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David Eager Maher's
practice considers the possibilities of drawing,
by combining his world view with the historicity of imagery and a
contemporary visual culture awareness, his drawings function as a
quasi description of time.
Ideas and narrative are conjured through subject matter, surfaces,
materials and deliberately adapting various historic drawing techniques.
Having initially trained as a fabric painter, David then studied Classical
Animation before going on to receive a ba and mfa in fine art painting.
He is directly informed by all of these.
Blaise Drummond
was born in Liverpool and undertook an ma in Philosophy
at the University of Edinburgh before graduating in Fine Art and History
of Art from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin and going
on to an ma at the Chelsea College of Art, London in 1998. Since then
he has taught at ncad, dit, the Crawford College of Art and Design
and ccam, Galway. His work is concerned with ideas around landscape,
architecture and representation and is realised in the form of painting,
drawing, sculpture/installation and print. He has had numerous solo and
group exhibitions around the world. Recent solo exhibitions include Great
Nature®, Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf, 2013; Towards a Unified Theory
of Everything, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, 2011; Folk Songs of North
America, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen, 2010; Blaise Drummond,
Haus Lange, Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Germany, 2009; One Day the Earth
Shall be Ours at Aliceday, Brussels and The Best I Can Do, Contemporary
Arts Forum, Santa Barbara in 2008; The Bright Hours, Galerie Conrads,
Dusseldorf, Lake Shore Drive at Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles, and
Things to Make and Do at Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, 2007; Forest Park,
Perugi Artecontemporanea, Padua, and Blaise Drummond at Musee
de l’Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d’Olonne in 2006.
His work is represented in museum collections in Ireland, the uk
and Europe.
Amanda Coogan
is one of the most dynamic contemporary artists practicing
in the arena of performance art. She is at the forefront of some of the
most exciting and prolific durational performances to date.
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