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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

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

Two Chairs

Ideas on Public Sculpture

I have started a new blog called Ideas on Public Sculpture. This blog will display selected images from an ongoing photgraphic project of the same name. For more info click here.

New Prints from Objects Series

The only thing we fear is not knowing (chairs in flight)

'To turn an object upside down is to deprive it of it's meaning' - Maurice Merleau Ponty, The Phenomenology of Perception(1945)

Multiplication Slideshow

Multiplication

All of the art related books in my studio stacked in relation to each other

Exhibition!!

I entered this photo into a competition with the theme of 'summer light'. It didn't win but I'm happy it has been included in the ensuing exhibition in The Samhlaiocht Gallery in Tralee, Co. Kerry which runs until the 23rd October. For more info check here.

Richard Gilligan

Check out Richard Gilligan. He's a young Irish photographer. I've seen lots of his work in publications over the last year or so and he's responsible for the fantastic artwork for David Kitt's last album.

Here comes the sun

Good weather = good photographs

This is a shot of the roof of the Gallery of Photography in Dublin taken from Meeting House Square. One of those off the cuff shots that end up working out well.

Witnessed

The Life and Times of Lillian Virginia Mountweazel @ Monstert Truck Gallery from March 19th 2009

The Life and Times of Lillian Virginia Mountweazel

Participating artists:

Teresa Gillespie / Fiona Hallinan / Philip Kennedy

Sabina Mac Mahon / Françoise de Mulneton / Jim Ricks

Monster Truck Gallery & Studios, 73 francis St, Dublin 8. www.monstertruck.ie

The Life and Times of Lillian Virginia Mountweazel is group exhibition in Monster Truck Gallery, 19 – 31 March 2009, illuminating the unusual life of this artist & designer.

Mountweazel, Lillian Virginia, 1942-1973, American photographer, b. Bangs, Ohio. Turning from fountain design to photography in 1963, Mountweazel produced her celebrated portraits of the South Sierra Miwok in 1964. She was awarded government grants to make a series of photo-essays of unusual subject matter, including New York City buses, the cemeteries of Paris and rural American mailboxes. The last group was exhibited extensively abroad and published as Flags Up! (1972) Mountweazel died at 31 in an explosion while on assignment for Combustibles magazine.

William H. Harris and Judith S. Levey, eds, “Mountweazel, Lillian Virginia”, The New Columbia Encyclopedia, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1975), 1850.

Apart from those who have seen this entry on her in the New Columbia Encyclopedia, or those who have read the occasional press article that her strange life has excited, most people have never heard of Lillian Virginia Mountweazel. She never existed. Indeed, the word ‘Mountweazel’ is now used as a synonym for ‘phantom’ or ‘false entry’ in reference works – fictitious articles created as an aid in the detection of copyright infringement, as the encyclopaedia editors did in this example from the seventies. If such a false entry is present in work lifted from a copyrighted source it can be used as evidence of intellectual theft.

This eighty-three word encyclopaedia entry forms a point of departure for an exhibition exploring what might have been for Lillian Virginia, in the imaginations of six artists chosen by curator Davey Moor for their interest in fictitious narratives.

John Duncan @ The Temple Bar Gallery

An exhibition of work by Northern Irish photographer John Duncan is currently showing at the Temple Bar Gallery in Dublin. Entitled 'Bonfires' the exhibition is a result of three years spent documenting the long-standing tradition of bonfire building by Protestant communities in Belfast.

Each bonfire is depicted before its ignition, either as an erected structure or as a collection of organised debris. Each structure is unique in its construction and I enjoyed their highly organised sculptural qualities.

The exhibition runs until 4th April '09.

Techno Road Markings

The kind people at Dublin City Council have decided to brighten up the city streets and our lives by using neon coloured road markings. These appeared on Baggot St. during the summer.

JCB Acrobatics

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.

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