Recent Work
At the launch of Do You Feel Irish?
Do You Feel Irish? at the London Irish Centre, Camden (17th October - 3rd November 2024)
A solo show featuring 22 paintings and 10 etchings. The experience of being “sort of Irish” runs throughout the work. Its characters are displaced from their native place or time, sometimes finding themselves among the artifice and cultural maelstrom of the funfair. For some who watch Ireland from afar, a pride for its culture and history also comes with shame at a menacing undercurrent in the current political climate. For others, Irishness is just the experience of feeling not-English.
A catalog of works with media and prices is available here as a pdf. But for a better view of all the pieces in the show see the gallery below. I'll be adding more installation shots and images from the private view soon. All the pieces are beautifully framed (some of the images below were taken pre-framing - I will update these when I get a chance). For etchings I have one framed copy in stock, but am happy to arrange additional framing at cost price.
Opening hours:
Mon: closed
Tue, Thu, Fri: 10am - 4pm
Wed: 10am - 10pm
Sat 19th & 26th: 2pm - 5pm
Sun: 9am - 4pm
MA degree show at the Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge (2023)
A selection of my life drawings from TOUCHDOWN.
I'm writing this a week after de-installing the the MA degree show, entitled TOUCHDOWN, at Cambridge School of Art. The opening event was really a blast - so many friendly old and new faces came along and engaged with the work. My work focused on the human form, our relationship with nudity, and evoking the tactile and multi-sensory through visual work. I showed a series of etchings called Why Can't They Draw Fruit? These are all available but limited to editions of 10 so please get in touch if interested. They'll also be going to the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers annual exhibition (opens next Thursday at Bankside Gallery), and Woolwich Contemporary Print fair soon. I was also delighted to receive a Cambridge Artworks residency which at the very least helped me with the panicked floundering when people kept asking me "So, what next?".
Video of my projection installation Why Can't They Draw Fruit? (left), and two little visitors (image credit: Paul Burton).