Vortices

Vortices is a series of studies in gouache which follow the completion of a painting, Urchin Heart; that painting marked a significant change in the way that I work, and was inspired in part by Richard Diebenkorn's Imaginary Landscape series. Urchin Heart was executed in acrylic on canvas. Two of the studies are also shown below:


Urchin Heart
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas 60 x 110 cm






Inward Breath Now, gouache on Paper, 25 x 38cm





Something Real, gouache on Paper, 25 x 38 cm

We Could Own The Air


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. Home-made "slogan" prints were dotted among familiar, pop-culture posters throughout the installation; these contained paradoxical statements about capitalism, containing 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 under totalitarianism. 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."


A few elements - which might belong to the set of a Hollywood pirate-movie - were included in and among the other objects which went to make up the "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)










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: