Diana colour photographs

Photo of narritive space

Update on studio work!

I had a pretty good progress review last week; It was suggested that I actually make the phone box a gallery for my work, love that idea but obviously have to have some tutorials you know I love my tutorials. When I college is over I'll just wander around begging people for tutorials! O actually must back track a little, I had a tutorial with Peter Morgan before my progress review who liked my photos especially one in particular (which I'll put up soon) and suggested I just focus on my photography looking for spaces which held a narrative within them. I really liked the idea of focusing on photography because I love to do it just for me but I didn't want to give up on the phone box so I'm really happy that they suggested that other idea in my progress review.

Quote from artist Mark Dion

“My idea of art isn’t necessarily something that provides answers or is decorative or affirmative. I like Goya. I enjoy the still-life tradition, and hunting painting, and things toward the dark side that tend to have a more critical function. That’s what I see as the job of contemporary artists: to function as critical foils to dominant culture. My job as an artist isn’t to satisfy the public. That’s not what I do. I don’t necessarily make people happy. I think the job of the artist is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception, prejudice, and convention…I think it’s really important that artists have an agitational function in culture. No one else seems to.”

Update on my ideas for the phone box

So what I've been thinking is that everyday I would either take a photograph or do a drawing or painting or whatever of the phone box- become nearly obsessed with it. I'd put these up then in the phone box gradually building up more and more. Maybe I'd add in poscards of funny phoneboxes or newspaper clippings to do with phone boxes. This way I feel like I'm adding me to the phonebox while not losing sight of what it is I'm trying to appropriate. Tell me what you think guys....

Photographs taken with the Diana and my film SLR

The first three photographs are from the diana (plastic camera from the 60's that is being re-produced now and has become a bit of a cult camera), I really love them, it's funny though they look a lot better scanned onto the computer than the actual photographs, the scanner seems to pick up the detail. The others are from my SLR and wer taken down by the river in Limerick, I couldn't stop taking pictures that day I really loved the old grey dirty look that was coming from the buildings.

Some drawings from drawing club..

Haven't been on this in ages I'm sorry!

I shall update you now on what I'm at!The photographs above are of spaces I've been looking to appropriate by maybe changing them in some small way.I've moved away from the idea of using flowers though I am still growing some delphinium at home from seed, which apparently represent big hearted and fun, and eventually I will plant them somewhere in Limerick. Anyway I've decided to focus in on the phone box. The size of the space really appeals to me because its so in your face once your in there there's not much room to move. You'd notice a change in there straight away. I like it as well because they are becoming extinct, no one needs a phone box anymore. So what I want to do is really change it's function-how yet I don't know. I've thought of a few ideas which I want to try out I'm just waiting to see now if eircom will give me an old phone box so I can experiment on it!

Photos from the Summer

The summer

Hey I thought I should add something to this before I see tumbleweeds rolling through it..So what have I been doing this summer; mainly nothing much but I have been been learning a bit (subconsciously I think)about the ways and means behind the running of galleries and art councils in Ireland. I do my internship in the butler gallery every friday, which has a great show in there at the mo by David Godbold- look him up he's good, and even though I'm doing these different usually admin. usually kind of boring jobs for them i know I'm slowly learning how the whole set up works and I'm hoping it will all sink in and stick for the long run. For the past week the Kilkenny arts festival was on and I was helping out with kid workshops with the crafts council which was fun!I did a bit of facepainting a lot of registration stuff and then we had some drinkies on the last night of the workshops so some networking was had as well. In terms of art work I haven't done that much. I'm working on that idea with the flowers that I was talking about but I haven't done it yet I'm waiting to get back to limerick to find some really awful places!Anyway thats me for the mo!