Reflections and lighting.

Now that I am getting a better understanding of what kind of scale and atmosphere I want to create, I have turned my attention to light, shading and placement of the work.
I will have to investigate issues such as, natural light or processed? Black out room or white cube traditional studio? All of these scenarios will have to be played out and investigated fully so that I can make the right concious and informed decisions.

From stage to stage 2....

From stage to stage....

Playing around with approaches of staging...

Expanding scale 2...

 This week I have been working in one of the large project rooms. I initially wanted to just work in there and spread out a little from the studio....but I then decided to just work on one piece over the week. I took special care to get the mixing of my paint perfect (or as close to as possible) At this point I need to focus the little details so I can apply and put that knowledge and energy into my final piece(s)
This piece was done using 20 liters of PVA and pigments.

Using the space..

This week I have been using the space to create and stage my work. How the material reacts to the architectural presence of the space.
Staging is essential for how my paintings will translate to the audience. This week I have been contemplating if the work should in fact be hung on the walls, or left in a more natural state on the floor.

        

 

Expanding scale..

At the moment I am currently expanding scale, investigating and experimenting with allowing the material to connect with the space in which it occupies. As a result of the recent mini exhibition, I found placement in of the work will be essential. Allowing the work to interact with the space in which it occupies adds dimensions to the materiality of the work itself.

        

   

Mini Exhibition...'The Look of Laughter and Forgetting'

Mini Exhibition: February Monday 14th - Wednesday 16th 2011.
The Look of Laughter and Forgetting is an exhibition of work by Eoin O'Dowd, Erica Hoyne, Lisa Heavey, Lisa Shaughnessy, Stephen Toomey, Gillian Browne, Laura Byrne and Joy Bliekendaal.

This exhibition explores the related ideas of absence and forgetting, and what it might mean to look at objects in the process of being forgotten. It The Look of Laughter and Forgetting contains an argument, it is that all objects will share this common fate.The Laughter of the title may therefore be the Laughter of realisation or acceptance or of self-defeat.

This show consisted of works by each artist and a collaborative video piece. This video piece was a projection of a slightly delayed feed of the gallery space. It was projected onto the main wall of the front room as you enter the gallery space.

This exhibition was a huge success, opening night, the gallery was buzzing. We had used the works to create an atmosphere so as the audience could act, react and participate in the show.
More photos to follow soon!

....'Leaking Leftovers'.

At the end of December I created a piece titled 'Doggie Bags' This piece consisted of numerous little lunch bags which I had filled with paint.The 'Doggie Bags' piece was to tie in with a previous piece; 'shows over' which was a plastic blue bucket placed in the corner of a room, filled with disregarded painting pieces, as if it where left behind from the clean up of an exhibition. The ideas of 'shows over' and 'Doggie Bags' was to bring to the attention of the viewer something which would not typically be seen or even noticed, leftover materials, and the clean up of studio or a gallery space.The decision to hang the bags onto the wall was done more in an experimental approach, I like the idea of the using the leftovers to create a new piece, which complicates the title as they are no longer 'leftovers'