Midlands Arts and Culture Magazine Issue 20 Winter 2013

This was a bit of a surprise to see on Culture Night, I remember doing the write up but didn't realize or had forgotten that the Laois Arts Council were putting it into the Midlands Arts and Culture Magazine. It was just a summary of my 3 months in Iceland.

Culture Night 2013

I gave a talk on Culture Night at the Arthouse in Stradbally. There was a nice crowd, not huge but a an alright turnout. I was happy enough, I wouldn't be terribly confident talking in front of a crowd. The talk just covered the 3 months in Iceland and the new work. There was a good lot of people in prior to the talk so I was happy with that because most of them were faces that I didn't see at the opening of Excursion and thankfully there was more positive feedback direct towards all of the paintings.

I'll upload the Culture Night 2013 Laois brochure during the week

Some of the New Work

I have some other new work on the go along with the paintings, some of it's scattered over the blog in other posts but I have it here together in one place. I'll be posting the paintings up here shortly. Until then though you can see some of the new painting here on Facebook and the drawings and digital work below. These are also on my Facebook page.

Digital Illustrations

    Double Click, 2013

    Scroll Down, 2013

    Point, 2013

Drawings

                                     Bubble, 2013

                                            Last Stand, 2013

                                        Overflow, 2013

                                         Sprawl, 2013

Facebook Page

I just set up a Facebook page for my work. I'll be updating it with pictures of the work in the exhibition, Excursion, gradually over the next few weeks along with anything new that I do.

If you want you can give the page a like over here.

One of the digital pieces I have over on Facebook -

'Double Click'

New Solo Exhibition - Excursion

Thursday night, the 5th of September, my new new solo exhibition opened at the Arthouse Gallery in Stradbally, Co. Laois. It's a show of work that began last summer in Iceland and has continued to grow over the course of the past year.

The opening went really well, There was a really good crowd at the launch and I heard that some people had been in the day before the opening night and were spreading good things by word of mouth about the exhibition. The exhibition was officially launched by friend, artist and former tutor Jock Nichol. There was plenty of positive feedback from Jock, Assistant Laois Arts Officer Bridie Keenan and the viewers at the Arthouse. I'll be posting images of the paintings later on when the exhibition closes on October 4th.

Between now and then though I'm getting ready for a presentation I'm giving in the gallery on Culture Night (September 20th).

Below is a copy of the invitation to the exhibition and at the bottom is the press released featured in the Leinster Express.