Aldi Ireland Launches New Mental Health Initiative - Aldi Ireland has announced a new mental health initiative to support colleagues, in partnership with Elephant in the Room (EITR). Read the full article here https://www.checkout.ie/retail/aldi-ireland-launches-new-mental-health-initiative-210103
Designed in-house & painted by @andrewmansonartist from @ballyroganexpression - A family of artists in Wicklow. See more works by Andrew here https://ballyrogan.com/andrew-manson
We are thrilled to share the latest achievement of renowned artist Andrew Manson. Recently, Andrew unveiled his newest elephant sculpture, commissioned by DHL as part of the Elephant in the Room initiative, a project to raise mental health awareness in the workplace. The vibrant unveiling event was a resounding success, highlighting the importance of this cause and the impact of Andrew's art.
The unveiling took place at DHL's corporate office, where the beautifully painted elephant was revealed to much admiration. The sculpture, adorned in striking DHL colors, encapsulates key themes of belonging, work-life balance, and the unity of the DHL team. This powerful visual representation serves as a reminder of the company's commitment to supporting mental health and fostering a positive work environment.
Andrew Manson, a master of his craft, has once again demonstrated his exceptional talent and dedication through this project. Known for his detailed and emotive works, Andrew has been an influential figure in the art community for years. His ability to convey powerful messages through his art makes him a perfect fit for initiatives like Elephant in the Room.
As we celebrate this remarkable project, we invite you to explore Andrew Manson's broader body of work. His paintings carry the same depth and emotional resonance seen in the DHL elephant. By purchasing one of Andrew's pieces, you not only acquire a stunning work of art but also support an artist committed to meaningful causes.
Visit our gallery here to view Andrew Manson's available paintings and bring a piece of his artistry into your home. Let's continue to support mental health awareness and the arts together.
26 Jan cartoon.
27 Jan. Most light and most Dark As taught by Jan Goulet RHA, in Bray tec c.1976
Jan 29 .establish brightest area. Kilkenny Colourists, would have one keep things clean. Acrylics work like 'Oils' but instead of the old rule for Oils " Work from Dark to Light!" One can do the opposite and work "Light to Dark".
1st Feb. Cover the ground.
Bring more light in the areas of light and more dark in the areas of light.
3rd Feb.
Re-apply cartoon to correct positions and details lost in painting process.
Plan for Darks in distance and darks most to left.
Two layers of individual cobbles painted.
More rule breaking as in watercolour the shadows will go under and then as in oils (Dark to light). The Sunlight over.
Good evening and welcome to The Lighthouse and to view the culmination of much hard work under difficult circumstances. However I am not here to talk about the film, but this exhibition of photographs by Andrew Manson which documents the making of it in unprecedented times, bringing it alive on these walls with images of the still variety.
Andrew has constructed a multi-layered narrative in these works, capturing moments in time with a clarity, made magic through the agency of light and camera. There is a layered field of activity, building it's own story which engages and includes the viewer in these pieces. He is tracing an atmospheric environment with a visual language, piecing together a story in it's own right. These works of course, are imbued with a strong sense of place, with a vibrant visual narrative. With these photographs, Andrew has given us a glimpse inside the world of film with a special intimacy.
I have been fortunate to have been a friend of Andrew for many decades, and have watched the Manson family grow and nurture under the creative wings of Andrew and Attracta. They created a haven for artistic practice, and this is shown in what we are celebrating this evening. Congratulations to Andrew for this illuminating exhibition which is a very worthy introduction to the main feature.
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Tony Strickland
Independent Art Curator
Local. Independent. Different.
POSTED INCULTURE DESK
by Luke MaxwellOctober 12, 2022
Still from Holy Island. Courtesy of Eclipse Pictures.
Holy Island, the second feature from Robert Manson, is a fascinating, sometimes willfully obtuse story of two travellers on a layover between life and The Great Beyond. Manson offers up plenty of striking imagery in this ambling mood piece.
David (Conor Madden and Dermot Murphy) is trying to catch a ferry from a town with no name to an unknown destination. He wanders through empty streets in no particular hurry. His shoulder bag dangles lifelessly, matching his own enthusiasm for the journey ahead.
David is a vision of tiredness, baggy eyed and heavy lidded. He looks like a Robert Mitchum impersonator you’d hire to serve drinks at a party. David is not the seeker detective of so many hard-boiled Mitchum pictures, even if Holy Island sometimes feels like an out-of-the-past potboiler bubbling over with questions with no clear answers.
At the ferry terminal, David encounters a series of increasingly puzzling situations. Characters speak in a deliberate one-line-at-a-time rhythm. Everyone waits their turn to speak. They pause between dialogue for longer than is necessary, waiting for a laugh track that doesn’t come. It has that unnatural feeling of a filmed play, or the moments in between title cards in a silent film. Lips move, but the words do little to illuminate David’s situation.
The ferry terminal is frozen in time. Passengers sleep in the waiting area. An old man tells a shaggy dog story to David as they wait. In the background an attendant, or maybe a passenger, polishes the same section of glass over and over. The terminal building is one big wind-up toy. David enters a room, the characters do some schtick. He leaves and they wait for the next traveller. Still polishing the window, telling the same story, snoring on an endless loop.
David’s ticket number is 13, with all the luck that brings. After a one-sided passport inspection and interview, David is told that he needs to go to another ferry terminal. There he meets Rosa (Jeanne Nicole Ní Áinle), a fellow traveller, who like David is going nowhere fast. Rosa speaks in questions but also instructions. She knows the ins and outs of things a little better than David and leads the way for him through the snaking corridors of the ferry terminal.
Rosa, like everyone else around, seems to be a step ahead of David. She already knows the answers to the rapid-fire questions she poses to her newfound, ever-bewildered, sleepyhead travelling companion.
Holy Island encapsulates the limbo of a delayed flight, a bumper-to-bumper traffic jam or a missed shuttle-bus transfer. That sinking feeling of needing to be somewhere but the inability to get there is here, on-screen.
The ferry terminal closes for the day and Rosa and David head into town for the night. Rosa does something to David, and the film. Her presence breathes life into the world around her. Colour encroaches on the film’s black and white photography. These flashes of colour are noticed even by the characters themselves.
In one sequence Rosa dances to a tune whistled on the wind. The camera cuts from close shots of Rosa swaying to the music to David’s point of view. Through David’s eyes Rosa appears in colour.
We cut from colourised Ciné film style footage of Rosa to wider shots of David and Rosa dancing to the music. The tune is strange, not catchy or danceable, but the pair make a good go of it. Rosa, always more enthusiastic, takes the lead. David sways his arms with little thought or care for the choreography.
Then we move to wider shots of the pair dancing, the music is louder on the soundtrack and David’s dancing starts to sync up with Rosa. Sporadic bursts of energy like this are as close as Holy Island comes to offering traditional cinematic spectacle.
Later, David transforms into a younger, more forceful version of himself played by Dermot Murphy (The Drummer and the Keeper) and we see a variation on the dance sequence. This time, David takes the lead, throwing himself around the scene in a previously unimaginable display of energetic physicality.
David’s dual casting is a direct nod to Luis Buñuel’s That Obscure Object of Desire, in which the Flamenco dancer Conchita is played by two different actors. Rosa remains the same; her role as a guide and compass for David is unchanging.
Gradually, it becomes apparent that Rosa and David may share more than a travel destination. Their lives seem to echo each other in curious ways. David’s regrets over his past failings run parallel to Rosa’s present circumstances.
Much of the film is spent with Rosa and David as they hang out and waste time together by the sea or in the boarded-up and rundown coastal village. The beach looks like “a landscape in a dream” to Rosa; the town, by contrast, looks like the afterimage of a long waking-nightmare.
But even as David finds himself renewed as a younger version of himself, the world around is still confusing, his destination unreachable. Rosa and David sit on a beach on the outskirts of town. They look out to sea but cannot see anything on the horizon. They seem trapped between this world and the next. That place beyond the horizon is covered by clouds and the shimmer of distant waves.
The world around them offers as few answers as the characters they encounter. The whitewashed buildings and desolate landscape call to my mind Antonioni’s films of discontent. Throughout the film, Manson employs archival footage of a resort town from the 1970s. Maybe they’re echoes of the town’s recent past, or they could be alternative views of its present, based on the payphones and frozen-in-time iconography.
In Holy Island’s penultimate sequence, Manson inserts footage of a day at the fairground; the rides are a blur of action, and the camera struggles to take it all in. The leisurely, measured pace of Manson’s direction is disrupted by the over-excited archive reels. In these moments we see the promise of what lies ahead, or the solace in what we still have around us in the world of the living.
Holy Island is in cinemas nationwide from 14 October.
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Luke Maxwell is the host of the film review show, Viewfinder on 103.2 Dublin City FM. He also hosts The Movie Express Podcast, which you can find at www.movieexpress.org. More by Luke Maxwell
https://dublininquirer.com/2022/10/12/holy-island-reviewed/
The Boat
In 1994 a collection of seventy-five boat designs representing fifteen years of published concepts, by Phil Bolger was published under the title” Boats With an Open Mind”, by International Marine of Camden, Maine in America. This volume followed two earlier books that encouraged people to make their own boats, out of everyday materials that could be sourced at any reasonably sized hardware store, in a quick and easy-to-understand way.
The seventy-five designs are broken up into chapters such as “Very Small Boats”,” Rowing Boats” “ Motor Trailer Boats” and even “period pieces” like the curved plank cutting sizes to construct a Viking longship. Then in the final four chapters, Phil Bolger provided plans for what he calls bed and breakfast sailing boats and power boats, boats that are Vacation homes and then real cruisers.
Design # 559 The Super brick was first published in Bernard Wolfard’s Common Sense Designs probably in the 1980s, as a statement on how sailing boats all seemed to look so similar, Phil himself described that: “Designing one of these is an exercise in malicious humour… The joke’s edge is blunted if the thing doesn’t work reasonably well. A double berth, two singles, an enclosed washroom, a stand-up kitchen, and appropriate closets and other storage- plus an effective sailing rig with lateral plane and rudder, the ability to dismantle the rig without shore help, and an outboard motor placed to work clear of the sailing gear- can be fitted into a package less than eight feet by eight feet and twenty feet (long)…
It’s self-righting, unsinkable, strong, and stiff…
The article concludes “(It’s) Irresponsible. A gratuitous mockery of Right-Thinking Boatmen and other snobs. Obviously the boat for me.
I had purchased the plans from the designer a number of years ago and having constructed eight other of his designs from a tiny ‘pram dingy’ to a sea-going schooner, I had set my heart on a cabin of some sort with enough room to sit and play cards, or be my painting studio if the weather was inclement.
The internet after some fruitless searches finally pointed me in the direction of a Facebook page called and run by Friends of Phil Bolger. What a revelation some people had even built his designs out in the snow.
Requests for hints on how such enigmatic directions as “Flush hatch with drainage to the foot-well”, were to be constructed were not clear, so having joined the group I asked for some photographs of a completed Super brick. I was told one has never been built.
In one of the lockdowns, it seems now when I was only allowed out to care for the elderly it seemed a perfect chance to start the build.
First, a 1/12th scale model using polyester-impregnated thin cardboard to represent the ½ inch plywood sheets required in the final build this was ready by just after Easter 2021 even down to a 6-inch high sailor.
Deliveries were allowed so using Bolands I had delivered enough sheets for the sides and the lumber for the bulkhead stiffeners.
Think of a low rectangular box with a curved base this was assembled out of three sheets per side with the guts of a further sheet shared between the front and back. As much of the sides above the midline and bulkheads, A to D and the picture window frame for the front and the five-foot split transom were cut to size as per the plans, dosed with wood preserver, primed and doubled undercoated. All notches were cut in the cross beams and on the deck stringers and the central internal standing, the area was pre-fabricated. These pieces were loosely assembled and clamped together entirely filling the old building that I was using as my workshop, this gave a clear indication of the shape of things to come.
My friend next door helped carry out the 19ft 10 rather wobbly sides and we laid them out upside down on a specially levelled base of pallets in the yard. The boat had to be its own Boatshed. It was not the driest summer and there was from time to time some rain under the tarpaulins. With the bottom attached, it was time to turn it. A local farmer stood by to turn it with his front loader but it was not needed. He and his mate and me and my mate turned it by hand.
The assembly platform was then transformed into a level gig, to hold everything square to drop in the bulkheads to support the deck stringers and then the decks themselves, The only water that then got in was through the huge openings for the windows. These were covered with polythene, before the sheets of Perspex came. The suppliers only supply 90 degree cornered and parallel sided cuts so it was to the trusty Japanize hand saw to cut the off- square shapes.
The winter was not so hard and all the little finishing things could be then done in the dry inside the nearly finished boat.
Now it is ready for the hull tests in Arklow which must be done before the sailing club lift out day in a couple of weeks’ time. Brill.
Selected for Soul Noir 2022 & New year group show curated by Tony Strickland, 2023
Every month the new moon, once again as in my painting, appears over the eight-hundred-foot hill, a quarter of a mile away, not silhouetted by the lingering light from the departed sun; but re illuminated by the freshly born moon itself as seen from our garden: So:” Dark, dark is the graveyard, before the moon”.
The Moon
I started two-night paintings, the first painting of poplars, the fresh new moon rising and the hill, the second, slightly smaller and with a bluish cast has already gone to its new home.
I cannot see poplars without remembering, from when I read the passage, first as a teenager, slightly incorrectly; George Orwell’s fictional poet’s opening lines of the Poem he was working on:
Sharply the menacing wind sweeps over The (bending) poplar newly bare
In this small painting 30cm x 39 cm of night falling in a lost rural Graveyard, is one of a few dozen paintings that I have done of Ballymole Hill, most to the left in the background and the slight dip on the skyline by the tall tree most to the right which is Barnnisky, at the top of the Devil’s staircase.
The trees themselves are not well as they are too close to the coast as gale-blown salt gets this far inland. So they are showing their mortality as they stand at the edge of the forgotten graveyard.
The graveyard in the gathering gloom is menacing in its own right and the failing light at dusk in the lonely countryside has connotations of menace itself.
All the paintings I have done of this hill from our own garden explore dusk and the three moments of time that occur as the sun goes down behind an eight-hundred-foot hill a quarter of a mile away.
‘Civil dusk’; when the sun dips below the apparent horizon is mad in the mountains as the perceived horizon can be so close, and although the sun is down the sky stays brighter for much longer than when it goes below the horizon far away, it is said of this time, the first setting of the sun, the ‘light breaks’. Further embellishment of these early dusk scenes is caused by the sun still shining brightly on the sea just a mile to the East. The sun is also too high above the real horizon for any pinkness or redness on the clouds.
Later there is ’Nautical dusk’ the sun is well down, and down for the people on the other side of the hill, the sky becomes dark blue all pink has gone from any clouds but the horizon is visible as a shadow in front of the sky.
Then there is ‘Astronomical dusk’; At sea, the horizon cannot be made out against the sky and in the graveyard, all is pitch Black there may be stars and there may be clouds in any event you cannot make out your own hand in front of your face.
The day has died. The graveyard is scary in the dark. Despair in the gloom increases, chill thoughts and self-reassurances that there is no danger in the dark; don’t work so well in the so lonely dark.
Then as in this painting, the horizon darkens as pale a pale glow lightens the wispy clouds that had been invisible then the new moon is silent in the sky. Shadows are as dark as dark can be. The pale light is there as well. Mist hovers. Damp things gleam.
Shit, it's the 20th of December, 10 days to ' GET IT DONE!
Christmas ( ba humbug!).
29th Dec...Nine days. I'll write that again: Nine Days! And no progress. No paint on the ground...So 29th Dec: Sart. Delivery to Dublin circa the 3rd Jan?
Eeeek!
OMG 30 Dec
Arrrrgh
Ah!
Darkened down to get the effect on the wall
First of Jan!
PS. Attracta says its finished.
Delivery tomorrow.
Paint till noon then . Make the frame, paint same fix same. and attach painting.
The dog gets up at 6. Oh Joy! Attracta needs to leave at 9.50
So drift in the shadows in the sky and on the building facades, and walk away. Actually the most left and the most right had to be ' up colour washed' as well. But what the Hay!
Available. Email afn@manson.ie for enquires.
Selected for a group show in GalleryX, Dublin January 2023, by Curator Tony Strickland
It is with great pride that we select the best two pieces from each of the three of us to donate 50% of the hammer price to the annual SCOOP Foundation Art Auction. Six paintings from Ballyrogan will be going up for a charity art auction.
“This year I have chosen my absolute favourite watercolour piece inspired by the Butterfly Nebula and one of the very first traditional print pieces I made using the ancient craft of Bavarian Limestone Lithography.“ - Sarah Eva Manson
Attracta’s pieces include ‘Bridge’ & ‘ SUAIMHNEAS’ and Andrew’s are ‘SNOWDROPS AND RHUBARB’ & ‘ART SCHOOL DIARY’
The live auction takes place Sunday the 24th of April in The Iveagh Garden Hotel on Harcourt St, Dublin 2. The timed auction will also take place on Invaluable.com and will end on Friday 29th of April at 10 pm. To register on SCOOP’s Invaluable page click here.
After running the event online for the last two year’s we are delighted to announce that our biggest fundraiser of the year – The SCOOP Art Auction – will be back with an exhibition and a one day live auction!! It will be taking place on Sunday the 24th of April in The Iveagh Garden Hotel on Harcourt St, Dublin 2.
In April 2021, we sold over 400 artworks at the auction and offered to split the hammer with the artists; this year we want to keep that going. For 2022, we are running two auctions in tandem with each other – there will be the one day live auction of 200 artworks, but a second timed auction of a further 200 works will run for the week after that. The timed auction works exactly like eBay, with a deadline set and with the highest bid in winning.
We believe this new format will allow more artists to get involved and will ultimately lead to more funds being raised so we, as a charity can have a bigger impact on the individuals and communities we work with.
Online bidding will still also be available on Invaluable.com for those who wish to stay at home.
The timed auction will also take place on Invaluable.com and will end on Friday 29th of April at 10pm. To register on SCOOP’s Invaluable page click here.
We are still working on an exhibition space in Dublin city but it’s proving quite difficult. Dublin is becoming harder and harder to find such spaces in, especially within our budget i.e. not costing €1500 a day.
Key dates:
Launch event: Wednesday 20th April (timed auction starts on this date also)
Exhibition: 21st & 22nd (some private viewings on the 23rd)
Live auction: Sunday 24th April from 2pm
Timed auction ends: Friday 29th April, 10pm
This is episode two of a two-part interview with visual artist Maria Jordan OReilly. Part one can be found here.
*Disclaimer - The open submission to the RHA has now closed. You can find more open submission opportunities on the OLIST or on the VAI website.
Maria Jordan OReilly is a late-emerging artist in her sixties. Her work is quite eclectic coming from a place of emotion and expresses that through using colour and texture, a mixture of acrylic pouring, mixed media, markers and watercolour. The subject matter of her pieces very from quite dark ideology to very light-hearted and almost whimsical depictions.
Childhood experiences have influenced the work that Maria is making now. It is the emotion around the memories that inspire these creations.
It is amazing how art that was made as a response to a very personal experience or feeling can evoke a genuine reaction in a complete stranger; thus the power and universality of art.
The Creative Cornucopia Cavan was set up by Maria and a few of her peers as a way of coming together through the pandemic.
“Do it for yourself” - some great advice from Maria to any creative embarking on a journey of creative expression.
We are both part of the Biscuit Community and are each celebrating our 1-year #biscuitbirthday! Biscuit is a community-driven organization that supports small business owners in the Creative sector. Biscuit helps small business owners who are passionate about their practice but need help in the business department.
“Dublin woman has view of Cavan” is a possibility for the title of her first solo exhibition and we discussed the concept with her for that. We also discuss a plan of action for Maria moving forward in her artistic practice in a professional manner and are looking forward to seeing her exhibition come to fruition.
We started the Podcast in the first place because there are so many creative people near us but also because of technology it makes the world a smaller place. Yes, this is the Irish Art Podcast but we want to talk to all creatives, here and now, in every creative art discipline - discussing and debating what it takes to be an artist today. We are literally writing history for all creatives and artists that will come after us. It is important for us to share what we have learned and continue to learn from our mistakes and from others mistakes too. If we inspire one person on their journey then we have achieved an incredible task.
We are planning to begin zoom creative sessions and in-person work along sessions so if that is something that you would be excited to get involved with please let us know. info@ballyrogan.com
*Since the airing of this episode The Arklow Visual Arts is still looking for a gallery space in the town.
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Maria Jordan OReilly Artist Youtube channel
http://creativecornucopiacavan.com/
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https://www.arklowvisualarts.com/
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http://www.rhagallery.ie/visit/annual-exhibition/
Our conversation with the Director of the RHA Patrick Murphy
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Maria Jordan OReilly is a late-emerging artist in her sixties. Her work is quite eclectic coming from a place of emotion and expresses that through using colour and texture, a mixture of acrylic pouring, mixed media, markers and watercolour. The subject matter of her pieces very from quite dark ideology to very light-hearted and almost whimsical depictions.
Childhood experiences have influenced the work that Maria is making now. It is the emotion around the memories that inspire these creations.
It is amazing how art that was made as a response to a very personal experience or feeling can evoke a genuine reaction in a complete stranger; thus the power and universality of art.
The Creative Cornucopia Cavan was set up by Maria and a few of her peers as a way of coming together through the pandemic.
“Do it for yourself” - some great advice from Maria to any creative embarking on a journey of creative expression.
We are both part of the Biscuit Community and are each celebrating our 1-year #biscuitbirthday! Biscuit is a community-driven organization that supports small business owners in the Creative sector. Biscuit helps small business owners who are passionate about their practice but need help in the business department.
“Dublin woman has view of Cavan” is a possibility for the title of her first solo exhibition and we discussed the concept with her for that. We also discuss a plan of action for Maria moving forward in her artistic practice in a professional manner and are looking forward to seeing her exhibition come to fruition.
We started the Podcast in the first place because there are so many creative people near us but also because of technology it makes the world a smaller place. Yes, this is the Irish Art Podcast but we want to talk to all creatives, here and now, in every creative art discipline - discussing and debating what it takes to be an artist today. We are literally writing history for all creatives and artists that will come after us. It is important for us to share what we have learned and continue to learn from our mistakes and from others mistakes too. If we inspire one person on their journey then we have achieved an incredible task.
We are planning to begin zoom creative sessions and in-person work along sessions so if that is something that you would be excited to get involved with please let us know. info@ballyrogan.com
*Since the airing of this episode The Arklow Visual Arts is still looking for a gallery space in the town.
Mentions:
https://mariajordanoreilly.com/
https://www.facebook.com/mariajordanoreillycreativeartist
https://www.instagram.com/maria_jordan_oreilly_artist/
Maria Jordan OReilly Artist Youtube channel
http://creativecornucopiacavan.com/
https://www.thebiscuitfactory.ie/
https://www.arklowvisualarts.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Gorey-Urban-Sketchers-382544639002268/
https://www.roisinofarrell.com/
http://www.rhagallery.ie/visit/annual-exhibition/
Our conversation with the Director of the RHA Patrick Murphy
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We would very much appreciate any support if you are in the market to please consider us, we have many pieces available so do pop over and have a browse with works from Attracta, Andrew & Sarah Eva Manson
In this episode, we talk with Peter Grimshaw - Retired Museum Professional-Freelance Artist/Art Educator - Peabody, Massachusetts, United States
We discuss the effect of lockdown, how he is a 3rd gen Irish from Munster. Encouraged by his dad, who was an architect, to draw - and got into cartoon illustration and comic strips. He has worked in photography and taught it for 7 years. Is retired and working on developing a brand new website to show his work since the ’70s.
We go through the images available to see below - we invite you to have a look at them while listening to this episode as we listen to Peter discuss these pieces.
It’s a beautiful thing when artists from opposite ends of the globe can converse together, collaborate and be inspired to develop artistic ventures together.
We look forward to welcoming Peter to Ballyrogan sometime soon and developing collaborative exhibitions in each other's localities.
Sarah is going to help Peter get online! Skill sharing and continuous learning are very important to us.
Mentions: https://salemarts.org/
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In this episode, we talk with the director of the RHA, Patrick Murphy. The Royal Hibernian Academy is an artist-based and artist-oriented institution in Ireland, founded in Dublin in 1823.
“We do hereby for us, our heirs and successors give and grant to the said Academicians that they shall and may hold Meetings of themselves for the better improvement and encouragement of the Arts of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Drawing, Engraving and other Arts…” Extract of the Royal Hibernian Academy Charter of 1861
We talk about the current Sean Scully exhibition and how you can visit under the current restrictions. Admission is free and all are welcome, visit http://www.rhagallery.ie/visit/ for up to date information.
This year will mark the 191st Annual Exhibition, Patrick tells us about its history and community and how the shift to digital has affected the submission process.
We ask how one gets to be a member of the RHA and how to get those RHA & ARHA letters after their names.
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If you would like to get in touch with us please email info@ballyrogan.com & let us know if you’d like to come on to the podcast for a chat.
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In this episode we talk to the incredible artist Francis Tansey who is a professional artist, an international painter best known for his work in geometric, hardedge colour field with op art elements. Tansey studied in the NCAD and is interested in the development of colour in an abstract sense. His influences include Bauhaus, Kandinsky & the colour theory master Johannes Itten. Tansey’s research focuses on how colour is perceived as an international language. In 1985 he became the first artist in residence at the Butler Gallery in Co. Kilkenny, where his brightly coloured geometric acrylic paintings caused great interest.
We also talk about an incredible exhibition Andrew, Attracta & Francis had in Dubai & the logistics of bringing huge canvases over by plane. And Ballyrogan in the early days and how Fran, Attracta and Andrew first met.
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https://www.kilkennycatwalk.ie/
https://www.history.com/topics/art-history/bauhaus
In this episode, we talk about what we’ve been up to in the studio since we last spoke. We talk about the new exhibitions in the RHA at the moment & how Eilis O’Connell RHA had a studio space here ages ago. Andrew constructed some linen stretchers for Attracta to stretch linen on and has started some drawings. Andrew talks about how important it is to have a square piece of wood & Sarah invents a new way to frame wooden pieces. We find the missing varnish & how not to let toddlers play with oil based primer and how to get it off safely without turpentine. Attracta and Andrew have received their 1st vaccines & Attracta is retraining to administer vaccines. Andrew is building a boat! Sarah has made a fairy village & has released a fairy door kit for you to make your own. She also discusses being a virtual assistant/ art photography & social media strategy management. We discuss plans together by way of cataloguing all the works in the archive which we are hoping to open up to the public soon.
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Mentions
http://www.rhagallery.ie/exhibitions/six-works-augumented-reality/
http://www.rhagallery.ie/exhibitions/eleuthera/
http://www.rhagallery.ie/exhibitions/home/
In this episode, we talk to Maria Svejdar - Head of Marketing, Communications and CX at GS1 Ireland, which is the only organisation authorised by GS1 Global to allocate and administer GS1 barcode numbers in Ireland.
We as artists are eager to ask questions about the importance of barcodes in the art world. Do we need them? Are our creative pieces products? We want to sell them but are we exempt from retail? Why should one do so? - it's more professional - retail outlets will trust you - buyers will trust you.
What if I'm super organised and want to barcode my paintings - can I do so? If I get barcodes to use in retail - can I use the same one on online shops?
Mentions:
GS1 Ireland & Scan Talk
Ballyrogan
NCAD
Wexbury Spirits
https://www.instagram.com/wexburyspirits
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Here are some things we have been working on this week:
In this episode, we talk to Monaghan based artist Ronan McCabe, about his influences and his artistic process, where you can find him online and how important it is to have your work available to view - if you want to sell - and how certain tips and tricks in marketing can help get your work in front of the right buyers.
You have to make work that makes you happy - you can’t make work that you think you should be making.
Ronan takes us through his painting Dracula, materials and influences; movies that inspire his art - Bram Stokers Dracula, Van Helsing, Sleepy Hollow, Hellboy, Chronicles of Riddick, Star Wars, Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, Sinbad and the Golden Fleece, Alien movies, King Kong, Blade Runner.
All of Ronan’s works are available to purchase, please get in touch with us if there are any pieces you are interested in. We will be working away on getting Ronan set up with an eCommerce site soon.
Mentions:
https://www.arklowvisualarts.com/
Deviant Art https://www.deviantart.com/ronanmc/gallery
Add a listing with Sarah - Free digital download - please email info@ballyrogan.com to join our mailing list and I will send it back to you.
The Biscuit Marketplace & Bite The Biscuit on Facebook - the business of being a creative with Tara Boo. https://thebiscuitmarketplace.com/
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In this episode, we talk to Andy Sweeney from the SCOOP Foundation ahead of the live art auction 23rd, 24th, 25th & 26th April Live & Online From The Copper House Gallery, Dublin. The SCOOP Foundation was created in 2009 when a young Andrew Sweeney returned to Ireland unable to shake off the poverty, corruption and discrimination he witnessed while backpacking in Cambodia. It is an honour to be able to talk to Andy and to hear about his passions and ambitions to make a difference in this world.
You can find out more info on SCOOP Foundation and how to get involved here https://scoopfoundation.org/
We also discuss how important the art auction has become to the art calendar and how he is helping artists grow their careers and reputations. It is the biggest art auction in Ireland.
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https://www.thecopperhousegallery.com/
https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/sarah-manson-heytesbury-street-15-c-624495380a
https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/sarah-manson-recall-2-c-c7b48b0b44
https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/sarah-manson-the-field-next-door-27-c-b26465ab2c
https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/andrew-manson-ballyrogan-view-108-c-2c9492c89d
https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/andrew-manson-night-fall-25-c-ac048adb34
https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/andrew-manson-blue-65-c-d594dd0bc9
https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/attracta-manson-stones-iv-35-c-c1e4e318a6
https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/attracta-manson-red-lady-36-c-6854f38be2
Welcome to episode five of The Irish Art podcast with Andrew, Attracta and Sarah Eva Manson. We are three artists based in Co. Wicklow, we will bring you on a journey into our studios and talk about what we are working on.
Attracta has been enjoying the discipline of spending time in the studio and she has been making drawings and looking at the inspiration of precious moments. Andrew needs to remake a frame that he measured wrong! And is making canvas/ linen stretchers. Sarah started 5 new fairy doors and began her journey to becoming the next great forest bathing guide.
We discuss how important it is to play with all kinds of medium and materials so that you can find what gives you joy and inspiration. We updated the website with new pieces and Sarah speaks about how Attracta’s titles remind her of barcodes. Do we as artists need registered barcodes? Do we as artists and makers need to be on Amazon Ireland? What online marketplaces do you have listings on? We have our joint website, individual Facebook & Instagram shops that link back to our website, we’ve got Etsy & The Biscuit Marketplace - we each want to have a profile on Saatchi, that’s on the todo list and we have listings on the AVA - will Amazon tip us over the edge? How many platforms are too many?
SCOOP’s 2021 Art Auction is raising funds to support the delivery of SCOOP Ed to young Internally Displaced People (IDP’s) living in camps in Iraq and refugees living in Direct Provision Centres in Ireland. SCOOP Ed aims to support young people with their educational, creative and psycho-social development through a range of programmes. This year’s Art Auction, featuring over 350+ artworks from Ireland’s top Artists, is absolutely vital for the running of this project! Check out the timetable for the Art Auction below and click here to see the incredible artworks we have lined up for the 4-day event! https://scoopfoundation.org/
The newsletter was sent and followed up with a phone call interview with the Wicklow People. The AVA is still closed under the government guidelines of Level 5 restrictions but they are going to have an online exhibition in the month of May so go to their website and get involved. https://www.arklowvisualarts.com/
Mentions: The Biscuit Marketplace & Bite The Biscuit on Facebook - the business of being a creative with Tara Boo. https://thebiscuitmarketplace.com/
Joe Murphy from Irish Art Services https://www.irishartservices.com/
GS1 products and services - In addition to managing the licencing and allocation of GS1 Numbers, GS1 offers a broad range of services to members and the general business community including; technical support and advice, user forums and working groups, community engagement and on-boarding facilities, training and consultancy services. https://www.gs1ie.org/
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In this episode, we shoot our trailer live on the podcast and get it done straight away. It is always a good thing to get items on your list done straight away if they’re not too difficult and don’t take up much time. If I had put the trailer on the to-do list it would probably still be there today.
Attracta tells us all about her new large linen piece and how she is preparing it for painting, Andrew shows us his painting from last week that he has framed and Sarah goes through her RHA submissions and how she reclaimed an old broken frame and incorporated it into a finished piece with a watercolour inside.
Andrew has written a press release for our local newspaper and Sarah has some exciting news to announce!
We found a baby bird in the archive and nursed it back to health - it just needed some water - it was super friendly and Böjin held out her hand and it hopped up to chill for a little bit. Aria was napping and was so happy to help us release the little birdie back to the wild.
Thank you, Pauline Merry, for reaching out to us & wishing us well & to Ronan McCabe for reaching out too - lovely to hear from you both.
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