On Sunday 28 April, Dublin Sketchers are going on a sketch crawl inspired by James Joyce's epic book about Dublin - Ulysses.
Midday
- meet and quick sketch at Foot Locker on O'Connell Street.
Walk
down to .....
12.30pm
- meet and quick sketch on the board walk by O'Connell Bridge on the north side
of the River Liffey.
Walk
down to ...
1.15pm
- meet and quick sketch under the columns of the Bank of Ireland on College
Green.
Walk
down to ...
2.15pm
meet and quick sketch around Davy Byrne's pub on Duke Street.
Walk
down to ...
3.15pm
meet and sketch outside Masonic Lodge on Molesworth Street. Or continue on
to sketch outside the National Library on Kildare Street.
If
you want, you can draw on the theme of the Lestrygonians chapter of James
Joyce's Ulysses. This
short video gives some low down on the chapter. You can also take inspiration
from the Scylla and Charybdis chapter that takes place in the National
Library. Here's a short
video about it. Both are presented by John Singleton.
If
you're joining in the Olives, Oysters and Oranges sketchbook project, you might want to get a dedicated sketch book for it, or not, the choice is yours.
If
it's your first time out .... bring your own paper and pens/pencils, turn up,
say hello to anyone who looks like a sketcher and get stuck in!
You'll meet
everyone at 4pm over a drink in The Duke Pub on Duke Street.
Olives,
Oysters and Oranges sketchbook project 2019
Between
April and June, Dublin Sketchers will sketch in some of the places that
appear in James Joyce’s Ulysses, which takes place on one day in Dublin
in 1904. That day is celebrated every year as Bloomsday, 16th June.
The Olives,
Oysters and Oranges sketchbook project will take inspiration from Ulysses,
and in particular the references
of food in Ulysses. Our work will parallel the exhibition of the same name at
the Olivier
Cornet Gallery.
The title for this project is taken from Flicka Small’s current
research into the semiotics of food in Ulysses.
The
sketchbooks will be exhibited upstairs at the Olivier Cornet Gallery on 15th
and 16th of June, during the Bloomsday Festival. If you don’t want
to exhibit your sketches, that is totally fine. Just come out with Dublin
Sketchers as usual.
The
sketchbooks will be a record of time and place, now and then. They will
reveal Ulysses, one drawing at a time.
How do I integrate food into my sketching? How do I link the locations we sketch at and the text from Ulysses? These are a few questions you may have. The answer, of course is entirely up to you. A few extracts from Ulysses will be read at key locations. You may be inspired by the text itself of course. The whole universe as we know it exists in Ulysses. You can search through Ulysses online. Or you may be inspired by the locations themselves. Or let your imagination run wild. Whatever your approach, have fun. Just like Joyce had fun when writing Ulysses.
