Hold Still #3
Oil on panel, 12×12 inches
These small oil paintings are part of a series that are partly
about the bog and bog bodies, partly about the isolation of lockdown, and partly about the experiences of asylum
seekers in Ireland, trapped in a kind of stasis, sometimes waiting
years in the abhorrent system of Direct Provision for their applications
to be processed.
Hold Still #2
Oil on panel, 12×12 inches.
These small oil paintings are part of a series that are partly
about the bog and bog bodies, partly about the isolation of lockdown, and partly about the experiences of asylum
seekers in Ireland, trapped in a kind of stasis, sometimes waiting
years in the abhorrent system of Direct Provision for their applications
to be processed.
Hold Still #1
Oil on panel, 8×8 inches.
Finally finished these paintings I posted about back in December.
Holding Still (Part IV)
The final part of this zine I made.
Holding Still is available as a digital download on Gumroad for €8 and all proceeds will go towards maternity kits for the Danú Project, supporting asylum seekers in Ireland who are pregnant or have young children.
You can also read the full zine on my website here:
Holding Still (Part III)
Holding Still is available as a digital download on Gumroad for €8 and all proceeds will go towards maternity kits for the Danú Project, supporting asylum seekers in Ireland who are pregnant or have young children.
You can also read the full zine on my website here:
Holding Still (Part II)
Holding Still is available as a digital download on Gumroad for €8 and all proceeds will go towards maternity kits for the Danú Project, supporting asylum seekers in Ireland who are pregnant or have young children.
You can also read the full zine on my website here:
Holding Still (Part I)
Holding Still is available as a digital download on Gumroad for €8 and all proceeds will go towards maternity kits for the Danú Project, supporting asylum seekers in Ireland who are pregnant or have young children.
You can also read the full zine on my website here:
this turned into a bigger project than I anticipated
Most of my attention lately has been poured into a project that at one point I intended to be a quick, messy, angry zine about Direct Provision. Now it’s a shaping up to be a series of approximately 30 small mixed media paintings.
It’s taken me a while and a fair amount of experimentation to decide what combination of techniques would let me get as close as possible to the pictures I see in my head when I think about how I want this work to look.
I’ve been reworking some old abstract paintings where I’d messed around with gesso and impasto acrylic trying to generate texture using knives, clingfilm, anything that came to hand. A layer of gold metallic acrylic paint acts like trapped light so that later layers of darker oil paint are infused with warmth. These upper layers of burnt umber and sienna tones can be scraped back to reveal a kind of internal glow, like heat trapped in the earth.
Some works in progress. These small oil paintings (12×12″) are part of a series that are partly about the bog and bog bodies, and partly about the experiences of asylum seekers in Ireland, trapped in a kind of stasis, sometimes waiting years in the abhorrent system of Direct Provision for their applications to be processed.
