Update on the Solo Exhibition

The exhibition that was meant for June and then got pushed back to September has been fairly nailed down. It will be opening now on the 5th of September which is a Thursday. I had a meeting today with the Laois Arts Officer about the work that'll be showing and the exhibition and we agreed that maybe on the Thursday it would be a kind of unofficial opening night and then on the following Saturday, the 7th, It will be officially launched by a guest, who I need to get in contact with. I'll also be giving a talk on the residency in Skagastrond and my new work.

About a week ago I also got some work into K-Fest in Kilorglin in Co. Kerry. It's the towns inaugural visual arts festival and it's running from the 31st of May to the 3rd of June.

June Exhibition Pushed Back

Today I contacted Laois Arts Office just to see about nailing down a couple of dates for the solo show in The Arthouse in Stradbally. I wanted to just sort out an opening night, and discuss the talk that I have to give at some stage. Muireann Ni Chonaill, the Laois Arts Officer told me though that there was a bit of a mix up in dates for exhibitions in May and there were 2 artists marked down for the same time, so one of them is having his exhibition put back to June which means mine has been moved to September.

I'm actually kind of happy as it takes a bit of pressure off, and I can continue working at a steady pace rather than panicking closer at the time. Plus there's still a good bit that I haven't sorted out so even though it's only April I did feel like I was leaving it late for a June exhibition and along with that when the change in dates happened the 27th of June was mentioned as an opening night, then fit the talk in somewhere and then leave for Iceland on the 1st of July.It would have been too all over the place so I think this will be better and less chaotic when the time comes round.

Muireann is calling to the studio in 2 weeks to see the work and talk about the exhibition so if there's any word of a definite date I'll post it on the blog here.

Laois Arts Act Grant 2013

I got a letter during the week informing me that my application for the Laois Arts Act Grant was was successful and I have been issued some much needed funding for the second year in a row, and for a second year it will be going towards a residency in Iceland.

I am extremely grateful to Laois County Council for this funding.

Just a Quick Update

I'm still working away in the studio in Mountrath. At the minute I'm undecided on whether I'll be moving out in June or August. But I'm getting the work that I brought back from Iceland last September finished up and the paintings are progressing nicely.

I have a new solo show lined up for The Arthouse Gallery in Stradbally, Co. Laois. It's currently penciled in for June so I am feeling the pressure, I'm aiming to be fairly ready around the middle of May but the way things go it'll probably be the night before the opening. I'm looking at 10 - 12 paintings and I have 4 finished and 2 more almost done.

I will have these new works up here on the blog at some stage down the line.

After that then it's back to Iceland for 1 month in July but after I get back it gets a little hazy, there's no concrete plans, I'm looking at either Dublin or Cork.

I'm intending to maybe upload some video blogs via Vimeo. I hope to do one in May or June just to round up the past 2 years, and hopefully make a video blog every 6 months after that or something, I need to get an external mic before I start making them so the sound will be decent enough.

That's where things stand at the moment, I'll probably post something up here soon about the solo show once it's sorted out with solid dates.

2 Paintings in Wexford

I meant to update the blog with this earlier but I've had a busy few weeks. Anyway I have 2 paintings showing in the Green Acres Gallery in Wexford. It's their Annual Open Group show. This year is my third time to show with them. I missed last years deadline and so ended up not even getting in application so I applied in plenty of time this year. I also showed work in the Annual Open in 2010 and 2011.

These are the 2 paintings that I have in it.

'Contact'

'Tocsin'

Both of these were completed in 2012.

Fotoblur Link

I created an account with Fotoblur just after college but I never uploaded any work but I want to start working with photography a bit more so I've started uploading some images to my account. It's still in progress but I'll be uploading more images from Iceland and work from some projects that I'll be working on here at home.

Here's the Link - http://www.fotoblur.com/people/patb

Work in Los Angeles

About 2 weeks ago I applied to the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art to take part in their annual open exhibition,  Snap to Grid. The exhibition is opening tomorrow night.

It was just a landscape photo that I had taken last month and it's the first photography exhibition that I've had work in.