Gala Concert 2012

This year the Gala Concert will take place on May 19th and as usual there is competition running for the best poster design. Listed below is the information which must be included on this year's poster. Please see you art teacher if interested in entering.  All entries must be submitted by Friday March 23rd.

Your poster must include the following information

St. Columba's College

10th Anniversary Gala Concert

Éamonn Mulhall- Tenor

Saturday May 19th 2012, at 8pm.

Last year's winning poster can be viewed HERE.

Posted below are examples from previous Gala Concerts.

Batik, Form II

Jack Suen

 

 

 

Mark Crampton

Oisin Large

Batik

Form II have just completed work on a batik project. Clarity of colour combined with a variety of textures  and cracking and veining effects contribute to the overall finish of the work. More batik work by members of Form II will be posted in the coming days.

Iris Glaser

Gabriel Burgaz Zaballa

Katie Stewart

'The Vis Affair'

This painting, 'The Vis Affair'  by Charlie Hackett was created especially for the  Showcase of Art by Old Columbans  held in October 2011. It was painted in honour of Chris Vis who retired from teaching art at the college in 1997.  The painting was very generously donated to The College by the artist at the end of the show and it now hangs in the Lower Argyle. Some of the names within the painting are names of pupils who were contempories of Charlie Hackett all of whom enjoyed art lessons with Chris Vis.  The name Adam refers to Adam Clayton, Antony to Antony Lyttle (who also had an etching in the exhibition), and John to John Leslie.

Paki Smith

Paki Smith (OC 1981), kindly came to the art room on the morning of Wednesday January 25th  to talk with the TY art group who are studying film during Hilary Term. Paki studied Fine Art in NCAD on leaving SCC and quickly became well known and respected for his individual talent. He has had many one man shows, the most recent being "The Red Thread" held in the Doughlas Hyde gallery in Trinity about two years ago. Most recently his eclectic talents have led him to become involved in the production design, set design, stage detailing area of the film industry. Among other productions he has been designer on two Batman movies, " Batman Begins" and the latest (still in post production) " The Dark Knight Rises ".
Peter Watts.

Texaco Children's Art Competition

Form V Q set pupils are preparing to enter the annual Texaco Children's Art Competition. Full details on the competition can be found HERE. The theme of the competition is 'anything that interests me'. Posted below is work by Julia Xie and Dena Al-Hamdan.

Any pupil interested in entering must submit the work to the Art Department on or before Monday 20th February.

Aurora Borealis

Thanks to the Irish Times , you can view a slide show Here of Nature putting on one of its most awe-inspiring shows over north Donegal this week with a rare glimpse of the Aurora Borealis, better known as the Northern Lights.

Paki Smith

This morning,  Paki Smith (OC) will give a talk on film production to Transition Year pupils in the art room. He is a fine artist with a number of one man shows to his credit. He is also heavily involved in film set production/design and has worked on films such as Batman Begins (2005), Veronica Guerin (2003), Sleepwalking (2008) and the most recent batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises (2012). Information on all of these productions can be found on the IMDB website.



Colossus or Nebuchadnezzar's Dream (film still)

2009



Master Class in Figurative Drawing

Tomorrow morning Una Sealy will spend the moring in the art room demonstrating her drawing skills and assisting our pupils in developing their own life drawing skills. Una Sealy is a well known figurative painter and we are lucky enough have her as our guest judge at our annual art exhibition and art prize eveing later this term. Listen to Una Sealy talk about her painting work on the video link below.

Artist Stories/Una Sealy from Fingal Arts on Vimeo.

In The News

Yesterday's Irish Times paid tribute to the work of artist Petroc Sesti who has produced work such as Event Horizon,  one in a series of sculptures  in which a vortex appears to have been captured in a glass vessel. A whirlpool spirals inside a giant bell jar, suspended in perpetual motion. Sesti creates his vortex sculptures such as Event Horizon, Vanishing Point and Perpetual Void using optic oil, which has the appearance of water.

See more about the project HERE.