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Grad show tomorrow!

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The IADT Graduate Exhibition opens tomorrow night (Thursday 6th June) from 5 – 9pm and will run until Thursday 13th June.  It will be open 2pm – 8pm on Friday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday 13th and 12-4pm on Saturday.  Closed Sunday.  Come along and enjoy the show!

For more info visit:

http://www.artatiadt.com

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474 Print

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While working on the 474 project I decided I wanted to respond to the piece by Juan Munoz in some form through drawing or printmaking.  I experimented with aquatint and spitbite techniques on copper plates to create a rainy window effect.  I printed the results onto etching paper and Japanese paper to see the different effects.  I also experimented with different ways of lighting the prints on Japanese paper.

Spit-bite
Spit-bite
Line etching and spit-bite on Japanese paper
Line etching and spit-bite on Japanese paper
Line etching and spit-bite on Japanese paper
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Dun Laoghaire Rain Room at 474 Mise-en-Scene

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Rain Room Small

Dun Laoghaire Rain Room, a piece by myself and Fiona Gannon (detailed in previous post) was selected to be part of the exhibition 474: Mise-en-Scene at the Drawing Project, Dun Laoghaire from the 7th-14th March.  Though most of the groundwork had been done, the piece still required some work to ensure the fog and then condensation built up inside the piece and also to ensure no leaks occurred.  With the help of technician Ian Hannon we were able to adjust the the floor of the model and the top of the plinth to achieve these goals.  While creating this piece, a process of measuring, calculating and drawing became key to our work, so we included a set of drawings on tracing paper beside the model which alluded to this process and the workings of the piece.  For further details on this exhibition and to read texts written around this piece, please visit www.foursevenfour.org

Drawing on four layers of tracing paper and model
The top of the plinth mid-install, including ultrasonic transducer which is placed inside the bowl of water.
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The Rain Room

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Rain on my windowAs part of our 4th year seminar, students at IADT are required to participate in organizing an exhibition in collaboration with IMMA’s National Programme.  The exhibition brings together work from both graduating students and from artists whose works are part of the national collection.  Students are involved in choosing and curating the works from IMMA’s collection which will be part of the exhibition and representatives from IMMA are involved in choosing the student works to be included.

Work submitted by the students must in some way conform to the restriction of 474.  There are no other limits.  For this project I am collaborating with Fiona Gannon to make a piece in response to an already-existing artwork Dublin Rain Room by Juan Munoz.  While researching possible artworks to include in the exhibition, we became particularly interested in this work which is a scaled down model of a room in IMMA which “rains” on the inside.  The work also includes a chalk drawing of the interior of a room on waterproof material which is placed outside the model, on the wall of the room in which it is housed.

Due to technical difficulties it is currently not possible to show this work, so myself and Fiona are collaborating on a piece so that it can in some way be part of the exhibition.  This has led me to consider different ways of responding to the room, whether in drawn, print or sculptural form.  In the end Fiona and I have decided to work on a scaled-down model of  the studio space in which we were working and use and ultrasonic transducer (a small device Fiona had been experimenting with in her practice) to create a cold mist inside the model which would then condense on the windows.

Spit bite etching
Perspex laser-cut to our specifications was pieced together using dichloromethane
The perspex was sanded so that spray paint would adhere to the surface
A layer of silver spray paint was applied prior to several layers of white
The first trial run of the room with the ultrasonic transducer inside turned on…
It works, but still some leakage problems to solve – the joys of working with water!
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Maquettes

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After my trip to Boston I became very interested in the architecture around me and the different types of structures that can form dwellings.  Also, after reading about the work of architect Dominic Stevens who built his own home in Leitrim for about €25,000, enlisting the help of friends along the way, I began to consider the way we make a home or use a particular space.  Do we take a ready-made structure and make it our own or do we build a space with specific considerations to our needs?  In considering the recent housing bubble and the anxious need to climb the property ladder which preceded it, I began to feel a sense of ridiculousness in the way we see and construct our built environment.  This sense of ridiculousness then made it’s way into my studio practice and I began to make flimsy maquettes out of paper, card and matchsticks.  I then began to experiment with using these to help make drawings…

Card, paper, hot glue
Matchsticks and hot glue
Matchsticks and hot glue
Matchsticks and hot glue
Card and fishing wire
Pencil on A2 paper