Most of the time it looks rubbish - now and again, it works.
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
Inversion
Photoshop strikes again. I have to invert almost every photo I like - just to see, you see.
Most of the time it looks rubbish - now and again, it works.
Most of the time it looks rubbish - now and again, it works.
Saturday, March 25, 2017
Monday, March 13, 2017
Gaspard
I bought a very small printing press recently and printed a an old drypoint plate yesterday. The smudged printing ink around the plate gave me the idea for this digital development. Apparently this fellow is called Gaspard. I scratched the name into the plate when I originally drew it.
Thursday, March 9, 2017
Twenty Five Years Later
Twenty five years ago I worked in a textile factory laboratory and office. In the spare time at the office, I often used to doodle. I made one particular doodle that I particularly liked and copied it. It remains, an A4 sheet of paper with a small doddle copied many times on it. It is dog eared now but I'm glad I still have it.
Recently I decided to immortalise it in print and while I was printing it I thought back to working in the office and how stifled and trapped I felt. I would never have imagined, when drawing this doodle, that one day I would be in a print studio in Kilkenny, twenty five years later printing it.
Recently I decided to immortalise it in print and while I was printing it I thought back to working in the office and how stifled and trapped I felt. I would never have imagined, when drawing this doodle, that one day I would be in a print studio in Kilkenny, twenty five years later printing it.
On The Desk
Today I am mainly still messing about* with my parasite drawings
* when I was at art college, one lecturer always told us off for saying 'messing about'. We should say 'experimenting with'. So of course, I always say 'messing about'.
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| print + ballpoint pen |
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| ink + ballpoint pen |
* when I was at art college, one lecturer always told us off for saying 'messing about'. We should say 'experimenting with'. So of course, I always say 'messing about'.
Saturday, March 4, 2017
Like Hummingbird Wings
I was in the print studio and shot 10 minutes of video.
I condensed 6 minutes of it into 1.
The paper sounds like hummingbird wings (she said fancifully)
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Two Books
I made two new books for the Artist Book fair at Limerick School of Art and Design.
I'm not entirely happy with either of them for the reason that I don't think there is a complete synergy between the idea, the form and the execution.
You can't really just decide to make a book without thinking everything through and then thinking it all through again, then starting and always being willing to abandon an idea if it isn't working. I think artist books teach you to have a very elastically creative mind but then giving up on an idea, especially when hours of work are there in front of you, is very difficult. I gave up some ideas but never really started again from scratch and I think these books aren't 100% because of that.
Book 1: Irish Bus
A set of 11 postcards detailing a bus journey from Hospital, Co. Limerick to Oranmore in Co. Galway wrapped in a hand-reproduced bus timetable for route 51. I love travelling by bus and kept a diary, recording conversations, things overheard on the radio, and things I saw. I also took photos and made 11 little scenarios out of my notes. Currently Bus Eireann is in severe financial difficulty and may not survive for too much longer so these anachronistic postcards my turn out to be a record of an anachronistic journey.
Book2: To See Your Own Light
I often listen to Hildegard von Bingen while drawing and made a drawing into a single page book, housed in a folder. The outside of the drawing has one of her pieces of writing that I thought especially pertinent written on it;
I'm not entirely happy with either of them for the reason that I don't think there is a complete synergy between the idea, the form and the execution.
You can't really just decide to make a book without thinking everything through and then thinking it all through again, then starting and always being willing to abandon an idea if it isn't working. I think artist books teach you to have a very elastically creative mind but then giving up on an idea, especially when hours of work are there in front of you, is very difficult. I gave up some ideas but never really started again from scratch and I think these books aren't 100% because of that.
Book 1: Irish Bus
A set of 11 postcards detailing a bus journey from Hospital, Co. Limerick to Oranmore in Co. Galway wrapped in a hand-reproduced bus timetable for route 51. I love travelling by bus and kept a diary, recording conversations, things overheard on the radio, and things I saw. I also took photos and made 11 little scenarios out of my notes. Currently Bus Eireann is in severe financial difficulty and may not survive for too much longer so these anachronistic postcards my turn out to be a record of an anachronistic journey.
Book2: To See Your Own Light
I often listen to Hildegard von Bingen while drawing and made a drawing into a single page book, housed in a folder. The outside of the drawing has one of her pieces of writing that I thought especially pertinent written on it;
We cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a hope. Part of the terror is take back our own listening. To use own our voice. To see our own light.
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