In May 2011 I spent a month in Ireland, mostly on the central and southern west coast. Images collected there are being combined with images collected on a trip to the Canadian prairies during the summer of 2009. This piece is called quiet quiet. The two exterior images are views downriver and upriver respectively from the centre of Leam Bridge in Galway, aka The Quiet Man Bridge, as it features in the film starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara c. 1952. The central image is the outdoor Shamrock Drive-In at Killarney, Manitoba in Canada. The piece is approximately 130cm x 40cm (52"x16"), screenprinting and drawing on wood panels, the central image being on steel plate affixed to a wood panel. In the signboard of the drive-in image, I've rearranged some of the letters to suggest the film showing is 'The Quiet M...'
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