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jo anne butler
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Jo anne Butler grew up in Ballyhaunis Co.
Mayo, she graduated from NCAD sculpture
in 2005.
Jo anne makes sculptures, drawings, animations
and musical visuals about travel, nature,
photocopiers, romanticism, loss, radios
and country music.
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lorraine walsh-colon
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Graduated from NCAD 2005 with first class
honors in fine art and art history. She
is currently working towards an MA in Fine
art painting in NCAD. She work predominantly
in oil and acrylic eggshell on canvas.
Are we traveling past the boundary of
familiar places towards familiar non-places
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airports, train stations, motorways?
Are we looking for freedom of place, and
of identity,or freedom from ?
Who will we be if we have no place ?
Do we want to be anyone?
Are we clothing our safety in a strait-jacket
uniform of regulations to guard our freedom
of movement?
Are we playing by the rules of NO-man
In no-mans land?
Do we want to play by the rules?
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nadja haefeli
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Nadja is a Swiss born artist who graduated
from NCAD painting in 2005. She recently
exhibited in the Ashford gallery “Emerging
Artists’ show.
My recent work examines the way in which
landscape becomes an object of desire and
consumption. I use various painterly processes
to create images of ‘wild’ landscape
that is safely domesticated. These paintings
reference the sort of image encountered
in holiday brochures and estate agent advertising-
the image as an adjustment to the idea of
the environment as a desirable and satisfying
commodity.
In this way ‘nature’ becomes
a pleasant backdrop to the ‘drama’
of wanting and getting. While this work
has a general reference, at the moment I
am using imagery that is particularly Swiss.
For instance, I make paintings, based on
stills from an old film. Here domesticated
landscape, childhood and idealised family
and social relationships combine to create
images that blend themselves to mass consumption-
a precursor to the Disney-fiction of later
American and international culture. Here
is a situation in which the ‘other’
has become safely consumable as an image
or virtual object.
My paintings are self- aware in that they
address that shallowness without overtly
trying to undermine it or reference ‘meaning’
as an antidote!
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robert jackson
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Robert is currently pursuing an MA in fine
art print in Dundee College of Art, he graduated
from NCAD in 2005. My work focuses on the
exploration of imagery to convey the relationships
of human figures in staged, artificial situations
to explore ideas of
false narratives and contrived situations.
I am interested in notions of the human
gaze within the context of false and contrived
narratives. I am investigating these interests
using collage, printmaking, painting and
drawing techniques.
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