Niall Flaherty

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Blue bridge behaviour

‘blue bridge behaviour’ – an evolving flash animation Formal systems created by people for people, like cities, buildings and traffic lights, and people contained within systems created by people. Behaviour expected by people, learned and modelled, simulated and repeated, people within people’s formal systems. (In blue)

Red Line – Yellow Line

‘red line – yellow line’ is a part of a visual investigation of accidental compositions produced from sorting random pieces of coloured paper and card, the paper is filmed on the studio floor and the shapes are explored for compositional potential, some moments of footage are kept and sorted into relationships, various modernist motifs are […]

The Haunted Castle of Leap

Castle Leap from Niall Flaherty on Vimeo. Date/Time: Monday, 21 – Sunday, 27 September Monday – Saturday: 12-7pm; Sunday: 12-5pm Venue: Ranelagh Arts Shop, 26 Ranelagh Tickets: Free A busload of artists from Ranelagh, and their friends- painters, photographers, video artists and scribes – descended on Leap Castle in Co. Offaly, home of Tin-Whistle ‘Maestro’ […]

In Mantua Me Genuit

Mantua is the townland in Roscommon where my maternal grandparents, great grandparents and great-great grandparents hailed from. This boggy townland with an Italian name was home to the Mantua Artists Residency, where I stayed during the Summer 2008. The video is about art-design, rural-urban, natural-manmade and the other tensions implied in revisiting a place where […]

Karaoke

An experimental video performance The Artist as Singer performs to camera and the recordings are layered over each other in digital video, in such a way as to acheive a painterly palette. Then the Artist as Editor plays with the video timeline, scrubbing the playhead back and forth while the piece is being recorded to […]