For thoses who werent on the Clontarf Walk yersteday, here is the Chalk drawings ! Was a big surprise for all and i really had big fun with this serie of 25 drawings. I’m starting to put few of them on postcards in case some of the audiencestart to dig the pavement to take the drawings back home.
A little bit of Chalk
avril 13th, 2010 § Comments Off § permalink
Soumettre à la RHA…
avril 13th, 2010 § Comments Off § permalink
Ça y est, j’ai tenté ma chance à la RHA annual exhibition. C’est un peu le loto des artistes si vous voulez : beaucoup de personnes qui tentent leur chance en proposant une Å“uvre d’art et très peu de candidats sélectionnés.(sauf ceux qui font déjà parti du cercle très fermé de la RHA).
RHA : Royal Hibernian Academy, avec un nom pareil, ca ne peut être qu’un truc inventé par les anglais. Donc en Irlande c’est la référence en matière d’art contemporain, c’est un truc a marquer sur tes cartes de visites (et tout le monde achètera tes Å“uvres). Être RHA, c’est pouvoir peindre n’importe quoi sans se soucier des fins de mois difficile.
ÊtreRHA c’est pouvoir choisir qui va pouvoir intégrer le cercle très fermé des RHA….bref la gloire.
Donc j’ai tenté ma chance en cochant les numéros 11-17-36-45, euh non, en fait j’ai apporté 2 Å“uvres qui seront examinées cette semaine. Voici les 2 Å“uvres en questions : une première qui s’appelle plankton 2
et que vous avez déjà pu admirer dans la galerie. C’est un grand format Bleu composé de particules aléatoirement disposées. C’est une toile qui a des chances d’être repéré selon Niall. L’autre Å“uvre, c’est un peu plus diffèrent, c’est une installation.
Une installation c’est un peu quelque chose entre la sculpture et la peinture, il y a des médias dynamique dedans aussi. Donc là en l’occurrence mon installation s’appelle “CAR PARK” et c’est un parking souterrain… mais pas à l’échelle réelle, plus précisément au 1/24eme. Il est terminé mais le plus dur fut de prendre des photos
Je tache de mettre une photo de l’installation en ligne…en attendant les résultats.
Submission at the RHA
avril 13th, 2010 § Comments Off § permalink
Here it is, i’ve put my name in the draw for the annual RHA show. It sounds like the artist’s lottery :many artist come and submit an art-work and very few are selected. (except for thoses who allready are in the loop…the very private loop of the RHA members).
RHA : Royal Hibernian Academy, with such a nam, it’s something created by the english. So in Ireland, this is the reference in contemporary Art. The kind of thing you cna write on your business card and everyone will buy your art. Beiing RHA is the chance to paint without caring about paying the rent each month.
And finally, beiing RHA is the ability to choose who can enter the RHA….well the irish Glory !.
So i did try for the first time with the following numbers : 11-17-36-45, well no, i did try with two artworks wich will be examined this week. The first one is called “Plankton 2″ that you can have a look at in the on-line gallery. This is a big blue painting with random dots. It can be selected according to Niall, so hope it will be successfull. Â The other piece of work is slightly different and is an Installation.
An installation is something between painting and Sculpture, this one includes mixed media, stero soundtrack and digital pictures. It is called “CAR PARK” and is basically an underground car park … but at the scale 1/24.
It’s finished but the hardest part was to take picture of it to have a good rendering on paper.
I’m working on puting that on the website while waiting for the answers from the RHA…
South Wall
avril 9th, 2010 § Comments Off § permalink
Title : South Wall, Dublin
Size : 24 x 30cm.
Medium : Oil on Canvas
Price : 100 euros
Artist note : The Half Moon swimming club on one of the longest sea wall in Europe.
Graingers pub.
avril 9th, 2010 § 0 comments § permalink
Dublin Blue cranes
avril 7th, 2010 § 0 comments § permalink
“The Dublin Blue cranes”
Oil on Canvas
20 x 50cm.
SOLD
artist note : This is a view of the 3 blue cranes of the Dublin port southside on a misty/rainy day.
Exhibition at the sheds
mars 22nd, 2010 § 0 comments § permalink
Well here we go again at the sheds with a brand new exhibition with another artist. We will presetn exclusive new works under the spotlights (was a bit dark last time, so not this time then).
The venue is the “Sheds”, where the connolly’s family pour the best stouts of Dublin. 198 Clontarf Road, Dublin 3. (bus 130 with a stop at Vernon Av & clontarf Road).
As the recession is really hitting hard, i will propose a selection of very affordable works with a price range of (70 euros-130 euros). Joe, my co-exhibitor told me he would try to propose affordable works as well.
The exhibition will run on Saturday 27 and Sunday 28th of March 2010, so if you are around you will be welcome !
Exhibition the sheds
mars 22nd, 2010 § 0 comments § permalink
Well here we go again at the sheds with a brand new exhibition with another artist. We will presetn exclusive new works under the spotlights (was a bit dark last time, so not this time then).
The venue is the “Sheds”, where the connolly’s family pour the best stouts of Dublin. 198 Clontarf Road, Dublin 3. (bus 130 with a stop at Vernon Av & clontarf Road).
As the recession is really hitting hard, i will propose a selection of very affordable works with a price range of (70 euros-130 euros). Joe, my co-exhibitor told me he would try to propose affordable works as well.
The exhibition will run on Saturday 27 and Sunday 28th of March 2010, so if you are around you will be welcome !
St patrick’s life
mars 18th, 2010 § 0 comments § permalink
Well, yersteday was the St patricks day and for the occasion, i did chalk the pavement for the dubliners : here is the st patrick’s life….
Patrick grew up in Ireland and was jailed during his childhood….
Then, instead of the jail he was sent in the fields as shepherds.
He managed to get free and sail away in britain then France.
God tell him tu build up cathedral. He did it and god say’s “thumb up” for Padraig !
As there was no saints in Ireland yet, God tells patricks to go over there and convert the lost irish sheeps to christianism.
Padraig did it on the Rock of cashel. He explains the trinity concept to the sheeps with using a shamrock.
After the conversion of most of the irish sheeps, he decide to kick the snakes out of Ireland (Ireland was far too wet for them!).
Billions of shamrock did grew up then and make all the sheeps happy and ….
this is how we celebrate now all what patrick bring to ireland….
LA vie de Saint Patrick
mars 18th, 2010 § 0 comments § permalink
Hier, pour l’occasion de la saint Patrick, j’ai retracé les principaux évènements de la vie de saint Patrick pour les Dubliner… avec une craie sur les trottoirs de Dublin.
Patrick a grandit derrière les barreaux, emprisonnés par les vilains barbares.
Puis, devenu assez grand, on l’a assigné Ã la garde des moutons.
I reussit à s’echapper (mais il viendra pour les moutons, ne vous inquietez pas), et prend le large pour la grande bretagne puis la France.
Il reçoit alors l’ordre de Dieu de se consacrer à la construction d’églises et cathédrales. Dieu lui dit qu’il faisait un bon boulot…
Comme il y avait suffisamment de saint sur le continent et encore personne en Irlande Dieu lui a dire de repartir sur Irish ferry et convertir l’irlande.
C’est sur le roc de Cashel, qu’il explique le concept de trinité aux moutons environnant à l’aide d’un trefle à 3 feuilles. (devenu alors le symbole de l’irlande).
Après la conversions de tous les moutons, il décide alors de dire aux serpents de dégager et d’aller ailleurs. (L’Irlande étant vraiment trop humide pour eux !).
Des milliards de shamrocks ont commencé Ã envahir les prairies vertes de l’Irlande sachant leur nouveau statut de sacré (comme les vaches en inde). Les moutons sont depuis infiniment reconnaissant envers Patrick.
Et voici comment on fête la saint Patrick aujourd’hui….
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