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We Are Belfast
We are Belfast is an exciting new project to create an online image wall made up of photographs of people from Belfast, or places you love in the city. The images will then be used to create an installation at a city centre art exhibition hosted by the red:collective and Redeemer Central on Monday 7th - Wednesday 9th June 2010 @ The Red Barn gallery in Belfast. Do you live in Belfast? Were you born here but now live somewhere else? Want to be part of a new and exciting art project? Then simply upload an image of yourself or a place in Belfast that you love. You don't have to be great photographer just someone who loves Belfast. http://www.wearebelfast.com
Tags: Art
Tags: Art
This doesn’t seen to be very original
Last week I travelled from my home in Belfast to London for the day to be interviewed as part of the short-listing process for an upcoming 'Best of 2009 Graduates' art exhibition. My flights weren't cheap and I had to miss a days work - I hadn't been given much notice by the gallery, but my boss was understanding. 'You have to be in it to win it.' Some artists are blessed with unfailing self confidence but I, unfortunately, am not one of them. I wasn't travelling with any illusions that this would definitely work out for me but I thought 'I'll just go to London. I'll speak to some nice people in a gallery and, no matter what the outcome of the interview, I'll have had a nice day.'
Six Star Hotel - Album review
The first time I saw the Belfast based band Six Star Hotel was in the upstairs room of a grotty, rock and roll pub somewhere in South London. My mate Chris and I were trying out a project called Acoustic Bullet Records, looking at signing our first band. Now I have seen a fair few bands perform live in my time, some of which were pretty memorable, this was one of those times. Ok so it wasn't U2 at Wembley Stadium, the Chillies at Hyde Park or Radiohead in Earls Court but there was something about that night that made me remember. The raw energy, the cutting guitars and David Clements amazing vocals, here were a band creating something far beyond their years. Sign this band? Who were we trying to kid.
Studio altercations
I recently visited an exhibition of paintings by the Irish born painter and two time Turner prize nominee Sean Scully. Speaking of his work Scully says "I hold to a very Romantic ideal of what's possible in art, and I hold to the idea of the 'personal universal.' This is a complex agenda. My project is complicated in this way, and in that sense I'm out of fashion. I'm going against the current trend towards bizarreness, oddness; as you just called it, the 'esoteric', which of course was around in the 1920's. That's what is being revisited now. In between the two great wars, there was a very strong period, particularly in Europe, of a strange, bizarre, distorted and perverse kind of figuration, with freaks in the paintings. Very disturbing twins, subjects like that. These paintings were mostly coming out of Italy and Germany. Now we have a return to that again in a strange period, after the end of Modernism".
Tags: Art, Christianity, Church, Church planting
‘I See A Darkness’
I recently took my wife to Paris. One of the tourist spots I was most looking forward to was the museum of modern art at the Pompidou Centre. Arguably one of the most easily recognised hi-tech modern buildings in the world due to the inside out nature of it's appearance. The exoskeletal structure of this steel and glass behemoth is criss-crossed by service ducts and tubular enclosed escalators all colour coded for clarity and legibility of design: yellow for electrics, blue for air conditioning, green for water, red for circulation, white for structure. To my architect sensibilities it didn't dissappoint - for my wife, well , maybe the jury is still out on that one (and who could blame her, being dragged round an art gallery when all you want to be is in your pit at 10 weeks pregnant!)
Anguish+anxiety+glory+grace
We love nurturing lots of creativity at Redeemer. Here is a poem that a member of our team Leah wrote and shared at our weekly gathering. A great bit of prose from a talented poet
Tags: Art, Made me think, Poetry, The cross
Heaven
Music video by the acclaimed director Spike Jonze for the track Heaven by the great band UNKLE. When we saw this for the first time we just couldn't resist. It was quickly dispatched via e-mail to all who would listen. It's got to be one of the best music videos out there.
Tags: Art, Made me laugh, Music, Photography, Sport, Video