Gemma Geraghty
Statement
Title:
Untitled
Price to public:
E80
Number in edition:8
This piece is based on a block of flats in Dublin's city centre. It was the visually unsettling nature and strange colouring of the building that initially struck me. The flats appear detached from their immediate surroundings but at the same time could potentially belong in any European city, due to their standard aesthetic. I couldn't help but view this block as an object rather than people's homes.
The flats reminded me of something from a stage set, and bearing this in mind I made models investigating exaggerated perspective and using 2D drawing techniques on 3D forms, while abstracting part of the building.
My aim was to create an old style model making kit for these models and to hand-make as many of the components as possible. This includes manually cut stencils and packaging foam, as well as hand-cut and constructed wooden boxes.
Artists Bio
Gemma Geraghty's practice includes working with varied media with an
emphasis on printmaking. She uses photography both for her initial
process and as a basis for her work.
The primary intention within her work is to capture a feeling towards a
source object. She is drawn towards man-made forms as a subject matter
and using this focus, procedes through a process of abstraction.
She is currently studying Fine Art at DIT and has exhibited with the
recently established collective Spanner in the Works.
Link to other work:
www.risecreatives.com/gemmageraghty
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Jennie Moran
Title: Cups That Give You The Possibility To Think Something Else
Edition: 8
Price: 30 euros
Image: 3 options
Artists Bio
Jennie Moran is a Dublin based cultural producer who uses her practice to create opportunities for hospitality. She has gathered knowledge through a degree in sculpture at the National College of Art and Design; international residencies at Fondazione Ratti, Italy and Galleria Blanda, Buenos Aires. She was selected Artist in Residence at Airfield funded by Dun Laoghaire CoCo in 2008 resulting in a solo exhibition entitled A Space That Gives You The Possibility To Think Something Else. Her projects have been facilitated by Dublin City Council Art Bursary 2006, an Arts Council Project Award 2007 and Arts Council Artist in the Community Award 2009. She has worked with Kildare local authority, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, curators/cultural consultants Marjetica Potrc, Sally Timmons and Sarah Searson. She is also part of collaborative projects, Hope Inherent and Poetic Geographies.
www.jenniemoran.com
www.hopeinherent.com
www.poeticgeographies.com
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Claire Bonnie
Title: Fortune Teller
Edition: 100
Price: 18 euros
Artist Statement
The function of this piece is to take an object from childhood and enlarge it for adult players while still retaining its associated texture and shape. Using bold primary colours it heightens a sense of nostalgia for children’s toys. This is in contrast with the inserts, which are taken from newspapers which quietly and playfully question the role of fate and fortune. The fortunes range from cut-outs of horoscopes to images and words taken from headlines the intention being that the fortune varies with individual perspective. One can read as much or as little as they wish with the fortune that they receive.
Artist Bio
Claire Bonnie is a young artist interested in the reinterpretations of familiar forms and sometimes playing on the edge of nihilism. Currently studying visual arts practice in I.A.D.T Dun Laoghaire. She likes her work to have an aspect of physical interaction which she feels acts in breaking down mental boundaries that can be built up against art work or artspaces.
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Ian-John Coughlan
Title: Echosnack
Edition: 18 packets (contents 10 wafers each)
Price: 10 euros/packet
Artist Statement
This work is created by writing a statement and then tracing it using another piece of paper. The resulting tracing is then, itself, traced onto another paper. Ultimately, this creates a series of 10 drawings following the evolution of a piece of handwriting into that of a drawing.
Each of the primary statements are quotes from various practitioners, a response to what they believe the nature of art to be. The works are rendered on edible sugar paper with squid ink for consumption to complete the cycle of communication.
The work is an analogy for the evolution of speech, and the written word, through appropriation, colloquialism and misinterpretation. Someone else’s words in your mouth never tasted so good.
Artist Bio
Ian-John Coughlan lives and works as an artist, currently based in Dublin. His work has been exhibited both in Ireland and internationally and has been purchased for the Irish State Art Collection. He graduated from National College of Art & Design, Dublin, in 2005 with a Master’s Degree in Fine Art, having previously earned a BA from Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology in 2002. He works in various media, using video, photography, performance and works on paper. His work is concerned primarily with the tradition of the Erasure and the concepts of additive subtraction and state-change.
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Damian Magee
Title: Precipice 1, Precipice 2
Edition: 100 (50 red/50green)
Price: 30 euros each
Artist Statement
I once worked in a souvenir shop in Dublin where they successfully sold small sods of turf with lapel badges of the Irish flag attached – 10 punts each – and they were being bought in from a wholesaler.
Precipice consists of a series of 50 Monopoly houses and 50 Monopoly hotels, each painted with thatched roofs that are mounted on pieces of freestanding pieces of rock. This work forms part of a larger project that comments on the commoditization of heritage, culture and landscape by the tourist and housing industry
Artist Bio
Born (1975) and living in Newry, Damian studied Fine and Applied Art at the University of Ulster, Belfast, graduating in 1998. He has exhibited widely in Ireland, Britain, Us, Poland, Slovenia and China and held his ninth solo show in Dublins Lemonstreet Gallery in 2008. He has shown in exhibitions curated by Dan Cameron, Jeramy Millar, David Thorpe and Michael Dempsey, participated in EV+A, Limerick; the Claremorris Open (twice); Iontas, Sligo (twice); Tulca, Galway (twice). He completed two residencies in 2008 at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Monaghan and Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Mayo for which he received a Self-Arranged Residency Award, his fourth award from the ACNI. Public collections include ACNI, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Galway City University Hospital, Dundalk District Council and the Southern Education Group. Since it opened it in 2002 Damian has been running Imagos Art Gallery in Newry. Imagosart@hotmail.co.uk.
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Jane O’Sullivan
Title: A packet of melancholia from me to you with love …….always love
Edition: 8
Price: 30 euros
Artist Statement
I am interested in investigating the unknown quantities of feeling and emotive spaces. …melancholia to me means sad, forgotten, brooding and dark with nearly always a feeling from the past. Also quite often poignant and beautiful….like a barely heard piece of piano lonesomely being played in the flat above yours.
For my multiple I have compiled a collection of found objects that appeal to my continual search for meaning.
Unused vintage greetings cards, torn out pages from old books, pieces of my own work that don’t seem to fit in anywhere but have something worth keeping in them.
I wanted a jamboree bag feel to the packet, when the contents are viewed together they become more than the sum of their parts.
The attention given to otherwise insignificant moments, can award a magical, special and wondering meaning to that which may be lost forever, it is towards this space that my work is focused.
The love bit is very important ,…..always love ,because as Sappho said whatever one loves…is .
Artist Bio
Jane O’Sullivan is a practicing artist living and working in Co.Mayo.
She recently graduated from g.m.i.t fine art department with a BA in art and design.
She works in a variety of mediums primarily drawing, artists books and film .
Jane writes a regularly updated on line journal where she posts ongoing art projects, interesting finds and all the blahdey blah of her process.
www.janeosullivan.blogspot.com
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Alex Pearl
Incidents at Sea
Edition: 25
Price: 25 euros
Artist Statement
The Incidents at Sea are a series of improvised sculptures presenting narrative moments, miniature exaggerations, and inevitable conclusions to the horrors of exploration. The sculptures often use Hornby railway figures, people that are more comfortable catching a train than going on great adventures.
Artist Bio
UK artist Alex Pearl makes things and then videos them before they fall apart. His work deals with chance and the things in life he doesn’t do very well. An inveterate blogger he has a strong interest in storytelling, exaggeration and fibbing. Much of this has been published online magazines and in publications such as Artists Newsletter and Garageland. He exhibits internationally and in the last year has shown in: New York, Belfast, the Hague, Bedford, St Gallen, Manchester, Munich, Wysing, San Francisco, Marseille, Stoke on Trent, Sydney and Cardiff. He has visited as few of these places as possible.
Alex Pearl’s solo show, Goodbye to most of the daydreams next pops up at ICIA, University of Bath in November 2009
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Sheila Rennick
Painted Badges
Edition:
Price: 25 euros
Artist Statement
Shiela Rennick’s distinctive paintings show glimpses of a strange and distorted world, which exists in the artists imagination. Dark humour and pathos infest each of her candy-coloured narratives, and wonderfully drawn figures, dogs, men and kangaroos emerge from expertly rendered thick impasto oil paint. The characters in Rennick’s paintings derived from photographs, stories and passing moment or events. She mixes reality and the everyday with imaginary elements - Animals and people often work together to resolve something within the paintings. Rennick’s work can be ironic and at other times it can be simple and direct with its intentions. Painted in thick brushstrokes in sweet pastels with shades of darkness, she works directly onto the canvas from collage and carefully selected imagery.
Artist Bio
Sheila Rennick graduated from NCAD with a degree in Fine Art painting in 2004 and was co-recipient of the CAP foundation award. She went on to complete an MA in painting in St. Martins College, London in 2006. She was one of thirty artists selected from across the UK for the notable Jerwood contemporary painting exhibition which was held in London in February 2007.
She has a number of solo and group exhibitions under her belt. Solo shows include ‘Higheels and Bulldogs’ at Monster truck Galleries Dublin, ‘Paper boat’ at the Stone Gallery, Dublin and a solo show at the White Room Galleries in Galway. She has exhibited in Temple Bar Galleries and Studios, Galway Arts Centre and at Boyel Arts Festival
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Gail Ritchie
Snowglobes
Edition: 50
Price: 50 euros
Artist Bio
Born Newtownards, Northern Ireland. Previously a member of Cork Artists Collective and Backwater Artists Group Cork before relocating to Belfast and joining Queen Street Studios , in 2003. Has exhibited extensively throughout Ireland and increasingly internationally in China, Berlin, Mexico, Spain and Lithuania. In 2006 she curated and took part in ‘Through Our Eyes’ in the Painting Center, New York followed by ‘Intersections’ in Tokyo, both part of international exchange exhibitions organised by Green Dog Arts, which she co founded with Ima Pico and Ruth McCullough in 2004. In 2007, she was selected for the Smithsonian exhibition of new Northern Irish Art (Resolutions) at the Katzen Center for Arts Washington DC.
In March 2008 Gail had a solo exhibition ‘Jouets’ at the Spectrum Gallery, London. She has had five other major solo exhibitions (Cosmic Dig, Albert, Arc, Pelt and Cheerful Tips for Living and Dying) between the period 1997 - 2005 as well as participating in numerous group shows including the first ever exhibition of artworks by women artists from Northern Ireland at the Guayasmin Gallery, Havana, Cuba She has received awards from Arts Council Ireland, Arts Council Northern Ireland, Cultural Relations Committee and the British Council. Work is in the collection of Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork , Trinity College, Dublin, Bank of Ireland and Arts Council Northern Ireland, Harland and Wolff,David Roberts Collection, London. Her first collection of poetry ‘Coyote Leaping’ was published in 2005 by Bradshaw Books, Cork.
In August 2009 she will exhibit ‘Kreis’, experimental work on the theme of conflict at the Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast . From September – November, she will be Artist in Residence at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris.
http://www.gailritchie.blogspot.com/
www.gailritchie.com
Leda Scully
Title: Unsolved Mysteries
Edition: 10 books
Price: 30 euros
Artist statement
For this exhibition, I present a series of 10 books on the theme: Unsolved Mysteries. The Mysteries covered are, in no discernable order-
The Hum – Bloop – The Babushka Lady – El Chupacabra - The Raonoke colony – Voynich Manuscript - The Bermuda Triangle– Bigfoot – Marfa Lights – Loch Ness Monster.
The books are locked and each contain an ‘unsolved mystery’, written in an invisible text. Inside the book you will find instructions on how to make the text visible.
Artist Bio
Leda Scully graduated in 2005 from NCAD with an Hons Degree in Fine Art. She has been exhibiting regularly ever since; recent shows include Winter Salon, Temple Bar Gallery, 2009, So What Are You Looking At?, Mermaid Arts Centre, 2008, & The Plinian Sponge – Maybe?, 2008, a travelling exhibition of contemporary painting accompanied by a catalogue. In 2007 she was the recipient of the Elizabeth Fitzpatrick Bursary Award from the RHA, which she used to study the work of Giorgio Morandi in his collections in Bologna & Parma.