Solipsism Series was exhibited at Macroom Town Hall, Co. Cork, as part of the ‘World View of An Oyster’ exhibition curated for Cork County Council, 2013. In this series, printed digital artworks based on photographs of 19th-century maritime paintings of Cork Harbour by George Mounsey Wheatly Atkinson and Cork landscape by 18th-century artists Nathaniel Grogan and John Butts, were digitally manipulated to remove their subject matter, (the ships and the people), changing the focus of attention to their backgrounds creating the possibility for a different reading of the images, weather is very evident for example, the solipsistic hermetically sealed world of the original painting has been transformed into an experiance of ever expanding surroundings.


Examiner Review 18/7/13

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