Painting in Birr Exhibition

Last week Common Ground 2013 opened in the Birr Theatre and Arts Centre, The shows theme is New Beginnings. The piece I got into the exhibition was this one...

The exhibition runs until January and here's a link to the gallerys website - Birr Theatre and Arts Centre

Painting in Laois County Collection

After the Excursion exhibition ran it's course at The Arthouse in Stradbally, Laois County Council bought one of the paintings off me for the County Collection, it's the first piece of work that I've gotten into a collection, and it was the first painting I started in Iceland just over a year ago that the bought. Here it is.

    Perpetual, 2013

The New Paintings

It's after taking me a while to upload images of my new paintings, I just got them back from the gallery last Tuesday and I've been really busy with the MFA and commuting but here's some of them. I haven't uploaded all of them. There's one that I made some adjustments to and haven't documented it since, there's one that I got a photo of but I wasn't happy with the shot and there's 2 that I need to photograph.

    Forgotten, 2013

    Isolation, 2013

                             Overwatch, 2013

    Perpetual, 2013

    Motivations, 2013

    Overflow, 2013

    Obstruction, 2013

Work in Portlaoise

Last Thursday (24th of October) an exhibition opened in the Store Yard in Portlaoise. I had 2 drawings in it. It's just up for the week and 20% of sales goes toward helping the Laois Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Here are the 2 drawings I had in the exhibition:

Overflow, 2013

Sprawling, 2013

Work in New York

Last week See.Me Creatives Rising opened in New York. It was a digital exhibition where artists work was projected on various buildings around the city. The piece that was projected from my work was this one. The work was also shown on monitors at the See.Me Project Space.

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