COVER TO CANVAS ARTIST OF THE DAY – Brian Maguire, Artist
Brian Maguire is perhaps one of Irelands most accomplished and celebrated contemporary artists, not only because his work is stunning to behold but also because of his subject matter. He is not afraid to represent, in paint, life’s travesties, tragedies and social injustices, highlighting them in a way that cannot be ignored. True to form this is exactly what he did for the ‘Cover to Canvas’ project, researching the injustices and inequalities within the legal system for people living in poverty.
COVER TO CANVAS ARTIST OF THE DAY – Bláthnaid Ní Mhurchú, Visual Artist
Bláthnaid is a multi–award–winning artist and has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. For this project she has embodied the fantastical world of Harry Clarke in her own inimitable style.
COVER TO CANVAS ARTIST OF THE DAY – Margaret Corcoran, Visual Artist
In the words of art critic Aidan Dunne, “Margaret Corcoran is known for her lively engagement with the Western painting tradition… There’s a lightness of touch, a very appealing playfulness. When she veers towards abstraction…it’s beautifully judged. The historical material she is dealing with becomes a rich nutritive mass from which she draws not new stories but – as ever – new versions of old stories.”
Margaret speaks of the inspiration for her ‘Cover to Canvas’ project….
COVER TO CANVAS ARTIST OF THE DAY – Alan Clarke, Illustrator, Visual Artist, and Occasional Writer
Alan is an award winning illustrator. His images conjure worlds that are whimsical, darkly comic, magical, sometimes grotesque, but always beautifully executed. A sustained originality and novelty in the concepts behind the work, married with its painstaking execution makes his work quite unique. His book illustrations have garnered widespread acclaim.
COVER TO CANVAS ARTIST OF THE DAY – Jeanne Mérer, Artist
Jeanne has that rare gift of giving herself over to the art process and trusting the voice of the work and her own body in creating it. Her work is very unique and layered with life, emotion and movement grounded in the earth as she so deftly expresses when talking about the work…
COVER TO CANVAS ARTIST OF THE DAY – Steven McGovern, Visual Artist
Steven’s art piece for our exhibition is called “The Mind Abhors a Vacuum”. He manages to combine classical and contemporary ideas and aesthetics offering a very unique vision. There is something to discover in every corner of the canvas!
COVER TO CANVAS ARTIST OF THE DAY – Cliodhna Quinlan, Textile Artist & Painter
Cliodhna Quinlan’s art is very much grounded in the feminine, the tactile, the thought provoking. Her work embodies the layer upon layer of any given concept, difficult to express in words, unsatisfactory in words, and yet expressed in its entirety artistically. Her inspiration for the ‘Cover to Canvas’ project deals with the feminine position in society.
COVER TO CANVAS ARTIST OF THE DAY – Colm Mac Athlaoich, Visual Artist, Illustrator and Educator
Colm is a multi–talented artist working primarily in illustration, painting and print to create his unique art with a definitive style. He works across many themes and influences such as landscape and architecture, people, music and colour. Colm manages to take all of these influences combined and make his work very much of the moment.
The title of Colm’s piece for the ‘Cover to Canvas’ art exhibition is “To Each Cow Its Calf”. Colm tells us about his inspiration…
COVER TO CANVAS ARTIST OF THE DAY – Joby Hickey, Photographer and Painter
Joby Hickey is an artist that inspires play and experimentation. He creates little private worlds with his art that transports the viewer, and perhaps he lives in these very worlds while creating them!
