blossom on the dodder, 220 x 300mm (2007), nathaniel stern & angel shoreditch, 780 x 100 mm (2007) Paul La Rocque
My first Irish exhibition, a duo show entitled Landscapes and Icons, opened at the new Haydn Shaughnessy Gallery for Innovative Contemporary Artists in West Cork on Thursday evening, and it was a great party – drinks, food, 70 or so peops… I even convinced Ralph and a few others to drive out and join, which made for some friendly faces amidst a foreign crowd. I produced a dozen new Compressionist digital prints, which will likely travel to a bit of Europe with Haydn after the summer ends — will post some pics of the opening and more info when my life slows down a bit (may be a while), but click the link above for images, info, etc. Haydn is a rad guy and I hope to be working with him more in the future:
Haydn Shaughnessy Gallery, based in rural Cork, Ireland, specialises in contemporary art created through computing and allied technologies. The gallery’s artists share a common philosophy of using digital technology to encourage us to look again at the world around us.
This week, I’m prepping some new work for the iCommons Summit, residency and exhibition in Croatia and Second Life – which will be a video diptych (a new language lapse) as well as the first in a new site-specific series I’m tentatively calling ‘sentimental constructions.’ Watch this space for more on both of those… Oh, and there will also be reciprocal interviews between me and Paddy Johnson (artfagcity) on the iCommons blog in the coming week or two :) Other Commons artists-in-res include Cao Fei (China), Joy Garnett (USA), Ana Husman (Croatia), Kathryn Smith (South Africa), Tim Whidden (representing MTAA, USA) and Jaka Železnikar (Slovenia).
Let’s see, I’m also presenting at a conference this Friday at UCD – ‘perpectives on the body and embodiment’ – in the philosophy department, so things are a bit crazed (can only go to one day of the proceedings, then I leave for Dubrovnik!)… Other exhibitions and residencies go on for the rest of the summer, both exciting and exhausting – plus visits back to both homes in SA and the USA (tho the latter is very brief, on route to a workshop/residency in Colorado) – before I buckle down again and start writing the PhD in Dublin in October. Check out the front page of the site for links to some of my planned hot spots.
More soon, likely from Croatia!
