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Swim Duck- Blooms thoughts on water as he fills a kettle

Swim Duck (Qingdao still) Niamh Cunningham 2019

James Joyce included numerous lists in various parts of his book Ulysses.  Some of these lists were not meaningful but this list on water qualities is rich and diverse as it is poetic. It’s quite an intense moment of thought while filling a kettle (in the Chapter Ithaca ) , everything is magnified and heightened.

Swim Duck : Bloom’s thoughts when filling a kettle
(5 mins) . Artist : Niamh Cunningham


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Swim Duck (Taipei undersurface outdoor still ) Niamh Cunningham 2019


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Wandering Rocks a series of portraits currently showing at ‘Odyssey the Return’

These portraits take the roles of some of characters in Wandering Rocks the 10th chapter of Ulysses. Most of the characters in the book appear or are referred to in the 10th Chapter. This Chapter doesn’t have a direct Homeric parallel. The Wandering Rocks is the route not taken by Odysseus on his return journey to Ithaca. He was advised by Circe that these drifting rocks would cause havoc and that he should not go this way.

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Week 9 Praha Attic

Praha Attic oil on canvas 50x50cm Niamh Cunningham/瑞莲2010
Praha Attic /布拉格阁楼 oil on canvas 50x50cm Niamh Cunningham/瑞莲2010

A portrait will be posted every week on this website home page throughout the year of 2019. Some are of young Chinese learners whom I used to teach in my early years in China , friends,, family and others are of artists and curators with whom I have worked over the years. 

When I lived in Prague we lived in an attic flat and often my son enjoyed popping his head out of the skylight to view the roof tops.