Exhibition and Programme Launch
The 2018 Resort Revelations Exhibition and Programme were officially launched by Councillor Anthony Lavin, Mayor of Fingal. The evening included an exhibition of new work by Ciaran Murphy, Bennie Reilly, Difference Engine and Marie Farrington.
There was also a performance of work by Jessica Foley of Difference Engine and a card game to introduce Bennie Reilly’s Souvenirs of Portrane, Resort Revelations’ limited-edition card decks. Souvenir decks of cards were available free to visitors of the exhibition and at the Cabinet of Curiosities at Newbridge House at tours of Bennie Reilly’s work there.
Bennie Reilly—Souvenirs of Portrane
A selection of natural curiosities collected on the beaches of Portrane including highly unusual seashells, strange rock formations and other questionable artefacts. Bennie Reilly presented work in The Cabinet of Curiosities at Newbridge House. Tours of the work at Newbridge House took place on Saturday 8th and Saturday 15th 2018 at 2pm and 3pm each day. Tours of the work included a tour of the house.
Jessica Foley—Worldizing in the Modh Coinníollach: A writing workshop to see what condition our condition is in
Worldizing (a term/technique developed by Walter Murch in the 1970s) is about bringing sounds from one place into another and making an audio recording. The Modh Coinníollach is a tense in the Irish language that involves making affirmative statements in the conditional mood. This writing workshop with Jessica Foley introduced participants to both of these ideas and explored how they might help illuminate our relationship to technology and our sense of future through the wonderful world of the Gantt Chart.
Workshop with Ciaran Murphy
Ciaran Murphy invited participants to join him in an observational drawing workshop situated along the sites which inspired his work. Now that nearly everyone has ready access to a camera phone and can take a picture without much thought or effort, what is the point of trying to draw or paint outdoors? Perhaps this easy access to cameras has eroded our ability to look more closely at the world. Drawing demands close observation, and for the artist to be faced with the challenge of interpreting a world in motion. It also highlights the gap between intentions and outcomes.
This practical workshop looked at some of the key challenges and approaches to drawing and painting outdoors. It began by introducing techniques from art history, before venturing outside to explore the seascape.
Difference Engine—Image Engine: A Drawing Workshop
Image Engine was a short speedy workshop into colliding images where piles of words met participant’s machinic imaginations, where exploding thoughts were drawn onto paper, where labyrinths were decoded while the corpse was reconceived exquisitely.
Participants worked with Difference Engine artists on creating coloured drawings on paper using imaginative techniques that helped generate exciting and playful sketches, with an introduction to ‘exquisite corpse’, one of the favourite drawing games of the surrealists, and a brief look at the Celtic maze and its drawn construction.