Anthony Quinn Artist
Your personal artist in residence
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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…
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The Other World, an artwork of blurred realities
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The Other World is a line drawing of a place outside of time. A figure is entangled or possibly, cradled in the roots of a tree. The tree is a scribbly gum with a split trunk, a liminal or threshold space. Two places, maybe more, are connected in this one artwork. In Irish mythology…
