I am currently in the middle of producing work as part of the project “Build your own: Scandinavian loneliness”, for which I got funding from the Arts Council earlier this year. I have employed fellow artist Fiona Hession as my assistant in the production of the work, which consists of a flat pack model set which will be exhibited (and for sale) as part of my solo show “The consoling dream necessity” in the Talbot Gallery this coming January.
I am also commissioning writer Michaele Cutaya to write a piece for the project. She writes regularly for Circa and is a part of the research project Fugitive papers together with Fiona Woods and James Merrigan. I am very pleased to have her on board!
Yesterday I was in Dublin and attended the preview of VUE: National Contemporary Art Fair in the RHA. It is running this weekend until the 6th November and is a showcase for all the main commericial galleries in the country. I am being represented by the Talbot Gallery in the fair. The turn out was great and there was a lot of great work on show, including work by artists such as Alice Maher, Damien Flood, Philippa Sutherland and Micky Donnelly.
Today I’ve visited a couple of the venues for this year’s Tulca Season of Visual Art here in Galway. Curated by Megs Morley this time around. I am not showing any work myself this year, but Tulca is always a great few weeks in the Galway visual arts calendar. I’ll be going along to the opening in the Arts Centre tonight before joining Fiona in the Forge studios, where I am to fire the clay prototypes for a part of my model set, which I will then be casting in pewter. The Forge is where Fiona has her studio, and it’s also where the kiln is located, since there are a number of ceramic artists working there.
I recently completed the second out of two large paintings for the Dublin show, I also have some smaller pieces I made over the summer, so the painting work is done, so now I’m concentrating on manufacturing the model set. Also, there will be an open studio event here in Engage studios on the 19th November as part of Tulca, do come along if you happen to be in Galway.