Ideenstudio

Postage Stamps

/ Idee: Colin Crotty /

Integrate presentation with distribution -
Connection with a provincial audience

I propose to create a body of paintings which are to be produced for a series of postage stamps. With this work my aim is to integrate presentation with distribution and by doing so establishing a connection with a provincial audience.

In many traditions minature watercolour painting have depicted various forms of social narrative. By making this work I intend to question the social standards inherent within modern communities whilst focusing particular awareness on societies economic history. Through a narrative idealization I am endeavouring to subvert these ’standards’ to create social reform.

The images I have attached are preliminary sketchs which aim to give an immediate impression of the formulation of my ideas. I am proposing to make twelve paintings which are then to be reduced in scale in the production of the stamps.

Über Colin Crotty

Qualifications and training
2004 MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
1997 BA Fine Art, Crawford College of Art, Cork, Ireland

Austellungen von Colin Crotty

Solo exhibitions
2002 Woodpath, Vangard Gallery, Cork

Group exhibitions
2005 Where the long shadows fall, Temple Bar Studios, project space

Competitions, prizes and awards
2005 Red Mansion Art Prize
2002 Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Fellowship, Co.Mayo