From the Elysian Fields

Very relaxed.

 

Barry has now joined some other ceramics on the wall in Liscahill and appears very happy there!


Strange things - I was unpacking stuff from school and I discovered there had been some form of leak of something onto a couple of etch plates:

 

 

I am wondering now if I can preserve this surface and perhaps print from it - the original aleatory art : Cage eat your heart out!

 

Other stuff that has gone on the wall at home has been one of the unique collographs done in last semester and now framed:

 

 

 

The other event that has happened recently was a visit to two of the EVA venues, the first one being LCGA:

 

 

These are two large wall pieces (site-specific) from Mona Hatoum (Egypt) -I was particularly delighted to see these because she was one of the artists I used in my contextual notebook last year - I would lov e to have been there when she was doing the work and to have met her and talked about Egypt because for a while I was in contact with the Egyptian author Ahdaf Souef and I hope that she has been Ok since the problems there. EVA is about Agitation so the subject is relevant.

 

Herre are some details from more of Hatoum's work:

 

 

 

 

Liked this.

 

...........and these

 

 

 

The second site I visited was in the old Golden Vale plant on the other side of the river - Michael Canning had said to me that I should see it just for the site alone -how right he was ; I took a lot of shots - here is a selection:

 

 

The art was good too.....

 

Will be here - going to a two - day bookbinding course over the weekend.

 

 

Away from the path and into the fields

There you are! That didn't hurt much, did it?

Power Point presentation over; assessment over; all for better or worse. Actually there was general agreement that the PP was good because everyone got to see everyone else's work and there was no need to crit and no comments from the four tutors present  -it actually zipped by!!

Anyway all that's left is to go in on Friday to do some cleaning in the workshop - its in the litho room;  I will be very very happy to do that as its where I intend to be first next September.

Here are a few images - stuff I have been doing on the side and will now resume:

 

Collage with drawing

 

 Photomontage and collage

 

Ink and watercolour

all these are about A5

 

 

I was doing a lot of collage and photomontage last semester and some were in my my sketchbook ; I cant remember if I posted them but here's a reminder because I intend to return v soon to the technique

 

 

 

 

 

 

....and finally, although this is probably more familiar with a hot red ground:

 

 

 

All these are quite big - around A3

 

Alright... a few days vegging and then clear the studio for STUFF.

 

 

The path peters out...

Since the return I I have made a few different pieces - the main one of which was a large screenprint of which I unfortunately have no pictures at present -it was a bit hectic when I was doing it and time was at a bit of a premium but I will endeavour to correct this a when I bring them all home.

Here however is one I did make at home having been inspired by a collage from Ed Ruscha that I saw in a book called 'Drawing from the Modern- work from the MoMA drawing collection - 1975- 2005'

and I thought if collage is good enough for Ed its good enough for me:

 

and yes folks it is a collage (card) NOT a screenprint! of the carpark in Thurles Shopping centre.

 

Another thing I did at home was a little piec of woodcut with a strange motif - I still don't really know what it means, but I brought it in and did some printing - multiple and reduction:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

green layer added but doesn't show very well here

 

 Well essentially that's it for the second year except for presentation on Monday and assessment on Tuesday.....really hard to believe another year has shot by; and a very intense one it was.

I repeat what I have already said a few times - I don't believe I have ever learnt so much in one year in my whole life - not a criticism - quite wonderful in fact.

 

Don't go away though.... because I will still be here boring you with summers art (and other) activity.