Thinking about:
• Audience
• Philip Taaffe.
The quote above reads:
Taaffe recognizes that his art is caught in the tension between the public and the private, the accessible and the inaccessible. As he tells Brakhage:
‘I often find myself poised between two poles of thought. The one, as Matisse said, is to make a painting as a luxuriant armchair. And then on the other hand you have Georges Rouault saying, I don’t care if anybody ever sees what I do, I m creating purely as a form of prayer, a private visionary meditation, and that is all.’
Source: ‘Philip Taaffe’ by John Yau.
A Print for Marie Heaney
Over the summer, I was asked by the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queens to create an artwork based on the leafy square that adjoins the centre's landmark building in south Belfast. When the centre opened its new building in 2024, this square on Mount Charles was unveiled...
