Image Interiors and Living magazine

The latest July/August Image Interiors and Living magazine is in the shops. I contributed to the flooring feature on p.113, the 'get the look' page on p.74, the Gardener's Diary news on p.100 and I assisted with the house shoot on p59 and the outdoor living shoot on p.89, which also made it onto the cover.

Image Interiors Intern

I was profiled for IMAGE daily. Follow the link to read the piece and see more than I have screen grabbed.

Dylan magazine

I compiled a two page 'Nightlife' feature for the in house Dylan Hotel magazine. You can read a copy of it here on issuu.com. You will find my feature between the  pages 47-9. The illustrations are by Laura Corcoran (no relation).

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Biopredation

This show centres around our love of books, love of technology, changing times, unchanging themes, possession, belonging, narratives. Brendan Fox, the artist, has been asking people to rip the very last page out of their books, for real, and send them to him to be included in this show. Alongside the display of pages will be a book and a dramatic film scripted and directed by Fox, both compiled out of final sentences. He notes that the overwhelming themes that occur at the end of a story are love and death. A retaliation that I love has has been that the people who (willingly) did tear from their books their endings, have en mass found ways to replace the words they mis-took, some have scanned the page onto their computers, photocopied and tucked it back within the novel, or even hand written the tale onto the back inside cover. How lovely. 

Carmen

Carmen is the story, by George Bizet, of a soldier 'seduced by the wiles of the fiery Gypsy' (as Wiki puts it). Culturally iconic, it features in the very first Simpsons series and in an episode of the Animaniacs. But why not head outdoors for once and stop staring at the 'goggle-box' (as my granny puts it), would you. Director Morgan Crowley has put on two previous versions of Carmen, you're in good hands, and assembled a cast of about 10-14 people, all home grown talent, had the girls dressed in flirtatious and arousing costumes and the males in army fatigues and Toreador ensembles. What’s not to love about a rollicking, expressive opera, an absolute classic. Anyone was present at last week’s Opera in the Open, Figaro, and sat happily through bursts of rainclouds followed by the rewards of a dramatic sun-shining finale will surely be re-attending. 

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Basic Space website launch

You want to impress people. You want to know what's relevant and new and impressive. So I'll tell you, pay attention. Basic Space. It's what the Irish art crowd are proudest to brag about. You may be familiar with them from playing host to an air-hanger-sized warehouse behind Vicar Street, an exercise in branding pop-up shop and a NY Times feature. Since then a summer residency at IMMA and an exchange with young French artists has entertained them. Oh, and they built a boat and sailed it up the Shannon. However, right now is key. Where are they now? Accustomed to only the best working environments they accepted an offer of a Tiger era retail space (open plan, concrete and glass front). A Basic Space sign has been installed, a brand new website launched and they are inviting all along for a visit because, just like you, they want to impress people.

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