LeCool Dublin are teaming up with the Bernard Shaw for their second annual Xmas show.
as part of design week. The annual Upstarts programme consists of two sets of workshops, one in advertising and one in design. The 24 successful applicants (12 per workshop) are selected from a national submission and awarded the opportunity to work with 6 of the top advertising agencies / design studios over a period of 6 weeks.
For the past 6 weeks I have been taking screenprinting classes in the Black Church Studio,Temple Bar. I decided to do a project on New York and used imagery I had taken from the city during my visit in 2009. When we were walking down Broadway one morning a poet/musician, Joey Chang, was sitting on the street with a typewriter on his lap. He asked us if we would like him to write a poem for us, we just needed to give him a start-point. We told him this was our first time in NYC, so he wrote us a poem based on Irish folks first coming to NYC and how we have become part of the city's culture. This is what the first set of prints I did in Black Church are based on. The second set of prints are from images I took in the Village Vanguard jazz venue in West Village and the Guggenheim.
