I have decided to offer some of the drawings from my solo exhibition 'Out of Order' at a reduced price of €100 until Christmas. Pictured are a selection but others are available. If you're interested please send email me to arrange a visit to my studio.
Size including frame: 32.5 cm x 23.5 cm
I've added some new content to some of my youtube playlists and created a new one for lectures by designers. My playlist of artists talks compiles over 100 lectures by artists and has a total running time of 115 hours 13 mins 51 seconds.
Tentamen was a group exhibition in a Georgian House at 13 North Great George's Street. Below are some images of my work and a video walkthrough of the show.
The exhibition also featured the work of Lucy Andrews, Alan Butler, Joseph Coveney, Aoibheann Greenan, David Eager Maher and John O’Connell.
Untitled #151, Douglas Fir, 800cm x 800cm x 800cm, 2010
Andreas Wilder makes large sculptures by stacking lengths of timber. Many of these are temporary and as the projects end they are knocked down like dominoes.
More about Aeneas Wilder's work
The chromatophores in a squid stimulated by Cypress Hill's Insane in the Membrane.
More info here
Original pencil drawing on tracing paper. This was scanned and turned in a vector in Illustrator.
Pieces being cut from 4mm birch ply.
The sculpture as a wall mounted piece.
This turned out to be a stubborn piece of ply and required 3 passes of the laser to fully cut through. This resulted in more orange staining (caused by smoke) then would typically be the case, though I quite like the added variation in colouring.
"He (David Nash) first carved a rough sphere... and intended to take this back to his studio. However, access was up a long steep track and at 400 kg and a metre wide, this 'boulder' was dangerous to move downhill. So instead Nash used a nearby stream, where rocky banks would contain the momentum of its descent.
However, a little way down the bank, the boulder became wedged in a waterfall. Nash had no option but to leave it there. It looked good in the streaming water, and so Nash began photographing it... the journey of Wooden Boulder had begun.
The following March heavy rainfall shifted Wooden Boulder into the pool below. Still with the intention of moving it to his studio, Nash hauled it out of the stream and rolled it down the next waterfall to the pool below, where it remained for eight years. It became obvious that the Wooden Boulder belonged to the stream; over the next 24 years it moved nine times during storms, eventually floating into the River Dwyryd estuary. Nash says of Wooden Boulder, 'It is important to the narrative of this "free-range"; sculpture that its material formed and grew on the hill over two centuries. I did not take the wood up the hill. The narrative, like the material, grew organically.'
Text quoted from the Kew Gardens website
Here is a video of Nash talking about Wooden Boulder and another work
Creating a window drawing for Solstice as part of Cork Midsummer festival.
Loitering Theatre is a project by Nina McGowan and Caroline Campbell which "uses customised helicopters (the AR.Drone) to fly beyond the normal street view to access and film previously inaccessible and unseen views of the city". It was shown at the Science Gallery, Dublin as a part of Hack the City. Above is a clip from a longer video.
Nina and Caroline collaborate together also using the name Loitering Theatre.
Structural Constellation, machine engraved vinylite and wood, 1963
A selection of these works were on view at the Lewis Glucksman gallery for the exhibition The Sacred Modernist: Josef Albers as a Catholic Artist.
This is a new version of a booklet first produced in 2006. The booklet has been redesigned and some changes made to the content.
Each of these word loops takes a pair of words with opposite meanings as its starting point. A thesaurus was used to find a synonym for one of these words and then to find a synonym for that synonym and so on. Each new word suggested by thesaurus involves a slight slippage of meaning. These slippages accumulate resulting in a complete inversion of the original meaning. This process is repeated using the second word from the pair until the loop has been completed.
If you would like to receive a complimentary copy please send me your address: niall(at)nialldebuitlear.com
Artist Jeremy LeClair, of Various Artists Records, had these beautiful glass resonating phonograph horns made for him by glass artist Joe Forestall and now he can acoustically play to two different parts of a record at the same time!
Via Make
A low-cost device for clearing landmines designed by Massoud Hassani featured in the Design Museum's Designs of the Year Show.
Via the Guardian.
Sol LeWitt, Three Stacked Domes, 2005, solid slabs of syntactic polyurethane and painted in lacquer, EDITION/SET OF: 6
(Looks a bit like a snowman)
Paintings by Ky Anderson via Juxtapoz
