12.03.12
The book: history and practice
University College Dublin

Peter made a presentation entitled "948 pages" at the recent knowledge transfer workshop "The book: history and practice" at University College Dublin Humanities Institute, showing recent books The moderns, Images or shadows, and Of. The workshop included presentations by book historians, educators, calligraphers and designers.

06.03.12
IKEA butter churn for Gneeveguilla
Gareth Kennedy

Preview image of a new book for Gareth Kennedy to be launched 080312 in Gneeveguilla, Co. Kerry

03.03.12
website additions

New page by page views of Images or shadows, Gerard Byrne and Of a book by Tom dePaor Peter Maybury have been added. Of will be launched in Dublin 22.03.12

ReThink + ReAct: PIVOT exhibition,
Filmbase, Dublin, 02-08.03.2012

10 books designed for the Douglas Hyde Gallery are included in this exhibition.
The reading room also includes a copy of Gall Editions Reservoir by Tom dePaor Peter Maybury.

Thread Pulls
The Joinery, Dublin, 05.2011

Extract from as yet untitled track. video: Stephen Quinn.
Noise blog voted Thread Pulls 'Best Live Performance: Irish for 2011.

Upcoming shows:
07/01/2012 Twisted Pepper, Dublin w/ Logikparty
12/01/2012 Eurosonic, Gronigen
14/01/2012 OT301, Amsterdam w/ Iceage
12/02/2012 Button Factory, Dublin w/ Tune-Yards
18/02/2012 Grand Social, Dublin w/ Errors + Remember Remember

Studio
30.09. - 02.10.2011

Studio is an exhibition of photographs of and from artists' studios, made or selected by the artists themselves.
An image of each artist's studio is accompanied by a view from the studio, a view placing the artist in a wider physical or conceptual context.

Artists: John Beattie, Karl Burke, Felicity Clear, Desperate Optimists (Joe Lawlor & Christine Molloy), Aleana Egan, Jason Ellis, Fergus Feehily, Richard Gorman, James Hanley, Hayashi Takahiko, Ronnie Hughes, Stephen Lawlor, Alice Maher, Fergus Martin, Peter Maybury, James McCreary, Paul McKinley, Dennis McNulty, Niall Naessans, Lars Nyberg, Margaret O'Brien, Gavin O 'Curry, Dermot Seymour, Corban Walker.
Venue/photo: Formwork studio by Architecture Republic.
Curated by John Graham. Studio blog.

Thread pulls
05.09.2011

Thread pulls back in Dublin to play their favourite venue the Joinery, Saturday 10 September, with the always brilliant European Sensoria Band, and what's more announced by "Probably the greatest gig poster ever" Thumped

of de Blacam and Meagher
Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
09.09.2011 - 29.10.11

Gerard Byrne
Images or shadows

Images or shadows, the publication published to accompany the exhibition 'Through the eyes: Gerard Byrne' at the Irish Museum of Modern Art is now available. 224pg. + covers printed 4/4 throughout onto 150grs Claro Bulk with 400grs Trucard cover matt laminated and spot gloss celloglazed.
Otabind, 230 x 260mm portrait. Photo courtesy Marcel Meesters
mm-artbookprinting.com

Thread pulls
05.09.2011

Thread pulls are just back from shows in Stockholm and Gothenburg, and from recording their next release in Copenhagen at Jens Benz studio. This clip shows Nis doing a live mix as Gavin puts down trumpet parts, with Jens checking for distortion.

The moderns
"A thoroughly modern manifestation"
The Irish Times
23.07.2011

"THIS IS A HUGE BOOK. It weighs three kilos, looks beautiful and offers a rich pictorial history of modernist painting, sculpture, architecture, photography... The quality and number of illustrations are such that this book will long serve as a vital resource on informing us about the range of artistic activity during the period... This book makes the temporality of the exhibition visit permanent..." FINTAN CULLEN reviews The Moderns: The Arts in Ireland from the 1900s to the 1970s Irish Times 23 July 2011

Gravity
Crawford Art Gallery
20.07.2011

Copies of Gravity have just arrived, the publication for the group exhibition at Crawford Art Gallery in Cork, which opened on 14 July. The book is printed in 8 page sections, with incremental increase in the paper weights. Conversely the front cover is heavy and the back cover is light. Printed by MM Artbook printing and repro.

Images or shadows
Gerard Byrne
18.07.2011

Press pull of cover for 'Images or shadows' due for delivery to the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin on 26 July for the opening of the Gerard Byrne exhibition 'Through the eyes'. The book, printed by MM Artbook printing and repro is 224pgs. + covers, 230 x 260mm portrait printed onto 150grs Claro bulk 1:1 + 400grs Trucard. The outside cover is matt laminated and spot gloss UV varnished. Photo courtesy Marcel Meesters.

Thread Pulls
09.07.2011

Thread Pulls have just completed a four date tour of Ireland playing double header shows in Belfast, Dublin, Galway and Cork alongside Twinkranes. Earlier in June we opened for Grinderman at Vicar Street in Dublin, and played two shows at Distortion festival in Copenhagen. We'll be heading back to Sweden and Denmark in August to play a couple of shows and to record our new record.

AODH
Furniture company, Dublin
20.05.2011

AODH furniture company launched at the ICFF (International Contemporary Furniture Fair), New York last week. This is a new project by Garrett O'Hagan, and the first line - The malt collection - was developed with chair designer Tom Kelley.

We photographed the entire line and produced a chapbook, photographic prints, postcards etc. for the exhibition.
There is a feature on AODH at www.coolhunting.com

Cannes 2011
14.05.2011

Marie-Pierre Richard, who co-runs the design office, photographed earlier today at the Cannes film festival. Marie-Pierre is the director of the French Film Festival which takes place annually at the Irish Film Institute (IFI).

dePaor architects
www.depaor.com
04.05.2011

dePaor architects website is now on-line, designed by Peter Maybury from a template developed with David Donohoe.
Shown above Tom dePaor's 4am, designed at the invitation of curator Kazuyo Sejima for the International Pavilion, Venice, 12th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, 2010.
The Biennale Book Pavilion in the Stirling Pavilion included copies of Circlebook, made by Peter Maybury, Marie-Pierre Richard, Tom dePaor, and Reservoir, made by Maybury and dePaor about Temperance. Also included was a book made about dePaor's Irish Pavilion N3, and a set of the publication from the Irish Pavilion of de Blacam and Meagher. Copies of these are now catalogued and form part of the permanent collection at the Venice Biennale, archived here.

www.depaor.com

Vertical thoughts:
Morton Feldman and the visual arts
awarded a silver Bell in the 2011 Irish Institute of creative advertising and design (ICAD) awards
see archive of images of the book here:
21.04.2011

Peter Maybury was awarded a silver Bell at the recent ICAD (Institute of creative advertising and design) awards ceremony at the Irish Museum of Modern Art last Thursday 21 April. This was the highest award in the 'Print design - books' category, alongside work by Atelier David Smith.
Peter previously entered work in both 1997 and 2008, and on each occasion received awards, gold and bronze in 1997, and bronze in 2008. This is his 4th ICAD award.

Vertical thoughts: Morton Feldman and the visual arts is an extensive book published to co-incide with the exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art 31 March - 27 June 2010. The exhibition was curated by Juan Manuel Bonet, and the book was edited by Seán Kissane. It was printed by MM artbook printing and repro.

The Institute of Creative Advertising & Design (ICAD) was founded in 1958. Their mission statement is "to foster, promote and reward creative excellence in Irish Advertising and Design".

www.icad.ie
www.modernart.ie

of de Blacam and Meagher
Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork
15.04.2011

Photographs of the latest configuration taken yesterday just prior to the opening.
Many thanks to Matt Packer for his careful overseeing of the installation.
Archive of the exhibition to date including further views from the Lewis Glucksman here.

Temperance
Tom dePaor Peter Maybury
The Hunt Museum, Limerick
photographed 08.04.2011

Further information about Temperance here.

SAUL (School of Architecture, University of Limerick)
About landscape
09.04.2011

The above poster/flyer is part of an intermittent and on-going series of announcements for the seminars and lectures series
present at SAUL. An archive of these has just been added here.

of de Blacam and Meagher
12th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia curated by Tom dePaor, Peter Maybury, Alice Casey, Cian Deegan
30.03.2011

The exhibition at Chiesa San Gallo, Venice closed on 20 November 2010, and the show is currently touring Ireland.
Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, (ended SU3 April), then Lewis Glucksman, Cork; Limerick City Gallery and Ormeau Baths Gallery.

Curators Tom dePaor and Peter Maybury presented the project in Dublin at the Curating Architecture symposium on FR25 March.
The exhibition featured on RTE's 'The View' on TU29 March. You can watch it on the RTE player until TU19 April 2011 (link opposite).
The exhibition opens at Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork on TH14 April.

More here

The Moderns
The arts in Ireland from the 1900s to the 1970s
30.03.2011

The landmark The Moderns book for the Irish Museum of Modern Art is just finishing up at the binders.
Hardback with debossed linen cover and printed dustjacket,
inside 596pg. + endpapers, printed 4 colour process throughout
with 5 colour and gloss spot varnish on section titles.
1,040 copies will dispatch to Dublin tomorrow.
It was printed by MM artbook printing & repro and is fairly spectacular.
Extensive archive of images here

Underground
| photographed at the 29th Bienal de São Paulo
photographer unknown, but if it was you, thanks!

Vertical thoughts: Morton Feldman and the visual arts has been awarded a Bell in the 2011 ICADs.
It was awarded a silver Bell, the highest award this year in the category Print design: Books
The book was printed in February 2010 by MM artbook printing & repro, the Netherlands, and was edited by Seán Kissane.

Awards also in the category for Atelier David Smith

PREVIOUS ICAD AWARDS:
Underground (2008)
French film festival 1996 (1997)
DHg (1997)

RTE 'The View' [EXPIRED]
www.irelandatvenice.ie
Underground

(below)
Installation views, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork. photo: Peter Maybury
(below)
Exhibition opening, Dublin City Gallery, the Hugh Lane,
Thursday 3 March 2011, photo: Enda Doran

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