Top Half of the Hero / entrance
2002
Office furniture, neon tubing, information and response zone
Variable
This exhibition at the Triskel Arts Centre, Cork 2002, was an exploration of found images through drawing, video and installation, with references to nineteenth-century and contemporary art. The images are not chosen at random, they are linked by their iconic status and political references. They are assembled, not with a view to presenting answers, but instead, to set up an open-ended dialogue between the artwork and the viewer.
Top Half of the Hero / panorama wall drawing / installation view
2002
Coloured chalk, chipboard wall, emulsion paint
Variable (temporary)
Installation view of the panorama wall drawing including a drawing of the exhibition space in the exhibition space, upside-down mountains after drawings of Connemara by George Petrie and the Frances Bacon studio at the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin, exhibited at the Triskel Arts Centre, Cork 2002.
Top Half of the Hero / panorama wall drawing / installation view
2002
Coloured chalk, chipboard wall, emulsion paint
Variable (temporary)
Installation view of the panorama wall drawing including a drawing of the office space in the Triskel Arts Centre, upside-down mountains after drawings of Connemara by George Petrie and the Frances Bacon studio at the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin, exhibited at the Triskel Arts Centre, Cork 2002.
Top Half of the Hero / panorama wall drawing / installation view
2002
Coloured chalk, chipboard wall, emulsion paint
Variable (temporary)
Installation view of the panorama wall drawing including upside-down and right-side-up mountains by George Petrie and the Frances Bacon studio at the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin exhibited at the Triskel Arts Centre, Cork 2002.
Top Half of the Hero / panorama wall drawing / detail
2002
Coloured chalk, chipboard wall, emulsion paint
Variable (temporary)
Detail of the panorama wall drawing including upside-down mountain by George Petrie and the Frances Bacon studio at the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin exhibited at the Triskel Arts Centre, Cork 2002.
Top Half of the Hero / panorama wall drawing / installation view
2002
Coloured chalk, chipboard wall, emulsion paint
Variable (temporary)
Installation view of the panorama wall drawing including upside-down and right-side-up mountains by George Petrie and the Frances Bacon studio at the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin exhibited at the Triskel Arts Centre, Cork 2002.
Top Half of the Hero / backroom / installation view
2002
Table, chairs, stencils, pens, paper, chipboard wall, videos, projector, TV monitor, framed photographs
Variable
The backroom, which included the interactive area at the Triskel Arts Centre 2002. This area was designed to continue the dialogue between the audience, the artwork and the exhibition space.
Top Half of the Hero / interactive area / installation view
2002
Table, chairs, stencils, pens, paper, chipboard wall, video, projector
Variable
The interactive area in the backroom at the Triskel Arts Centre 2002. On the table there were stencils made of perspex, these were based on the drawings from the 'panorama wall drawing'.
Top Half of the Hero / video (part 1)
2002
Video, projector, chipboard wall, chains
Variable
The Top Half of the Hero (part 1) was a video of the front of a canoe shot through the windscreen of a car. The camera has been turned upside down and the video slowed down to give the illusion that the passing trees are reflections, silent (also see videos)
Top Half of the Hero / video (part 1)
2002
Video, video projector, chipboard wall, chains
Variable
The Top Half of the Hero (part 1) was a video of the front of a canoe shot through the windscreen of a car. The camera has been turned upside down and the video slowed down to give the illusion that the passing trees are reflections, silent (also see videos)
Top Half of the Hero / backroom / installation view
2002
Video, TV monitor, framed photographs
Variable
The Top Half of the Hero (part 2) was a video of the shadow of a canoe shot through the passenger window of a moving car. The camera has been turned upside down, it is shot in real-time and includes the sounds of the car. (also see videos) The digital photographs include images of the Triskel Arts Centre gallery space, the office spaces of the Triskel Arts Centre and the Context Arts Centre, Derry, the Ulster Museum, Belfast and a Connemara landscape.
Top Half of the Hero / video (part 2)
2002
Video, TV monitor
14 inch
The Top Half of the Hero (part 2) was a video of the shadow of a canoe shot through the passenger window of a moving car. The camera has been turned upside down, it is shot in real-time and includes the sounds of the car (also see videos)
Top Half of the Hero / fake installation
2002
Pen on collaged photographs
61 x 124 cm
This work shows what appears to be documentation of a wall drawing in the gallery space at the Triskel Arts Centre, but the installation never existed. The drawings are based on paintings by James Barry. This work is about the relationship of the viewer to the exhibition space, and the historical context of the exhibition space in relation to art history of Cork.
Top Half of the Hero / fake installation / detail
2002
Pen on collaged photographs
61 x 124 cm
This work shows what appears to be documentation of a wall drawing in the gallery space at the Triskel Arts Centre, but the installation never existed. The drawings are based on paintings by James Barry. This work is about the relationship of the viewer to the exhibition space, and the historical context of the exhibition space in relation to art history of Cork.