I’m giving a talk this Saturday 15th August in the Galway City Museum Coffee Shop at 4.30pm, along with Lynda Cookson. I’ll be talking about how I’ve created a viable business out of art instead of flipping burgers, which is an important job too but a bit smelly. Art + Business + Creativity, with Lynda … Read more
My son Naoise is learning all about WWII, Hitler and the Holocaust in school at the moment. Very impressed with the way it’s being taught. He came home today with his version of Picasso’s Cat Catching a Bird, so not only is he learning cold facts but he’s also being taught about allegory. You can’t … Read more
image from Discover Ireland I was on my way into the Kenny Gallery the other day and there was a busker I know sitting far too close to the High Street entrance. I grasped the handle as I said hello to the busker and whacked into a locked door. I looked up and saw the … Read more
I’m opening Boz Mugabe‘s exhibition, Premonitions of Encroachment, tomorrow Friday 9th of January at 6pm in the Town Hall Theatre, Galway. You might have seen Boz’s work in the Evening Herald, where he illustrates Con Houlihan’s column. Boz is a wicked cartoonist, and his painted work looks absolutely amazing. Looking forward to seeing it in … Read more
This made me gasp. It’s stunning, and Guibert has drawn the whole Alan’s War using this technique. Think I’ll put it on my Christmas wishlist. Via Drawn.
Dean Kelly’s first solo show, modus operandi?, opens this Friday in Kenny’s Gallery, Galway. I’ve known Dean since college in ’94, and I’ve watched his work develop. I think he’s on the cusp of becoming an important painter and I also think he’s going to be a big seller (his graduation show sold out in … Read more