The Artists' Space - Podcast Page #3

On the Artists Space last week, Davey Moor curates Human/Nature at Farmeleigh Gallery in Phoenix Park, John Fitzimon’s Conversion is at Film Base , and Louise Marlborough talks about “Unused and Unloved” Pretty Vacant Dublin’s latest exhibition.

http://www.daveymoor.com/

http://www.olliart.com/

http://www.prettyvacantdublin.com/

Dublin Contemporary 2011: Ella Burke talks about her contribution to the exhibition and Artist Jennifer Cunningham reviews the site at Earlsort Terrace.

Ella Burke Lives and works in Dublin (IRL)

Ella Burke creates situational, ephemeral, and time-based sculptures that embrace or capture a once-off performance. Her work usually survives through video and photographic documentation. Burke’s sculptures investigate memory and its role in developing societal and political spaces. Burke’s work has been exhibited at the East Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia 2010; Amharc Fhine Gall VII at Draoícht, Dublin 2010; and IMOCA, Dublin 2010. Burke is the recipient of a Graduate Award 2009 by the Irish Museum of Contemporary Art.

http://www.dublincontemporary.com

http://www.ellaburke.org/

Jennifer Cunnigham is a visual artist based in Dublin and Galway and she works with video, paint, print, drawing, film and digital media. Her work is narrative and deals with the parameters of self and becoming self aware. It also deals with our surroundings, the notion of ‘das unheimlich’ or the uncanny and how familiar environments appear strange to us. Jennifer uses numerous forms of media to set up a dialogue between the still and the moving image.

http://www.jennifercunningham.ie/

http://www.royalhibernianacademy.ie/

http://www.hillsborofineart.com/
http://greenonredgallery.com/

Seán Hillen talks about 'Black and White' at the Oliver Sears Gallery and we have the 2nd part of our interview with photographer Bob Dixon.

Black and White: Gallery Artists and Guest Artists, 1st September -28th October.

Image:
Patrick O'Reilly
Once
Oil on canvas
206 x 327.5cm

http://www.oliversearsgallery.com/

http://www.seanhillen.com

http://www.bobdixonphotography.com/

Nick Munier's '44' at the The Doorway Gallery, ‘A Dog's Dinner’ by Sheila Rennick at Hillsboro Fine Art and Bob Dixon Photography's ‘Reflections of the City’at the Workman's Club

The Bob Dixon interview is part one of a two-parter, the next part will be broadcast on the 1st of September and podcast on the 2nd.

Nick Munier is well known as the former manager of Marco Pierre White’s Belvedere restaurant and stepped into the limelight as maitre d’ of ITV’s Hell’s Kitchen. Recently Nick opened his own restaurant in Dublin called ‘Pichet’ which has proved extremely popular. The launch of his auto biography ‘Boiling point’ this year was an even bigger success and more recently Nick has been chosen to be the judge on Ireland’s Masterchef which will be aired this September.

At an early age, art & design took his interest and he has been experimenting with styles ever since in order to develop himself as an artist. Nick has worked in many different types of media including acrylic, watercolour, enamel and oil over the years. Nick’s paintings are purely abstract,” I don’t like to dictate a piece, I much rather let it develop.”

In his paintings Nick creates hidden depths which require the viewer to engage in a second and even closer look. This is created through Nick’s method of paint application letting the colour and strokes flow beneath the aesthetic surface.

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Sheila Rennick was Born in County Galway and educated at the National College of Art Design (NCAD) in Dublin and at Byam Shaw School of Art Central St Martin’s in London, where she took an MA in Fine Art Painting and Art History. Rennick received the CAP Foundation Award in 2004/5 and a painting prize at the Jerwood Contemporary Painters in 2007.

"The style of painting matches subject matter rarely better in the grotesqueries of Sheila Rennick, who uses thick impasto as the paint piles up like meringues in her portaits of pastel tastlelessnesss.”

Kate Butler, Sunday Times

“Each of Rennick’s paintings is like a short story. She zeroes in on an incident, a character (human as well as animal), or a mood, and lets it blossom and unfold in the space of the canvas, elaborated in thick, clotted masses of luscious if distinctly curdled oil pigment. She is mischievous and relishes that curdled quality, the way sweet colours turn sour through sheer excess... Time and again in her paintings there is a sense of the cruel disjuncture between the subjective idea or self image and the startling reality.”

Aidan Dunne,The Irish Times

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Bob Dixon is a Dublin based photographer who's talent knows no
boundaries nor does his lust for capturing timeless stories.

Whilst Bob has firmly established himself as a highly respected music
photographer throughout Ireland over the past decade, he has never
limited himself by specializing in one specific genre of photography.

His portfolio encompasses his collection of travel, portraiture,
architectural, panoramic and corporate photography to date.

Bob's work has been published, exhibited and bought by collectors all
over the world. His travel photography was featured in a charity
calendar this year and his collection of portrait work is set to
become the theme of his first book release.

Bob has also delved into the world of video making and has recently
produced a music video combining some photographic stills for a very
exciting new collaborative effort with this years IMTV's 'Best
Director' Myles O 'Reilly.

If you would like any more information on Bob Dixon’s work, past,
present or future or are interested in purchasing or commissioning Bob
please contact;

Claire McConnell at- claire.bobdixonphotography@gmail.com