Anthony Quinn Artist
Your personal artist in residence
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Imbas Forosnai and the beautiful magic of art
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To make art that connects is a beautiful magical act. You make something out of nothing, an illusion embodied in reality and alive in the imagination. To make art is to struggle with many tensions. Standing back to observe a subject and immersing oneself in the experience. The ‘aha’ of inspiration and the slog…
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What do you see in the details?
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This tiny detail from a recent pen and ink drawing is no larger than a small postage stamp. I find it easy to get lost in the details, investing time and attention in the little things. I get lost in the lostness and somehow find something of myself in there. These tiny elements all…
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Mad King Sweeney, Irish myth on the edge of surveillance capitalism
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Buile Shuibhne is a medieval Irish myth, roughly pronounced as ‘Bwill-eh Whiv-neh’ and means ‘The Frenzy of Sweeney’. Suibhne Mac Colmáin (Sweeney Mac Col-mawn) was a king cursed by a Christian saint whom he had violently disrespected. Sweeney became half-man, half-bird. Stripped of his worldly wealth, he suffered the harrowing loneliness of a life…
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A Gift and a Curse, new art from Anthony Quinn
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At nine or ten years old, my worldview was both simple and simmered in a rich broth of fantasy. If you read something in a schoolbook, it was a fact. Our history book told the fantastical story of how Fionn MacCumhail (Fee-un Mac-Ool) gained the ability to access the world’s wisdom and knowledge by…
