A Wee Feature on Mick Minogue at the For The Love Of Progress Show with ebow & Gallery Number One
ebow & Gallery Number One presents - Drive Operation Game by Mick Minogue
The title of this article may lead you to believe we’ve started a babysitting service, we haven’t. We just let some rad artists in to do their thang in the gallery. And they are making the most of it.
We run as ebow and Gallery Number One. It’s a symbiotic union you can read more about here.
We invited local art and design collective For The Love Of in to Gallery Number One for a show and they decided to run an exhibition based on the theme of ‘Progress’. The gallery is open Thursday through to Sunday 10am – 5pm. And if you have been in already it’s worth your while dropping by again as Mick Minogue is gradually illustrating our ceiling. Mick is a self-confessed ‘crafty little beggar’ and working professionally as an illustrator and maker of things. He’s worked on campaigns such as the Undergrowth Movement for Bulmers and represented Ireland in the Secret Wars – an International event where illustrators and graffiti artists battle it out (through drawing) in front of a live audience.
As part of the For The Love Of Progress show Mick is showing his ‘Drive’ themed version of the well-loved kids game ‘Operation’ and as previously mentioned he’s illustrating directly onto the ceiling.
Going back to the childhood pursuits of playing games and drawing on the walls sounds a little more like regression that progression eh? Wrong. Progression, according to our window text based piece by Kathryn Maguire ‘is not possible without deviation from the norm’. We commonly refer to this as thinking outside the box. It’s great to get an artist into our gallery who is humble and honest enough to make work that deviates from the norm by having a bit of fun.
He’s admitted that after watching the film ‘Drive’ he came out of the cinema as influenced as he had the first time he had watched the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film as a kid. The start to ‘Drive’ is as quietly tense as you will be when you set the timer on Mick’s game and attempt to remove each of the pieces without setting off the revving engine sounds.
As for drawing on the walls, this is no Crayola scribbling. Mick is introducing an awesome, ceiling-sweeping whale complete with nautical tattoos to our gallery, little by little. A whale with tattoos is a form of progress. And it’s progress that the whale is on the ceiling and not just in Mick’s brilliant imagination.
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Mick Minogue – The Real Human Being Operation Game from Albert Hooi on Vimeo.
A Whale of a Time
And we’ll be hosting an evening of mince pies and mulled wine soon to celebrate the show and the completion of Mick’s Sistine Whale.
Keep an eye on our facebook page for updates on when that will happen.
