Artist at Work!

The stages of printing etching plates

http://www.corkprintmakers.ie/

Getting set up!

Inking up the plates

Wiping off excess ink

Wiping off excess ink

Final clean

Paper is soaked in water bath for about 20 minutes

Blot off excess water

Line paper up on top of plate (registration plate underneath)

Run plate and paper through press

First colour print

Line up second plate and print....

And same with all other plates.....

Until you have the final image!

Remain In Light, South Tipperary Arts Centre, 2012

Exhibtion Work, 5th April- 12th May, 2012

South Tipperary Arts Center, overall view of exhibition

South Tipperary Arts Center, overall view of exhibition

South Tipperary Arts Centre, overall view of exhibition

Neolithic Houses!, series of 6 etchings, 39x 31cm each (unframed) (2012)

(left) What Remains Hidden, (right) Houses in Motion, etching, relief and monoprint, 90x71cm each (unframed) (2012)

Aisling Ely

Aisling Ely

Aisling Ely

Aisling Ely

I'm Going Out For The Day, photo riston on gampi, 31x25cm (unframed) (2012)

Pilgrim's Progress, mixed media (2012)

Key Pieces, mixed media, (2012)

The Day I Went Out Wandering II, photo riston on gampi, (2012)

The Day I Went Out Wandering II, photo riston on gampi, (2012)

The Day I Went Out Wandering II, photo riston on gampi, (2012)

Aisling Ely

A4 Printmakers Open Submission

All Tied Up, mixed media, 29.5 x 21cm, 2011

Hidden Boundaries, mixed media, 29.5 x 21cm, 2011

Loose Ends, mixed media, 29.5 x 21cm, 2011

The second Open International Contemporary Print Competition in South West Cornwall UK, 2011

The aim of this project is to show the most innovative methods in Printmaking processes from all over the world, and to promote artists by encouraging new contacts, which we believe to be essential for personal development.

Exhibition Date:

            The A4Printmakers Competition will held at:

  The  Poly Arts Centre, 

Church Street, 

Falmouth, 

Cornwall

                                   

 30th August -12th September 2011.

           The Open reception will be from 6pm on Friday 2nd September, all welcome

http://www.a4printmakers.com/

'LEVEL' - Group Show at Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise

This Ship's Cargo, etching, 79x54cm, 2011

17 June – 30 July 2011

 www.dunamaise.ie/exhibition.php

Tree of Life...............Forbidden Fruit, etching, 21x21cm, 2011

The Dunamaise Arts Centre will open its third Open Submission exhibition with the new name ‘level’ on Friday 17 June featuring work by selected artists. An exciting new development in the Dunamaise Visual Arts programme, both in its approach and its curation, the exhibition features 28 pieces which have been selected by guest curator Bernadette Madden. The artists exhibiting include Cora O’Brien, Brendan O’Flaherty, Bernie Masterson, Bennie Reilly, Conor Walton, Aoife Barrett, Stephen Lawlor, Joe Dunne, Bridget Flinn, Mary Burke, Eoin MacLochlainn, Lorraine Walsh, Joe Dunne, Cora O’Brien, Myra Jago, Paul MacCormaic, Heidi Nguyen, Maria O’Brien, Angela Fewer, Eileen Mills and Balazs Keresztury.

An overwhelming and impressive number of applications were received earlier this year, both from established artists all over Ireland, as well as local and emerging artists.  The 28 pieces exhibited will be of mixed media and sizes by artists from the length and breadth of the country.

Entry to the exhibition is free and all members of the public are invited to the gallery to take a look at the work.
www.dunamaise.ie/exhibition.php

LSAD, Degree Show, June 2010

“Everyone has a public world, a private world and a secret world”.  Paula Rego

My studio practice has involved researching different dwellings and architectural domestic spaces as well as concepts of public and private boundaries.  My work combines and layers 3-D architectural installations, photography and prints, exploring, reflecting the home as container and symbol for our actions, experience and memories.



The motif of the house has a strong symbolic resonance with many contradictory meanings.  Homes are thought of as spaces of comfort and privacy- “safe as houses”- but what goes on behind walls, in contradiction to the exterior, can often be dark and ‘unhomely’.  In the same way that the exterior of the house can contradict the interior, we mask our feelings by putting up a facade to keep what is going on inside us out of public view.

The various forms of architectural representation shown in my work reflect concepts of oppositions such as containment and openness, interiority and exteriority, transparency and opacity, order and disorder.  Images of houses that cannot be reached or got into, stairs that go to nowhere, houses with no doors, houses piled on top of each other;  all these things reflect the constraints and conventions of society as well as representing the obstacles one meets in life.

Favela, 3D Installation, Mixed Media, Dimensions to suit site 

PRINTS

The layering of prints in layout and technique reflects the chaotic urban society

 

City of Prints, etching and monoprints, various dimensions



Close up of Prints



                    

                         Shanty Town 2, 25x15cm



Township

 

Shanty town





Shanty House, 15x15cm





Township House 



Through the medium of photography I have captured the light and shadows in domestic spaces, suggesting the secrets held within walls and showing the house as an animate object, living and breathing with the lives of former occupants.

“Through its light alone, the house becomes human.  It sees like a man. 

             It is an eye open to night.” Gaston Bachelard 

The main focus of my work is the marginal society: the  shantytowns, favelas or townships. All materials worked by human hands recount something about themselves and about us, to where connected ideas emerge. My work uses the cast-offs of society to construct the unregulated yet vibrant expressiveness of the human being to personalise space and to create a visible inner world.