Gottfried Helnwein  @ Greyfriars Gallery

Sunday Independent Ireland Emily Hourican

'It was intuition. I'd never been here before.

Gottfried Helnwein Exhibition in Cork

With his bandanna and long dark hair, wearing something that looks like a flak jacket, swarthy Gottfried Helnwein could be a guerrilla or a pirate-revolutionary.
But the rock 'n' roll lifestyle and 17th-Century castle in Co Tipperary adorned with huge canvases tell a different story. He's an artist of serious international reputation, veteran of many controversies, who counts Sean Penn, Marilyn Manson, Norman Mailer and, once, Marlene Dietrich among his friends.

download an invitation to Helnwein launch party and pass for Miss Brown To You Concert

An evening with Miss Brown To You @ Dooleys Hotel after the launch

Waterford group Miss Brown To You had phenomenal success

in the ‘90’s playing numerous sell out concerts around the country.

Appearances at the Cork Jazz Festival, Galway Arts Festival, Olympia

Theatre Dublin, Kilkenny Arts Week combined with guest appearances

on The Late Late Show, Kenny Live, Dave Fanning Show and with

Dolores Keane, Christy Moore and Mary Black made them one of the

hottest bands in the country.

Their particular laid back style of music, “new meaning to female harmony.

.takes you all the way back to The Andrews Sisters” – Irish Times, gav

e a new & unique access to blues music.

They return to the Waterford stage for one night only as part of Waterford

Fringe Festival @ Dooleys Hotel Waterford Fri Sept 7th @ 930pm.

Emer Powell (vocals, guitar), Paula Minchen (vocals, guitar),

Orla Powell (vocals), Richie Evans (base) Billy Barnes (electric guitar).

Guest appearance Singer/Songwriter Niall Powell & Pat Cosgrave.

An evening not to be missed.

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Graham Knuttel @ La Palma

I changed from being an alcoholic to a workaholic overnight with
sensational results. Nowadays painting is an obsession for me. I have a
strict discipline and I work from first light every morning until
darkness, and beyond. As I work, I use as source matter my experiences as
a younger man. I like to paint the human predicament as I have seen it. Myfigures appear in an urban landscape of which I am part. I try to use
colour and form to express the emotion of my figures. I have recently
developed this to include portraiture which I find exhilarating. I prefer
a nightmare world full of shadows where danger and savagery is always
close to hand. 

My own doubts and fears and hopes are expressed on the faces that appear in the bars and backrooms in my work. 
Mr. Punch is my alter ego. He reflects my moods. We fight the same battles from the same cupboards. 

I return in my work constantly to still-life as a source of inspiration.
Its potential for simplicity and invention and its deep roots in tradition
bring me back to my student studies of Cézanne and Picasso. 

I try not to concern myself overly with intellectual reasoning or planning
in my work. As a hard-working painter, my concerns are mainly technical, practical and immediate. My concern is to paint the picture first and
think about it afterwards. That way I can progress in a proper manner.
Above all I try to speak with my own voice and see with my own eyes

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Brian Macbeth @ The Granary

" Virtual Dreams in Imaginary Cities "

 

Brian Macbeth was born in Pensacola, Florida

where early on he developed

a fascination with the brilliant turquoise

and ultramarine colours of the Gulf of Mexico.

 

This attraction is present in his work which

involves building layers of depth and color volume

using a variety of media such as oil and

acrylic on canvas and perspex.

 

"Themes in my art involve compositions

on urban culture blending figurative,

abstract and architectural forms in

subjective landscapes of measured closeness.

I am interested in describing islands of nature

surrounded by concrete man made objects.

The paintings can be seen as self-portraits

emerging from the interior landscapes of my imagination."

 

Look for a musical element to his paintings in rich

color and form, vibrating in a certain harmonious flux.

 

Currently he is pursuing a Research M.A. in Painting at W.I.T.

 

brianmacbeth@hotmail.com

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Jimmy Kelly @ Dooleys Hotel

Jimmy Kelly is an emerging artist whose subject matters varies from the figurative to the natural landscape. Self taught, he works mainly in oils and has been painting for the past four years. Texture and colour are big considerations in his work, as he seeks to combine the two in interesting and colourful designs. While a consistent style is evident, he experiments with a variety of surfaces, from canvas to primed masonite boards, dependent on the subject. His influences range from the early Russian impressionists to more modern day masters such as the American painter, Harley Brown.
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Dorian Van Braam @ L'Atmosphere Restasurant

 

 Dutch heritage, English born, and brought up and educated in Ireland from the age of 4,Dorian truly has an international background.

      With a keen interest in art and design from infancy dorian progressed through a number of stages as he matured. Design turned into cartoon work and later caricaturing furthering to fantasy art-work and finally as he broke into his twenties found his feet with full scale realist and surrealist figurative works.

    After his secondary education he moved to Madrid in Spain where he lived and worked as an artist, executing private commissions whilst working on the progression of his techniques and style. Entirely self taught through little more than hard work and practice his style and subject matters continue to develop, and willing to try his hand at anything who knows where his quasi-classical  style will end up.

    On returning to Ireland in late 2004 he embarked upon his first solo exhibition showing in the Jones gallery Dungarvan,with widespread appraisal and promising sales. The artist himself then took up the task of converting an old stable house at the family home in Fiddown,county Kilkenny, into a purpose built studio and exhibiting space, with further plans for artists studios and a public gallery. His second solo exhibition showed in late 2006 in this new space, and later had a retrospective of his past work. Most recently exhibiting in a group show in the framing studio in Waterford. Already with works in private collections in Ireland, the UK and Spain and at just 22 there’s a lot more to come and is an exciting prospect for the future as well as the present! He is currently working on a collection of works for various venues later this year so keep your ear to the ground.

Download an invite to Dorians Exhibition at L Atmosphere Restaurant

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Contempory Irish Art Exhibition @ Garter Lane Theatre

 

Red Terrain by Ger Sweeney

Green Cranes by Paula Minchin

Cabin Fever by Pat Murphy

Painting by Francis Tansey

Painting by Mickey Hendry

Painting by John McGlinchy

Painting by Mercedes Helnwein

Graham Knuttel

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Omerta

 

by John O Connell

 

Espresso, Parnell St.

 

John O Connell’s latest collection, a rogue’s gallery of twelve portraits of Mafiosi, can be seen in the suitably Italian surroundings of Espresso, Parnell St. Named after the Mafia’s code of silence, Omerta features the faces of some of La Cosa Nostra’s most notorious names - like John Gotti, Al Capone and Charles “Lucky” Luciano (pictured).  

 

A rising star on the art scene, John O Connell’s often controversial work is well known and regarded in Waterford and beyond. It has been featured extensively in the national press, and is included in the Waterford Municipal Collection, and the collection of the OPW.

 

Visit John’s website at www.mondojohn.com.

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Manifesto Art Gallery Group Show

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Peer to Peer @ Garter Lane Gallery

Barbara Wheeler-Connolly by Lorna Corrigan, Acrylic on Paper, 72x53cm, 2007

Garter Lane Arts Centre is delighted to present Peer-to-Peer, a series of portraits in a variety of media by KCAT (Kilkenny Collective for Arts Talent) artists and mentors on Saturday 8th September at 2pm at Garter Lane Gallery, 5 O’Connell Street, (beside Delaney’s Florists), Waterford www.garterlane.ie.

 

Cllr Mary O’Halloran, Mayor of Waterford, will open the exhibition, followed by an introduction to the works by Michael Beirne, Lecturer of Art, Waterford Institute of Technology. The arts centre is pleased to run workshop for schools every Wednesday for the duration of the exhibition from 11am to 12 noon and prebooking is essential on 051-855038.

 

The Peer-to-Peer exhibition is the culmination of a portrait project involving the artists and mentors in KCAT (Kilkenny Collective for Arts Talent). In an environment where the learning between mentor and studio artists goes both ways, this exhibition visually highlights those involved. All the artists picked names from a hat in order to determine their subject, then began the challenge of deciding how to portray and represent their peer. There were no restrictions on method or materials, and work produced includes  print, paint, woodcut, stitch, sculpture and collage. An integral part of the process was the free-flowing interaction between each artist and subject, communicating styles and intentions for their work.

 

Selected as part of the inaugural Arts Council Touring Experiment, the show will travel to Airfield Trust Dublin, Garter Lane Arts Centre Waterford, Aras Eanna Inis Oirr, and the Burren College of Art Clare throughout 2007 and into 2008.

 

The artists involved in this project are Lorna Corrigan, John Carroll, Andrew Pike, Eileen Mulrooney, Declan Kennedy, Karl Fitzgerald, Jason Turner, Thomas Barron, George McCutcheon, Margaret Walker, Mary Cody, Francis Casey, Sinéad Fahey, Jean Conroy, Declan Byrne, Saturio Alonso, Barbara Wheeler

Connolly, Aifric Gray, Paul Bokslag, Stephane Kiszak, Noortje van Deursen and Steven Aylin.

 

The work in this exhibition goes on tour and is in principle not for sale.  However those interested can contact KCAT Art & Study Centre, Mill Lane, Callan, Co. Kilkenny, 056-7755115, info@kcat.ie, www.kcat.ie for further details.

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