Michael FitzGerald is Moulting
I'm excited about this show. It's by my good friend Mike (who received a nomination for the distinguished NCAD staff prize graduate show last year - you may recognize it). This is his first solo show. Generally I only befriend highly intelligent and confident people, you'll probably recognise these personality traits within his art work. We're lucky his body of work is ready on time at all. For the last three weeks he has been willing each piece to dry with masses of heaters in a large cold warehouse space. I've only just found out that he has also recorded a sound piece, him singing which will be piped out of a showeresque 'gas-chamberish spout'. Let him work yo into a lather with a voice I have heard hold some fierce Irish ballads at the end of many late nights. Realistically one to watch and perheps invest in.
Salon D'Exploration
Having been shown a photo preview of the work in this collaborative exhibitioin I can say it features pieces really utilising the idea of working with the characters and features of the building, some work literally creeping from the walls. All are by recent NCAD or DIT graduates. Nollaig Molloy's 'seems to, so' upholds the sense of object disruption she often creates and also relates to the history of the Back Loft. Amanda Doran, the celebrated Saatchi New Sensation shortlist, stays on top form with Adams Family portraits, kid you not. There's a general eerieness to be got from the work, actually, that asks 'What abnormalities am I looking at?' Aisling NiChlaonadh's paintings stare out hauntingly and a collaborative piece by artist Ruth Kerr and PhD physician Eamonn Kennedy looks like molton gold but is in fact an image of cancer cells.
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I'm excited about this show. It's by my good friend Mike (who received a nomination for the distinguished NCAD staff prize graduate show last year - you may recognize it). This is his first solo show. Generally I only befriend highly intelligent and confident people, you'll probably recognise these personality traits within his art work. We're lucky his body of work is ready on time at all. For the last three weeks he has been willing each piece to dry with masses of heaters in a large cold warehouse space. I've only just found out that he has also recorded a sound piece, him singing which will be piped out of a showeresque 'gas-chamberish spout'. Let him work yo into a lather with a voice I have heard hold some fierce Irish ballads at the end of many late nights. Realistically one to watch and perheps invest in.
Salon D'Exploration
Having been shown a photo preview of the work in this collaborative exhibitioin I can say it features pieces really utilising the idea of working with the characters and features of the building, some work literally creeping from the walls. All are by recent NCAD or DIT graduates. Nollaig Molloy's 'seems to, so' upholds the sense of object disruption she often creates and also relates to the history of the Back Loft. Amanda Doran, the celebrated Saatchi New Sensation shortlist, stays on top form with Adams Family portraits, kid you not. There's a general eerieness to be got from the work, actually, that asks 'What abnormalities am I looking at?' Aisling NiChlaonadh's paintings stare out hauntingly and a collaborative piece by artist Ruth Kerr and PhD physician Eamonn Kennedy looks like molton gold but is in fact an image of cancer cells.
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