Misneach - Village Art Trail
In May 2021 I was asked to provide a number of prints for the Misneach Village Art Trail which formed part of this year’s Féile na Bealtaine festival. The exhibition included paintings, sculptures, photography and mixed media works by a number of local artists.
A copy of the prints included in the exhibition can be purchased here.
EISC Exhibition
I was delighted to have my ‘Oileáin’ print featured in the EISC Exhibition which ran in the Dingle Hub in October 2019. The exhibition was as a result of a collaboration between Courthouse Studios and Dingle Creativity and Innovation Hub with the aim of showcasing artists and writers at the Dingle Hub. Visitors to the Digital Hub had the chance to see diverse work that reflects current professional practice and preoccupations
Studio and associate studio artists included Jade Daly, Siobhán Dempsey, Andrew Duggan, Laura Fitzgerald, Spalla Gap, Barry McKenna, Bláithín Mac Donnell, Nicholas McLachlan, Seán Ó Dálaigh and Caoimhghín Ó'Fraithile
The word ‘eisc’ or sometimes ‘eask’ appears in mountain place names in Irish: Eisc an Tairbh [bull] and Eisc na mBroc [badger] to mean ravine, fissure or fault. [from Irish Hill and Mountain Names database compiled by Simon Stewart] and is a possible explaination of the etymology of ‘Eask Tower’ and ‘Dun Eask’ which overlooks the Dingle Hub.
‘Eisc’ is used in this instance to stress a curatorially imperative; the preoccupation of artists in the exhibition to redefine reestablish our relationship, connectivity and responsibility to place and our position within our landscape
My print is an abstract representation of the islands off the West Kerry Coast, namely Sceilg Mhichíl (Skellig Michael), An Blascaod Mór (The Great Blasket Island), An Tiaracht and Inis Tuaisceart/An Fear Marbh (The Dead Man). The heights of the island are accurate relative to each other and they are arranged in the order when viewed from the West Kerry coast.
A copy of the print can be purchased here.
Archdaily
In 2017, imagery I prepared for the WREN Hotel project in Dublin City was selected by Archdaily from over 1200 entries as part of their “80 Best Architecture Drawings of 2017 (So Far)” exhibition. Link here.
“When it comes to forms of architectural representation, there is no method more expressive or foundational than the drawing. The series of decisions—drawing utensil, paper type, line style, hand versus digital—combined with the choices of what an architect includes (or excludes) in their drawings reveal the true intentions behind the design of a project in perhaps the noblest and purest fashion.
In previous years, we've published round-ups of our favorite images from our database of selected projects, but this year, we wanted to do something a little different to engage with our community: we asked our readers to submit their own best drawings. The response was overwhelming – we received more than 1200 drawings from our network of readers across the globe, ranging from atmospheric perspectives to interpretive sketches to highly-technical sections”.
- AD Editorial Team