Artist: Barry Quinn Music: Niamh De Barra Barry Quinn is an artist from Monaghan who draws much inspiration from music. Having done the cover artwork for a number of albums, he got in touch with RGBeats to explain how he compiled the cover artwork for Niamh De Barra’s album Echo. “With most projects for music
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This is a long post so in summary – RGBeats.com is 1 year old, there are 4 paintings in this post with a focus on two outstanding musos, ITAL TEK and GEM_DOS and I’m painting in Twisted Pepper on Friday 28th September with the Durrrty crew. RGBeats.com celebrates its first birthday today. Woo! For nostalgia
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A couple of years back I came across this absolute gem of an exhibition in Berlin. It was called Papergirl. The concept of Papergirl is really beautiful. Artists donate a piece to be shown in the Papergirl exhibition and at the end of the exhibition run, Papergirl delegates go out on their bicycles and distribute
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A couple of years ago I was a frustrated creative who thought I needed to get away from Ireland to make something happen, so I moved to Berlin. I’m back in Dublin a year now and I was wrong to dismiss our creative culture so candidly. I am very proud to be a part of
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Finally! A new submission. This illustration comes in from Brendan O’Rourke, a creative enthusiast with penchants for InDesign, Illustrator and the Big Screen. He created it listening to “I can rock a suit” Janelle Monae’s Cold War album. Speaking on his masterpiece, O’Rourke commented: “ I dunno I’m seeing a lot of spots right now”. I think
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Armed with a canvas that’s nearly the same height as me, I had loads of fun with everyone in Twisted Pepper just over a week ago. Painting and dancing to a bass heavy DJ set by Psytori, followed up by Kevin McNally’ and Barry Krishna, this was a really great night. The music was well rounded
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I did this painting a couple of weeks ago, one Friday evening after work. I headed up to the studio with my laptop and didn’t have any song in mind to paint to so started flicking through my Downloads folder which is in desperate need of a filing assistant. In it I found the SertOne
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A few of my favourite Irish beat makers were readying themselves to embark on a tour called Light Box last month. Ahead of it all kicking off they were busying themselves with promo opportunites, including a recording session in the 2FM Studios. I was kindly asked to participate at this live recording alongside Bantum, Monto,
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I did this painting way back in January, at the same gig that I was painting to Lorem Ipsum and The Last Days of 1984. Soil Creep is a two-piece Dublin based band who combine washed out lyrics with tracks that carry an 80s vibe. I love the keys on the tracks. I know it
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![Social Studies [Plastic Plate Remix] // as interpreted by RGBeats](http://rgbeats.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/social-studies-body-language-remix-rgbeats-100x300.jpg "Social Studies [Plastic Plate Remix] // as interpreted by RGBeats"){kind=small}
I did this this evening listening to Plastic Plates remix of Social Studies Body Language. It was done in a very colourful setting, as I had a photographer call over to take some pictures in the studio this evening. We hung up all my paintings to set the scene a bit more…feels real like my
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