And there I was entertaining the friends of O’Neill and Brennan in Rosses Point, Sligo, on Tuesday night. Lovely bunch of people to work with, I’ve another couple of gigs with them as they introduce their new O&B brand in Sligo, Galway and Limerick. More next week!
If you’d like my brand of Corporate Entertainment at your event you can email by clicking “Contact” opposite.
I was conference cartooning for Southside Partnership in the Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire recently. They’re entering the last phase of the European SPAN project. It’s nice at this stage as I know a lot of the attendees through having attended several of these meetings- while I meet hundreds of people every month I rarely meet anyone more than once (awww!).
If you are having a conference and are looking for alternative ways to document the themes and discussions you can contact me here.
I’ve been getting a lot of enquiries about my conference cartoons as the season begins to warm up so I’m going to take the opportunity to explain the process.
I attend the conference with my sketchbook and over the course of the event I take notes on the major themes and issues that are coming up. Simultaneously I produce large black and white cartoons based on those notes and these are put up around the conference area as they are produced. During breaks delegates can browse the cartoons and as well as being a humorous take on the day’s discussions the cartoons also serve to crystallise certain issues. I often have delegates saying to me “that’s exactly what I was trying to say!” when they see a certain cartoon. And of course they’re often thrilled when I choose their pet issue!
The cartoons can then be used in the documentation arising out of the conference such as reports and action plans.
Below are some more samples from conferences, and if you’d like to make an enquiry just click CONTACT opposite.
…or is about to! Mayor of Galway Niall O’Brolchain gets a caricature makeover at the Mayor’s Youth Conference today.
Photo courtesy of Aengus McMahon.
Just back from the Mayor’s Youth Conference in the Galway Bay Hotel. I was doing my conference cartoons based on the responses to the themes of the conference: mental health, transport and anti-racism. There were 300 young delegates from all over Galway and it always amazes me how articulate and confident many kids are today (at 32 I’m old enough to be of the speak-when-spoken-to generation!)
I got some good images and I should have them up next week.
I’m also doing caricatures for the Mayor’s Ball in the Galway Bay Hotel this Saturday 29th April. I’m doing it gratis and I’ll be collecting donations for the charities for each one I do. If you’re going come over to me and get a lovely caricature!
