“Life goals can be difficult to obtain when work comes and goes, payments are late and you find yourself having trouble paying your rent.”
Being a professional artist, as exciting as it sounds, comes with its own challenges and roadblocks on the way. It can be unsteady and sporadic at the most inconvenient times. With this artwork, I wanted to bring light to the difficulties that an artist trying to make a living in today’s world faces.
Life goals can be difficult to obtain when work comes and goes, payments are late and you find yourself having trouble paying your rent. It feels like trying to swim upstream, like there is no solid ground below you and your goals are just out of reach, close enough to be seen but not obtained.
I’m a Polish artist based in Kildare currently available for work. If you would like to see more of my art, you can find me on instagram, @_wonderfool or see my portfolio at martaiwanowska.carrd.co.
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.
