I am an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. I was born in Liverpool, England and received my Batchelor of Arts Degree from the University of Ulster at Belfast.
In the past, my practice often dealt with two activities that consume a great deal of our time -work and leisure- their impact on modern humanity, the relative worth of both of these activities and their costs in terms of liberty and solvency.
Most of my work is made using found materials. Found building supplies, paint, paper ephemera and other supplies. There is the added challenge of creating with what the city provides and it seems to me to sit well with the found nature of my themes.
My new work explores the question of place -mapping cities with take-out menu maps, ‘we are here’ maps and informational brochures etc. For the past two years I have been walking around each neighborhood searching likely places for maps with the aim of exploring every community in New York City. Without resizing or altering the maps in any other way I create a collage of the neighborhood. As the city gradually yields up these maps, a picture of the city begins to emerge and the desires of both the individual and the business community, how they interact with one another and use their neighborhood and the larger society is revealed.
email: theisles@hotmail.com
www.8ozgrip.com
Exhibitions
January 2009 Sleazy Rider group show, Leo Kesting Gallery, New York, NY
September 2008 A Show Of Heads, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY
September 2008 DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival, Brooklyn, NY
June 2008 Bushwick open studios group exhibition,Ad Hoc Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
May 2006 Me Da, Rubbish Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO
May 2006 I've Always Hated You All, Edifice Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO
February 2006 Rotating Art Exhibition, Optical Reverb Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO
September 2005 Rotating Art Exhibition, Business of Arts Center, Manitou Springs, CO
May 2005 Capsule Gallery @ Pod,Denver, CO
December 2004 Group show, Andenken Gallery, Denver, CO
August 2004 Nocturnal Mockery 2, Colorado Springs, CO
Education
1995-1998University of Ulster at BelfastBelfast, N.I.
B.A(Hons) Fine and Applied Art
Related experience
In addition to the gallery shows I have participated in, I have ‘exhibited’ my work on various walls, trees and embankments throughout Colorado and New York City. Included among these actions are the ‘It’s not going to suck itself’ series, the ‘cows’ series and 'Me Da'. I have taught mural painting and community arts in Belfast and was a founder member of a community arts group in Belfast named Fat Arts.
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