It is the last day of the Easter break and from tomorrow there are five weeks till end of year assessment. The Third Year Project is finished - in draft anyway -and to be seen by the tutor: fingers crossed for not too may amendments.
Because of this I was able to return to a book project I had been working on; here are some pictures and I will explain as they come up:
This shows the case(cover) almost finished but in front is the birch bark backed with Heatn'bond to make it usable.
The book block with its binding tapes
Front and back of the book - 15 x 11cm
Endpapers and headband
The book is blank at present but I have a programme for it that should be finished in time for assessment.
Last Wednesday a terrific exhibition opened in the Church Gallery in LSAD - The Plane Invasion - to honour a past student of the college -Orlaith Spain - and this was put together by those who knew her. In passing it is worth noting that her work is also in one of the four shows now running at LCGA. But to return to The Plane Invasion - this consist of over sixty pieces by many artists who are still teaching in LSAD and some students also. I am not sure how long more it is on for but everyone should see it.
Equally, anyone with the remotest interest in art should go to LCGA - work from the National Drawing Collection - two print shows (one curated by Susannah O'Reilly : Plan A + Plan B) and a travelling installation - Waste Land - all of which are excellent.
I was in Dublin before Easter and visited Copper House Gallery -or Fire as it is now known: they specialise in digital printing and my whole view of this has change completely and I was very interested as I am making a lot more of these - and if I can get this business of the PSD and Tiff files sorted I can show some I have made.
Another visit I made over the break was to IMMA where among other things I saw this wonderful vdeo piec using three screens side by side to show a study of the skeleton of the house used in the film 'Giant'(1956) - This was built on a wide open prairie and the video dramatises the arrangements and concentrates on the recording of the ambient sounds - it really is tremendous and makes me think again about he possibilities inherent in video.
This was a still from the video and here is some info about the artists
Worth following up.
Some of my studio work has been influenced by the much lamented Helen Chadwick and I will come back to this later but I was surprised to see this small piece by her at IMMA:
Helen Chadwick (1953-1996) Untitled 06
from Other Men's Flowers, letterpress1994, on wove paper
Here are some images also from IMMA:
STILL FALLING I Cast iron and air 317 x 276 x 148 cm Collection of Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
This is by Antony Gormeley and I have already shown it here about a year and a half ago, but in its entirety -this time I am far more interested in the surface texture and how this might be related to skin, in that all surfaces are essentially skins and this has all the hallmarks of crust - skin & landscape ---- you'll be hearing more about this.
My final visit was to the shore - sea and land - Sandymount and Blackrock - to record the edge where one skin meets another. Just a few shots because there is a lot more work to be done on these:
You can see that the last one particularly has the look of old skin ...... I will persuade you.
I started with books so I will end thus
.... and the edition:
and from the sublime(!!??!) to the utterly ridiculous:
This one started from my hatred of waste and an enormous strip of perforated brown paper that came as packing in two parcels from Amazon; I just couldn't bear to throw it out and I wanted to try out this open binding with tapes that you see in the first and last images - great fun and it will require something unusual as content.
I will erturn with images of etching from the workshop.
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