40 days & 40 nights

3 ply marys

Ink drawings done on 3 ply tissues, then peeled back to reveal a blotted line style drawing, distorting the figure. I like the idea of Mary Magdelene as "temptress", a flame haired prostitute etc... speculation around her role in the bible and her dipiction in biblical images as a red haired, lost soul, looking to the heavens really interest me. There is something which says 'defenseless woman' to me and reminds me of a Vermeer painting.  I guess the first time a prostitute was ever explained to me I was 10 and had encountered the word in the bible, I asked my mother what it was.. also the first time I had heard my mother say the word 'sex'... which threw me completely!!

works in progress, march 2012

Two video pieces I'm working on as part of installation work.... unfinished, but interesting non the less

she's lost all the weight off her face....

 pause, touch, engage.......

Mirror Machine Exhibition, Bluewall Gallery

An exhibition of video works by 7 artists practising in Northern Ireland

Louise Shine, Jenny Keane, Ciaran Hussey, Allan Hughes, Laura O'Connor, Paola Bernardelli & Linda Monks

co-curated by Joe Keenan & Laura O'Connor

Laura O'Connor, Jane Fonda

Linda Monks, Sylvanienders

Paola Bernardelli, Jac & Johanna

Jenny Keane, Chord (projection), Dracphylia (monitor)

Louise Shine, (screens on plinths),test card, watching tv & putting away the messages

Allan Hughes, (monitor on crate with bracket) The Listening Station 1

Installation on Ashe Street Cavan

works by Jenny Keane, Ingeminated Battology (left) & Ciaran Hussey, Conveyor Masses (right)

Opening Speeches with Laura & Joe

Some shots of the exhibition installation