"DIALOGUE"
Photographer Denis Mortell @consumingissues and I collaborated on an artwork titled Dialogue, addressing the theme "Cross Currents" for the Artists Network Dun Laoghaire Rathdown’s 4th or 5th members Biennale Collaborative exhibition at the DLR Municipal Gallery in the Lexicon Library, Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin.
Running from 7th September to 30th of October 2024.
The exhibition was curated by artist Claire Halpin @clairehalpinartist, supported by DLRCoCo Arts Officer Kenneth Redmond and Deputy Arts Officer Caroline Brown.
This response to the theme "Cross Currents" is a conversation between photography and painting. Beginning with a photographic base image that comprises mirror-image seascapes, the over-painting interrogates this harmony introducing elements of dissonance, randomness and chance, in addition to introducing abstraction into an otherwise figurative scene.
Artists: Denis Mortell Photographer and Patrick Molloy Painter.
Artwork Title: “Dialogue” Medium Acrylic on pigment ink on Hahnemuehle Photo Rag Paper. Dimensions: Image 60cm X 60cm, Frame 72cm X 72Cm Price €850
"Heads I win, Tails you Lose"
Selected by Signal Arts Centre, Bray, County Wicklow for exhibition in the 11th Signal Arts Annual Open. Running from Tuesday 8th till Sunday 20th of August 2023.
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"Coastal Erosion"
Selected by artist Carmel Benson for inclusion in the ArtNetDlr members summer exhibition "Transience" at Walters in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin. Opening Weds 2nd August 2023 till Autumn 2023. Acrylic on canvas, 18 cm X 24 cm (7"X9.5")
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"No Connection"
One of my Industrial Graffiti series, selected by artist Charles Tyrell for inclusion in the Artists Network Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown current exhibition "Connections" at Walters in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin till end of July 2023. Oil on canvas measuring 80 cm X 80 cm (31.5" X 31.5")
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"On Yer Bike 01" from my Industrial Graffiti Series
Exhibited at The 2023 Signal Arts Members Open has gone to a new home.
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Rug Art
“Red Star / Pause, High Voltage”
Red Star or Pause, High Voltage
Sold and gone to a new home in Dublin
My venture into Rug Art is an extension of my “Industrial Graffiti” series on road markings into a tactile experience through textiles. Which presents an additional dichotomy and a paradox by representing hard horizontal surfaces in a soft, carved wool rug which in turn can be displayed on a vertical surface framed and hung as wall art or commissioned as Rug Art for a floor surface.
Images for a Rug Art commission can be chosen from any of my Paintings or from a portion of a painting and made to almost any size within reason.
The exhibited rug art piece “Pause, High Voltage” 76cm X 76cm (2'-6" X 2'-6") was crafted at The Dixon Carpet Company in Oughterard, County Galway and presented as Wall Art.
The acoustic benefits as such, of Rug Art as Wall Art can be discussed with Audio Specialists “Cloney Audio”, Main Street Blackrock
There is approximately an eight week turnaround between ordering an agreed commissioned piece of Rug Art and completion followed by deliver / shipping.
Please email me for inquiries and further information patrick.molloy2010@gmail.com
Pat
Title, “Brendan’s (The Navigator’s) Wave” Inspired by author Tim Severin’s observations on wave sequences experienced and recounted in his book “The Brendan Voyage” Across the Atlantic in a leather boat. The third wave is the one! My five-stroke wave motion is influenced by the energy engendered by Chinese Calligraphers in their deft, practiced, energetic brush strokes. The strokes and textures are rendered in oil paint on a pre-prepared A3 board (41cm X 60cm). The textured background represents the mental anguish, turmoil and solace experienced by the sailors.
Price €450 Sold, gone to a new home
Oil on prepared board a study towards an image of "Brendan the Navigator's Wave #01" 415mm X 600mm (18" X 23.5"). Sold, gone to a new home in Dublin
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“Winter Oak”
In this project, I collaborated with Photographer Linda Plunkett to formulate and manifest a visual and physical expression of “Metamorphosis” as engaged in by the propagation, recycling and upcycling of trees.
In our piece, we present a late winter image of an Oak tree in an adaptation of a Japanese Shoji Screen as a piece of wall art. The work is composed of a photographic image of an Oak Tree printed on Japanese Kozo paper, mounted on Hanhnemuhle paper, which in turn we mounted on a sheet of 5mm foam board.
We present the image in an Oak frame in the style of a Japanese Shoji screen measuring 602mm high X 1032mm wide X 100mm deep constructed by cabinet-maker Liam McEvoy
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