My first 100 Buildings piece for 2026 as part of my series for @rte.ie Culture is on an often-overlooked structures - the humble lampstandard. Read about a pair of rare 1940s concrete Art Deco ones in Co.Meath. Huge thanks to @fleshandcircuit.bsky.social for her photos
www.rte.ie/culture/2026...
Wine! Cheese! Fruit! Knowledge! What more could you want?
Amateurs! at @maynoothuniversity.ie, the institution that supported my work on the book, with my excellent colleagues @fleshandcircuit.bsky.social and @jeneen.bsky.social
6 November, 1pm, open to all!
New publication out!!
Does anyone know of research pertaining to the history of big garden centres in Ireland and if there is a connection to the Celtic Tiger/being part of EU?
My brain is fried
Cover of Livestreaming an aesthetics and ethics of technical encounter
Livestreaming from @uminnpress.bsky.social in the wild! Someone just sent me this photo from a bookstore in Berkeley!
cold water / golden light
In that glorious stage of just starting a new book project, where the ideas are fresh as the thoughts are still forming; the theories are weaving together as the patterns are coming into place and every art work is rich with the potential for analysis..... working title: Trading in Visions
Video work of water show on monitor on ground, photographed from outside looking into gallery at night time
EL Putnam sitting with their video work Displacement which is being shown on a monitor on the ground
Let the Mirror Express the Room, the Westmeath Artists Award Exhibition at Luan Gallery Atholone curated by Benjamin Stafford (with over 30 Westmeath artists) opened last night. Show is up until 2 February and you can also check out my piece Displacement from the bridge next to the Gallery.
I honestly thought Thanksgiving was this past Thursday
Let me go start a lit review on that
Big research deadlines (plural) approaching...
me: hey look at that other topic over there!
magic on the surface
Cosmotechnics Group: Simon Blackmore, Andy Broadey, Paul Dolan, Helen Knowles, Alis Oldfield and EL Putnam
Exhibition details: cosmotechnics.net/about/
I won't be able to make the events this weekend, but if you are in Northwest England, go and check it out!
I also got around to updating website with Imbue with Spirit: www.elputnam.com/imbue-with-s...
The video will be screening this weekend at Bankley Gallery in Manchester as part of the exhibition Planetary Thinking with the Cosmotechnics Group.
My video work Displacement has been selected for inclusion in the Westmeath Artists' Award exhibition, Let the Mirror Express the Room, curated by Benjamin Stafford at Luan Gallery in Athlone, opening next Friday 29 November at 6 pm. Show is up until 2 February 2025.
breaking through the surface
the underside of rain
Yes!
watching an oak leaf drift
The opening page of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, which was published in 1993 and takes place in a speculative 2024. The book sits on a cork mat and there is a space printed mousepad and a bookmark from Christopher’s Books to the side.
I’m re-reading Parable of the Sower for a workshop and from the moment of opening the first page to ‘2024’ my face has just been the grimace emoji 😬 page after page, paired with a very quiet eeenggghghhhhg
Book cover of Fierce Appetites by Elizabeth Boyle.
Currently reading. Highly recommend.
Driving country roads in early morning/night when foggy is both terrifying and thrilling; I feel like I am in a ghost story.
oh yes. phew!
this is why I don't like opening tabs as a to do list
I just closed Acrobat with about 15 tabs open of unread journal articles that I was planning to read.....
I am looking forward to this
#AcademicSky, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about.
1) Myth, tech and speculative fiction in Ireland
2) comparing gestures of influencers to early silent cinema
First look at "Did you read about
Erskine Fogarty?". A film adapted from a short story I wrote back in 2017. Directed by James Cotter and starring Robert Sheehan. I also composed the soundtrack.
