Autumn 2004- Cobh: Mick O'Shea at Sirius Arts Centre
Review C109  | | Mick O'Shea: Translation , Sirius Centre, Cobh |
As you watch Mick O'Shea on video making paintings, you can also hear him painting - metallic noise, like brushing, loud when he uses rag to spread bitumen, quieter when he is overpainting with white, scratchy when he uses his fingers to texture the surface. The resulting paintings (intuitive abstract works on board or card with a vaguely scientific air) hung in another gallery, where you could try out the sound-sensitive tables used in the video. Translation continued O'Shea's investigation of the relationship between man and machine, drawing and sound. The paintings alone were nothing special, but the video was mesmerising, provoking deep meditations on the relationship between what we see and what we hear. The catalogue quoted John Cage - "Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it we find it fascinating" - an observation proved true by the video. Alannah Hopkin
Mick O'Shea: Translation , Sirius Centre, Cobh, May 2004
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