“I work from old photographs because a lot of the Dublin I grew up in has disappeared over the last few years.”
I work from old photographs because a lot of the Dublin I grew up in has disappeared over the last few years. Development has changed the face of the city. There are little corners that haven’t changed, but overall it’s an ever-changing landscape.
This picture of Buckingham Street is outside the old stewhouse. All the prams are parked outside and the mammies and children are inside having their food. There was also a pub on the corner which the men were in.
This painting [which is on the cover of Dublin Inquirer #89] was part of the “Art from the Heart” exhibition at the Dublin Adult Learning Centre on Mountjoy Square. We thought of it because all of our paintings came from the heart and also from the heart of the north inner-city.
Mel Keane took the stage Saturday as part of Dublin Digital Radio’s annual festival, Alternating Current, at The Complex.
Sculpting through assemblies of objects is the main aspect of his practice, he says. A scarecrow-like figure wearing a Mickey Mouse t-shirt, with cigarette butts, and a Madonna cassette, for example.
“Pitched as ‘avante hyperpop’, her music can sound like what Mariah Carey might cook up if she spent more hours hanging out in video arcades and reading radical literature.”
Filmmaker Sarah Share’s “The Graceless Age: The Ballad of John Murry” tells the story of the Mississippi-born musician, who is now living in Ireland.
