2011: A Retrospective Guide!

Ok so I’m a little bit late with my retrospective of 2011, but that’s because I’ve been enjoying my Christmas holidays a little too much! So below are a selection of some of my many highlights from the year, some I can’t even believe happened! 2011 was a fantastic year for me and I’d like to say thank you to everyone who helped me out and supported me, bought any of my work and to the lovely people I did shoots with. I appreciate it so much, as always!

A great start to the year was the news that Sargent House were using my Adebisi Shank artwork for their t-shirts

 

Photography I shot for The Former Soviet Republic for his album cover

In March I won the award for Best Photography at the Digital Socket Awards. Mega thanks again to the bloggers who voted for me, it seriously means a lot!

I created this image of Dylan Haskins based on his political campaign image. It was originally commissioned as artwork for his campaign fundraising gig with Fight Like Apes headlining so I incorporated ideas from the art I did for them into this!

My photos of Squarehead and Sacred Animals were featured in State.ie ‘s Faces of 2011

HMV used my photo of Adebisi Shank for their ‘My Inspiration’ series of posters

 

I did this painting of Bobby from No Monster Club/Grand Pocket Orchestra

I created this poster for Popical Island for their May Popicalia gig. It’s based on the Owl and Pussycat and Hokusai’s wave.

Andrew North got my Fight Like Apes album artwork tattooed on his arm!

 I was commissioned by Vodafone to create artwork based on Paul Simon’s gig in the marquee in Cork. My drawing was filmed in time lapse and can be viewed here:

Ryan Penagos, the editorial director of Marvel.com featured my Wolverine Sloth drawing here on his blog agentmlovestacos.com

I was asked to give a talk on Photography at Photofestival Ireland along with Hugh McCabe and Naomi McArdle.

Drawings of Matt Hedigan and Lisa O’Grady I created for my exhibition.

On August 4th I had my first ever solo exhibition of my artwork. Major thanks to Fund:it for helping raise nearly E1000 towards the costs of putting it on and huge thanks to everyone for contributing, attending, and purchasing artwork! I had such an amazing night!

 

My Flaming Lips photograph from Forbidden Fruit Festival in June was exhibited at both the Hard Working Class Heroes (HWCH) and State.ie Photography Exhibitions in October.

My favourite photoshoot of the year was with Richie Egan of Jape for AU Magazine!

Delorentos featured my ‘International Dreamstag’ artwork in their Little Sparks Magazine that came free with their EP. You can see it at  0:33 in the video below!

My Fight Like Apes artwork was featured on the cover of Tony Clayton-Lea’s new book

Painting I did of Hollie Leddy Flood for her 21st Birthday!

Anddddd that’s a wrap! Thanks for viewing

Our Lady of the Mystic Kitty Pizza!

My friend Hollie turned 21 over the weekend so I made this painting of her as a present (she dressed up as Bloody Mary for Halloween!) I’ve made her birthday cards for the last few years so thought I’d make an extra bit of effort since turning 21 is a bit of a big deal!

101 Irish Records You Must Hear Before You Die

Tony Clayton-Lea has a new book out called ’101 Irish Records You Must Hear Before You Die’ featuring the artwork I did for Fight Like Apes on the cover. (Second row)

You can order the book from Liberty Press by clicking here. It would make a lovely Christmas present!

Delorentos – Little Sparks

Delorentos have a new EP out called Little Sparks and they’ve put together a beautiful magazine to go along with the release. I’m delighted to be included, along with the work of some of the most talented people in the country! They’re limited to 1000 and can be picked up with a copy of their new EP at their upcoming live gigs around Ireland.

Check out my International Dreamstag at 0:33 in the video.

State.ie Photography Exhibition 2011

The State.ie Photography Exibition launches this Sunday 30th October 6-8pm in the venue room of Twisted Pepper. Entry is free until 8pm and the lovely JAPE plays afterwards which is 12/10 euro in! The exhibition then runs exclusively for ONE WEEK ONLY during the Elastic Witch record shop opening hours !

The exhibition features 12 of our favourite live photographs from our wonderful State Photography team:

 Abraham Tarrush, Alan Moore, Alessio Michelini, Claire Weir, Damien McGlynn, James Goulden, Julie Bienvenu, Ian Keegan, Kieran Frost, Loreana Rushe, Sara Divine and Sean Conroy

Photographs  are of: Bats, Bon Jovi, Cut Copy, The Drums, Fight Like Apes, The Flaming Lips, Glasvegas, Green Day, Kelis, Public Enemy, Pulp and Sufjan Stevens

You can RSVP on Facebook for the exhibition by clicking here! 

Jape for AU Magazine

Small Lives Exhibition

Here’s a post I wrote for RTE about the Small Lives exhibition taking place at the moment in the National Photographic Archive in Temple Bar, Dublin. It runs from 25th August 2011 until June 2012.

Click here to read the RTE Two Tube blog

HWCH Photography Exhibition 2011

My photo of the Flaming Lips at Forbidden Fruit was picked for HWCH Photography Exhibition 2011.  YAY! This is my 7th consecutive year displaying work since 2005 and I curated the exhibition in 2007. Madness. Can’t believe I’ve been taking photos for that long, time really does fly! The exhibition is in Shebeen Chic on Georges Street from 6th-8th October. Check it out

Shonen Knife

SoLo Exhibition

Here are some photos of my SoLo exhibition in RAGE on Fade Street! Thanks so much to everyone who attended!

The Flaming Lips- London

The Former Soviet Republic Poster

Here’s the poster I did for Ian’s album launch on 20th August upstairs in Whelans.

PhotoIreland Festival 2011

I will be doing a talk on Music Photography and Media at the Centre for Creative Practices on Pembroke Street this Thursday as part of PhotoIreland Festival 2011.

Mob Fandango

Exhibition Poster

Here is the poster for my exhibition, put together by the awesome Craig Potterton!

Fund:It

I successfully raised E970 (194%) towards my exhibition on 4th August in R.A.G.E through Fund:It. Absolutely delighted!I had initially asked for E500 but I unbelievably exceeded my target with E710 within 3 hours of going live! A huge heartfelt thanks to everyone who contributed towards this, your support means the world to me. Also a massive thanks to Martin McNicholl and everyone at Fund:It for choosing my project. The money will cover getting artwork framed, buying materials for printing and painting, an exhibition booklet designed and printed and most importantly cocktails and sweets for the launch night.

Tumblr

I set up a Tumblr account there a while ago specifically for posting my artwork up on. You can find Edward Slothhands above and more work by clicking here:

loreanarushe.tumblr.com

Wolverine Sloth

Here’s my drawing of a Sloth as Wolverine from X-Men. I had this idea the other night when I was researching sloths for some new paintings. I noticed how their long claws reminded me of Wolverine’s metal claws so I thought it would be funny to draw this. Ryan Penagos, the editorial director of Marvel.com featured my drawing here on agentmlovestacos.com which was fucking amazing!!!!

Vodafone Collective- Paul Simon

Last Tuesday I drove down to Cork to see the legendary Paul Simon. I was commissioned by Vodafone to create a piece of art based on my experience at the gig. I worked in my own little bear monster and did him as Paul Simon, and I gave his guitar a little moustache and called it Julio. I dunno where that idea came from, but I just went with it and drew it! Haha. The wonderful lads at Thinkhouse filmed the entire process above and had it edited and up on youtube the following day so fair play to them for their patience and hard work.

Mike Watt & The Missingmen- Dublin Econo Blowout