Do. Make. Think.

Check out the lovely and inspiring blog by artist Paula Henihan, you may also find some reference to my work here too!

More recent workshops

I am currently working on a theatre mask exhibition developed with art Sticky Fingers Arts and students from three Newry secondary schools - The Abbey Grammar, St Mary's High School and Newry High School. The students' work will be exhibited across Newry during March in celebration of the 60th Newry Drama Festival, taking place from March 23rd to 31st. Pictures to follow, but in the meantime here are some images from a Winter Tree mixed media workshop I facilitated in Dublin City Gallery the Hugh Lane in January for 7 - 11 year olds. Using paint, glue, sand, their own hand made stencils and glitter each participant made their very own Winter scene.

The finished pieces

Recent Workshops

November - December 2011 – Anti Bullying Group Painting, 10-12 year olds, Sticky Fingers Early Year Arts, O’Fiaich Community House, Callanbridge, Armagh.

BELONG, Challenge of Change and ATSG wished to work with a group of local and Traveller children, in the Callanbridge area, to produce an art based piece of work around the theme of Anti Bullying, facilitated by Sticky Fingers Early Year Arts.

The finished work

Christmas 2011 Exhibitions

Some new work and where it can be seen in Dublin this month.

Winter Exhibition 2011

Studio Members & Gallery Artists

A Winter's Dream, etching, spit bite and chine collé.

Talbot Gallery  Wrapping up for Christmas

Rainbow Mountain, watercolour on panel.

Culture Night 2011

Along with artist Liam O Broin I'll be giving a demonstation of soap lithography next Friday 23rd in Graphic Studio Gallery, off Cope St at 5pm.

And then mosey on up to Gutter Bookshop on Cow's Lane for the latest White Wolf Project - 'A Rainy Twilight' by Nicole Tilley.  More info here. 

St Mel's

There are hopes that some of the artifacts lost in the Christmas day fire at St. Mel's cathedral can be saved.  it may be possible to reassemble the Harry Clarke Studio stained glass windows and the National Museum have recovered some items from the debris. 

Raghnall Ó Floinn, head of collections with the National Museum of Ireland, said there were some important pieces among the 500 or so kept at the diocesan museum at the cathedral. The most important artefacts were the Crozier of St Mel, patron saint of the Diocese of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise, dating from the 10th century, and the book shrine of St Caillin, the patron saint of Fenagh in Co Leitrim, dating to 1536.

From the photographs of the gutted interior The Holy Ghost by Imogen Stuart appears to still be intact on a pillar, however whether it can be restored is not yet clear. Unfortunately quite a lot appears to have been lost, with the hope of recovering whatever they can Ó Floinn, concluded “at least a fragment of something is better than nothing.”