Why depict the DEVIL?
https://www.galleryx.ie/ The devil has appeared repeatedly in my recent work; in ceramic figures, painted plates and small theatrical scenes. Not as a religious certainty, but as a symbolic language through
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Everything and everyone we know is there
Over the past year my paintings have become increasingly shaped by trust in the unconscious. Rather than beginning with a fixed narrative or resolved composition, I start with fragments —
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A tribe of characters
These figures developed from an earlier tribe of ceramic sculptures made during lockdown titled Les Saltimbanques, inspired by Picasso’s painting of itinerant acrobats and outsiders living at the margins of
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To be dead and still living
I made my death mask . It’s not completely accurate as the face falls back when laying down changing the physiognomy. I am also not dead or sick. The process
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Fragmentation
I have cast small parts of things I have gathered. They are a little like a magpies selection of attractive parts that hold significance to me. Included are a Greek
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Personal archeology
These are my fingertips ( porcelain casts of) extremely fragile. They look eroded because I made a slip with discarded porcelain . They barely formed the fingers or survived being
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I know I know I know
My art practice is truly diverse . I work intuitively and I’m content to have several areas of work progressing simultaneously. What started as a survival strategy , tucking different
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The Great Collectors
There are a few reasons why I have set myself a portrait painting challenge. It’s a good excercise to paint from life. Observational work feeds all areas of my practice.
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Meanwhile I carve stone
Stone carving is the slower practise I employ and it runs on alongside everything else. It is arguably the most intentional as it’s the hardest ( literally) media to manipulate
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London Potters Article
I have felt a bit fraudulent being part of London Potters , I don’t see myself as a potter, and more importantly I don’t have access to the level of
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When the time comes
I have been working on this stone since September. It is a gravestone and it’s my gravestone. It’s been part of my grieving process since my parents died. Strange things
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My Eulogy
This won’t be the last art I make or the last thing I say about death but I am thinking less about death after a nourishing spell in Greece or
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