'Urban Jungle (Ice-Ice Baby)' (detail) mixed media on promotional literature on wood {full image below}
'Rare Ole Time'
mixed media on magazine cover on wood
This was painted on a Time Magazine cover- there was something about tuna fish being over-fished on the front page, so I used a plastic corner guard to make a pattern that looks like nets.
The mixed up traffic light colours are there to show the lack of understanding of the danger signs of over-consumption, and the conflicting danger of people losing their livelihoods.
'Jane deVille and Kamali' mixed media on magazine pages on wood This one I did on an exotic magazine from the 1980's. It was interesting deciding how much to cover up and how much to leave. It's to do with censorship, this one, and how hiding something sometimes makes it more tantalising. Stained varnish, neon red and yellow spraypaint and white gloss were used in the final layers here. |
'Urban Jungle (Ice-Ice Baby)'
mixed media on promotional literature on wood The ice-cube tray impressions I used here look a lot like sky-scrapers along an Australian river to me. The abandoned bungalow I was using as a studio had a forest of nettles at the end of the garden, and beyond that a stream, and beyond that the M50. The whole area is turning into another high-rise satellite town but at least they preserved Carrickmines castle beside (and partly underneath) the motorway. The scrapey lines were done with a car aerial, the kind with a springy bit. |
'Christmas Wishes- Now Available in four themed Packs'
Above is 'Christmas Wishes..' It was shown for the first time in Goma, Waterford in Autumn 2016, alongside 'Things Behind the Sun'. It's done on the pages of the Christmas brochure of a four-letter supermarket. It's 2 metres wide.
'Centerfold'
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Detail of 'Centerfold'
Here we have 'Centerfold', which was in Gallery X's exhibition of erotic collage, 'Sticky', in early 2016. It's done on the pages of a 1980's porno mag which is pasted onto two bread trays (that they deliver bread to shops on). It measures h134cm (incl. chain) x w82cm. Its a heavy one this (7 kilos) as there's panels attached to the back to prevent warping.
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'Everything but the Kaleidoscope' This 'un is now hanging in the attic pool-room of a mate who gave me a lift when I was moving out of the cottage in Carrickmines, a move that was on the cards anyway, but was eventually hastened by the fact that some entrepreneurial types came along and carefully removed the aluminium window frames in the kitchen I used as a studio, without breaking the glass! They left the glass behind. But that's another story, for another blog entry. |
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