Niall de Buitlear – Visual Artist’s Blog

March 31, 2009

Images of Work at Lewis Glucksman Gallery

Filed under: Exhibitions,My Work,installation — Niall @ 10:32 pm

Just got some images sent to me of the project I carried out for a group show at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery. “The Found Bookmark Project” involved collecting objects from between the pages of books in the Library of the University College Cork (the gallery is on campus). Here are some of the photos.

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March 30, 2009

Functional Graffiti

Filed under: intervention,photos,urban space — Niall @ 5:24 pm

Photographed in Smithfield near the Dice Bar

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March 29, 2009

Video of Kinetic Sculpture

Filed under: Design,installation,sculpture,video,youtube — Niall @ 9:27 pm

 

This video on Youtube shows a kinetic sculpture at the BMW Museum which is made of 714 metal balls on strings. It was produced by a German company called ART+COM.

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March 27, 2009

Video on Canadian Street Artist Roadsworth

Filed under: urban space,video,youtube — Niall @ 2:53 pm

Here is an interesting short documentary about a street artist in Montreal named Roadsworth who is being prosecuted by the city. He is a little like Banksy but without the inane political bullshit. There are some interesting clips from a local radio show – a caller to the show says “City property is private property…I don’t care what anyone thinks”!

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March 13, 2009

David Shrigley’s Animated Films

Filed under: animation,drawing,video — Niall @ 9:37 am

All of David Shrilgey’s animations are now up on youtube. Some were already on there unofficially but he has now uploaded his other videos. Here is one called Laundry

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Arpeggio

Filed under: books — Niall @ 12:36 am

I picked up a copy of Arpeggio by Nina Canell today. Its a beautiful book designed by Robin Watkins (those are holes puched in the front cover).

http://www.canellwatkins.org

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March 11, 2009

Model of Copper Particle

Filed under: science — Niall @ 10:49 pm

Here is a “model calculation of a copper particle with the size of 17000 atoms – a cluster which plays a role in catalytic processes.” from this website of the research center DESY in the west of Hamburg

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March 6, 2009

Images of Wexford Arts Centre Show

Filed under: Exhibitions,My Work,sculpture — Niall @ 2:44 pm

The photo I got of the show aren’t the best and I don’t have a good enough image of the biggest piece I had in the show but I hope to have some better ones in a couple of weeks when the show finishes. The work on the walls is by Debra Bowden -  more about the show here

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March 5, 2009

Josiah McElheny Presentation at MoMA

Filed under: architecture,sculpture,video — Niall @ 10:40 am

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