Apologies for the lateness in getting this up, today (Friday 29 th May) is the your last chance to see this exhibition
Walking down to the Civic Offices this week is well worth the trip all the way to Wood Quay. In the sunny atrium, you’ll find a cracker of an exhibition. Ink Asylum is a show of first year student work from the Higher National Diploma in Illustration at Ballyfermot College of Further Education.
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June 6th is Drawing Day – a worldwide drawing event encouraging everyone to drop everything and draw for the sake of art. Online art communities are working together to aim for one million drawings. More info here.
The family of Dublin signwriter Kevin Freeney (1919-1986) have recently posted a fascinating collection of photographs of his work. Check them out on Flickr here.
“Signwriting goes back at least three generations in his family. Back in the 1930’s he rambled through Dublin’s streets on a bike or with a pushcart carrying his paints and brushes. In that period the city’s streetscapes were elegantly embroidered with handwritten shop and pub fascias. Having done ‘at least 700 pubs and shopfronts’ in Dublin, the most famed streets -O’Connell, Henry, Grafton, and Capel- all carried his personalised three-dimensional relief lettering and ornamentation. His fellow craftsmen hailed him as a “Master” - Dublin Street Life & Lore by Kevin C. Kearns.
The CandyCollective presents SweetTalk 35 on Thursday May 28th 2009 at the Sugar Club, 8 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin 2. Featuring Alex Trochut, Ian Stevenson and Gaetan Billault. Admission is €10.
Sleight of Hand is another CandyCollective event taking place on Friday the 29th at at Urban Outfitters, Cecilia Street, Dublin 2 from 5pm until 9pm in aid of the Simon Community.
This week’s New Yorker cover, illustrated by Jorge Colombo, was created on iPhone using the app Brushes while standing for an hour outside Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in Times Square. You can also record your drawings using Brushes Viewer. Full article here.
For this month’s sketchbook, Brian Fitzgerald has come up with yet another wonderful insight into his childhood. Thanks Brian. (more…)
Ballyfermot Illustration Higher National Diploma student show, Ink Asylum , is a show of student work from the first year of the course. The show starts on Monday, 25 May and runs to Friday, 29 May in the Civic Offices on Wood Quay in Dublin.
This Saturday 23.05.09 as part of National Drawing Day, the Science Gallery will be running a drop in event where, with the help of artist/scientist and Kiss Culture creator Maria Phelan, you can get creative and doodle, sketch, paint or draw a whole world of infections, bacteria, viruses and parasites. You can also help us build our Phylogenetic Tree mobile which will show the evolutionary path of all bacteria and viruses! Get your creative mojo going and join us at the Science Gallery.
23.05.09 @ 13:00-18:00
Any time I’m stuck for inspiration I find flicking through the books on my shelves always helps but I’ve recently started finding more an more group pools of fantastic illustration work in all types of genres on Flickr. Here’s a great mid-century illustrated pool I recently found with a great diverse selection of work you can lose a whole afternoon to.
Images: Charlie Harper
Working simply with woven paper, illustrator Christopher Niemann publishes another interesting visual essay for the New York Times, when he examines his own history with the Berlin Wall. Check it out here.
