Mirror Lamp Press (2024)

13/06/2023

Join us for the audio launch of Mirror Lamp Press Issue 7 tonight at 8pm on Resonance FM. It features songs, clips and talk segments about feelings of exile, failed artworks, and moving in circles, selected by the editors and contributors.

Issue 7 includes writing by Naoise Dolan, Claire McCluskey, Pádraic E. Moore, Julie Morrissy, and Sara Muthi, artwork by Penny Davenport, and a video essay by Michelle Doyle. You can listen on 104.4 FM in central London or live stream through the Resonance FM website.

Image: Penny Davenport, Something Left In Other Places, ink and colour pencil on paper 56 x 67 cm

Supported by Arts Council Ireland

16/04/2023

If you missed our audio launch on Friday, you can listen in to Dublin Digital Radio at 3pm today!

Gwen and Eoghan introduce songs, audio clips, poems and more corresponding to the featured essays by Ingrid Lyons, Anu Lakhan, John Graham, Pádraig Regan, and Rosie O’ Reilly. You will also hear an excerpt of Beth Fox’s audiovisual essay, and poems read by Lee Welch, our featured artist, as well as a fantastic introduction by Anu Lakhan for her chosen track and how it corresponds to her series of letters.

Image: Lee Welch, to seize upon greatness, 2020, acrylic on polyester 137 x 102 cm

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14/04/2023

You can listen to the audio launch of issue no.6 tonight at 8pm on Resonance 104.4 FM.

Gwen and Eoghan introduce songs, audio clips, poems and more corresponding to the featured essays by Ingrid Lyons, Anu Lakhan, John Graham, Pádraig Regan, and Rosie O’ Reilly. You will also hear an excerpt of Beth Fox’s audiovisual essay, and poems read by Lee Welch, our featured artist, as well as a fantastic introduction by Anu Lakhan for her chosen track and how it corresponds to her series of letters.

Image: Lee Welch, I will try to speak with more simple words, 2022, acrylic on polyester, 68.5 x 51 cm / 27 x 20.1 in

30/03/2023

Rosie O'Reilly takes a close look at the process of rust on the objects she finds. Read the full essay in our current issue, no. 6.

Free to download. Supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

28/03/2023

Ingrid Lyons describes 'duende', the almost undefinable quality in art. Read the full essay in our current issue, No. 6.

Free to download.

Supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

08/03/2023

No. 6

Padraig Regan discusses John Donne's poem 'The Flea' in relation to a gay sauna in Belfast. Available to read now in our current issue, thanks to the support of the arts council of Ireland.

07/03/2023

No. 6.
Check out the work of Lee Welch in our current issue.

Free to download thanks to the support of the Arts Council of Ireland

Image: Sforzino Sforza As Swan, 2023, acrylic on polyester, 50 x 35 cm / 19.7 x 13.8 in

27/02/2023

Kicking off our series of audiovisual essays is '12 Lemons: Further Adventures from the Gig Economy' by Beth Fox

"Beneath the shiny surface of our phones and tablets, behind the frictionless apps that allow us to order all kinds of products and services, someone, somewhere, is doing the work.” The protagonist works as a delivery rider transporting delicious takeaways around the city.

You can watch on our website and download the current issue. You can also watch Beth's previous adventures from the gig economy, 'Bum Shower,' on her website.

Thanks to the Arts Council of Ireland for support.

https://www.mirrorlamppress.com/current-issue

31/01/2023

Artwork from the current issue – no.5 – by Ella Bertilsson

Ella Bertilsson is a Dublin-based visual artist who weaves dark humour and absurdity into multi-disciplinary artworks. She is a studio artist at Rua Red until 2023 and is a recipient of the Visual Arts Bursary Award (2022-2023) and the Project Award (2022) from the Art Council of Ireland. She has 1st class honours in Fine Art Print (BA) and an MFA awarded from the National College of Art and Design, Ireland (2009, 2015).

Image: Laughing Rambles of Two Green Bingo Dabbers, markers on Fabriano, 2022, 22.9 cm x 30.5 cm.

30/01/2023

In our current issue, Charlotte Jones considers the word impasse and those of the present – rolling pandemic lockdowns, government inertia, climate intransigence. Looking closely at what it means to come to an impasse, she reveals what are the possible ways through.

Mirror Lamp Press is made available thanks to the support of The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

16/01/2023

In issue no.5, Emer O'Toole considers Oscar Wilde's aesthetic philosophy, and makes the case that he was a performance artist.

Available to freely download thanks to the generous support of The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

13/01/2023

Check out Ella Bertilsson's artwork in our current issue.

Image: 18 Crawlers 18 Creeps, markers on Fabriano, 2022, 22.9 cm x 30.5 cm

Free to download thanks to the arts council of Ireland.

10/01/2023

Read Darran Anderson's essay about uncomfortable contradictory truths and how we view history, in our current issue.

Link in bio.

Free to download thanks to the generous support of the Arts Council of Ireland

23/11/2022

Issue no.5

Featuring words by Darran Anderson, Emily S. Cooper, Charlotte Jones, Emer O'Toole and Debi Paul. Artwork by Ella Bertilsson

Free to download from the website thanks to generous support from the arts council of Ireland

Image: Monster Munch Numbskull’s Urge to Run into a Rabbit Hole, markers on Fabriano, 2022, 22.9 cm x 30.5 cm, Ella Bertilsson

14/07/2022

OPEN CALL: We’re looking for writers, featured artists and video essayists.

Writers:
We offer €170 for 1000 words. Please see submissions page for details of each section

Artists:
If you would like to be our featured artist, we offer €500 to create new work for the issue (roughly 10-15 images), that can be sketchbook work, preliminary drawings or paintings, a body of work that you’re working on that hasn’t been shown publicly yet.

Video Essays:
If you’re interested in videographic criticism or your practice involves words and moving image, please contact us about making a video essay. We can offer €800 fee + €200 materials budget (€1000 in total).

Contact [email protected] with some samples of your previous work, website etc and some details about what you’d like to feature, or if you’d like more information about any of the above. We’re happy to talk through your ideas and work.

More information on our submissions page. Link in Bio.

Image: Artwork by Jenny Smith, Issue 1 featured artist.

18/06/2022

'There is happiness and there is pleasure, but my idea of “crispy moments” is not quite either of them - it is more akin to encountering and experiencing beauty, to flares of condensed feelings, intensified occurrences.'

A new text by Renata Pękowska is now live on our website. 'Crispy Bits of Every Day' explores intensities of lived experience, nowness and presence, among other things. You can read it through the link in our bio, in our online texts section.

The text is accompanied by original artwork Pękowska developed along with her writing. Memory Landscapes series, digital illustrations, 2022

28/04/2022

To launch our online texts, Deborah Madden responds to the group exhibition 'Feeling of Knowing' at The Complex in Dublin last October. For this piece, Madden considers the Ground Floor Gallery and it's history as a banana ripening warehouse, as well as the works within it. Available to read now on our website. Link in bio.

The exhibition featured site-specific work by Aleana Egan, Áine McBride, Dennis McNulty and Conor O'Sullivan.

Photography by Kate Bowe O'Brien

18/02/2022

Read Eimear Walshe's transcendental encounter with an Uilleann piper in our current issue. You can listen to Walshe's recorded reading with a soundscape by Ian Lynch on mixcloud, originally aired on Resonance FM for No.4's radio launch. https://linktr.ee/mirrorlamppress

15/12/2021

Issue No. 4 has landed.

Featuring writing by Isadora Epstein, Rosa Abbott,
Joseph Noonan-Ganley, Eimear Walshe, Denis Kehoe,
and artwork by Eleanor McCaughey.

This issue looks at fe**sh in cultural production as 'an
aesthetic relationship to the world.'

Please join us sonically tonight (Wednesday, 15th
December) for the radio launch on Resonance FM from
8-9pm. This broadcast will feature sound pieces from
Isadora Epstein, Joseph Noonan-Ganley, and Eimear
Walshe featuring a soundscape by Ian Lynch.

Go to https://www.mirrorlamppress.com to download the issue for free.

MLP is kindly supported by Arts Council Ireland

12/12/2021

Please join us sonically for the launch of issue 4 at 8pm on ResonanceFM 15 December.

Featuring sound pieces from Isadora Epstein and Cillian Finnerty, Joseph Noonan-Ganley, and Eimear Walshe with a soundscape by Ian Lynch, along with songs, clips and talk segments.

No.4 looks at fe**sh in cultural production as 'an aesthetic relationship to the world.'

Artwork: Family Hour by Eleanor McCaughey, Issue 4's featured artist.

08/12/2021

More of Joe Scullion in the current issue of MLP.

29/11/2021

Will Puckett looks at the piracy of myth through Dave Hickey's 'Pirates and Farmers' in our current issue.

16/11/2021

Aisling-Ór Ní Aodha looks at the historical use of the word 'q***r' in the story of Bridget Cleary.

Read the full essay in our current issue.

04/11/2021

Tune in to tonight at 8pm to listen to the launch of our third issue, Myth.

Editors Gwen and Eoghan introduce essays from William Puckett, Ellena Savage, Aisling-Ór Ní Aodha, Meadhbh McNutt and Nathan O'Donnell, followed by a collection of clips, songs and poems related to myth and work in the issue.

Artwork by Joe Scullion.

Kindly supported by Arts Council Ireland

28/10/2021

See Joe Scullion's enigmatic drawings in our current issue.

16/10/2021

Read Nathan O'Donnell's essay about his time spent on residency in Terryglass Co. Tipperary in our current issue. Freely available to download from our website.

Kindly supported by the arts council.

08/10/2021

No. 3 Myth is now live. This issue features words by Nathan O'Donnell, Ellena Savage, Aisling-Ór Ní Aodha, William Puckett and Meadhbh McNutt.

Artwork by Joe Scullion.

Kindly supported by Arts Council Ireland

24/08/2021

In the current issue, Renèe Helèna Browne discusses the character Pinetree from the fantasy novel 'The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions' by Larry Mitchell and how it's been an inspiration to their own practice and projects as an artist.

As always, every issue is free. Kindly supported by Arts Council Ireland

04/08/2021

Ruth Clinton describes the embodied experience of playing Irish traditional music collectively, along with the ethnonationalist agenda often associated with it. Read it in full essay in our current issue. Free to download.

19/07/2021

Please join us tonight for the launch of our second issue; No.2 Loop. Tune in to Resonance FM from 8pm or listen online from their website.

For just under an hour, editors Gwen and Eoghan discuss repetition and historical recurrence in the work of Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartannson, writer Henry James along with a noisy in-conversation with Rachel Donnelly who discusses her interest in choreographer Trisha Brown. It also features Irish music discussed in Ruth Clinton's essay and some discussion of Gertrude Stein by Sheilah ReStack among other things.

As always the issue is available to download for free. Kindly supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.

Image: Perriot's Dream by featured artist Stephen Dunne

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