Solipsism Series was exhibited at Macroom Town Hall, Co. Cork, as part of the ‘World View of An Oyster’ exhibition curated for Cork County Council, 2013. In this series, printed digital artworks based on photographs of 19th-century maritime paintings of Cork Harbour by George Mounsey Wheatly Atkinson and Cork landscape by 18th-century artists Nathaniel Grogan and John Butts, were digitally manipulated to remove their subject matter, (the ships and the people), changing the focus of attention to their backgrounds creating the possibility for a different reading of the images, weather is very evident for example, the solipsistic hermetically sealed world of the original painting has been transformed into an experiance of ever expanding surroundings.
After 'Frigate being wrecked off a rocky coast' by George Mounsey Wheatley Atkinson (1806 - 1884) exhibited at the 184th RHA annual exhibition Dublin, 2014 (invited artist) and 'World View of an Oyster' Macroom Town Hall, Co. Cork, 2013
After 'Fishermen at Old Blackrock Castle on the River Lee, with Tivoli in the distance' by Nathaniel Grogan (1740 - 1807) exhibited at the 184th RHA annual exhibition Dublin, 2014 (invited artist) and 'World View of an Oyster' Macroom Town Hall, Co. Cork, 2013 (private collection)
Drawing of the removed ship from 'Fishermen at Old Blackrock Castle on the River Lee, with Tivoli in the distance' by Nathaniel Grogan (1740 - 1807), which has then been mirrored, exhibited at 'World View of an Oyster' Macroom Town Hall, Co. Cork, 2013
Drawing of the removed ship from 'Ship in stormy seas' by George Mounsey Wheatley Atkinson (1806 - 1884), which has then been mirrored, exhibited at 'World View of an Oyster' Macroom Town Hall, Co. Cork, 2013
Drawing of the removed ship from 'H.M.S. Inconstant leaving Cork Harbour' c.1842 by George Mounsey Wheatley Atkinson (1806 - 1884), which has then been mirrored, exhibited at 'World View of an Oyster' Macroom Town Hall, Co. Cork, 2013