New Work

Padded Envelope Circle

Refill Column

Envelope Spiral

Here's some recent work.

Pavement Images

Twin Images

Atlas

I found these images on footpaths, one in front of my apartment the others in front of a school near work. The atlas image had been passed over by the tyres of many cars and had begun to break up, much like effects of coastal erosion. The other two identical images, sports pictures torn from the pages newspapers, lay in close proximity outside a school's gates. I can only begin to imagine the secret behind such an event.

John Cage On TV

"At the time, Cage was teaching Experimental Composition at New York City's New School. Eight years beyond 4:33, he was (as our smoking MC informs us) the most controversial figure in the musical world at that time. His first performance on national television was originally scored to include five radios, but a union dispute on the CBS set prevented any of the radios from being plugged in to the wall. Cage gleefully smacks and tosses the radios instead of turning them on and off.

While treating Cage as something of a freak, the show also treats him fairly reverentially, cancelling the regular game show format to allow Cage the chance to perform his entire piece. "

Check out this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSulycqZH-U

Sean Hillen @ The Gallery Of Photography

Evidence of Controlled Demolition at The Rose Garden, Tralee, Co. Offaly

I attended the opening of Sean Hillen's new show in The Gallery of Photography. It's an exhibition of new photomontage works. Hillen is a Northern Irish born photographer. His photomontages are a mix of his own photograghs and second hand images. This particular show consists of works that transpose the events of 9/11 and the US led invasion of Iraq into an Irish setting. It is interesting that, having started his career photographing the Troubles in the North, Hillen has now turned to scenes of violence of a global rather than local importance (a move followed similarly by another Northern Irish photogragher Paul Sea Wright).

You'll find his work at his impressive website here

........And More!

These large format lambda prints on pvc consist of series of formations using chairs/parts of chairs/random objects.

More Old Work...

In the video piece untitled(60mins) I attempted to balance on the back legs of a chair for one hour. Many attempts were made with the majority ending with me falling backwards and crashing to the ground. On a few occasions I managed to balance for what seemed like a few minutes (although I've never actually timed it) only to fall violently to the floor. There is no sound to the video so the crashes are silent.

Some Old Work...

Some work from my graduate show in 2006. I bought some polypropylene stacking chairs and using them created various sculptural formations. In arrangement150 I displayed 150 chair arrangements across 3 volumes. These volumes were fixed to wall hung desks, with the viewers sitting on some of the chairs used in the arrangements. I'm planning to publish an edition of arrangement150 in singular bound book format.