Category: Design

Poster Design > A Feast of Bones

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Theatre Lovett’s 2013 hit A Feast of Bones is back.

On the Edge (The World Festival of Theatre for Young Audiences), Birmingham, July 2016.


Photo by Ros Kavanagh

Poster Design > The Blue Boy

BrokentalkersThe Blue Boy – on its first Irish national tour (spring 2016)


Touring to: Everyman Cork, Mermaid Arts Centre Bray, Pavilion Theatre Dún Laoghaire, Project Arts Centre, Townhall Theatre Galway, Lyric Belfast, Drogheda Arts Festival. 

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Poster Design > Project Bar

See_You_In_The_BarScreen shot 2016-06-29 at 23.40.05See you in the bar after the show?

For Project Arts Centre, my home from home.


As modelled by artist Francis Fay (right).

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Poster Design > Castle Rock by Massive Owl

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Bristol live art collective Massive Owl present
Castle Rock, a Distortion of the Film ‘Stand by Me’ at Project Arts Centre, Dublin (March 2016)


Photo by Paul Samuel White.

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Visual Art Research > Troika Fiscal Disobedience Consultancy

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These past 10 days, I’ve been knee-deep in research for Troika Fiscal Disobedience Consultancy, a new show by Spanish artist Núria Güell which opened in the gallery at Project Arts Centre last night.

Throughout 2016, the centenary of the 1916 Rising, Project are engaging with acts and idea of ‘rebellion’. Núria Güell uses installation, writing, performance and video for political and social activism, believing that art holds the power to rethink ourselves as a society. Preoccupied by the ever widening gap between rich and poor, some of her projects have included publishing a book that explains how to expropriate money from a bank, entering into a marriage of convenience in order to give legal status to an individual, and creating a company in order to hire a construction worker to demolish doors to enable squatting. For this solo exhibition here in Dublin, she has collaborated with Catalan activist Enric Duran to establish an agency that borrows from the tactics of corporate tax liability systems – in order to advise grass roots social projects on how to practice tax avoidance.

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The exhibition screens several films (including Katerina Kitidi and Aris Chatzistefanou’s Debtocracy and Ruaridh Arrow’s How to Start a Revolution). The opposite end of the gallery becomes an ‘office’ for the consultancy, a desk inviting visitors to explore the company website, the wall above it brandished with its logo. I worked on a design for the business cards. Both the desk and business card features a bunch of yellow tulips – a nod to the Tulip Mania which swept the Netherlands in the 17th century, considered the first speculative bubble.

Troika–business-card-front Troika–business-card-backTo give a social and historical context for the action of the consultancy, I collaborated with Núria and curator Tessa Giblin to research eight cases of fiscal and civil disobedience. The short texts I wrote and designed became the surface of a coffee table in the consultancy’s ‘waiting area’. The cases came from the distant past right up to the present: Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the bus; 18 million citizens of the United Kingdom refuse to pay their Poll Tax; Gandhi leads tens of thousands of followers to disregard the British salt monopoly and harvest their own salt; Charles Stewart Parnell encourages struggling tenants to shun their landlords.

From the dumping of tea into the sea by 200 patriots during the Boston Tea Party in 1773 to a group of independent retailers in a small Welsh town going “offshore” in 2015, I found the research fascinating – uncovering and telling the stories of acts of civil disobedience that have denied unjust laws collectively, publicly, peacefully – realising that Núria Güell and Troika Fiscal Disobedience Consultancy is but the latest in a proud and vibrant history.

The exhibition is one of Frieze Magazine‘s Dublin highlights, and continues until 19 March 2016.

Exhibition photography by Ros Kavanagh. Opening night photography by Senija Topcic.  


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Exhibition Trailer

 

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Poster Design > They Called Her Vivaldi

Vivaldi-theatre-lovett–poster-design-kate-heffernanJust about to send this poster and flyer to print, a design I’ve been working on for Theatre Lovett’s brand new show They Called Her Vivaldi. On the road and in a venue near you from February 2016.Vivaldi-theatre-lovett–flyer-design-kate-heffernan


Photo by Ros Kavanagh

 

 

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Billboard Design > ART Inside

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Project Arts Centre ART Inside billboard. Summer 2014.

 

 

 

 

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Poster Design > Mountain by Orla Barry

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Mountain by Orla Barry
Project Arts Centre
June 2014

 

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Graphic Props > In Dog Years I’m Dead

DogYearsShowGraphicProps-1983InviteDogYearsShowGraphicProps-DutchInviteDogYearsShowGraphicProps-FlirtyDogYearsShowGraphicProps-EstdDogYearsShowGraphicProps-OhNoDogYearsShowGraphicProps-RussianIn Dog Years I’m Dead begins at a 1983-themed 30th birthday party, and ends at a Dutch themed 31st birthday (the international dialing code for the Netherlands is +31. The party tagline: “Go Dutch – and Bring Your Own Beer”). I made graphic props for the show, including these invitations for both events. The 1980s feel of the first invitation made its way to the show programme which you can see here.

Towards the end of the play, Emily and David both turn 30 and are inundated with  cards. Wearing playwright hat I imagined this ping-pong oneupmanship of greetings. Wearing designer hat, I made the graphic props to match.


EMILY: Cards came from all over. (Reading) You’re just an eighteen year old with twelve years experience. 29ish.
DAVID: Ested. 1983.
EMILY: It Took Me Thirty Years To Look This Good.
DAVID: Oh No The Big Three Oh
EMILY: Keep Calm, You’re Only Thirty.
DAVID: I got three of those ones.
EMILY: I’m Not Thirty, I’m Three Perfect Tens
DAVID: Age Is Like Underwear, It Creeps Up On You.
EMILY: Flirty Thirty.
DAVID: Dirty Thirty.
EMILY: And probably the most threatening:
DAVID: Thirty down. Thirty to go.

 


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