Larvaic, eruptive, layered and encrudded, the work of Michael McSwiney in his latest offering, ‘Code Orange,’ at the Clonakilty Community Arts Centre (CCAC), both quickens and slows on the eye. It is the mark of a master who understands that great composition demands a full range of time signatures: from […]

On September 1, the Clonakilty Community Arts Centre (CCAC) was given the keys to No. 8 Kent Street, a council building situated opposite the Old Mill Library. CCAC has been granted six months at No. 8 under an inaugural ‘meanwhile use’ scheme being trialled by Cork County Council. It is […]

In my early twenties I developed a compositional structure which I consider to be a visual equivalent to a musical fugue. As a structure it is modular and capable, theoretically at least, of infinite extension. The temptation was then (and still is) to see how long I could make it. […]