Shona MacGillivray

Shona MacGillivray- I have a small collection of paintings hanging in Gort Framing Studio for this Festive month . Many of these paintings are of birds. I observe and study birds as a way of connecting with our world, a world that doesn’t just revolve around humans. We have so much to learn from them yet, but we continue to destroy much of their natural habitats with climate change, intensive farming, pesticides and over fishing. I have a rocky inner faith that this destuction can be turned around, but not with out looking at the skies and listening to the birds.

This collection focuses on the birds of the cliffs, out at Moher and Hag’s Head in Co.Clare. The cliffs also represent the barriers and borders that humans and nature have to transcend.

The two large charcoal drawings are of the dark Fallow deer that enjoy the small apples from the trees in our garden. They wander in from the Drummin oak and hazel woods that surround us. We gave up a while ago on keeping them out, and now share most of the garden with them, including the veg in the raised beds.

On display are acrylic on canvas paintings, framed inks on wallpaper , large charcoal on paper, and reproduction prints ready to frame. I also have a willow and paper lantern sculpture of a Red Deer stag hanging in the window.

For enquires please visit the Gort Framing Studio, where you will also find , apart from the framing services, art materials, greeting and art cards, photographs by Andreas Edler and other local artists.

A Happy Solstice and Merry Christmas to our customers, and blog readers. .

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Steve Stapleton - collage album covers

An unusual and exciting opportunity to see the prolific Steve Stapleton’s art work within his local vicinity. These are his original artworks designed for album covers.  

Steve lives locally, and quietly. Over the waters he is an acclaimed international artist who has a devoted following for his creative outputs.  Steven Stapleton is a British artist and sonic adventurer and the only constant member for the past 30 years of experimental, avant garde band Nurse With Wound. Steve Stapleton is also a graphic artist and painter and has designed many album sleeves and book covers. Under the name, Babs Santini, Stapleton has created the artwork for most of the Nurse With Wound recordings, as well as for other artists, such as Coil, Sand, The Legendary Pink Dots, Current 93 and others.  

With Stapleton’s art it is clear that there is a dark and irreverent vision, not without artistic precedents and contemporaries. The list begins but certainly doesn’t end with Goya, Kurt Schwitters, Max Ernst, Raoul Hausmann, the Dadaists, The Situationists and Martin Kippenberger, artists that defy easy categories and for whom conventions were meant to be upended, lovingly and unexpectedly, used and abused and battered into unconventional and sometimes rather beautiful shapes.

Stapleton is often seen as one of the pioneers of the British industrial music scene, alongside bands such as Throbbing Gristle, Coil and Psychic TV, although in his music he has explored a wide range of styles, including free-form improvisation, musique concrete, drone, folk and even Latin American Dance rhythms. Nurse With Wound is Stapleton’s main outlet for his musical and sound art works, occasionally in collaboration with other musicians such as Coil, Stereolab, SunnO))), Faust, Whitehouse and other underground luminaries. He has also appeared on records by other artists and worked as a producer. He has run the United Dairies record label since 1978, which apart from the Nurse With Wound output, released records by many experimental artists including Irish contemporary composer Roger Doyle’s avant ensemble, ‘Operating Theatre’, legendary improvisation group AMM and krautrock masters Guru Guru. 

We are delighted to have some of Steve’s visual art work displayed in the Gort Framing Studio until December 2108.

This follows his recent one man show , Doing what we Are Told Makes Us free, and sleep concert at the Burren College of Art in May ,2017.

The next images are just a few of Steve’s many album sleeves, this first one uses an image captured on camera by our very own Gort Framer,  Andreas Edler.