Monthly Archives: September 2014

We met outside the old rail workshops at 10 am in the blazing sunshine.  Sad to think that this may be the final year that the exhibition will be held in this space because they are to be demolished to … Continue reading →

We all met up outside the Espace Van Gogh to introduce ourselves,  talk about our aims and the format of the visit itself and then we went to view the Walther collection.  As I said a couple of blog posts … Continue reading →

The second day, Thursday I met up with a couple of the other students who had arrived a few days before the study visit.  We visited a couple of different exhibitions as follows:   Denis Rouvre. IDENTITIES, INTIMATE TERRITORIES The … Continue reading →

How to start this blog post?  We covered so much on the study visit and saw so much work too that it feels a little overwhelming trying to get it down in one post.  I suppose I could start with … Continue reading →

This final assignment has grown out of assignment 4, the critical review.  I chose to examine the Irish postcards of John Hinde.  these images of Ireland, it is fair to say, have always annoyed me.  They annoy me because they … Continue reading →

I have to make some final finessing and adjustments to some of the images for assignment 5.  First the horse and cart image: So the intention of this image or for this image is that it should be an idealised, … Continue reading →

This is without doubt in my mind the opening shot. This should go in because it is an image of protest, a sign that all is less than ideal in modern Ireland.     This I think I may leave … Continue reading →

Almost there now.  While I have no access to the internet as I write this from memory I think that I said in my last post that I was working on the section about transport and also I have developed … Continue reading →