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Experimental wine I

27/8/2016

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This last month has been spent twiddling around with wine and rust. I had a metal bar of dubious origin sitting in Lidl's finest red Conde wine for a few weeks and decided to use a viscosity modifier to turn the dark red liquid into a gel and see if it would screen print.
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 I didn't have a screen with an image prepared so I thought I'd use things to block out sections instead. What I found floating around the studios were offcuts of some plastic vertical blind and a mesh (for allowing excess oil to drip off deep fried foods, I don't know why I have this). I laid down a piece of cotton sheet, then the blinds and mesh and then the screen.

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Once the screen was lifted, I removed the blocking items, placed a second piece of cotton sheet onto the table and pressed the remaining gel through the screen. This gave a sort of negative to the first print. Once dried, I ironed the sheet, which changed the colours to a more rusty shade. I left a bit unironed in the middle so you can see the shade difference.

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As there was quite a bit of gel on the blocking items, I placed them gel side up onto another table, placed a piece of cotton sheet over them and used a rolling pin to transfer onto the cloth.
And what if I tried superimposing stages? So I repeated the process, making the first print and placing the blocking items onto another table but this time, reusing the printed cloth to roll down onto the blocking items for a second transfer. Ooh, quite like that.
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 That leaves the second pass of the screen to come out like so:

Note: The more you iron, the more visible the details become. It's like being in the dark room and watching the images appear
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OK can't stop there. I tried all three stages onto the same bit of cotton sheet. I threw in a bit of net curtain for good measure:
Stage 1 - blocked print 
Satge 2 - blocking items onto another table and gel transfer using the rolling pin
Stage 3 - back under the screen at 180° to the original print
​A little overcharged but quite interesting. Can I do anything with that?
​Cliffhanger... !
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Waiting for the bus 

12/5/2016

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I must have waited at this bus stop a thousand times, watching the seasons turn a little every day, Our mother would walk up with us and when it was very cold, we would slip under the fold of her soft camel-beige coat, clinging to her legs and the scent of her soap until we could hear the strain of the bus's motor as it started up the hill towards us. We were still morning slow, condensation spiders were still scuttling up the single-glaze panes of our bedroom windows, egg shells still cooling on blue melamine saucers under yellow filament bulb and our breath streamed in clouds from our nostrils and lips where we stood, waiting. 
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Tranquil

2/5/2016

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It's virtually impossible to convey by photograph what it's like to be in a bluebell dell: Purple-blue hues that make your eyes almost buzz with intensity unfurling above the forest floor as far as you can see in all directions, their perfume hanging like evening  mists over shimmering stalks; the sound of woodland creatures building homes, the welcome warmth of a setting sun. A brief moment of wonder, a much welcomed moment of tranquility,
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North Eastern Easter

11/4/2016

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Military trees feted our approach to the Champenois capital. We were far from the swathes of fir and silver birch whose moss-softened under-storeys had offered us their intimate welcome over the post-equinox weekend. I thought of the first time I had heard of the Ardennes forest -in silvam Arduennam- Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars VI. Caesar was too full of ambition and strategy to look at what was around him. Enough was never enough. And I was too anxious about my grades in Latin to really think about what was being said in the texts to be translated. Yet here I was in the very same forest where all trace of battle, told and untold, good deeds and bad, had sunk under the roots such silent trees, hushed by the patter of raindrops and fallen leaves.
By the time daylight was waning, the Ardennes had long since given way to fields smoothed featureless and desolate by agricultural efficiency and the first buildings of the Réamois suburbs were breaking though the horizon. We talked of dinner and our return to Paris.
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Sample-Studios' 5th birthday article in the Irish Examiner

11/3/2016

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So pleased with Briona Gallagher's article written for the Irish Examiner on line  She came to the studios with a little camera and really got what we are about so quickly..If you take a look at the video, you might see work you recognise! 
​http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsfilmtv/public-invited-to-sample-a-world-of-art-behind-abandoned-walls-386273.html
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5th birthday for Sample-Studios 

6/3/2016

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When Gerald Heffernan and Emer ni Chiobhaín started pulling together the idea of forming a studio group in the empty government office building in Sullivan's Quay,Cork, it was only envisaged that Sample-Studios would run for a year but here we are 5 years later and  twice as big! Sample-Studios was officially founded on 11th Mar 2011 with just Ger, Emer and myself as its directors: Chairman, Company Secretary and Treasurer respectively. We scratched our signatures on the documents and then set off to make our name in the city. Now the studios are in the capable hands of Aideen Quirke, whose artistic direction has brought us on another level. With around 65 studios and 80+ artists, both performing and visual, the place is abuzz with ideas and significant collaborations begin over a cup of tea. Starting one of Ireland's biggest studios has been a progressive learning process but so well worth it.
​So now to mark the occasion, we have organised something for everybody in our birthday party next week, kicking off with the exhibition opening of our residency prize artist, Andrew McSweeney in the Tactic gallery on Thursday night and including family oriented workshops on Sunday. All events are listed on the Sample-Studios website 
http://www.sample-studios.com/events.html​
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Silver Lining

28/2/2016

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"Silver Lining", mixed media, 15cm x 22cm Kim-Ling Morris
It's time for the demise of my 2012 piece "You never know what Life may bring", I need the cable for my cable portraits. But every cloud has a silver lining and I''m getting to revisit other parts of the piece too.
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Synthetic Biology

22/2/2016

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What a fab day at SynBio Future 2016 Conference:Future Axioms in synthetic biology, listening to so many people with so many ideas for improving lives. A special shout for Bethan Wolfenden from Bento Lab who are putting out for crowd funding from 21st March. How could anyone not want at least one in each room and one for the car? http://www.bento.bio/
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From where you're standing

11/2/2016

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you might see things a little differently
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February Monkey, March Hare

11/2/2016

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Today, 09 February 2016, is the day when the Monkey meets the Hare. Kung Hee Fatt Choy to all! Lucky colours for the Year of the Monkey are blue, white and gold and accordingly, Mr Usagi Hare is sporting his most auspicious coat. The main blue hue is based on Colortrend's "Inkwell" which has that subtly beautiful quality of changing with the ambient light, ranging from an almost imperial purple to a mysterious Prussian blue black. Their clear gloss varnish has given him a really touchable glassy lacquered finish.. and Mr Usagi Hare quite likes his ears to be rubbed.
Right now, you'll find him at Powerscourt Centre but he will go over to the CHQ building on the 29th - most fittingly that's the leap day!

If you'd like to bid for this hare, please go to the following link
​Jack and Jill Foundation "Hares on the March" fundraising event
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