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Brian Fay Contribution To The Lismore Castle Arts Public Discussion- Painting As A Dream, Friday 25th Of April, 2014, Brian Fay

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Brian Fay contribution to the Lismore Castle Arts, Waterford, Public Discussion- Painting As A Dream, Friday 25^th of April, 2014

What Is Drawing - A Continuous Incompleteness, Brian Fay

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This booklet was published as part of the What is_? series published by the Irish Museum of Modern Art. The series is intended to provide a broad overview of some of the central themes and directions in modern and contemporary art and also to provide information about the materials and methodologies employed by artists in the creation of their work.

Brian Fay Interview For Peel Magazine, Brian Fay

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This interview is from a series of artist conversations around the use of and relationships to the materials they employ in their practice. Other interviewees include Alexandra Hughes, Nadia Scola, Rachel Sharp, James Watts and Zara Worth.

Temporalities And The Drawn Response To The Conservation And Restoration Of Paintings, Brian Fay

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This paper will consider the temporal implications for drawing in the light of conservation and restoration treatments to paintings by the Seventeenth Century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer.

Using three critical frameworks: Norman Bryson’s becoming model for drawing and the relationship of liminality to a painting during conservation/restoration, George Didi Huberman’s anti-chronological reading of the detail and the pan in painting, and Walter Benjamin’s definitions of drawing the paper will seek to address some implications for a drawing practice that responds to a pre-existing museum artworks.

The paper will present some findings from my own drawing practice that responds to Vermeer’s …