Drawing on Ulysses and the city for inspiration

20 Monday Jan 2020

Posted by JesseJames in Art, Drawing, James Joyce, Writers

These sketchbook mixed media drawings are quite textured and gritty. They depict a rather shabbier older Dublin, full of faded grandeur and character, a Joycean Dublin.
I grew up in this older city which is now fast disappearing and being replaced with block after block of souless glass, steel and concrete monstrosities. It makes me mad and sad at the same time.

Do You have a Cheese Sandwiche?

Where is the Ormonde Hotel

Robert Emmet

Hibernia Holles Sreet Hospital

Burtons of Duke Street

Bookshop Duke Street

A Cheese Sandwiche

An Irish Brazilian collaborative art exchange

06 Tuesday Jun 2017

Posted by JesseJames in Art, Brazil, Cultural Events, Drawing, exchange

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Marcia Moreno, a Brazilian artist and art professor and myself organised a collaborative art exchange which involved travelling to Brazil. The theme was Home, Home away from Home. This was an artistic examination of the native and immigrant (in Ireland or Brazil) experience of trying to create a home. Together with Marcia we created a set of reciprocal lectures, workshops, discourses and group exhibitions at Chapeco University in Santa Catarina, Brazil and at the Pearse Museum in Dublin, Ireland.

Below is a small selection of work by students and a flavour of the art exchange.

Using google translate to communicate

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Chapeco gallery in Brazil

Longing – assemblage

Student work

Group photo at the Pearse Museum

Jesse-James holding a work inspired by homeware giant Ikea. A House shaped falla, destined to be burned, inspired by the housing crisis and property bubble is seen in the foreground.