Tasting. Come and celebrate the long-awaited arrival of this year Beaujolais Nouveau with friends and colleagues and, in the company of an expert, discover other vintage wines from this lovely region of France (Brouilly, Juliénas, Moulin à Vent, Fleurie …) in the setting of a festive evening with music, a magician and local food products (cheese, paté, saucisson...) to accompany the wine tasting! We are also honoured to welcome H.E. Roé d’Albert, Ambassador of France in Ireland, to this event. Presented by The Alliance Française in partnership with the Ireland France Chamber of Commerce, with the support of La Rousse Foods, Perrier and Domaine Manoir du Carra.
trust 
learn tatting ! 
I’ve been keeping lots of stuff in my diary over the past year of images from different artists to do with certain animals, some folklore, in particular little red riding hood. I liked the idea of little red wearing wolf masks. So people wearing weird animal masks also became a tangent in work. Images of houses in woods too dominated. I’d been looking over my old landscape paintings and got to thinking what would lurk within. The woods have always been a sinister place for me, a good thing not a bad thing. As is often the cause the eureka moment came from something I was reading. A particular phrase will stand out and sure enough it will sum up better than I ever could exactly what it is I’m looking for. The title of the piece’s in the show “Half Glimpsed Things Waiting Within” came form a small piece of text by the writer Sebastian Barry describing his mother and her love of ghostly things. As they passed a hut in a desolate place she casually remarked, “that’s where they put your one”. I love that many things can be read into this and the story its self probably has many versions. The phase “half glimpsed “ just clicked. It reminded me of these houses in two tiny towns in New Zealand. They just had this weird sort of timeless feel. When it comes to writing about the evolution of work I get like an angst ridden kid who just wants to go outside and play so I'll post one of my “flow” charts as well, this will illustrate my madness as regard my thought processes. The medium was just pencil on gesso, I did not get to paint which I wanted to do but I was glad with the results and kept them as simple as possible. Billy too being a mask made an appearance. You can make up your own stories as to what they mean. (sorry images are not the best quality)
My initial idea came from the 'medieval beasteries' which were illustrated manuscripts that were based on parables about animals. There was one called 'the book of beasts' which I like the sound of. The parables were based on the behaviour of the animal, but because they had only ever heard some of these animals described they got creative with their descriptions of them. For example they thought there were such things as unicorns, dragons and sea monsters called 'sawfish'. They're full of random stuff like this: "The wolf may not bend his neck backward in no month of the year but in May alone, when it thundereth." You have to love it.
My ideas branched off a little and my illustrations became portraits of people dressing up as these animals, seeing as the animals themselves were metaphors for human behaviour. There's lots more I want to do with this whole thing but it might take a different form or style when I approach it again. I'm not quite done with it yet... yes, that means more human/animal stuff, I apologise in advance : )
Denise
PeepShow
To kick off OFFSET 2009 we have asked the sauciest creatives around what turns the on for an X-rated gallery show. The walls of the intimate Monster Truck Gallery will be filled with images exploring their darkest, erotic, sexy thoughts and weird fetishes. Be warned this will be a strictly over 18 show and not for the faint-hearted.
Featuring work by Tim Biskup, Tara McPherson, Gaetan Billault, Jon Burgerman, BRENB, Airside, Serge Seidlitz, Micheal Gillette, Steve Simpson, Mike Perry, Chris Judge, TADO, Clíona O’Flaherty, Brian Cronin, Jeremyville, D.A.D.D.Y, Richard Hogg, Nate Williams, Richard Gilligan, Scalder, Asbestos, Conor & David, Aisling Farinella, Cliona O’Flaherty, M&E, Alan Clarke, Brian Coldrick, Phil Dunne, danleo, Ana Benaroya and more.
The exhibition will open Monday 2nd of November at Monster Truck Gallery on Francis Street, Dublin 8 at 7pm and will run until Sunday 8th of November.
ADMISSION: FREE
OFFSET 2009 is week long creative festival culminating in a 3 day conference taking place in Dublin’s Liberty Hall Theatre from Friday 6th-Sunday 8th November. Bringing together the world’s leading creatives we are producing an event that will both showcase the best work being done today as well as engaging with the creative community at large for a week of celebration, debate and inspiration.
On at Monstertruck
what is left behind
