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'

     

      

     

          

objects in painting 3 & 4 - Bowls

 Continued from 'Objects in painting 2'

                                                                                                            


                                                                  

Objects in painting 2.

A series of 3. These pieces were done after I had watched a video interview of Lynda Benglis talking about her process. Being an outspoken feminist, Benglis says that while mixing her paints she feels a strong connection and similarity to cookery...as a reaction to this, I began filling clear plastic bowls and tubs with paint. I allow the paint to spill and flow over the restrictions of the containers. The paint dries in layers, the outer layers dry, trapping the under-layers. These pieces were then placed on plinths, encouraging and inviting the viewer to investigate closely.

                  

        

Objects in painting.

This piece was done late December/early January.With this piece I began experimenting with objects within painting and the painting process. I mixed paints, pouring solid colours in layers from a height over the cans This was done to symbolise my development from using these household paints onto creating my own using pigments and binders.
As the paint is poured, it oozes over the cans, spreading and spilling down the cans and onto the floor. As the paint oozes,  the colours and pattern  influence each other by chance.

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Done and dusted!- Thesis.

I've been very busy getting my thesis, ''Spontaneity, Chance, Play and Control in Paintings; From Jackson Pollock to Lynda Benglis and Alexis Harding.''
So........... now that its out of the way I can get back into the studio!!