Illustrations by Alan Corbett

Thanks to the support of Cork City Council, I will be starting my very first artists residency this July in Fitzgerald's Park, Cork City. Alongside the visual artist P Gurgel-Segrillo and the painter Cora Murphy, I will be taking up residency in the Lord Mayor Pavilion at the city entrance to Fitzgerald's Park. The Art in the Park project is being supported by Cork City Council and will be officially opened on July 1st 2012.

More information on Art in the Park - Cork City can be found here:

http://artinthepark-cork.blogspot.com/

The Madrid painter and art teacher Roberto Alcala Garcia has kindly invited me to give an illustration talk this Wednesday night, May 16th. The talk will be held at Douglas Community College in Cork City at 19.15 PM. Attendees will include mature Art students that attend painting courses run by Roberto Alcala Garcia. Id like to thank him for giving me this chance to share my passion for illustration with the mature Art students of Douglas Community College!

This is the finished illustration that I was commissioned to create for the Cork Opera House. The illustration is of Alice in Wonderland and is for the 2012 Christmas Panto Production at Cork Opera House. The idea was to use a looking glass frame around the Alice in Wonderland characters. Id like to thank everyone at the Cork Opera House for their help in the creation of the illustration.

I have been kindly asked by the Galway Pub Scrawl team to give picture book illustration workshops on Saturday the 16th of June in the 091 Labs, in Galway. Id like to thank Donal Fallon for inviting me up to Galway for the event. The cost on the door will be €10 (€8 for students and 091 members) for the day.
Handouts are included in the price. 

For more information on the Galway Pub Scrawl team and the Galway workshops, please visit:

http://galwaypubscrawl.blogspot.com/

Im very pleased to be currently having an online illustration exhibition on the contemporary Irish art website; Art for Art's Sake. The online illustration exhibition was curated by Jennette Donnelly and the 3D space of the gallery is very impressive. Id like to thank Jennette for her hard work. You can view the online exhibition on at this link:

http://www.artforartsake.org/alan-corbett.html

I will be facilitating a day of illustration workshops at Colaiste Chathail Naofa in Dungarvan, County Waterford on Friday May 11th. The workshops are open to Art and English Leaving Certificate pupils. They will commence at 11 o'clock and run straight through until 3 o'clock. I would like to thank Art teacher Kathleen Dobbs for inviting up to Dungarvan! 

This is a pencil sketch of Alice in Wonderland. The illustration is based on the original Lewis Carroll text and the aim was to create illustrations that stayed true to the original stories written by Lewis Carrol. 

The graphic novel compilation Fractals, that I helped launch yesterday at the Cork World Book Festival is now available in the Cork City Library. The book was created by teenage users of the Cork City Libraries and is a credit to both the work down by the libraries and the tremendous young creative talent that we have here in Cork. Id highly recommend that you pick up a copy if you're in the Cork area!

Im very pleased to reveal details of my first solo gallery exhibition to co-incide with the launch of Ghost of Shandon this upcoming August. As was announced recently on the Arts Show on Cork FM, my debut solo gallery exhibition will be held in the Twenty Twenty Fine Art Gallery on the North Mall in Cork City from August 14th to August 25th. Original art work from the Ghost of Shandon will be on display and available for purchase.

Id like to thank the curator of the Twenty Twenty Fine Art Gallery, Sheelah Moloney for inviting me into the gallery space this August. 

My recent Easter Sunday interview on the Cork FM Arts Show with Aine de Barra is now available as a podcast. Id like to thank everyone at Cork FM for supporting Ghost of Shandon and my work. You can listen online to the podcast by clicking on the following link- 

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