#sean hillen

[jstrachan3]

Seán Hillen

[k00265221]

Movement Project : Artists Research - Sean Hillen (09/02/23)

A few weeks ago I did some collage work inspired by John Stezaker, as part of my painting discipline.

My previous movement through time collages:

As I will be doing painting again next week I want to return to making more collages but this time with the added influence of Sean Hillen.

Seán hillen is an Irish artist born in Newry 1961. He creates collages of magazine images from different eras to show the change of the landscape society with the passage of time. His collages, like mine, allow the viewer to move through time with the different era specific icons. They are slightly comedic and sometimes the images look rough and come off of the page, however he does this with intention to emphasis the meaning of the work

'The Colosseum of Cork' - 1994

Left: 'Jesus Appears in the City' (1991)

Right: 'The Professionals' #3 (1989)

His most famous art collection 'IRLANTIS' consists of collages that produce a gentle portrayal of his post apocalyptic vision of Ireland. It is although he is travelling through time to see the future of Ireland.

'The Great Pyramids of Carlingford Lough' 1994

This one gives me the impression that Hillen travelled back to ancient Eygpt and brought the Pyramids from Eygpt and plonked them in an Irish river.

[k00286654]

Artist Research

(15th November 22)

During my tutorial with Elaine, we discussed the ideas of overlapping and space. She recommended a couple of artists to me to research:

Sean Hillen

Seán Hillen is an artist whose work includes collages and the creative use of photographs.

i really like these pieces as it plays around with the ideas of perspective and composition.

Paula Zuccotti

i really like Zuccotti's series of images as it relates to how i have been exploring the collection of objects i have in my room. I see it as a way of deconstructing everyday life. i may use her technique and organise items from my room, bag, wardrobe, etc.

Rachael Whitread

"She casts the spaces inside and around objects – be they bathtubs or mattresses, architectural elements such as doors, floors and windows, or even entire buildings – and uses materials such as resin, rubber, concrete, and plaster to preserve each surface detail"

This relates to my project in how i am studying the space within my room and the items that occupy it.

[k00295740]

Sean Hillen-collage artist

The collages I am making at the moment using photoshop are inspired by Sean Hillen's work .He is an Irish collage artist who lives and works in Dublin. I love how he uses old and new images together and how cleanly he cuts out his images. Here are some of my favourites of his work.

[k00297644]

Fashion Discipline Day 1:

Artist Research - Seán Hillen

Sean Hillen is an Irish artist from Newry in Co. Down. His work is quite centered around photography, utilisng collage and mixed media within his pieces.

Some of his work utilises humour to deal with serious subject matter- such as his documentary photos exhibiting the Troubles in Northern Ireland at the time.

Some of his work to me incorporates a sense of fantasy and freedom, are works from his collection “IRELANTIS”. It’s as if the viewer is observing something that came from a dream.

Hillen describes the collection of works: “IRELANTIS is a place where the imagination and reality intermingle with a dramatic of its own, driven of course by what you can get away with in a collage”. Pieces such as “The Oracle at O’ Connell Street Bridge” and “The Colosseum of Cork” embody this sense of whimsy and dream-like appearance within Irish landmarks.

Picture Below are his works, “The Goddess Appears in Newry, Easter 1993” and “The Goddess of Temple Bar.

A documentary about Hillen and his work was released on March 14th 2021, detailing his struggles with his health and his struggles as an artist. It was nominated for an IFTA award in the film and drama category, and it went on to with the ‘Audience Award Winner Best Feature’ IFI Documentary Festival.

Below is the link for the trailer:

[kolajmag]

COLLAGE ON VIEW

New Reality: Contemporary Collage in Ireland

at Market House Craftworks in Cappoquin, Co. Waterford, Ireland, 9 September-1 October 2022. “New Reality: Contemporary Collage in Ireland” is a showcase exhibition of new, original artworks created by 20 collage artists living and working in Ireland today. The exhibition is part of The New Reality Festival, 9-11 September, which includes a presentation by Alan Keane, live music, a talk by Sean Hillen about his life and collage work, community engagement with the collage artists, and a short film, Moving Collage. MORE

*****************************

Kolaj Magazine, a full color, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one's thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.

SUBSCRIBE | CURRENT ISSUE | GET A COPY

SIGN UP TO GET EMAILS

[k00293440]

FASHION: Brief One

Pick an artist from the list

~{Jessica StocKholder, Rachael Whiteread, Louise Bourgeois, Agnes Martin. Yayoi Kusamo, William Kentridge, Christopher Wool, Jean-Michael Basquiat, John Singer Sargeant, Mark Rothko, Do-Ho Suh, Janet Echelman, El Anatsui, Sheila Hicks,Judith Scott,Henri Matisse, André Derain, David Smith(sculpture), Gerhard Richter,Anselm Kiefer, Jeff Koons, Ai Weiwei, Sean Hillen, Frances Bacon. Jenny Saville, Alexander Calder }~

Research them thoroughly…look at their process, practice, materials their origins and the meaning of their works.

Gather images of their work that give you shape, line, form, color and texture that will be used to generate a mood and colour board for one collection that is either spring/summer or autumn/winter

Learning outcomes

1. Demonstrate both aptitude and ability, which confirm the student's choice of elected areas.

2. Show a creative selection and utilisation of appropriate materials, media and processes.

3. Exhibit knowledge and contextualunderstanding of elected areas through research and documentation.

4. Demonstrate creative and conceptual ability in specialist areas.

5. Show ongoing commitment, motivation and self-reliance to the student's own educational development and critical judgement

[k00297889]

•M O O D B O A R D & C O U L O R B O A R D•

I made this mood/ colour board in anticipation for making my textiles inspired by Sean Hillen.

I ended up making a second mood and color board as I felt I was quiet confused making this one as I hadn’t finalised my full ideas yet however this does still convey the chaotic mood I am going for

[digitaltariq]

Spanish-Model Restaurant Overlooks Auckland Harbor

Columbia Hillen Ever had a magician for dinner? I don’t imply grilled and sprinkled with spices. I imply as a visitor. Let me inform you, it’s an otherworldly expertise. My pleasure was having Tara Okan, illusionist extraordinaire, carry out table-side at MoVida restaurant in Auckland and never solely mesmerise me together with his excellent abilities but additionally numerous members of workers who gathered round our desk.

Tara the Magician (l) and Sean Hillen (r). Photograph by Columbia Hillen I’d met Tara just a few weeks earlier via David Rees who kindly launched himself on the road as I explored the North Island metropolis. Such was the quick bond, we ended up on a sundown picnic journey collectively to a secluded seashore. Tara’s modern ‘results’ as they’re known as in magic literature offered the cream on the cake to an satisfying night at this fine-dining restaurant providing what it describes as ‘Spanish delicacies via a New Zealand lens.’

Columbia Hillen Opened in August 2022 and with a 150-person capability, MoVida is situated two flooring up within the modernist Seafarers Constructing on Tyler Road within the coronary heart of the elegant, heritage Britomart district. The constructing’s entrance door stands reverse a spacious open sq. the place a well-liked Saturday market takes place whereas its eating room overlooks Waitemata Harbour. Previously occupied by one other restaurant known as Ostro, its unique house owners, the Savor Group partnered with Movida’s house owners, together with head chef and founder, Frank Camorra for the opening.

Michael Nesti, Restaurant Supervisor. Photograph by Columbia Hillen Designed by Paul Izzard of Auckland-based agency Izzard Design, it’s finest described as ‘tapas bar meets eating room,’ snug with out being overly fussy. A lot of the seating is rounded booth-style however my companion and I have been lucky to be allotted one of many stand-alone tables beside floor-to-ceiling folding glass doorways which stretch the size of the restaurant and past which is a slender balcony after which a transparent view of sailboats gliding gracefully alongside the Pacific Ocean. First, the workers, younger, pleasant, environment friendly and multi-national, from international locations akin to Colombia, Argentina, Spain, New Zealand and the US, all led by dynamic common supervisor, Michael Nesti, a local of Tuscany.

Columbia Hillen Kicking off with cocktails, we selected vermouth and we have been delighted with the varied supply, a collection of six together with a darkish, tangy model from Tarragona. MoVida’s menu, divided into 4 classes, aperitivos, tapas, raciones - barely bigger sharing plates - and parillas - grilled dishes - matches menus at its profitable father or mother operation in Melbourne. We opened with a well-liked Kiwi seafood delicacy, green-lipped mussels, famend for his or her anti-inflammatory properties thus extraordinarily helpful for arthritis victims. These little dainties, recent as if simply plucked from the ocean, have been served chilly with a inexperienced gazpacho-like sauce comprising cilantro, garlic, chili, lemon and olive brine. Subsequent up was burrata, plump in the midst of a colourful ratatouille-like bowl of roasted onion, peppers, tomatoes and recent basil.

Columbia Hillen Preferring seafood, I opted for marinated octopus as my subsequent course, caught close to Kaikoura, a coastal city in South Island. To my thoughts, this denizen of the deep is scrumptious bare, nevertheless it was even tastier cooked because it was on a skewer over coals with fino, dry white sherry and paprika, accompanied by potatoes and aioli. My companion went with a beef dish, razor-thin slices of air-dried wagyu with truffled potato foam, pickled kohlrabi and horseradish cream, with flakes of poached egg on high and a platter of almond and horseradish crackers on the facet.

Columbia Hillen Delighted with the standard of the seafood, my finale was gambas ahumadas, house-smoked prawns, Otago clams with butter beans whereas my companion opted for the carrilera de buey, gentle beef cheek braised in spiced crimson wine and candy Pedro Ximenez sherry, served with cauliflower puree. I’m unsure which one among us was happier. An enormous thanks to our waitresses, Medelin Watape and Erika Martinez, who served us all through the night with honest zest and, in fact, to Tara, New Zealand’s reply to David Copperfield. Read the full article

[k00290860]

Disrupt Project Week 5 -

17/11/23

Artist Research:

An artist I found myself particularly interested in learning more about was Seán Hillen.

Seán Hillen is an artist whose work includes collages and the creative use of photographs.

Born in 1961 in Newry, Hillen lives and works in Dublin. He studied at Belfast College of Art, the London College of Printing, and at the Slade School. His 1980’s photo-collage works, based on his own documentary photographs mixed with tourist, toy packaging, and fantasy material were at different times highly praised and heavily censored.

His photomontage work with collected imagery from religious pamphlets, London tourist postcards and toy packaging, come to form an interesting visual representation of the troubles in Ireland as well as war in general.

Hillen's Troubles era photographs have also been evaluated in their own right as important social documentation of the conflict, and of Northern Irish society as a whole.

In 2013 a collection of these photographs were published as a book, Melancholy Witness. The title comes from a quote by poet Seamus Heaney on Hillen's work; "The photographs are like black and white time machines that bring back the desolation and danger of the Troubles. The images have a documentary accuracy, but it is the aura of melancholy witness that marks them as the work of Sean Hillen."

[claregriffcoll]

Collecting Meteorites at Knowth, IRELANTIS, 1996. Sean Hillen. 15 x 17.5 cm

I'm a big fan of John Hinde photographs (I'll very likely share at least one of my favourites on this page) and also a fan of the collage series, IRELANTIS, by Sean Hillen which utilised original Hinde images. Sean Hillen has juxtaposed the picturesque Hinde scenes into surreal landscapes. "There’s often some disaster or catastrophe in progress, but also an odd calmness while people go about their normal business or look on curiously". I love the satire and otherworldly nature of the final images and the hand-cut marks that can be seen in the interventions. I do wonder what John Hinde would make of them, his images were always so picture perfect! https://seanhillen.com/

[k00265221]

Movement Project Statement

My movement project focused on movement through time (time travel). My three disciplines are Painting, Animation and Motion Design, and Printing. I explored many streams of expressing this abstract concept.

Firstly I looked at the process of collageing and how by collageing items from different eras in one image the viewer can travel through the eras. Then I began to look at clocks and how they show the passage of time. Finally I made an animation that depicts a "Timequake".

Processes and Materials I used during this project:

Painting on canvas

Collageing (Image making/composition)

Stencil Printing (layer and colour separation)

Stamp making / relief Printing

Intaglio Printing

Storyboarding

Designing and making a set and characters for Animation

Claymation / Stop Motion Animation

Post production editing (working with greenscreen and adding in audio)

Artist research:

David Ambarzumjan

Walton Ford

Mary Mc Sweeny

John Stezaker

Animation : Disney Pixar, Aardman Animation Studios, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, Back to the Future

Kara Walker

Christian Marclay

Sean Hillen

What I found most difficult in this project was making an interdisciplinary link. I didn't want my three disciplines to be like three different projects so I connected them. I used the painting I made of Bunratty in my animation and then I made a stencil print based off of my animation.

What I enjoyed the most in this project was making my stop motion animation and learning about all of the pre- production and post- production work that goes on behind the scenes

[small-dr3ams]

Experiencing Paris Means Experiencing Its Iconic Perfumes

Autumn is a perfect time to visit Paris - for summer in the City of Light can be as hot as Hades itself - and there’s no better occasion to experience one of its most iconic attractions, perfumeries.

  But rather than just enj

... via JustLuxe.com from Sean Hillen https://ift.tt/5czG4si

[k00295740]

Disruption Week 4

This week I did the Adobe Animate workshop . I did this workshop because I wanted to make a collage inspired by Sean Hillen. Here are two collages I photoshopped. The first one is very simple but I like how it turned out. The photos I use to make the collages are photos I've taken on my phone e.g. the background photo for the first collage comes from a photo I took in France.

The second collage is made up of a photo I took of a sulkey in Limerick, layered with a photo I took of the beach in Cahore Wexford and a photo of balloons in a fairground in Vienna.

I wanted to make collages to show the visual disruption of horses in urban areas. I wanted to exagerate that juxtoposition you get from seeing horses within a city, by combining contrasting images on top of the already contrasting image of seeing a horse in a built up urban area.

[adelements]

Whether is analogue or digital, the art of collage challenges the imagination and can be interpreted in numerous ways.

I came across this great article on the history and meaning of collage art.

“Realism or Surrealism? Not all collage art is a mirror of the world as we know it. Sometimes artists appropriate and distort aspects of reality to create parallel universes which—being both recognisable and unfamiliar to us at the same time—challenge our perception of reality.”

I’ve selected five collage works from five of my favourite collage artists.

Sources:

Hannah Höch, Roma (1925)

Robert Rauschenberg, Estate (1963)

Sean Hillen, The Goddess of Temple Bar (1995)

Julien Pacaud, Memories of Tomorrow (2006)

Jesse Treece & Michael Tunk, Man of Action - Side A (2018)

[k00297644]

Collection Inspired by Sean Hillen and his work “The Colosseum of Cork”