'Lessons in Elitism' [1995]

I'm still proud of this piece, it seems to be chock full of good ideas. I can't help thinking that this was one on which my wife pitched in with the concepts...
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'Mankind United' [1996]

This was a cynical article about why people are motivated toward acts of generosity and caring, the selfish gene etc. I find Richard Dawkins very interesting so I enjoyed this commission immensely. I really got creative with it...
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Father Ted [1997]

What an honour this was! A Sunday Independent article about the Father Ted phenomenon. This was such fun as I was a fan from the word go.
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'The Generation Gap' [1998]

Interesting job this. Checkout magazine ran an article about GM food technology - so from the depths of my mind I dragged this disturbing eugenic/tomatostein image. Topics raised in the article included pig genes in tomatoes. I was about to say that I didn't...
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Sleeping Pills [1997]

This is a colour version of an Irish Independent illustration for an article about sleeping pills. Very stylised and worked onto a pre-prepared textured ground.
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Rent boys article [1997]

Irish Independent article about predatory perverts and rent boys in Dublin. I was in Francis Bacon mode around about this time. Hence the amiguity, free marks and umbrella [Also, check out the hood ornament!]. The whole thing looks quite scary.
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'Is your husband a Psychopath?' [1996]

Interesting article that I illustrated for the Irish Sunday Independent Newspaper. Errol Flynn was cited as a classic example of the 'Socially-adjusted psychopath'. Here I was venturing into the combined Academic and Collage mode...
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'Future Sex' [1997]

This was for a Sunday Independent Newspaper article about drug and VR enhanced sex in the future. The dull procreation part of the process taken care of with AI.
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'Tuskar Air Disaster' [1996]

This was my first ever 'info-graphic'; if you don't count the Story-board/comic-strip' type of work that the Sunday Independent Newspaper commissioned from me. This explained the dreadful air disaster of the 1960's off the south coast of Ireland. Very mysterious circumstances - it has been suggested that it may have collided with a pilotless military plane.
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'TnaG article' [1996]

Sunday Independent article about TeleNaGael; and its 'propping-up' with RTE generated revenue [the State TV station]. TnaG is actually a pretty good channel. They show old good movies and lots of good documentaries about Irish History, ancient crafts & culture like Currach building...
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