Friday, 20th April, 2012 / Posted by: Leszek

Pho20graphy - a 20 year retrospective

Pho20graphy - a 20 year retrospective Image

We're absolutely tickled pink to be hosting Pho20graphy, a 20 year retrospective of photographer Barry McCall's work in our Copper House Gallery next month, from the 15th of May to the 10th of June.

This exhibition has a special resonance for us as Barry started his brilliant career in our studio and there was a delicious irony in our asking him for 'a job' earlier this year. Thankfully, he gave us the gig and we can't wait to show you a set of fabulous images hanging on our walls soon.

Barry has allowed us to edition many of his works and proceeds from the sale of Barry McCall prints, available from our Gallery, will go to the ISPCC, the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

The good news is that Barry will be hosting two artists evenings, the first of which will be 'Barry McCall on Fashion and Celebrity' on Tuesday May 22nd 6.30 - 8.30pm and all are welcome. Barry will give a guided tour of the exhibition and explain the pleasure (and pain) of his practise.

Barry will also host an evening, Barry McCall on Pho20graphy, for practising photographers on May 29th, 6.30 - 8.30pm, where he'll be delighted to discuss his work and engage in a technical Q&A session with his peers. Please RSVP .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) to reserve your place.

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Monday, 19th March, 2012 / Posted by: Leszek

Fierce Critics - Fine Art Print & Exhibition Design

Fierce Critics - Fine Art Print & Exhibition Design Image

We've been busy making hundreds of these little acrylic models and are delighted that they'll be popping up and being used all over Ireland over the coming months. They're 1:10 scale and we'll be using them with photographers, artist and students to help plan and design their exhibitions and graduate shows. (Think PhotoIreland 2012). The little men and women also star in our exhibition design masterclasses and facilitate perfect visualisation of how your work will look on the wall. Every college student coming into us for their photographic and fine art prints gets a set together with a maquette of their exhibition space. You're more than welcome to a set too whether you're planning a show, making prints or just plain curious. Just call down to us in The Copper House and say hi - the only snag is, we promise to tell you about all we're up to so be warned!

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Monday, 13th February, 2012 / Posted by: Leszek

21st-century technology

21st-century technology Image

 

We were delighted to see a lovely article 'Images that see further' by Ros Drinkwater in this Sunday's Business Post. 
Ros's article references our current exhibition, Sean Hillen's 'ReViewed' in our Copper House Gallery, following a discussion  of an exhibition currently showing in Washington DC, 'Snapshot: Painters and Photographery, Bonnard to Vuillard'. She mentions our '21st-century technology' which we've coupled with our decades of fine art printing skills for Sean's show.
Quoting Ros directly she says 'To see how 21st-century technology has energised a modern master, I'd recommend a visit to the Copper House Gallery, which is currently showing ReViewed, an exhibition by Sean Hillen. Radical new scanning technology and skills deployed at the Copper House magnify each surreal detail of Hillen's collages, giving the viewer an insight to his finely crafted microscopic world.
As a ten year-old growing up in Newry, Hillen recalls "trying to imagine living somewhere where there wasn't a constant war, and finding it unimaginable, but knowing that it must exist". Having studied at Belfast College of Art and the Slade in London, he put his experiences to good use with a series of critically acclaimed photomontages based on his own documentary photographs of the Troubles.
His take on the Celtic Tiger, a series entitled Irelantis, was described by Guardian critic Mic Moroney as "hilarious and destabilising . . . souped-up Catholic kitsch colliding with a vivid, comic-book aesthetic".
The exhibition comprises works from his four series: The Troubles, Irelantis, What's Wrong? (collages which combine the 9/11 atrocities, major Irish literary figures and scantily-clad beauties to add up to a devastating indictment of our times) and Searching for Evidence, which includes the prescient 2007 collage No Evidence Of A 757 Near The Ha'Penny Bridge, Dublin?'
A big 'thank you' to Ros for this interesting article and for including Sean and ourselves in it.
'ReViewed runs until March 2nd and we'd love you to call and see the gorgeous photographs, we'll show off the scanner too if you'd like to see it!
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Wednesday, 21st December, 2011 / Posted by: Leszek

Our new Hasselblad X5 Flextight film scanner

Our new Hasselblad X5 Flextight film scanner Image

 

We're really excited as our newly installed Hasselblad X5 film scanner has hit the ground running and is producing the most gorgeous razor sharp scans with beautiful tonal ranges.

We've invested in a huge range of film holders so can handle all film formats and sizes from 35mm to 5" x 4" as well as the all the esoteric panoramic sized transparencies and negatives. There are 6 different sized holders for 120 film alone!

There's even a film holder that takes a 35mm film transparency that's 226mm long which allows us to produce a panoramic print 4' high by 37' long in one piece - cool or what?

You can tell we're enthused, especially as we've always used the highest end ICG drum scanners before deciding on the X5 as our latest. Please don't feel shy, come in and we'll show you why this piece of equipment helps us produce just the best quality fine art and photographic prints possible.

For the techniks, it scans at 8000dpi in 16 bit and has a stunning Dmax of 4.9. Scan time for a 5" x 4" transparency is less than 90 seconds...

There's a cool brochure featuring Copenhagen photographer Jorgen Angel's work scanned on the X5 here - enjoy!

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Friday, 4th November, 2011 / Posted by: Catriona

Incubated Works by Noilin O’Kelly

Incubated Works by Noilin O’Kelly Image

'Incubated Works' by Noilin O'Kelly, her forthcoming exhibition in The Monster Truck Galley previews on Friday the 11th of November and runs from 12th of November until the 3rd of December. The exhibition centres around Noilin's grandmother's now abandoned and decaying home, left undisturbed for over 30 years. She has photographed the rooms, the decaying objects housed within and unearthed old family moments long since forgotten.

Noilin had all of her liquid acrylic mounts for 'Incubated Works' produced here in fire. It's an exhibition I'm really looking forward to, having had a sneak preview of some of the work while it was here in fire. The image above is one of my personal favourites. I've been told that this image was probably taken on Kodak Kodachrome film at the time. Which explains the really nice bright colours and tones. Kodak stopped producing the popular Kodachrome film in 2009, Paul Simon even wrote a song about Kodachrome(cover your ears).

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Wednesday, 14th September, 2011 / Posted by: Catriona

Prism

Prism Image

Prism is a new online photography magazine promoting the best in contemporary Fine Art Photography from around the world. Darek Fortas, winner of Propeller competition 2011 is one of the photo editors on the magazine. It's definitely worth a look. My favourite artists from their latest issue are Miriam O'Connor and Phyllis Galembo. Can't wait for the next issue!

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Thursday, 8th September, 2011 / Posted by: Catriona

STILL - Abigail O’Brien

STILL - Abigail O’Brien Image

Abigail O'Brien will be exhibiting both her New York and Salt Fields series at STILL tonight in The Peppercanister Gallery. Both series explores landscapes of skyscapers and salt fields through the alchemists eyes. The one above called, 'Blue Crystal,' is my personal favourite. Abigail had all of her work printed and liquid acrylic mounted here with us in Fire.

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Thursday, 8th September, 2011 / Posted by: Catriona

STILL - Aindréas Scholz

STILL - Aindréas Scholz Image

Aindréas Scholz is exhibiting as part of a group of artist at STILL in The Peppercanister Gallery this evening from 5.30pm. Scholz's work blurs the line between reality and fabrication. He use toys and makes models mixing macro photography and post production techniques to create his images. Here's one he had printed with us here in Fire.

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