Some photographs taken at Occupy Dame Street, Dublin in October.Some good examples of how a percieved injustice can make artists of us all.
Blog 10
A short video trailer for my Occupy installation.
Music - Skinsize Kings 'End Of An Eire' 2008 Skindependent Records.
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Blog 9
The tent has become a symbol of the Occupy movement of 2011. I decided to build a tent as an installation piece, continuing in the style of paint on broadsheet newspaper. In conjunction with the protest signs I made, I hoped the tent would recreate the feel of the Occupy Wall Street protests. As the tent was progressing I toyed with the idea of leaving one side open and placing a chair inside so that the viewer could sit down inside the tent or stand outside with the placards, a kind of Occupy simulator. I decided to close the tent, save a folded over flap as the doorway, and to paint some of the slogans from Occupy Wall Street on the outside.
Blog 7
I have done a few pieces like the four shown above.They are four broadsheet newspaper pages glued together and painted on .I like the size and the impact they have.The small protest signs peeping in the corners of these pieces have featured in a few of my sketchbook designs. Time Magazine voted 'The Protester' their person of the year for 2011.But fuck Time Magazine.
Blog 6
A lot of the pieces I did in this style were done in black and white.These ones are brightly coloured.I chose four broadsheet newspaper sheets, carrying stories relating to the economic crash as well as sheets with interesting illustrations and colours.I used collage on some of them.The blue one reads 'Big Huge Debt' and the orange one reads 'Process not Protest'.
Blog 5
I made some protest signs.I was interested in how the Occupy movement had so many points to make but no real clear manifesto.These signs carry no text.The peaks and lows in black and white are inspired by the buisness section graphs that are constantly pushing the seriousness of an economic situation most people do not understand.The banking class and governments of the world are making artists out of everybody.The people who protest invariably make a sign to take with them.Some use tape.Some use marker pen.Some use text.Some use images.Sometimes both.Not everybody is aware that they are making art.This I find interesting.
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