Held a Kiddies Bunting Workshop last week in Chapelizod. They will be up for the Festival July 4th -10th. Very talented kids. Have to say I hadn’t realized how much the parents
were going to enjoy it. Maybe I’ll hold one especially for adults next year!
Thought you might like to see some photos from the event.
Artists and Demonstrators Tents
'Life Is A Catwalk' attracted a lot of attention!
Have a look at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/btangney/sets/72157624264068904/ to see some
other snaps from the event.
Here again this weekend. Sorry to be so late posting this but the new website’s been under construction. Having an absolute ball once again. The atmosphere’s wonderful. Will post a few photos after the weekend.
Just lately I attended a week long life drawing group at the RHA. I absolutely loved it. It reminded me that my great love always was and still is Life Drawing. Here are a few of the works completed there.
'RHA 12'
'RHA 15'
'RHA 14'
'RHA 11'
Will certainly be doing this again soon as possible and bugging all my friends to pose for me. As a result of the workshop I have decided to do a self portrait drawing everyday as a discipline and an experiment. Who knows what might come out of it!
Two of my paintings have been chosen as finalists in this international competition and one has been awarded 3rd Place.
'Always make time for Impromptu Leapfrog' -3rd Place Award
'Shoes Come In A Box, People Don't' - Finalist
Visit www.infinityartgallery.com for a review of the award winning piece.
IMMA New Galleries 31-March – 27 June
Morton Feldman, my new love! Knew very little about this contemporary American composer before this exhibition. Feldman was closely associated with the progressive art of the New York School in the 1950′s and 1960′s. Works from these painters are on exhibition including Piet Mondrian (standing in front of his paintings, I felt like a child coming face to face with their favourite pop star I almost wept!), Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko and others.
On opening night we were treated to a percussive performance of his work in The Chapel. I found it absolutely intriguing. I have since found other pieces including piano pieces that I have been playing in the studio while I work. Creativity in sound.
I highly recommend the exhibition. Some of the most important works that you are likely to see in IMMA this year. Of course I may go to another exhibition next week and fall in love again!
Just thought that I would let you know about some of the shows I’ve been to lately.
1) Charles Harper – Drawings by Charles Harper
Exhibition in the United Artists Club opened by Ruairi Quinn TD
Thursday 18th February
Exhibition will run until March 9th 2010. It was a real treat to see such a wonderful selection of Charles Harper’s work in such an historic and prestigious artists club. Definitely worth seeing..
2) Dorothy Cross and William McKeown - Exhibition “Pool”
Went to see this the same night as Charlie Harper. Very different exhibitions. The delicate watercolours on paper of McKeown were a response to Cross’s exploration of water in all it’s aspects. Particularly liked Cross’s suspended shark skin gilded inside with 21 carat gold!
3) Francis Alÿs: Le Temps du Sommeil
A sneak preview of the Francis Alÿs show which opened on 25th February. Limited to just 30 people, there was a glass of wine and a walk around the show with the Curator Catherine Lampert on Wednesday 24th, the evening before the official opening.
East Ground Galleries, IMMA
Francis Alÿs (Belgian, but living in Mexico) is a compulsive wanderer: a close observer and occasional manipulator of the quirks of everyday life, he has been assembling a series of 100 tiny paintings (accompanied by instructions and postcards), visual ‘diaries’ of his interactions with locations all over the world. This series is being shown at IMMA before it travels to Tate Modern for an international retrospective of Alÿs’s work, and it is an honour to be able to show it in Dublin before it’s UK showing.
Loved this show and the chance to ask the curator all those questions that I normally have, having seen a contemporary show!
IT Tralee have decided to purchase one of my larger works ‘Threesome’ for their new Library & Information Resource Centre. The piece will be installed over the coming weeks.
Art Fair ’09 will be held in the RDS , Ballsbridge, Dublin this weekend 13th – 15th November. This is the new name as the RDS themselves have taken over the running of what used to be known as ‘Art Ireland’.
Come see me at stand D2.
Let me know if you would like me to email you a ticket.
Opening Times: Fri 12 – 9pm, Sat 11-7pm, Sun 11-6pm
'Always Make Time For Impromptu Leapfrog'
I’m very, very excited. I have been selected as a finalist for the International Aesthetica Creative Works Competition. The piece ‘Always Make Time For Impromptu Leapfrog’ was highly commended by Cherie Federico, Editor of Aesthetica Magazine.
They had over 18,000 entries and only 40 were selected. As a finalist my image will be printed in The Aesthetica Annual and the winner will be announced just before publication at the end of November. Wish me luck!
