Grace Helmer’s Illustrations Live In Literature
Unlike most illustrators Grace Helmer paints in oil; both sequentially in a comic book style as well as in the language of an abstract painter. Oil has given her the freedom, has allowed her, to...
View ArticleRosie Eveleigh’s Illustrations Based On Jean Paul Sartre’s ‘Nausea’
Rosie Eveleigh’s risograph illustrations are a little bit special, are works of art that I’d love to have hanging on my wall. Her series ‘ Nausea’, based on the book by Existential philosopher Jean...
View ArticleFrancesca Baines Poetry Has A Musicality To It
Singer songwriter and fellow mutantspace member Francesca Baines sent this poem into me the other day so here it is for your pleasure: Before My Heart Is A Crowded Street My heart has not the...
View ArticleArturo H. Medrano’s Collages Are Based In Punk, Literature And Cinema
Arturo H. Medrano‘s collages are old school cut and paste compositions that are set squarely in the realm of literature, cinema and punk, the aesthetic lying somewhere between Bauhaus and the English...
View ArticleMatteo Varsi’s Photography On Expired Film Lies Between Physical Reality And...
Matteo Varsi‘s photography lies somewhere between photography and literature, between now and then, the physical reality and a romantic vision of the world. The medium – primarily pinhole and polaroid...
View ArticleWe’re Hosting The Cork Leg Of The Global Bloomsday Gathering In Cork On 16th...
Mutantspace Arts Skills Exchange has been hosting an annual Bloomsday event in Cork since 2009 and this year we’re delighted to be part of a live online global reading of Ulysses called ‘The Global...
View ArticleGrowing Up With Judy Blume
“What books should I get for Aoife? – she loves reading”, my cousin asked me about her 12 year old daughter “Judy Blume” I said immediately. I had forgotten about Judy until this afternoon surrounded...
View ArticleNathaniel Whitcomb’s Collages Create A New Poetic Language Out Of Found...
Nathaniel Whitcomb’s collage series ‘Unexpected Poetry’ takes the process of collage in a new direction, one that was started by the Dadaists in the early 20th Century but is now firmly a 21st Century...
View ArticleKate Beaton’s ‘Hark! A Vagrant’ Comic Strip Is A Satirical Riff On History...
Kate Beaton’s Hark! A Vagrant comic strip is a breath of fresh air, an intake of historical and literary intrigue and drama, a series of pictures that pokes fun at the great men and women of history...
View ArticleSofia Rondelli’s Illustrations Are Ethereal And Fantastical
Sofia Rondelli’s illustrations are ethereal pictures that are both fantastical, elegant and dreamlike, merge the real into the imaginary, her figures and animals a metaphor sung from a line of poetry...
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