Recent Exhibitions

The last few weeks have been busy since my return from Paris. My work is currently show ing in two exhibitions and another on has just finished up. Here are a few photos of the work in place.

First a snapshot of Untitled [chh1] hanging in the Elysian in the exhibition Art Work Embassy as part of Art Trail Cork 2011. The photograph to the left is by Pádraig Spillane. All the my photographs in these exhibitions were printed by Tony at RightBrain. Art Trail and the Art Work Embassy exhibition continues until Sunday 4th December, so if you're around Cork this weekend you should pop in to see it.

Untitled [chh1] in Art Work Embassy at The Elysian, Cork

If you're in Dublin this weekend there's an exhibition for you to visit too. The Rua Red Winter Show continues until the 10th December. I wasn't able to make the opening as I was still in Paris so I'd like to thank Miriam O'Connor who was also part of the exhibition for taking these photos for me.

Rua Red Winter Show 2011 (© Miriam O'Connor)

Untitled [uu1] at the Rua Red Winter Show 2011 (© Miriam O'Connor)

And finally a photo from Place Space an exhibition of the Backwater Artists Group in the Wandesford Quay Art Gallery that finished up last weekend. The piece on the wall to the left is by Frank McGrath.

Untitled [uu1] in Place Space at the Wandesford Quay Art Gallery

Rua Red Winter Open 2011

Rua Red Winter Show 2011 (Photo by Rua Red)

As I spend my last few days in Paris the exhibitions continue back in Ireland. Today is the first day of the Rua Red Winter Open which is showing another one of my photos. The exhibition features a cross section of emerging and established artists and craft makers presenting painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography, installation, jewelry & mixed media. All works for exhibition were selected by a curatorial panel including Ann Mulrooney, Curator of the National Craft Gallery and Hillary Murray, Curator of Collections at the Irish Museum if Modern Art.

There will be Art Trolley Sessions running throughout the exhibition on the 12th, 19th & 26th of November and on the 3rd & 10th December. The Art Trolley Sessions are suitable for children aged 3 - 8 accompanied by an adult and are extremely popular so they need to be booked in advance. For more information please see the Rua Red website.

Stack 14 by John Ryan - Rua Red Winter Open 2011

Structure Brooch by Rachel Swan - Rua Red Winter Show Dublin 2011

Rua Red Winter Open 2011 is on at the Rua Red South Dublin Art Centre from 12th November to the 10th of December 2011 from 10am - 6pm Tuesday to Saturday.

Reflecting on the Guesthouse Residency

Installation at The Guesthouse
Photographed by Tony Compagno

The residency at The Guesthouse was a valuable opportunity to read and to play with another way of expressing my considerations rather than through a photographic print. Through reflective practice and dialogue I spent the time considering the art piece as the event, rather than as a documentation of the event. This is the installation that you see in the photos and what I presented at the Sunday lunch.

Experiencing the Installation
Photographed by Tony Compagno

The final image of the poetry book was a first edition of Poems by Anthony Cronin from 1957 which I found in the Guesthouse. I was very taken by the poem 'For a Father' in which he talks about how mannerisms come through in later generations. To me that is also relevant to how one piece of work leads to another, which leads to another, and the thought or concept that appears in a later piece is recognisable in some early form in the work that goes before it.

First Edition of Poems by Anthony Cronin
Photographed by Tony Compagno

I was also joined on the Residency by Pádraig Spillane - curator, photographer, philosopher and Vadagam maker extraordinaire. I want to thank Stephen McGlynn and all at The Guesthouse for the opportunity to do this residency. I am also delighted to say that a photograph that I made in Belfast during the Belfast Photo Festival has been accepted into the Rua Red Winter Show which will run from the 12th of November to the 10th December 2011.