Dublin the cure and the cause Something of the night @sezane in @thewilderdublin Grogans Gods own Country Something pretty something sweet The Garden of Rembrance agus mise Normal People One of my favourite buildings in Dublin and the spot I just learnt that African and the occasional Caribbean young men used to frequent to socialise in the 1960s. Is mise Me in my mams shop (where I grudgingly worked throughout my teens). Fibber Magees The Liberties Pints Singing in Yoruba @seanchoiche 🥹 (you don’t know what that means to me). Ready for my close up 😅 just before I did a ting ! I told a bloody story that I’d written…about teenage girls, drinking in fields and The Sidhe…what could go wrong.🧚🏾♀️ I basically live in @damsonmadder garms 💛
Dublin the cure and the cause Something of the night @sezane in @thewilderdublin Grogans Gods own Country Something pretty something sweet The Garden of Rembrance agus mise Normal People One of my favourite buildings in Dublin and the spot I just learnt that African and the occasional Caribbean young men used to frequent to socialise in the 1960s. Is mise Me in my mams shop (where I grudgingly worked throughout my teens). Fibber Magees The Liberties Pints Singing in Yoruba @seanchoiche 🥹 (you don’t know what that means to me). Ready for my close up 😅 just before I did a ting ! I told a bloody story that I’d written…about teenage girls, drinking in fields and The Sidhe…what could go wrong.🧚🏾♀️ I basically live in @damsonmadder garms 💛
Dublin the cure and the cause Something of the night @sezane in @thewilderdublin Grogans Gods own Country Something pretty something sweet The Garden of Rembrance agus mise Normal People One of my favourite buildings in Dublin and the spot I just learnt that African and the occasional Caribbean young men used to frequent to socialise in the 1960s. Is mise Me in my mams shop (where I grudgingly worked throughout my teens). Fibber Magees The Liberties Pints Singing in Yoruba @seanchoiche 🥹 (you don’t know what that means to me). Ready for my close up 😅 just before I did a ting ! I told a bloody story that I’d written…about teenage girls, drinking in fields and The Sidhe…what could go wrong.🧚🏾♀️ I basically live in @damsonmadder garms 💛
Dublin the cure and the cause Something of the night @sezane in @thewilderdublin Grogans Gods own Country Something pretty something sweet The Garden of Rembrance agus mise Normal People One of my favourite buildings in Dublin and the spot I just learnt that African and the occasional Caribbean young men used to frequent to socialise in the 1960s. Is mise Me in my mams shop (where I grudgingly worked throughout my teens). Fibber Magees The Liberties Pints Singing in Yoruba @seanchoiche 🥹 (you don’t know what that means to me). Ready for my close up 😅 just before I did a ting ! I told a bloody story that I’d written…about teenage girls, drinking in fields and The Sidhe…what could go wrong.🧚🏾♀️ I basically live in @damsonmadder garms 💛
Dublin the cure and the cause Something of the night @sezane in @thewilderdublin Grogans Gods own Country Something pretty something sweet The Garden of Rembrance agus mise Normal People One of my favourite buildings in Dublin and the spot I just learnt that African and the occasional Caribbean young men used to frequent to socialise in the 1960s. Is mise Me in my mams shop (where I grudgingly worked throughout my teens). Fibber Magees The Liberties Pints Singing in Yoruba @seanchoiche 🥹 (you don’t know what that means to me). Ready for my close up 😅 just before I did a ting ! I told a bloody story that I’d written…about teenage girls, drinking in fields and The Sidhe…what could go wrong.🧚🏾♀️ I basically live in @damsonmadder garms 💛
Dublin the cure and the cause Something of the night @sezane in @thewilderdublin Grogans Gods own Country Something pretty something sweet The Garden of Rembrance agus mise Normal People One of my favourite buildings in Dublin and the spot I just learnt that African and the occasional Caribbean young men used to frequent to socialise in the 1960s. Is mise Me in my mams shop (where I grudgingly worked throughout my teens). Fibber Magees The Liberties Pints Singing in Yoruba @seanchoiche 🥹 (you don’t know what that means to me). Ready for my close up 😅 just before I did a ting ! I told a bloody story that I’d written…about teenage girls, drinking in fields and The Sidhe…what could go wrong.🧚🏾♀️ I basically live in @damsonmadder garms 💛
Dublin the cure and the cause Something of the night @sezane in @thewilderdublin Grogans Gods own Country Something pretty something sweet The Garden of Rembrance agus mise Normal People One of my favourite buildings in Dublin and the spot I just learnt that African and the occasional Caribbean young men used to frequent to socialise in the 1960s. Is mise Me in my mams shop (where I grudgingly worked throughout my teens). Fibber Magees The Liberties Pints Singing in Yoruba @seanchoiche 🥹 (you don’t know what that means to me). Ready for my close up 😅 just before I did a ting ! I told a bloody story that I’d written…about teenage girls, drinking in fields and The Sidhe…what could go wrong.🧚🏾♀️ I basically live in @damsonmadder garms 💛
Dublin the cure and the cause Something of the night @sezane in @thewilderdublin Grogans Gods own Country Something pretty something sweet The Garden of Rembrance agus mise Normal People One of my favourite buildings in Dublin and the spot I just learnt that African and the occasional Caribbean young men used to frequent to socialise in the 1960s. Is mise Me in my mams shop (where I grudgingly worked throughout my teens). Fibber Magees The Liberties Pints Singing in Yoruba @seanchoiche 🥹 (you don’t know what that means to me). Ready for my close up 😅 just before I did a ting ! I told a bloody story that I’d written…about teenage girls, drinking in fields and The Sidhe…what could go wrong.🧚🏾♀️ I basically live in @damsonmadder garms 💛
Dublin the cure and the cause Something of the night @sezane in @thewilderdublin Grogans Gods own Country Something pretty something sweet The Garden of Rembrance agus mise Normal People One of my favourite buildings in Dublin and the spot I just learnt that African and the occasional Caribbean young men used to frequent to socialise in the 1960s. Is mise Me in my mams shop (where I grudgingly worked throughout my teens). Fibber Magees The Liberties Pints Singing in Yoruba @seanchoiche 🥹 (you don’t know what that means to me). Ready for my close up 😅 just before I did a ting ! I told a bloody story that I’d written…about teenage girls, drinking in fields and The Sidhe…what could go wrong.🧚🏾♀️ I basically live in @damsonmadder garms 💛
Dublin the cure and the cause Something of the night @sezane in @thewilderdublin Grogans Gods own Country Something pretty something sweet The Garden of Rembrance agus mise Normal People One of my favourite buildings in Dublin and the spot I just learnt that African and the occasional Caribbean young men used to frequent to socialise in the 1960s. Is mise Me in my mams shop (where I grudgingly worked throughout my teens). Fibber Magees The Liberties Pints Singing in Yoruba @seanchoiche 🥹 (you don’t know what that means to me). Ready for my close up 😅 just before I did a ting ! I told a bloody story that I’d written…about teenage girls, drinking in fields and The Sidhe…what could go wrong.🧚🏾♀️ I basically live in @damsonmadder garms 💛
Dublin the cure and the cause Something of the night @sezane in @thewilderdublin Grogans Gods own Country Something pretty something sweet The Garden of Rembrance agus mise Normal People One of my favourite buildings in Dublin and the spot I just learnt that African and the occasional Caribbean young men used to frequent to socialise in the 1960s. Is mise Me in my mams shop (where I grudgingly worked throughout my teens). Fibber Magees The Liberties Pints Singing in Yoruba @seanchoiche 🥹 (you don’t know what that means to me). Ready for my close up 😅 just before I did a ting ! I told a bloody story that I’d written…about teenage girls, drinking in fields and The Sidhe…what could go wrong.🧚🏾♀️ I basically live in @damsonmadder garms 💛
Dublin the cure and the cause Something of the night @sezane in @thewilderdublin Grogans Gods own Country Something pretty something sweet The Garden of Rembrance agus mise Normal People One of my favourite buildings in Dublin and the spot I just learnt that African and the occasional Caribbean young men used to frequent to socialise in the 1960s. Is mise Me in my mams shop (where I grudgingly worked throughout my teens). Fibber Magees The Liberties Pints Singing in Yoruba @seanchoiche 🥹 (you don’t know what that means to me). Ready for my close up 😅 just before I did a ting ! I told a bloody story that I’d written…about teenage girls, drinking in fields and The Sidhe…what could go wrong.🧚🏾♀️ I basically live in @damsonmadder garms 💛
Over Our Heads the Hollow Seas Closed Up, The Unknown Dead Strange Fruit What an honour be on the board of Hugh Lane @thehughlane Dublins public contemporary art gallery, the oldest extant 20th century public modern art gallery in the world I came back to Dublin for today’s board meeting and took the opportunity to visit Brian McGuires new exhibition La Grande Illusion. I walked in and within moments was in floods of tears…I wasn’t ready for the images, the Mediterranean paintings I found particularly haunting I am an inherently politicised person, I’ve never been interested in making something for the aesthetics of it alone, while I appreciate aesthetics, what motivates my own work, and the work of artists that most moves me most is work that challenges the injustices upon which our “civilisation” has been built. I’m also a big fan of abstraction, so the suggestive nature of Brian’s work exerts a far more potent and powerful force than a more explicit image would on me. Gosh I’m somewhat overcome…what’s happening to our brothers and sisters in the Mediterranean Sea is really one of the great crimes of our time (and there are many). This exhibition was a huge reminder of that to me. Go and see it, it’s hauntingly beautiful and incredibly important 🩵 Very mad seeing Don’t Touch My Hair just chillin there in Modern Irish Writing & Poetry Extremely fitting that the gallery faces the Garden of Remembrance – dedicated ‘to all those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish freedom’. Peep the statue as well which is based on the legend of the Children of Lir, in which four children are transformed into swans and remain so for 900 years before becoming human again. A poem by Liam Mac Uistin is inscribed on the wall behind the sculpture and concludes: ‘O generations of freedom remember us, the generations of the vision.’ 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Over Our Heads the Hollow Seas Closed Up, The Unknown Dead Strange Fruit What an honour be on the board of Hugh Lane @thehughlane Dublins public contemporary art gallery, the oldest extant 20th century public modern art gallery in the world I came back to Dublin for today’s board meeting and took the opportunity to visit Brian McGuires new exhibition La Grande Illusion. I walked in and within moments was in floods of tears…I wasn’t ready for the images, the Mediterranean paintings I found particularly haunting I am an inherently politicised person, I’ve never been interested in making something for the aesthetics of it alone, while I appreciate aesthetics, what motivates my own work, and the work of artists that most moves me most is work that challenges the injustices upon which our “civilisation” has been built. I’m also a big fan of abstraction, so the suggestive nature of Brian’s work exerts a far more potent and powerful force than a more explicit image would on me. Gosh I’m somewhat overcome…what’s happening to our brothers and sisters in the Mediterranean Sea is really one of the great crimes of our time (and there are many). This exhibition was a huge reminder of that to me. Go and see it, it’s hauntingly beautiful and incredibly important 🩵 Very mad seeing Don’t Touch My Hair just chillin there in Modern Irish Writing & Poetry Extremely fitting that the gallery faces the Garden of Remembrance – dedicated ‘to all those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish freedom’. Peep the statue as well which is based on the legend of the Children of Lir, in which four children are transformed into swans and remain so for 900 years before becoming human again. A poem by Liam Mac Uistin is inscribed on the wall behind the sculpture and concludes: ‘O generations of freedom remember us, the generations of the vision.’ 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Over Our Heads the Hollow Seas Closed Up, The Unknown Dead Strange Fruit What an honour be on the board of Hugh Lane @thehughlane Dublins public contemporary art gallery, the oldest extant 20th century public modern art gallery in the world I came back to Dublin for today’s board meeting and took the opportunity to visit Brian McGuires new exhibition La Grande Illusion. I walked in and within moments was in floods of tears…I wasn’t ready for the images, the Mediterranean paintings I found particularly haunting I am an inherently politicised person, I’ve never been interested in making something for the aesthetics of it alone, while I appreciate aesthetics, what motivates my own work, and the work of artists that most moves me most is work that challenges the injustices upon which our “civilisation” has been built. I’m also a big fan of abstraction, so the suggestive nature of Brian’s work exerts a far more potent and powerful force than a more explicit image would on me. Gosh I’m somewhat overcome…what’s happening to our brothers and sisters in the Mediterranean Sea is really one of the great crimes of our time (and there are many). This exhibition was a huge reminder of that to me. Go and see it, it’s hauntingly beautiful and incredibly important 🩵 Very mad seeing Don’t Touch My Hair just chillin there in Modern Irish Writing & Poetry Extremely fitting that the gallery faces the Garden of Remembrance – dedicated ‘to all those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish freedom’. Peep the statue as well which is based on the legend of the Children of Lir, in which four children are transformed into swans and remain so for 900 years before becoming human again. A poem by Liam Mac Uistin is inscribed on the wall behind the sculpture and concludes: ‘O generations of freedom remember us, the generations of the vision.’ 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Over Our Heads the Hollow Seas Closed Up, The Unknown Dead Strange Fruit What an honour be on the board of Hugh Lane @thehughlane Dublins public contemporary art gallery, the oldest extant 20th century public modern art gallery in the world I came back to Dublin for today’s board meeting and took the opportunity to visit Brian McGuires new exhibition La Grande Illusion. I walked in and within moments was in floods of tears…I wasn’t ready for the images, the Mediterranean paintings I found particularly haunting I am an inherently politicised person, I’ve never been interested in making something for the aesthetics of it alone, while I appreciate aesthetics, what motivates my own work, and the work of artists that most moves me most is work that challenges the injustices upon which our “civilisation” has been built. I’m also a big fan of abstraction, so the suggestive nature of Brian’s work exerts a far more potent and powerful force than a more explicit image would on me. Gosh I’m somewhat overcome…what’s happening to our brothers and sisters in the Mediterranean Sea is really one of the great crimes of our time (and there are many). This exhibition was a huge reminder of that to me. Go and see it, it’s hauntingly beautiful and incredibly important 🩵 Very mad seeing Don’t Touch My Hair just chillin there in Modern Irish Writing & Poetry Extremely fitting that the gallery faces the Garden of Remembrance – dedicated ‘to all those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish freedom’. Peep the statue as well which is based on the legend of the Children of Lir, in which four children are transformed into swans and remain so for 900 years before becoming human again. A poem by Liam Mac Uistin is inscribed on the wall behind the sculpture and concludes: ‘O generations of freedom remember us, the generations of the vision.’ 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Over Our Heads the Hollow Seas Closed Up, The Unknown Dead Strange Fruit What an honour be on the board of Hugh Lane @thehughlane Dublins public contemporary art gallery, the oldest extant 20th century public modern art gallery in the world I came back to Dublin for today’s board meeting and took the opportunity to visit Brian McGuires new exhibition La Grande Illusion. I walked in and within moments was in floods of tears…I wasn’t ready for the images, the Mediterranean paintings I found particularly haunting I am an inherently politicised person, I’ve never been interested in making something for the aesthetics of it alone, while I appreciate aesthetics, what motivates my own work, and the work of artists that most moves me most is work that challenges the injustices upon which our “civilisation” has been built. I’m also a big fan of abstraction, so the suggestive nature of Brian’s work exerts a far more potent and powerful force than a more explicit image would on me. Gosh I’m somewhat overcome…what’s happening to our brothers and sisters in the Mediterranean Sea is really one of the great crimes of our time (and there are many). This exhibition was a huge reminder of that to me. Go and see it, it’s hauntingly beautiful and incredibly important 🩵 Very mad seeing Don’t Touch My Hair just chillin there in Modern Irish Writing & Poetry Extremely fitting that the gallery faces the Garden of Remembrance – dedicated ‘to all those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish freedom’. Peep the statue as well which is based on the legend of the Children of Lir, in which four children are transformed into swans and remain so for 900 years before becoming human again. A poem by Liam Mac Uistin is inscribed on the wall behind the sculpture and concludes: ‘O generations of freedom remember us, the generations of the vision.’ 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Over Our Heads the Hollow Seas Closed Up, The Unknown Dead Strange Fruit What an honour be on the board of Hugh Lane @thehughlane Dublins public contemporary art gallery, the oldest extant 20th century public modern art gallery in the world I came back to Dublin for today’s board meeting and took the opportunity to visit Brian McGuires new exhibition La Grande Illusion. I walked in and within moments was in floods of tears…I wasn’t ready for the images, the Mediterranean paintings I found particularly haunting I am an inherently politicised person, I’ve never been interested in making something for the aesthetics of it alone, while I appreciate aesthetics, what motivates my own work, and the work of artists that most moves me most is work that challenges the injustices upon which our “civilisation” has been built. I’m also a big fan of abstraction, so the suggestive nature of Brian’s work exerts a far more potent and powerful force than a more explicit image would on me. Gosh I’m somewhat overcome…what’s happening to our brothers and sisters in the Mediterranean Sea is really one of the great crimes of our time (and there are many). This exhibition was a huge reminder of that to me. Go and see it, it’s hauntingly beautiful and incredibly important 🩵 Very mad seeing Don’t Touch My Hair just chillin there in Modern Irish Writing & Poetry Extremely fitting that the gallery faces the Garden of Remembrance – dedicated ‘to all those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish freedom’. Peep the statue as well which is based on the legend of the Children of Lir, in which four children are transformed into swans and remain so for 900 years before becoming human again. A poem by Liam Mac Uistin is inscribed on the wall behind the sculpture and concludes: ‘O generations of freedom remember us, the generations of the vision.’ 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Over Our Heads the Hollow Seas Closed Up, The Unknown Dead Strange Fruit What an honour be on the board of Hugh Lane @thehughlane Dublins public contemporary art gallery, the oldest extant 20th century public modern art gallery in the world I came back to Dublin for today’s board meeting and took the opportunity to visit Brian McGuires new exhibition La Grande Illusion. I walked in and within moments was in floods of tears…I wasn’t ready for the images, the Mediterranean paintings I found particularly haunting I am an inherently politicised person, I’ve never been interested in making something for the aesthetics of it alone, while I appreciate aesthetics, what motivates my own work, and the work of artists that most moves me most is work that challenges the injustices upon which our “civilisation” has been built. I’m also a big fan of abstraction, so the suggestive nature of Brian’s work exerts a far more potent and powerful force than a more explicit image would on me. Gosh I’m somewhat overcome…what’s happening to our brothers and sisters in the Mediterranean Sea is really one of the great crimes of our time (and there are many). This exhibition was a huge reminder of that to me. Go and see it, it’s hauntingly beautiful and incredibly important 🩵 Very mad seeing Don’t Touch My Hair just chillin there in Modern Irish Writing & Poetry Extremely fitting that the gallery faces the Garden of Remembrance – dedicated ‘to all those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish freedom’. Peep the statue as well which is based on the legend of the Children of Lir, in which four children are transformed into swans and remain so for 900 years before becoming human again. A poem by Liam Mac Uistin is inscribed on the wall behind the sculpture and concludes: ‘O generations of freedom remember us, the generations of the vision.’ 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Over Our Heads the Hollow Seas Closed Up, The Unknown Dead Strange Fruit What an honour be on the board of Hugh Lane @thehughlane Dublins public contemporary art gallery, the oldest extant 20th century public modern art gallery in the world I came back to Dublin for today’s board meeting and took the opportunity to visit Brian McGuires new exhibition La Grande Illusion. I walked in and within moments was in floods of tears…I wasn’t ready for the images, the Mediterranean paintings I found particularly haunting I am an inherently politicised person, I’ve never been interested in making something for the aesthetics of it alone, while I appreciate aesthetics, what motivates my own work, and the work of artists that most moves me most is work that challenges the injustices upon which our “civilisation” has been built. I’m also a big fan of abstraction, so the suggestive nature of Brian’s work exerts a far more potent and powerful force than a more explicit image would on me. Gosh I’m somewhat overcome…what’s happening to our brothers and sisters in the Mediterranean Sea is really one of the great crimes of our time (and there are many). This exhibition was a huge reminder of that to me. Go and see it, it’s hauntingly beautiful and incredibly important 🩵 Very mad seeing Don’t Touch My Hair just chillin there in Modern Irish Writing & Poetry Extremely fitting that the gallery faces the Garden of Remembrance – dedicated ‘to all those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish freedom’. Peep the statue as well which is based on the legend of the Children of Lir, in which four children are transformed into swans and remain so for 900 years before becoming human again. A poem by Liam Mac Uistin is inscribed on the wall behind the sculpture and concludes: ‘O generations of freedom remember us, the generations of the vision.’ 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Over Our Heads the Hollow Seas Closed Up, The Unknown Dead Strange Fruit What an honour be on the board of Hugh Lane @thehughlane Dublins public contemporary art gallery, the oldest extant 20th century public modern art gallery in the world I came back to Dublin for today’s board meeting and took the opportunity to visit Brian McGuires new exhibition La Grande Illusion. I walked in and within moments was in floods of tears…I wasn’t ready for the images, the Mediterranean paintings I found particularly haunting I am an inherently politicised person, I’ve never been interested in making something for the aesthetics of it alone, while I appreciate aesthetics, what motivates my own work, and the work of artists that most moves me most is work that challenges the injustices upon which our “civilisation” has been built. I’m also a big fan of abstraction, so the suggestive nature of Brian’s work exerts a far more potent and powerful force than a more explicit image would on me. Gosh I’m somewhat overcome…what’s happening to our brothers and sisters in the Mediterranean Sea is really one of the great crimes of our time (and there are many). This exhibition was a huge reminder of that to me. Go and see it, it’s hauntingly beautiful and incredibly important 🩵 Very mad seeing Don’t Touch My Hair just chillin there in Modern Irish Writing & Poetry Extremely fitting that the gallery faces the Garden of Remembrance – dedicated ‘to all those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish freedom’. Peep the statue as well which is based on the legend of the Children of Lir, in which four children are transformed into swans and remain so for 900 years before becoming human again. A poem by Liam Mac Uistin is inscribed on the wall behind the sculpture and concludes: ‘O generations of freedom remember us, the generations of the vision.’ 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Over Our Heads the Hollow Seas Closed Up, The Unknown Dead Strange Fruit What an honour be on the board of Hugh Lane @thehughlane Dublins public contemporary art gallery, the oldest extant 20th century public modern art gallery in the world I came back to Dublin for today’s board meeting and took the opportunity to visit Brian McGuires new exhibition La Grande Illusion. I walked in and within moments was in floods of tears…I wasn’t ready for the images, the Mediterranean paintings I found particularly haunting I am an inherently politicised person, I’ve never been interested in making something for the aesthetics of it alone, while I appreciate aesthetics, what motivates my own work, and the work of artists that most moves me most is work that challenges the injustices upon which our “civilisation” has been built. I’m also a big fan of abstraction, so the suggestive nature of Brian’s work exerts a far more potent and powerful force than a more explicit image would on me. Gosh I’m somewhat overcome…what’s happening to our brothers and sisters in the Mediterranean Sea is really one of the great crimes of our time (and there are many). This exhibition was a huge reminder of that to me. Go and see it, it’s hauntingly beautiful and incredibly important 🩵 Very mad seeing Don’t Touch My Hair just chillin there in Modern Irish Writing & Poetry Extremely fitting that the gallery faces the Garden of Remembrance – dedicated ‘to all those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish freedom’. Peep the statue as well which is based on the legend of the Children of Lir, in which four children are transformed into swans and remain so for 900 years before becoming human again. A poem by Liam Mac Uistin is inscribed on the wall behind the sculpture and concludes: ‘O generations of freedom remember us, the generations of the vision.’ 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Over Our Heads the Hollow Seas Closed Up, The Unknown Dead Strange Fruit What an honour be on the board of Hugh Lane @thehughlane Dublins public contemporary art gallery, the oldest extant 20th century public modern art gallery in the world I came back to Dublin for today’s board meeting and took the opportunity to visit Brian McGuires new exhibition La Grande Illusion. I walked in and within moments was in floods of tears…I wasn’t ready for the images, the Mediterranean paintings I found particularly haunting I am an inherently politicised person, I’ve never been interested in making something for the aesthetics of it alone, while I appreciate aesthetics, what motivates my own work, and the work of artists that most moves me most is work that challenges the injustices upon which our “civilisation” has been built. I’m also a big fan of abstraction, so the suggestive nature of Brian’s work exerts a far more potent and powerful force than a more explicit image would on me. Gosh I’m somewhat overcome…what’s happening to our brothers and sisters in the Mediterranean Sea is really one of the great crimes of our time (and there are many). This exhibition was a huge reminder of that to me. Go and see it, it’s hauntingly beautiful and incredibly important 🩵 Very mad seeing Don’t Touch My Hair just chillin there in Modern Irish Writing & Poetry Extremely fitting that the gallery faces the Garden of Remembrance – dedicated ‘to all those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish freedom’. Peep the statue as well which is based on the legend of the Children of Lir, in which four children are transformed into swans and remain so for 900 years before becoming human again. A poem by Liam Mac Uistin is inscribed on the wall behind the sculpture and concludes: ‘O generations of freedom remember us, the generations of the vision.’ 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Over Our Heads the Hollow Seas Closed Up, The Unknown Dead Strange Fruit What an honour be on the board of Hugh Lane @thehughlane Dublins public contemporary art gallery, the oldest extant 20th century public modern art gallery in the world I came back to Dublin for today’s board meeting and took the opportunity to visit Brian McGuires new exhibition La Grande Illusion. I walked in and within moments was in floods of tears…I wasn’t ready for the images, the Mediterranean paintings I found particularly haunting I am an inherently politicised person, I’ve never been interested in making something for the aesthetics of it alone, while I appreciate aesthetics, what motivates my own work, and the work of artists that most moves me most is work that challenges the injustices upon which our “civilisation” has been built. I’m also a big fan of abstraction, so the suggestive nature of Brian’s work exerts a far more potent and powerful force than a more explicit image would on me. Gosh I’m somewhat overcome…what’s happening to our brothers and sisters in the Mediterranean Sea is really one of the great crimes of our time (and there are many). This exhibition was a huge reminder of that to me. Go and see it, it’s hauntingly beautiful and incredibly important 🩵 Very mad seeing Don’t Touch My Hair just chillin there in Modern Irish Writing & Poetry Extremely fitting that the gallery faces the Garden of Remembrance – dedicated ‘to all those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish freedom’. Peep the statue as well which is based on the legend of the Children of Lir, in which four children are transformed into swans and remain so for 900 years before becoming human again. A poem by Liam Mac Uistin is inscribed on the wall behind the sculpture and concludes: ‘O generations of freedom remember us, the generations of the vision.’ 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
