"Little People in Ranelagh", Sculpture/photography project, Ranelagh, Dublin.

This project was a real treat.

The inspiration for it came from "Little People in the City", - a compact book of absorbing photographs of tiny, painted handmade models of people by the urban artist Slinkachu.

Slinkachu is a London-based artist whose creations can be found in doorways and cracks in the pavement across the capital.

"Mixing sharp humour with a delicious edge of melancholy, Little People in the City brings together the collected photographs of Slinkachu, a street-artist who for several years has been leaving little hand-painted people in the bustling city to fend for themselves, waiting to be discovered…

Oddly enough, even when you know they are just hand-painted figurines, you can’t help but feel that their plights convey something of our own fears about being lost and vulnerable in a big, bad city.” The Times.

We loved his work, and ran a sculpty/photographic workshop based on this theme as part of Ranelagh Arts Festival 2012, which we culminated in a window group exhibition of some of our completed pieces. Enjoy !

"From a distance"

"Safe in Invisibility on Mountpleasant Square"

"The Divide"

"Possessions"

Liubov

"The long, road home"

Maria O Reilly

"At the school gates"

Maria O Reilly

"Rosa Parks enjoying her"seat" during Ranelagh Arts Festival"

Siobhain Nic Chumhaill

"Rosa Parks"

Siobhain Nic Chumhaill

Community Arts : Bloomsday in Ranelagh, Dublin.

16th June....Bloomsday takes place every year in Dublin. The "inclined" young and old folk need no encouragement to don their Edwardian gladrags , and take to the streets of Dublin for fun and frolics, as they celebrate " James Joyce " with other Joyceans across the globe. " Bloomsday Poster " on Mountpleasant Park railings, Ranelagh, Dublin 2012 But a little bit about Bloomsday.. Bloomsday celebrates the day on which the action of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses takes place, 16 June 1904, the day on which (we believe) Joyce first went out with his future wife, Nora Barnacle. The day is named after Leopold Bloom, the central character in Ulysses . The novel follows the life and thoughts of Leopold Bloom and a host of other characters – real and fictional – from 8am on 16 June through to the early hours of the following morning. One of the earliest Bloomsday celebrations was a Ulysses lunch, organised by Sylvia Beach, publisher

"Sense of Place" Art Exhibition in Tallaght University Hospital Dublin. June - September 2019.

Some weeks ago, I was honoured to be asked to prepare a hashtag body of artworks for hashtag exhibition by the family of the late Maeve Doyle. Maeve left a vast hashtag collection of hashtag paintings, hashtag drawings and hashtag poems, expressing a wish that her hashtag artworks be exhibited further afield. " Meeting of the Waters in Avoca". Watercolour. 30cms x 20cms Born in 1958 to a German refugee mother and an Irish father, Maeve was the youngest of their four children. Most of her life was spent living along the coastline of south Dublin, from which she derived much of her inspiration. She studied Fine Art Painting in IADT, known then in the 70’s as Eblana Avenue. She was a gentle and sensitive young woman, who was a true working artist expressing herself in a free and fluid manner through her several media. I was delighted to find the perfect hashtag art venue for her work in hashtag # tallaghtuniversityhospital , which is the National Cent

Mountpleasant Community Street Art Mural Project, Ranelagh Arts Festival.

One rainy, cold day in Spring 2013, a few of us were sitting in the back office of Ranelagh Arts Centre, wrecking our heads trying to think of new projects to put forward for Ranelagh Arts Festival later that year. Mountpleasant Mural Project was an idea we felt might work. It would involve collaborative Community Paintings, which would eventually be on display as outdoor art in a local area. We proposed that we would create 4 -6 permanent outdoor 2D artpieces for the enjoyment of local community for display in Mounpleasant Park in Ranelagh, Dublin...and that we would involve the the local RMDS Primary school, local community and park visitors in the creation of some of the pieces. At the end of it, we hoped to have a few o utdoor permanent paintings in the park for all to enjoy, and which would hopefully inspire community and other artists to the potential of projects like these in the city/country. We felt that this project might provide a much needed upl

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