Neo-Politik

I  recently styled a Photoshoot for CULT Magazine feat actress Eva Jane Gaffney. The concept consisted of a young Joseph Stalin transcending the space time continuum and meeting Margaret Thatcher in 1979. This Joseph Stalin is untouched by his future legacy and at this point remains idealistic. He is 23. Their ensuing political discord and widely divergent philosophies inflame a passion that consumes them. Margaret is more mature, Joseph is far younger but her intellectual equal.The social and economic backdrop is austere the music is Kraftwerk.

 

 

All clothes courtesy of GollyGosh Boutique Crown Street Temple Bar Dublin

Art Direction and Styling: Mark Dempsey

Photography: Tess Bunworth

Models:  Eva Jane Gaffney & Aodhan

As featured in Cult available online here

A Multidimensional Construct of the Self

According to Sharon Gill, Body Image is "a multidimensional construct of the self, consisting of how individuals think, feel and behave regarding their own physical attributes. It comprises the various cognitions an individual has about his/her body, as well as the behaviours he/she engages in as a means of maintaining and enhancing physical appearance"

Below is the Thesis I wrote for my Bachelors Degree accompanied by its Wordle(the bigger the word the more it's used.) This was a difficult endeavor. Due not only to a particularly heavy studio workload but also the challenge of writing a body of work such as this and how the breadth of research and its subsequent writing has challenged the prism through which I view myself, the world and my place in it. I wrote most of it while I should have been doing studio work or sleeping. It is one of the pieces I left my degree with that I'm most proud of. 



An Exploration Into Body Image Issues In Gay Men

Youth in Trouble

My favourite band of the past decade, The Presets, return with a new video 'Youth in Trouble' to lead the new album 'Pacifica'.


   

Balance to the force returned it has!

via

The Great Escape

Subtle, effective, sublime

Disruptive Wonder for a Change

Kelli Anderson: Design to challenge reality.

 

A fascinating and good natured talk given by Kelli Anderson challenging our perceptions about a number of everyday things through design. 

Beginners

A friend sent me this saying that it resonated with her and she heard me in everyword.

Ira Glass on Storytelling from David Shiyang Liu on Vimeo.

It was a real compliment.

IamAmIWhoAmI

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#visual_artist

.Maria Wilson {website}

"There are no facts, only interpretations" Friedrich Nietzsche

Hyponotic Spectacle

"This body of work has been investigating the media's portrayal of current affairs and politics and its creation of a surreal spectacle. The power dynamic between the viewer and the media has been one of passivity. Lulled by the continual bombardment of the invented reality created by the media, through the hypnotic spectacle generated by the colours and flickering lights on screen, it mesmerises the viewer as the newsreader presents the stories of the day. “

#neo-camp

.luke howlin {how to look straight}

How To Look Straight from luke howlin on Vimeo.

#visual_artist

.rachel healy {website blog}

Hide and Seek (Part Two) from Rachel Healy on Vimeo.

Proud Marky

A pencil and water colour by artist Sharon Hayes, I'm the one with the Pride flag hair!

Savage Article

This morning I read this article in the Financial Times Magazine about the exhibition, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty’(Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 4 to July 31) and the McQueen archive.

 Via  FT.com and Alexander McQueen

Pig Dog Studios (i)

I used to share studio space in Dublin a few years ago. These are some shots of a piece I made taken by my friend Kate O Brien during our time there. We staged the shoot together and these are some of the results, modeled by my cousin Erica.

It's the first finished sculptural/accessory/fashion piece I ever made and probably the most personal and emotionally motivated.  My degree collection is based on a film as was my third year statement collection so have not been exercised to the same personal level. The energy I once put into the concept I have, while in college, put into the technical side of things in terms of designing, illustrating, pattern making and finishing. Enthusiasm allowing, I hope to return to more personal narratives in the future.

 

 

The Floating Dress

 

A video directed by Hussein Chalayan.

Untitled

A sculptural piece I created in early 2008.