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GROUNDWORK

I have just uploaded the first issue of Groundwork.

Collaborators;


Foreword                                Katie Mooney-Sheppard
The Dublin SITUATION      Áine Gallagher
All of the Lights                     Georgia Corcoran
Come in No. 3                        Anna Gallagher
On The Horizon                     Lorna Murphy
Things To Come                    Katie Mooney-Sheppard

http://issuu.com/georgiadabizz/docs/groundwork_archizine_january_2013

My piece, All Of The Lights, is the first article after the central photo story. We are currently working on our second issue which will have a theme of animals, in an urban context.

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The Paradise

The Douglas Hyde has become a gallery I regularly visit whilst never having been to a single opening it has hosted. This is a compliment. There are many galleries I have only ever been to for free wine of a Thursday. Here, the smaller space off the main downstairs area is where I find less 'art world' artists and more personable pieces. Not quite the current case as Andrew Vickery is described in the blurb as someone who'se served on the Gallery's Board, but the work remains charming. The room is propped with a curtained divide, row of chairs and a small theatre set with various backgrounds of Vickery's scenic paintings that act as backdrops. You have entered a miniature auditorium. You can sit and consider the artist's talent or imagine little people walking across the mountains or by rivers or you can even stand behind the set and make shadow puppets.

Complete issue -HERE-

What I'm up to...

I have just been appointed as an Editorial Assistant to Image Interiors and Living magazine. The most recent issue will be out in shops over the next few days. Check out my name in the masthead. 

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The Adventures of Prince Achmed

If you like x you'll like y. If you like Ireland's 'finest' musicians you'll like that 3epkano's members will be playing. If you like live movie scores to silent movies you'll like this. If you like talented independent females from bygone days and left-wing-Nazi-era-Germans you'll be enamored by the film's illustrator. If you like Rob Ryan's paper cutout art you'll like this. If you like pre-Disney animation films, fairytales and storytelling you'll love this. If you like one-off cultural experiences you'll absolutely attend this. 'This' is a rare screening of Lotte Reiniger's The Adventures of Prince Achmed, an Arabian original. Luscious tales of Princesses, thieves, and dusty footed underdogs, it's captured the imaginations of generations of children who rubbed teapots, squinty eyed, wishing dearly for a Genie to emerge. If you like magical nights... 

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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.