3/24/2023 0 Comments Eddie cahillOUTSIDERS– Eddie Cahill and his reform through art. “The documentary explores in depth what made them turn their backs on crime and discover a new world in which art became their saviour. All born out of poverty rather than anger as might have been previously the case when Irish society was under ‘the rule of Rome.”Ĭlick hereto view the RTE documentary made by Mark Mc Loughlin (Password: OUTSIDERS2014). Lack of hope driving those on the edge of society to crime and drug dealing. Homelessness being the uppermost concern especially in his own city, unemployment rampant particularly amongst the already disadvantaged. The artist has moved on and developed an imagery that conveys human stories… in a difficult world. They move inwards instead of out, the head itself is turned inside –out, the magic box of tricks opens to reveal a dark, intense realm, a world stranger than we might have imagined, but also strangely familiar.”Ībove: ‘Temporary Placement’ 14.5 x 19.75″, Oil on paper But they end up as something entirely different. This is the most common motif, one that by accident or design taps into the Celtic cult of the head The head-and-shoulders of the conventional portrait is certainly an abiding model, an aspiration. Figures and objects emerge out of a soup of pigment… usually, we are in a realm of darkness illuminated by a glowing light, and space itself is distorted as if bent by a force like gravity, pulled into the orbit of, as often as not, the centrally positioned head. That world is dark-lit, fluid, dreamlike, often nightmarish. Yet he holds onto a vision in making each picture and he is remarkably successful in conjuring up a consistent personal world. He also sustains real intensities of feeling, to the extent that everything in the paintings is subservient to feeling. His technique is unadorned – he draws roughly, compositions have an ad hoc air – but he does have a feeling for paint, for form and for colour, and each work develops in a natural, organic way.Ībove: ‘Rejection’ 14.5 x 19.75″, Oil on paper His paintings are unmediated, direct. He uses paint emotively, even, as is true of many expressionist painters, self-indulgently. “ Eddie Cahill comes to paint with, as Dubuffet might say, an untutored eye. WORDS by AIDAN DUNNE, Irish Times Art Critic I am sure the show will be a huge success and wish both of you my very best.’īrian Maguire is an internationally recognised artist who led from NCAD the governments approved Prison Services’ ‘Painting in Prison’ project at Portlaoise Prison where he taught inmate Eddie Cahill who he seemed to have found to be the most talented of them all. He has gone from strength to strength over the 20+ years since he started working full time as an artist. ‘I was privileged to have a brief preview of his work earlier this week.
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