This caricature was a gift for the couple pictured. He is wearing a Donegal GAA jersey and holding a pint of Guinness, she’s pictured with books 📚 (including Roald Dahl’s Matilda) and she’s having a glass of wine! 🍷 He’s got his laptop 💻 and phone and she’s got a mortarboard on as she’s a teacher! 👩🏫 In the background is a barrel of home brew about to explo- sitting there brewing. In the background are signposts for Longford, Inver, Carrick-on-Shannon and Galway and the couple’s car 🚗 is pictured too.
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Galway Cartoon Festival 2020: The New Normal 🎥
A video round-up of the opening days of the Galway Cartoon Festival 2020 featuring interviews with myself Allan Cavanagh, and cartoonists Tom Mathews and Dean Patterson!
Galway Cartoon Festival Programme Now Live!
Galway Cartoon Festival 2020: the full GCF 2020 programme is now live. I am a founding member of the Festival and this year I have selected the works for the main exhibition, The New Normal. It was a massive task with over 400 works submitted, and you could literally throw a dart at the map … Read more
Character Design for Galway Juggling Convention
Galway Juggling Convention Unicycle Fight Night character design: this is a character I designed for the Galway Juggling Convention earlier this year. Unfortunately like everything else at the moment this year’s convention is cancelled but hopefully our character above will roll over for the 2021 convention. It evolved from a tweet by circus performer Blue … Read more
Wedding Gift Caricature
This newlywed caricature was a gift from one of the wedding guests to the couple and features lots of their hobbies and interests. You might see some Spice Girls references, a Claddagh Ring, and the County colours of Galway and Sligo on the GAA footballs! I got the loveliest reply from the bride above when … Read more
The Home Truths of domestic violence
IRISH WOMEN’S experience of, and engagement with, the courts and legal system in dealing with domestic violence and abuse, is the theme of a new exhibition at the Engage Art Studios, Salthill.
Home Truths, featuring work by Blaise Drummond, Evelyn Glynn, Alison Lowry, Áine Philips and Ruby Wallis, is part of Galway 2020’s Small Towns Big Ideas programme. The artists were commissioned to respond to women’s testimonies of their court experiences.