OWEN BOSS...
Family photograph collections are embedded with meaning. They reveal an abundance of information regarding relationships, power and life. The family photograph does not release all its information. The photograph contains a residue that infiltrates and permeates. ... ... ...
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LAURA BURKE...
Panic stirred me.
Awakened by a ringing phone.
Why do bad things always happen on nice days?
TIM CANTILLON as KLAUS EDELHAUSER...
" I left Germany almost twenty years ago in anger. I wound up in New York City and almost immediately fell into a sewer of drug addiction, homelessness and abandonment. This lasted for several years. Then I became a stockbroker. This was great until almost a decade later when I was finally able to admit to myself that Wall Street is essentially theft. Then I moved to South Florida (God's waiting room) to deal with the consequences of the sewer years. To die or so I thought. Then I thought I would like to go back to college. I somehow had the nerve to apply to NCAD and get accepted. My previous attempts at art college ended up in St Brendan's mental hospital. Lots of other things happened along the way but you get the drift "
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JUDY CARROLL DEELEY...
My recent work deals with interiors, especially the home. I sometimes include figures. Often what is depicted is a psychological space rather than an actual one. There is an uncanny element denoting the dual nature of home – a place both of nurture and sometimes of oppression. The home enforces rules and conventions, but can also be the site of rebellion against the norm.
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SIOBHAN CONWAY...
My area of interest focuses on the individual word and its perceived meaning.
Words are items to be interpreted. It is not until they are interpreted that they have meaning.
There is no neutrality in language. Each individual has their own interpretation of a word.
This project endeavours to explore how arbitrary this process is - how time, context and actual interaction between receiver and the word will affect the interpretation of that word.
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JOHN DONOHOE...
I’ve been exploring the importance of film stars and other media personalities and characters in my life. I have been looking at current iconic stars and moreover those of the last century that are rapidly changing in status and meaning as well the likely and unlikely associations formed by the viewer. I hope my paintings will show the plausibility, if not the certainty that I was and still am, related to ABBA.
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NIAMH FARRELL...
Currently working with a variety of media and compassing the use of organic shapes, bright colours, biomorphic forms and pattern to explore idealistic fantasy as an escape from prevalent convention.
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CORNELIUS THALBRIDGE...
Cornelius Thalbridge is an enfant terrible of empty art excitements. Destitute cross dresser, artist and pastry chef, Thalbridge creates and Thalbridge destroys, constantly seeking omnipotence through his reductionist touch, reducing all to a crisp glamorous shell. Everything he touches turns to nothing -truly the minus touch. Cornelius Thalbridge wishes to drink you like an oyster and toss away your shell.
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CAROLINE KENNEDY...
This is the stuff of glossy magazines, Hollywood films, fairytales, newspapers, love songs, popular fiction, tv sitcoms, advertising imagery, travel programmes…the material out of which we craft our dreams and aspirations, material that is dripping with fantasy and which occupies a space somewhere between the sublime and the ridiculous.
So where does fantasy end and reality begin? How do we distinguish between societal motivations that have been imposed on us and those which spring from a purer source? Can a ‘purer source’, meaning our unmediated selves, even exist? Can there be any difference between reality and fantasy, if we acknowledge that we all ultimately create our own subjective reality? Does this distinction have to prevail and does it even matter?
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SABINA MAC MAHON...
What would it be like to be a saint everyday? How could you play tennis if you had to stand on a dragon the whole time, or bring a sword on holidays and carry your eyes around on a plate? How would you feel if you kept getting invoked to protect the French monarchy and people with venereal diseases, or if people relied on you to sort out abundant apple harvests, misadventures among animals and milkscabs? How can you lead a normal life if all you really want is to be martyred in a giant frying pan?
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OISIN McGOVERN...
Fundamentalist Christian magazines. Manga Cyberpunk and ultra violent comic books. Two influential sources of imagery throughout my childhood. The content would appear to clash. Yet, both portray similar themes, such as their own versions of total destruction and the afterlife. I wished to create paintings, which would combine these two different yet similar worlds.
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MICHELLE MELODY...
Recently I have been interested in homes, interiors, pattern and everyday life and my work has been based on these areas this year. Historical homes and lives, especially the Georgian House Museum, have been an important source for my work.
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MOLLY MISHKAS...
My art is about altering common realities and perception. It deals with primal urge and natural body processes and the cycle of life – conception, childhood, aging. I assemble objects that are usually alien to each other, in order to achieve a new, exiting and challenging outcome.
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LESLEY-ANN O’CONNELL...
My work is about exploring the nature of the environments we live in and using colour and pattern to either enhance or confound characteristics associated with a particular place. I want to alter the way everyday spaces are interpreted through using them for the projection of odd and intriguing imagery.
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PAULA SALMIKANGAS (Erasmus student from Finland)...
Nothing can be so solid that it would cover everything behind it
Nothing can be so transparent that it couldn’t be held
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MARTIN SMYTH...
The sense of isolation within the development of a modern cityscape can be felt by all walks of life. Our traditional identification of community spirit is left behind when the speed of such development is realized. As we reach for a sense of belonging…monetary value and ownership take precedence over connection, of people and community.
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KATHY TYNAN...
I have been investigating the processes of recording and reproducing memories as well as the authenticity of the individual's recalled memories. I have made a series of drawings which refer equally to blank spaces and informed spaces, allowing me to include my own memory while creating a trigger for the viewer to connect with his personal experiences.
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LEE WELCH...
Frank Sinatra's song 'High Hopes' was first introduced in the 1959 film 'A Hole In The Head' where a character based on Walt Disney agrees to go into a partnership with Sinatra's character to build an amusement park in Florida (the film predates Disneyworld). Incidentally it was also used as a John F. Kennedy campaign song
during his presidential election. These allusions to a political era that offered a charismatic message of hope and change along with the film, which references an amusement park that embodies the idea of magic, fantasy and innocence are suggestive of the work’s nature.
By leaving things open but not undefined the viewer is set within a framework that hopefully allows for a moment of wondering. Although this wondering is in part directed it is not confined to a literal interpretation.The work orchestrates a dialectical space in which the work of art can be viewed as a kind of conversation, a locus of differing meanings, interpretations, and points of view. The fundamental aspect of the work is based on experience. This is played out through a progression of events, each one representing a series of fleeting moments. My interest lays in the slippage of these events, moments and dialogues between the viewer and the work.
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MARS WRIGHT...
My work revolves around memories of incidental and ambiguous occurrences that stay with us like threads that link our past to the present. They culminate in desires that plot the course of our future.
Issues related to temporality and how it might be manipulated in this contemporary world.
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BREGTJE WOLTERS (Erasmus student from Holland)...
Where would the world be without humour?
Where would the world be without the postcard?
All the world needs is humour in a postcard!
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About me: Pleasures & Wayward Distractions... ... ...
JUNE 1ST - JUNE 29TH 2007
.......@.......THE DOCK, CARRICK-ON-SHANNON, CO.LEITRIM!!
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Broadstone XL is pleased to present Pleasures & Wayward Distractions,
a group exhibition featuring selected work by artists Owen Boss, Laura
Burke, Tim Cantillon, Siobhan Conway, Judy Carroll Deeley, John
Donohoe, Niamh Farrell, Caroline Kennedy, Sabina Mac Mahon, Oisin
McGovern, Michelle Melody, Molly Mishkas,Lesley-Ann O'Connell, Paula
Salmikangas, Martin Smyth, Cornelius Thalbridge, Kathy Tynan, Bregtje
Wolters, Lee Welch and Mars Wright. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
These artists each employ different approaches to making art. The
works are prompted by various caprices that come from both external
sources (physical stimulus through the five senses) and internal
sources (thought, emotion, daydreams, sex drive, etc.) each
investigating personal histories that reveal intimate subtleties
beneath the more immediate.
Pleasures & Wayward Distractions is put together with a broad variety
of techniques including drawing, installation, painting, text and
video. This group exhibition is intentionally open but not undefined
placing the viewer within a framework that hopefully allows for a
moment of wondering. The works pose questions where single meanings
are denied offering a catalyst for unstructured creative
interpretation and meditation. ... ... ... ...
Pleasures & Wayward Distractions is organized by the once in a
lifetime collective. The exhibition is made possible by Tequila
Ireland and with additional support from Treasury Holdings, Ernst
& Young, M. Conway HPS LTD, Ulster Bank, Easons, Tiger and NCAD Student Union. ...
Commenting on the exhibition sponsorship, Ms. Samantha Gregan, Student
Product Manager, Ulster Bank said; "We are delighted to be sponsoring
this exhibition. Ulster Bank recognises the importance of providing
students with excellent financial support and advice and we also
acknowledge the necessity to support artistic endeavours. This gives
us the perfect opportunity to do so by allowing us to encourage and
reward new young talent." ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
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Had a wicked time at Glastonbury festival even though it rained even more than 2 years ago. We won the funkiest stall at Glastonbury and received a case of wine. We will be up on Glasto website soon. goto myonlinegallery
Hey! Tony Here from AGM Colorado - Just dropping by to let you know that i've got some new tracks posted - in case ya wanted to check em out. This month's number is 77 for the RockTeaM77 promotion. Hope ya heard that. ;) keep it real.
Helsingin Taidehalli | Kunsthalle Helsinki
IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS
The V Triennial of Finnish Art
12 May- 10 June 2007
Antti Laitinen, Attempt to Split the Sea / Yritys Halkaista Meri
Lauri Astala
Pasi Autio
Petri Eskelinen
Maarit Hohteri
Antti Laitinen
Anni Leppälä
Petra Lindholm
Sini Pelkki
Aurora Reinhard
Jani Ruscica
Jari Silomäki
Pilvi Takala
Antti Tanttu
Helsingin Taidehalli | Kunsthalle Helsinki
Nervanderinkatu 3, 00100 Helsinki
www.taidehalli.fi
Thanx for being a friend. Check out some of my characters I created, become their friends watch their lives grow
and goto myonlinegallery I will have a Hairageous Salon at Glastonbury this year, come and see us.
Pleasures&Wayward Distractions....
Just wanted to drop all of my friends a line to personally
invite you to this year's London Burlesque Festival.
Check out www.LONDONBURLESQUEFEST.com
If you are not able to attend, maybe we will see you on tour
in the fall, when Chaz Royal's Burlesque Social Club hits
the road. Either way, Thanks for the support!
