Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Sketches
A few sketches that I found going through some note books. The fat lad with the fork is a guy who I sat beside in a cafe in Paris. I think he was Spanish, he had a really high pitched bird-like voice. Couldn't stop staring at him. He kept waving his fork at the guy he was squawking to, repeatedly saying 'Si, si, si... si, si si...' in his bizarre voice.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Abhainn Ri Festival programme Illo
Here's an illo I did for the cover of the Abhainn Ri festival programme in Callan. It's based on a logo they wanted to use on the cover. I felt that it need a a bit more detail if it was gto be used on the cover so we compromised on the below. The festival wrapped up on Sunday night with a fantastic parade. Really happy with how it turned out.
IDIP - Irish Dept Info-Graphics project
I recently contributed to a group show in IMOCA to highlight the scale of the national debt usin info-graphics. Our initial plan was to try an fill the space in the gallery with a physical number of 'something' equal to the current figure of the bailout.
Seeing as that figure was 70 BILLION, the something we chose would have to be very small. Sand was the perefct something so we set about calculating the ammount we would need to match the figure of 70BN.
Our figures widely varied from 12 tonnes to 200 tonnes. In the end we settled for 1 Billion grains of sand, 3 metric tonnes. Seeing that this didn't have the visual impact we desired we created a bar chart where 1mm equated to 1MILLION. The chart ran around the walls of the gallery to a length of 70metres.
Below is a scale version of 1mm and all the relevant figures within that tiny section of the enormous chart.
Seeing as that figure was 70 BILLION, the something we chose would have to be very small. Sand was the perefct something so we set about calculating the ammount we would need to match the figure of 70BN.
Our figures widely varied from 12 tonnes to 200 tonnes. In the end we settled for 1 Billion grains of sand, 3 metric tonnes. Seeing that this didn't have the visual impact we desired we created a bar chart where 1mm equated to 1MILLION. The chart ran around the walls of the gallery to a length of 70metres.
Below is a scale version of 1mm and all the relevant figures within that tiny section of the enormous chart.
Elements Show
I was recently invited to makea submission for the new elemnt show in the Science Gallery. Gav Beattie from Tiny little horse was currating the event and the quality of work really surpassed my expectations. The Irish Times did a feature on the opening wknd and I was lucky enough to get my piece in print.
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