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E-mail: damothepainter@yahoo.ie
Location: ireland
Specialty: painting

Biography

Damien flood was born in 1979 in the seaside town of Bray, Co. Wicklow, where he attended St Killian's School and St Thomas VEC. He studied Painting in Dun Laoghaire College were he graduated in 2003 with a B.A in Fine Art. Damien had his first solo show in Bray in 2003 entitled "War on Art", an exhibition of pop art paintings. He has moved on since then to produce the work for his two-man show "PROJECTOR" which opened in March in The White Room Galway. He is currently putting together his second solo show for Dublin, which opens in October.


Artists Statement





I make images of women within a traditional manner; however, through a reworking of "appearance" in the images I hope to disarm the viewer. The subversive nature of the images becomes slowly apparent and the ideas reveal themselves. The female figures in the works come from found images, personally taken photographs and pornographic images.


Each contains a different way of activating the canvas, some in a passive and some in an aggressive manner. In all of the images the eyes have been enlarged and the faces distorted. These changes touch on the ideas of beauty, in particular, from child hood dolls, toys and cartoons. There is a powerful attraction in large eyes. In some of the images part of the face is overly enlarged, this is not initially noticeable but reveals itself through prolonged viewing.


The idea for these images originally came from the viewing of renaissance art and my realisation that the "realism" I was seeing was not so. I discovered that the people in the paintings were more caricature than human. The features were idealised versions and not the ugly reality of the time. The same face appears in a lot of paintingsThe paintings are executed in a traditional manner. I use Old Holland oil paints. I have spent a year researching renaissance techniques, because the paintings have to be "spot on" to carry the subtle slippage of the anatomical forms.

Contacts

damothepainter@yahoo.ie

Education

  • Honours BA in Painting from IADT-DL

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