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Art Encounters | The Rescue Act III: The Broken Fence
All these changes everywhere,
Just go ahead and take my hand,
Hold me close, now let me go,
Try and understand,
In Chains, The War on Drugs
It’s now a year since I travelled to the hills of Clare to adopt a border collie called…
Faking it in the Real World | Science Gallery Dublin
From biomimicry, to VR and decellularized pig hearts - Science Gallery latest exhibition explores the reality of FAKE in our world, challenging our perceptions on what it means to be fake and the stigmas it can hold.
In recent times, the…
Artonomy Exhibition | MART Gallery
I don’t normally review exhibitions before I see them, but one I’m really looking forward to this week is the ‘Artonomy’ exhibition and auction at MART Gallery in Rathmines, Dublin 6.
The exhibition has been curated by Sophie Murphy…
Instagram Pick of the Week | Rachel Wilson
We love Instagram. Why? Because it brings tonnes of visual art right to your finger tips. Follow @thisheadstuff to stay up to date with our finds on our favourite app. You can find our other choices for Instagram Pick of the Week here.…
5 Websites With a Style All of Their Own
It’s estimated that there are currently around 1.3 billion websites up and running in the world and over 3.8 billion people online across the globe at any one time. So this gives more than just an inkling about just how important it is to…
Art Encounters | Mushrooms and Van Morrison
What's my line?
I'm happy cleaning windows,
Take my time,
I'll see you when my love grows.
'Cleaning Windows' - Van Morrison
It was September and I had just returned from the U.S. having completed a J1 student visa. I stood in…
Art Encounters | The Round Up
All those insecurities,
That have held me down for so long,
I can't say I've found a cure for these,
But at least I know them,
So they're not so strong,
George Michael, Waiting (Reprise).
It’s now a calendar year since I began…
Art Encounters | How To Get There…
‘I grabbed you by the gilded beams,
That’s what tradition means.’
The Smiths, I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish.
Last year, having skipped over it during my undergraduate years, I read Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. One…
Art Encounters | Great Famines Within: Declan O’Rourke’s The Chronicles of the Great Irish Famine
Ach na dearmaid ar gcaithú,
Cuimhnidh lámh ar an mead,
A tháinigh muid tharais,
Más féidir linn cuimhniú, is teacht ar an tuiscint,
Más féidir linn tuiscint, maith (far an) croí.
(But don’t forget our sorrows,…
Art Encounters | The Perfect Ophelia/ An Illusion of Ends
‘Every set of phenomena, whether cultural totality or sequence of events, has to be fragmented, disjointed, so that it can be sent down the circuits; every kind of language has to be resolved into a binary formulation so that it can…