Niall Flahertyportfolio and news

Kate Minnock has just launched her website at http://www.kateminnock.com Kate has exhibited nationally and internationally, including a solo exhibition as part of Kilkenny Arts Festival ‘06 and in group exhibitions as part of TULCA, Claremorris Open Exhibition, Galway Arts Centre & Monster Truck Gallery & Studios, Dublin. In 2008 Minnock had a two-person exhibition titled ‘Cellscape’, with Damien Flood, was part of ‘About 100 Experiments’, and had a solo exhibition at thisisnotashop, Dublin.

For her show in thisisnotashop Kate presented an exhibition of new works called ‘Karkinoma’. Her current practice spans site-specific installation, digital & Fine Art print & drawing. This research-based exhibition was influenced by the work of Dr. Angel H. Roffo. His groundbreaking research was presented at the 2nd International Congress of Scientific and Social Campaign Against Cancer in 1936 to over 200 eminent cancer research specialists. See work from the show here.

Dominic Thorpe’s new website by Artist-makers Online can be viewed here. It’s not 100% finished but there’s a lot of great content up and is well worth a look.

Recently Dominic has been working with The Performance Collective ( link ) which includes artists Pauline Cummins, Frances Mezzetti, Michelle Browne, Alex Conway and Amanda Coogan. He has performed his piece ‘Between Words‘ at Catalyst Arts in Belfast and Circa Salon 2 at Thisisnotashop. Dominic has also recently collaborated with Brian Maguire and Brian O’Connor on Signatures, a public art project in Dun Laoghaire Rathdown.

Artist-makers Online have just completed a site for Irish artist Felicity Clear. Felicity is an artist and educator based in Dublin, who works in a variety of media, most recently exhibiting acrylic and graphite works on paper in venues such as The Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, The Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, The Galway Arts Centre and The Lab Gallery, Dublin.

“Felicity Clear’s large-scale works – graphite drawing and acrylic on paper – of high-rise modernist building schemes and open spaces of suburban parking lots with their expanse of low-rise trailer town sprawl, seem at once familiar, immediately recognisable, and yet, at the same time unfamiliar. They are of real buildings made strange. Isolated, distorted, distant. It is as if we have found ourselves in the midst of a dream, overing at its rim, a feeling of uneasiness pervades as of a jolted shock at sudden unexpected recognition. Before us lies the unreachable city – outcrops of buildings, some still in the process of development – building sites with ghost-cranes, cut off behind hoardings, or walls; masonry islands surrounded by water, or barely visible in the distance through endless rows of regimented trees. The skies above always large, open, vivid – soiled yellowy sunsets, muddied clouds drenched through purple water-filled skies, or startling blues and greens, or where clouds are swept forth like alien spaceships emphasising a romantic torrid, a certain playfulness. Felicity’s works possess a fictional quality of the fairytale but are imbued with a contemporary haunting, the possibility that here we are not on certain ground.”

From ‘Place(s) Without Place’, essay by Cliodhna Shaffrey, September ‘07

She currently has her work on view in the Patrick Scott-designed dining room of The Central Bank in Dublin. You can view her site at here.