To mark my first blog I have chosen to upload a self portrait which I did today.In the top left corner you will see newspaper.At the moment I am using newspaper as a medium a lot.I am painting on it.I am making collage with it.My project deals with Movement in a political context and I have been focusing on the recent 'Occupy' movement that has been sweeping the globe in the past few weeks.The fact that the mainstream media has been largely ignoring these protests and the fact that I am using newspapers as my canvas to try and make a visual representation of the mood that this movement and its sign art is potraying, has a healthy dollop of irony which I like a great deal.
Robbie Gannon
