LOGBOOK AND OTHER PROJECTS





LORETTO COONEY
Visual artist.
email: lorettocooney@gmail.com


'art is something which lies in the slender margin between the real and the unreal'
Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1652-1724)






SELECTED FOR CLAREMORRIS OPEN 2010
The curator for this years show is Lisa le Feuvre, co-curator of The British Art Show 7 and Senior Lecturer, MFA program, Golesmiths College, London.
The exhibition opens Sat. 4 Sept. @ 6. and continues until 25 Sept.


Click here to view images of paintings selected (oops!... coming soon)


ev+a EXHIBITION OF VISUAL ART LIMERICK, 2010
Selected for ev+a open, 2010. Exhibition of Irish and international artists. Curator: Elizabeth Bonde Hatz, Sweden, Professor of Architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. Opening 12 March.




Did you mean fir tree, exhibition of paintings in galleries 2 & 3, The Cross Gallery, 59 Francis St., Dublin, April 8 to May 1




new work

new work
Yamuna floodplain. 2009. Oil, chalk and pigments on Fabriano paper stretched over panel. 29 h x 34 w cms. One of five works selected for ev+a Limerick, 2010.

Fake firs, 2010, oil and pigments on Fabriano paper over panel, 28 x 30cm

Macaque 2. 2009. Oil, chalk and pigments on linen. 38hx30w cms.

Manula. 2009. Oil and pigments on canvas.. 17h x 25w cms.

SOLO SHOW
one hundred sweets no mushrooms opened in the Market House Gallery, Mullingar Art Centre, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath on 15 October, 2009. The speaker was visual artist Paul Timoney. The installation included works on paper, digital prints, a digital slide projection + 3 paintings.


CLAREMORRIS OPEN EXHIBITIOn, 2009

THIS MUST BE THE PLACE: IMOCA

Exhibited work with Monster Truck Gallery, Dublin, as part of the inaugural exhibition of The Irish Museum of Contemporary Art, (IMOCA), April 2009, at which ten artist-led collectives presented works. This must be the place was curated by Paul Murnaghan and Sally Timmons.

Click on this text for opening night pics

IMOCA IN FRIEZE

IMOCA's inagural exhibition This must be the place, April 2009 gets a mention in frieze art magazine, issue 124, June-August 2009 and at frieze online.





ABOUT MY ART PRACTICE

ABOUT MY ART PRACTICE
Pages from the Logbook Project
I am interested in projects that evolve casually, by default, without necessarily having an initial conceptual framework. My interest in the casual and in limitations, personal and other, as elements in my process, was triggered by the Logbook Project which grew out of a practice that evolved organically around my working day and the need to make time.

The painting project evolved from a similar logic: using a personal limitation as a system for collecting images from the net. The default setting here is my habitual misspelling. I allow the Google algorithm to prompt me.

Since beginning this project I have learned that the word Google is itself a mis-spelling of a numerical term. Not only that but the naming of the numeral, as a googol, is a beautiful story of randomness. Google in googol and find the story.


Click on any of the images to view slideshow or larger image.



Selected for Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition 2009. Beach. Oil on Paper. 26x30cm

Selected by artist/curator Martin Gale, RHA, for Dunamaise Open, 2009. Nurse: oil, chalk and pigments on linen, 34 x 27 cms

EIGSE CARLOW

Aeroplanes, was one of the works selected for Eigse Carlow Open, 2009, by Rubicon artist/curator Marie Hanlon. It was previously short listed for the James White Award at the RDS Art Awards exhibition, RDS Concert Hall, Dublin 2008.

Aeroplanes.(detail)

One of four works selected for Claremorris Open Exhibition, 2009. Embroidery: oil on stretched Fabriano paper, 30 x 26 cms

Lights (pentimento): oil and pigment on stretched Fabriano paper. 28 x 26 cms

PAGES FROM THE LOGBOOKS

PAGES FROM THE LOGBOOKS
Images shown on DVD at Linenhall Art Centre, 2007. Click on image to view more
I am interested in the organic way the project evolved, its modest nature, and how it reflects a commonality of human purpose, evolving out of the limitations of time.

My car or the kitchen table became temporary studios where I logged in to my sketchbooks during seemingly useless little intervals of time, using materials to hand. The time and date of each login was recorded and various rules were added as the project progressed. Conversations on the car radio, a woman talking about moths, for instance, became sources for images or text.

This project is ongoing.







COLLABORATIVE EVENT AT NO. 2 HENRY ST. GALWAY

COLLABORATIVE EVENT AT NO. 2 HENRY ST. GALWAY
I participated in this event in March 2008. It was a fun event with the finest 'underground' DJs providing great music while we worked. The venue is an alternative artist run space.

Artists were invited to cover every surface with drawing, static images and visuals. The organizers provide materials, pens, pencils, markers, tape, paint, alongside overhead and digital projectors, scanners, laptops, printers,a photocopier, digital and video cameras.

My strategy for the day was to arrive with no agenda and no preparation.
I used pencil and bits of found conversation as materials to produce a low tech. text work.



View all photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/lcooney/sets/

IMOCA

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