End of Shadows, The Sycamore Arts Club, Dublin.

I will be showing in 'End of Shadows' at The Sycamore Arts Club, 9 Sycamore St. Temple Bar, Dublin 1.

This is a group exhibition highlighting 24 international artists which have exhibited over the year at the Arts Club. The show will also includes four new artists that the gallery will be working with in 2011.


The exhibition's preview is on the 9th of December - from 6.30 till 8.30. The show will run till the 22nd Janurary 2011.

Put A Lid On It - Galway Arts Centre, 23rd - 27th November, 2010

I have a piece in 'Put A Lid On It', an exhibition of artworks in jars currently showing in the Galway Arts Centre.

silent alarm - 2010, glass jar, alarm clock, rubber valve

More info on the Galway Arts Centre website here.

Artworks from 'to come so far for beauty'

  

extended artist's chair - 2010, chair, wood, electrical tape

plod - 2010, plastic buckets, bungee ties, gym ball, large toy football

 

stood up - 2010, sweeping brush, string, helium filled balloon

Bizarre Bazaar @ Pallas Contemporary Projects

I will be showing a hardback book version of arrangement150 in Bizarre Bazaar, this year's annual group show at Pallas Contemporary Projects. Opening 7-9pm Thursday 25th November. Running until 18th December.

'.....an open platform for the exchange of ideas, where every idea has its price. This years’ annual group exhibition will explore a certain tendency of the bazaar, for which the gallery will be set up as a market for the duration of the exhibition. Artworks of various sizes and prices, editions, fanzines, long playing records and artists’ books, have been donated by, temporarily estranged from, hoodwinked and wrestled out of the hands of esteemed, established and emerging artists, our colleagues and friends.'

See more on the PCP website here.

Detail from arrangement150

To Come So Far For Beauty - Opening 11th November, Block T, Dublin 7

SWITCH 2010 - Switched On

 Harald Turek, the tour leader and chief switcher on, starts the evenings proceedings with Jeff Langile's Waterfall.

 Indeterminate Form O by McLean Fahenstock in situ on Silver Street.

 Martijn Kuijten - A song to Dylan

 Wolfgang Lehrner - Trident

 Those on the tour were given hand-held slide viewers, or 'time machines' as we were told. Slides showing works from previous years as well as historical photograghs of Nenagh were handed out throughout the tour.

 Thomas Horak - Glühbirnen

Cows by Holga Mohaupt and Glühbirnen by Thomas Horak on Pearse Street.

  Robert Ladislas Derr - Man in Relation to Men

 A slide view of my video untitled (2006) from last year's Switch, in front of the window in was shown in.

  Brigid McLeer - Freighter Drawing (01.13mins)

For more details on all artists and video pieces, as well as a free PDF broucher download, go to s-w-i-t-c-h.org

Richard Wentworth on London

Martin Creed

Work 701

Work 396

Work 925

Work 928

Work 786

Work 916

Work 796

Martin Creed Website

Switch 2010 - Launches Sunday 31st October, Nenagh Co. Tipperary

Click on image for better viewing.

Nik Ramage

More Here.

Check out the Jelly-Wobbler

Switch 2010 - Artists Announced

On August 25th I headed off to Nenagh to sit on the curatorial panel picking the videos that would be shown in Switch 2010. There were over 150 submissions from artists from all over the world, including Chile, Australia and China. A shortlist of 40 works were presented out of which 8 were selected.
 

The participating artists for Switch 2010 - 'the scale of things' are - McLean Fahnestock, Thomas Horak, Martijn Kuijten, Jeff Langille, Robert Ladislas Derr,Wolfgang Lehrner, Brigid McLeer and Holger Mohaupt.

Switch 2010 will take place from 1st to 7th November on the streets of Nenagh, Co. Tipperary. There are also plans to move the works to Bangor, Co. Down shortly after.

For more info see the Switch website.

Red Blue Lego Chair

Red Blue Lego Rietveld Chair by Mario Minale.

Found on the droog design website.

Alejandra Laviada - Photo Sculptures

'In Photo Sculptures, Alejandra portrays ephemeral sculptures created with found objects in order to alter our conception of everyday objects, record spaces that are disappearing, and suggest stories of the people who inhabited these spaces. Each of the sites Alejandra photographs is in the process of being completely demolished or redeveloped, and she works only with the objects found in each space.'

Above quote is from the artist's website alejandralaviada.com

Pinnacles @ Red Rua Summer Show 2010

pinnacles - 2010, wooden pencils, rubber bands

pinnacles - 2010, detail

pinnacles - 2010, Rua Red installation detail

Quack

Gif Animation using web images taken from popular furniture store's website

Summer Show at Rua Red - South Dublin Arts Centre

The 2010 Summer Show will take place at Rua Red from 19th July to 21st August.

My new sculpture 'Pinnacles' was selected for the show.

Exhibiting Artists: Michele Boyle, Pat Byrne, Sean Campbell, Marie-Claire Cassidy, Victoria J. Dean, Chris Finnegan, Jane Fogarty, Sheila Gorman, Brian Hegarty, John Jones, Ramon Kassam, Denis Kelly, Paraic Leahy, Roseanna Lynch, Paul MacCormaic, Aisling McGovern, Ciara McMahon,
Aoife O’Donnell, Conor O’Donnell, Siobhan Ogilvy, Vida Pain, Alice Peillon,
DianePeters, Jennifer Phelan, Louise Wallace, Dianne Whyte, Mars Wright.

Opens 17th July at 3pm. More info here.

Switch 2010 - Call for Submissions

Switch 2010 will take place from 1st to 7th November 2010, in Nenagh, Co Tipperary, Ireland.

Switch are now making an open call to artists working with film, lens based work and moving image to submit work responding to:

‘the scale of things’

to apply,

• please send applications to: switch, c/o The Arts Office, North Tipperary County Council, Civic Offices, Limerick Road, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary. 
• digital applications please send to: switch.information@gmail.com

Closing date for receipt of submissions is 18th August 2010 at 4pm.

More details on the Switch 2010 website.

The website for Switch 2009 has been updated and now includes on the street video documentation. See my piece Untitled(2006) insitu here.

Two Chairs

Arthur Ganson

Machine with Artichoke Petal (#1) - Kinetic sculpture/machine by Arthur Ganson.

More on youtube here.


Found on pietmondriaan.com

Procrastination by John Kelly

Animation by Irish animator/illustrator John Kelly. He was recently commissioned for an animated trailer to publicise the upcomming joint Guggenheim and YouTube creative video biennial.

Balanced Table

Found on Grains

Post updated 05-07-10

The guys from pietmondriaan.com have informed me that this is a piece by Frederik Van Simaey. See his site here.

I AM NOT AN ARTIST - AN ANIMATED GIF PARANOIA ABOUT NONSTOP DESIGN WORKERS

GIF animation made by John Kelly and Matt Cooper

See more here.

Blogs

I found my video piece untitled(2006) on pietmondriaan.com, a really good art blog from the Neatherlands (thanks for the post and link). Through them I also found three other really good blogs, vvork.com, whatspace.nl, and deondergrond.nl. Check them out.

Ikea Stack

Digitally balanced stack of chairs copied from Ikea's website.

Drawings Times Two

Some recent drawings, some are about sculpture, others just about drawing. Those above are ink on card, and those below are pen on card.

 

  

 

Visualising the Invisible

I have been working on some drawings that remind me of magnetic or electronic fields. After researching on the web for a while I came upon this video which demonstrates how the radio frequency field around detectors, such as your bus or tram swipe card terminal, are visualised to help their design.

Immaterials: the ghost in the field from timo on Vimeo.

Commercial Advertisement very similar to Simon Faithfull's Escape Vechicle No.6

A few months back I posted a video by the artist Simon Faithfull called Escape Vechicle No.6 in which a helium filled weather balloon lifts an office chair to edge of the earth's atmosphere. It's progress was recorded by a small camera which transmits a live feed back to earth. Eventually the balloon bursts sending the chair, as well as the camera, back to earth.

Last night I saw an advertisement on television that is almost identical to Faithfull's original work. Dubbed The Space Chair Project the Toshiba ad sees a chair lifted into the stratosphere, all the while being recorded in state of the art HD.

Apparently Faithfull was in some way involved with the project. Ironically Toshiba's brand tag line is 'Leading Innovation'.


Read more here.

The exhibition "Up in the Air" by Tom Friedman at Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall. Comments by the artist. Filmed during the installation of the exhibition.

Tom Friedman - installation at Magasin 3 from Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall on Vimeo.

balloonwheel Sketch

Digitally manipulated scanned notebook sketch of possible sculpture.