Illuminated Art Gallery
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Mayor Removes Veil On Pentecost Sunday Across the road from the Trinity Cathedral in Parnell, night or day, your eye is drawn by an intriguing new sculpture outside the Trinity Apartments. Opticks, after Sir Isaac Newton's Treatise on the nature of light, was conceptually unveiled on P... |
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Space Junk Space Junk sums up three of artist Peter Stoneham's most recent works. These use recycled/ reused materials to create space-age illuminated art objects. The underlying theme is that waste is an expanding universal concern that is a by-product of tech... |
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To Infinity and Beyond "Space colonisation is not just idle speculation or wishful thinking, but a matter of long-term survival of our species. It is both our fate and our salvation to reach for the stars." - Carl Sagan... |
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Obelikon I have taken this electronic surplus and raised a monument; a beacon to the 'aesthetics of technology'. The alternating intensity of the source, and sinusoidal motif circumscribed into its framework, symbolise the cyclic association between AC elect... |
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Blast Off 'Blast Off' has a 'Flash Gordon' aesthetic to match the antique 'NIXI' neon indicator tube (circa 1960). Used in the first Game Shows on TV, these beautifully crafted Arabic numerals were rendered obsolete with the invention of the segmented numeral... |
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Mountain Bike Art - Brick Bolts 'Brick Bolts' is a facetious look at expensive weight saving parts on Mountain Bikes e.g. Titanium bolts.... |
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Mountain Bike Art - Stoned Jockies 'Stoned Jockies' is a facetious look at weight saving parts on Mountain Bikes.... |
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Mountain Bike Art - Freewheel Reveal Cast in virtual-glass 'Freewheel Reveal' unveils the workings of the rarely maintained freewheeling hub. It has become an expensive throw away part, the side affect of having a sweet tooth for technology.... |
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Mountain Bike Art - Army Issue 'Army Issue' is a high tech cycle computer for a futuristic army on two wheels.... |
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Seven Segment Sinusoid Taking the calculator display out of its normal orientation and numerical context reveals the display technology's broad envelope for interpretation. The seven-segment display's 'minimalist numerical structure' has rendered the Arabic numeral '2'... |
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Iluminavia Half bird half man, Illuminavia is evocative of Bill Hammond's iconography and symbolises man's quest to tame the physical and natural world.... |