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Recent Work and Art Projects

Slow Art Day : Greyfriars Municpal Art Gallery, GreyfriarsSt. Waterford - 16th April 2011

Run by volunteer hosts, Slow Art Day encourages people to slow down and see art in a new way - visit a local museum, view 5 to 10 pre-selected works of art, meet for lunch, and share the experience. more info

Exhibition: ‘Boundary Lines at Solstice’ - December 20th 2010 to 22nd January 2011

Boundary Lines at Solstice, at Waterford Museum of Treasures, was opened by Mr. Ray McGrath at 1pm on Tuesday the 21st December.
The collection included recent oil paintings and collages that share a common theme of boundary lines. The work is inspired by drawings made while travelling across the country. Fleeting glimpses of fields and tree lines evoke the colour and contours of Ireland's countryside.
The exhibition is open during museum hours, with free admission to the 1st floor gallery. more info ->

Installation: 'Weave 2' &'Weave 3' printed tapestries, Gateways Festival, Co Wicklow - Sept 2010

Photographs taken during 2008 study of award-winning Special Area of Conservation 'Fenor Bog' are woven through the bars of an open gate and wooden fencing - echoing the pathway through Fenor Bog from which the images were taken.

Images printed on recycled drafts of MA in Arts and Heritage Management thesis - "Exploring Creativity in the Library: the sustainable use of local resources for local needs"

Adaptation of 'Weave' 2009, originally conceived for Transylvania Calling 2009.

Exhibition: ‘Window Dressing Art in a …temporary art space’ - Sept 2010

Site specific installation of work based on the ritual of harvesting and processing in the window of Kilo’s Wholefood Store, a small family owned supply store on Michael Street, Waterford.

The collection included mixed media sculptures, an installation of homemade fruit jelly, a photographic print of the home-grown fruit before harvest, limited edition catalogue and photographic documentation of performance art work.

No Soul for Sale at Tate Modern - May 2010

Had the pleasure of attending the Tate Modern 10th birthday No Soul for Sale - Festival of Independents in the Turbine Hall in May 2010 as a Green Papaya volunteer! Many thanks to Conrado, Peewee, Maria and Yasun, photo right.
Check out Papaya at Tate here

"Green Papaya Art Projects, founded in 2000 by Norberto (Peewee) Roldan and Donna Miranda, is an artist-run initiative that supports and organizes actions and propositions that explore alternative approaches to the production, dissemination, research and representation of art in various disciplines" www.artfactories.net

Recent Collaboration

ignite 4 at The Science Gallery - Rainforest Aviary - April 2010

Collaboration: Twenty photographs from Australia Zoo, Queensland, Australia in 2006, were selected to accompany the ambient electronic sound piece Rain Forest Aviary by miXile based on field recordings made at the zoo.

Each image is shown for fifteen seconds in five minutes as part of ignite 4 at the Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin.

Watch all the evenings presentations on YouTube IgniteDublin

Recent Studies

MA Arts and Heritage Management (hons)- graduation December 2009

Thesis: "Exploring Creativity in the Library: the sustainable use of local resources for local needs"
Abstract

Other News

Chris Watson's sound interpretation of John Constable's 'The Cornfield', National Gallery, London - October 2009

Had the pleasure of revisiting John Constable's 'The Cornfield', in October 2009 in conjunction with Chris Watson's sound interpretation of the work at the National Gallery, London. Watson's difficulty in sourcing clean recordings of birdsong, without the hum of modern life, brought home just how much we have lost.

Watson's layered recreation of the spatial depth in the artwork, through sound, bridged the 80 year gap and created an immediacy and resonant intimacy between audience and artist.