unidentified tank

unidentified tank, originally uploaded by parkadge.

033

033, originally uploaded by parkadge.

Fortress

Tank and army men

Tank and army men, originally uploaded by parkadge.

These are just ginger bread biscuits -this time. They could be art if I found a context for them. I really liked making them- I used my memories of old army men sets that I had when I was a kid, the generic green plastic blobs of figures that could belong to any army you liked.

Army men Biscuits

Army men, originally uploaded by parkadge.

Not art- gingerbread cookies they got burnt while I was getting the tank ready. They remind me of the old style green army men soldiers

This is not art it's a biscuit

Tank, originally uploaded by parkadge.

When I hear the word culture .....

Culture night in Dublin. I can be very cynical about cultural events like this but since I was invited to the Artsquad twenty years exhibition I dragged myself into town to The No Grants Gallery in Temple Bar. The exhibition was disappointing being just a slide show and a projected video  but I met some other artists that were part of Arts squad the same time I was so that was good. Katri and Paivi were with me and we came across Simeon and his Samba drummers in Temple Bar, hard to miss them really with all that racket. I  can't relate to Samba drumming anymore since I was stuck in a room with Simeon and about thirty young people learning Samba drumming for Halloween when I was working with Stoneybatter Youth Services. I liked Culture Night though - it was good to see so many families out in Temple Bar  on a Friday evening rather than the usual population of people intent on getting out of their face drunk.  I also dropped into Exhibitions at the Project which is an exhibition about exhibitions- wha?
It left me cold anyway.

Passed by the Exchange which looked to be buzzing and was packed out to the pavement and went on down Smock Alley to Coming into our Own an exhibition by a group of women from Ballymun. I saw this in Ballymun and it is even more powerful seen out of it's local context. My plan was to nip in and out quickly but just as I was leaving Emma from the axis was introducing the artists so I was stuck. And it turned out to be great- I really enjoyed hearing the women tell their stories. Plus there was cake.

Since we were in temple bar I took the opportunity to drop into Connolly Books and have Paivi take my photo with a copy of "Music and Culture" which has a still from the movie "Once" on the cover featuring me and Gel Hansard. No mention is made of Once though and I just look like a street drunk hassling Glen as he plays. I don't know- I'm considering legal action against the Publishers.

I had made the mistake of telling Katri that The Leprechaun Museum, (- no,  no link here) was open so she insisted we go. Alas it was full- which I don't really believe but I was glad of it as I hate all talk of leprechauns which are an invention of the English. When the revolution comes all images of leprechauns will be banned and anyone sporting those stupid green hats with the red wigs and beards attached will be made to do community service. Anyway Katri was disappointed but Paivi promised her she'd bring her another day.
That was about all the culture I could handle so  we legged it back to the car and vamoosed home.

Glad I went into town though. I enjoyed Culture Night..........no need for the revolver after all.

THEATREclub

I was liaising with Grace Dyas from THEATREclub  about why THEATREclub should make a play about my life. I think she was only half listening but she asked me to make a film outlining why they should. What? A film pitching an idea for a play. I recognise that for what it was.... a delaying tactic. Well Hah! Grace Dyas I did do it. My borrowed camera doesn't record sound so I thought  about a silent movie- too much hard work. Then I thought I could just record a soundtrack seperately and synch it on Windows movie maker. The it turns out that I don't have Windows Movie Maker but the much inferior  Windows Live Movie Maker which is I think another case of if it ain't broke........
Annyway here it is ...

still waiting to hear from them

Locky Morris

I drove up to Belfast today to see Locky Morris's retrospective exhibition: this then in the Golden Thread Gallery.
http://www.goldenthreadgallery.co.uk/

I first saw his work twenty years ago on the walls of The Well Fed Cafe in The Dublin Resource Centre- painted dust bin lids and cardboard land rovers, in either 89 or 90. I saw more  the following year on a trip to London in either The Tate or The Whitechapel. It wasn't like anything anyone else was doing. I was in Derry on a theatre gig in 91 and lots of people were  talking about him.  I thought he had given up art for music and  because I'm so out of touch with the Irish Art scene I missed his exhibitionat Mother's Tank Station in May.
  http://artpatrol.blogspot.com/2010/05/locky-morris-7-april-15-may-2010.html

But seeing those cardboard land rovers and bin lids was like travelling back in time to a time when I was actually excited about art.

It's okay with me

It's okay with me, originally uploaded by parkadge.

These are small pieces about 30 x 30 coms. This is based on the last scene in "The long Goodbye" movie by Robert Altman. I was going to add a 3D figure but thought better of it.

Happy People In the Sun

Happy People In the Sun, originally uploaded by parkadge.

This was meant to have some figures in it sitting on top of the column but they never got made

Rough unprofitable Ground

Rough unprofitable Ground, originally uploaded by parkadge.

one of the pieces from The Hello in Blue exhibition at the axis Ballymun Dublin

City work

Eagle Mask

Cairo Gang

More old images transferred from Village photo

more old work