Category Archives: Studio Visit

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爱尔兰广播电视台(RTE)新闻频道——爱尔兰人在国外

爱尔兰人在国外”(Irish Abroad)的录制，这个星期赶上了圣帕特里克周末。节目在昨天3月15日星期五RTE1播出。非常感谢电视台的Yvonne Murray和摄像师Roger Vincente Martinez，星期一的拍摄在轻松愉快中度过。

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RTE链接请点击这里2019.3.15

视频也可以在这里收看，选择2019年3月15日。向下滚动到这个日期，可以看见我身着绿色。

我想说说为近期展览所作的准备工作，“奥德赛——回归”是一个群展，4月举办，主题有关荷马史诗《奥德赛》和乔伊斯的《尤利西斯》。

《游岩》是一个肖像画系列，画的是我的学生、家人、朋友、艺术家、策展人，名字取自詹姆斯·乔伊斯的著名现代文学作品《尤利西斯》中的一章。更多细节，敬请期待……

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Guanlan Printmaking Residency – The woodcuts and other prints

 

I have just returned from Shenzhen after a very special five week artists residency. This post will look at the work I made. The next post will take a look at the printingmaking base, the people and also a look at the Printmaking Museum .

I worked in the wood cut department reworking a previous painting (Huiyuan Water City). The area is of my old neighbourhood near Olympic park with the Birds Nest in the background.

(4/30) Huiyuan woodcut , Niamh Cunningham 2018 40x 120cm

5/ 30 Step One woodcut 2018 40 x 80cm paper size Niamh Cunningham

The next work was made in response to a call for an exhibition on WB Yeats Poetry. (More information to follow)

6/6/ Impulse of Delight x3 on Yellow Niamh Cunningham 2018 35 x 90cm

Both ‘Huiyuan’ and ‘Step One’ were reduction woodcuts with 3 colours. This technique uses the same wood board for printing each colour, in this case the first cut is the darkest colour working to medium and light. The photos below show the last colour for ‘Huiyuan’ .

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Field of Dreams – A visit to Printing Studios and Experimental Art Department at CAFA (Central Academy of Fine Arts)

Printing Dept techies work on Copper engraving for Wu Y copy









 

 

My visit to CAFA was made possible by Dr Yan Feng who specializes in digital art. (Yan Feng showed his digital projection and installation work this March with IRISH WAVE 2015.) He has just returned last week from a digital art festival in Korea where he had installed a light show. Our first port of call at CAFA was the Printing Department.

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