefully deviated from the artist's usual painting practice to investigate ideas of representation and to work with representational imagery in another medium apart from painting.

W.C.O.T.A. was conceived of as a performative mise-en-scene. It explored and interrogated representations of the counterculture of pirate radio stations, which, by the '90s had become romanticised and commodified somewhat in the collective imagination, through depictions of them in advertisements and Hollywood movies.

The representation was 'agitated' by posters which were dotted throughout the installation, and which made paradoxical statements about capitalism, delineating the 'image' with a frame that bordered on overidentification.

The text of the posters was created by the artist , and contained such slogans as:

"We Must Promote Freedom at all Costs - The Price of this Promotion is the Measure of the Freedom we can Afford"

"We will bring democracy to those that suffer tyranny. Democracy must prevail, except where it is threatened to be voted out of government."

"Neo-Liberalism promotes personal independence in an unmatched choice of effective relationships - a friend, after all, is a great asset."

I placed a few elements which might belong more to the set of a Hollywood pirate-movie in and among the other objects which went to make up the mise-en-scene; these included: an envelope opener that resembled a Hollywood pirate's sword, a cushion that looked like it was brought from Marrakesh, a golden bowl and a statuette of a Chinese boy pulling a rickshaw.

Space_scope (Jan 6th - Feb 4th 2011)

2011-04-11T08:32:00.000-07:00

Paintings:

Shipwreck (Fragments of Challenger Under Ocean), 45 x 62 cm, oil on canvas

The Space Tourist, 50 x 67cm, oil on canvas, 2011

Hull, 65 x 99cm, oil on canvas

Her Veil, 45 x 62 cm, oil on canvas, 2010

Stage-craft, 45 x 62cm, oil on canvas, 2011

The Stargazer, 45 x 62cm, oil on canvas, 2010

Documentation of Exhibition:

Work Presented on MAVis. (MAVIS) 2010

2010-05-20T13:16:00.000-07:00

KNIGHTS OF MECHA cosplay event flyer:

the event is scheduled for the 4th of September 2010

in the main courtyard at IMMA at 11am. This event

is not an artwork in and of itself, but is being used

to generate imagery for further artworks.The event

is in associtation with the Kilmainham Arts Festival.

This event is free of charge - please do not attend

without a costume.

See http://mechaknights.blogspot.com

Knights of Mecha will continue to develop in 2012/2013

Two Moons II

photograph on paper 594 x 594mm

E1027 (Indifference Engine)

oil on canvas 55 x 70 cm

Two Moons

Photograph + two

Claude Glasses mounted on tripods

Silhoutopia

2008-11-17T13:37:00.000-08:00

Time Pleat

photograph on dibond 5oo x 350mm

Recall City Never Sleeps

photograph on dibond 500 x 350mm

Those who Forget the Future...

photograph on dibond 500 x 350mm

Fools in Hats and Coats

photograph on dibond 500 x 350mm

Documentation of Exhibition: