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My project is dealing with the idea of colonisation and place names. I focused mainly on the idea of the artefacts having names and the area the hunt museum is placed. An old map that is an artefact in the Hunt Museum helped me refine my ideas to just the shapes of the aerial view of places in Limerick. I focused in on the shapes of the old 'irish town' in limerick and the old 'english town' in limerick. I wanted to rename the paintings athe placenames in Irish as an idea of taking back our language and our true origins.

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The fact that all the artefacts had a name also sparked off my idea for place names etc. I began my work by taking shapes and colours from the artefacts and my work then slowly progressed to taking shapes from areas in Limerick.

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The fact that all the artefacts had a name also sparked off my idea for place names etc. I began my work by taking shapes and colours from the artefacts and my work then slowly progressed to taking shapes from areas in Limerick.

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The map artefact that helped me with my research for this project. I used this a constant reference point for  shapes for my paintings.

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The map artefact that helped me with my research for this project. I used this a constant reference point for  shapes for my paintings.

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A finished piece based on the shapes of the Irish and English town in limerick. Oil, spray paint, acrylic, chalk and pastels were used. 

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A finished piece based on the shapes of the Irish and English town in limerick. Oil, spray paint, acrylic, chalk and pastels were used. 

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Another referencing point for a lot of my work was Brian Friels play ‘Translations’.

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Gathered research on all the limerick place names being translated back to Irish.

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Name engraved

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Attempting to recreate the engraving of the name seen on the hunt museum artefact.

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Playing around with the idea of language as the Irish words from the sign in the hunt attempt to shine through the wax. 

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Playing around with the idea of language as the Irish words from the sign in the hunt attempt to shine through the wax. 

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More research with some Irish literature based on the study of our language.

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Looking at shapes of the actual hunt museum and researching.  The arches and squares of the hunt museum windows actually inspired some of the abstract shapes seen in the paintings.

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I played around with blurring the images by using wax paper. I took Irish words from an Irish sign in the hunt museum to bring the idea of language to a literal sense. I used colours from the area and wanted a light application of paint. I placed a light behind the paper to make it more transparent - thought it looked more historic.  I didn’t love the outcome but trial and error.

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Study of colour and shapes of some of the actual streets today rather than just taking from the map.

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A few pieces I took from my sketchbook and lay out as a grid. These again are based off aerial views etc taken from the hunt museum map.

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This is one of my earlier works based off of again the shapes and landscape of the map. You can see the segregation between the Irish and English town. I liked this piece but I wanted more varied application of paint and mediums. I took the ideas of sshapes and colour through this experimental piece.