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Orla Mellon writes:
I recently had my work exhibited upstairs in Foam Café [Great Strand Street, Dublin] I was delighted that they had kept them hanging up for over a year. Although I was gutted to find out that someone had stolen one of my paintings. I’m not working at the moment, as I’ve taken time off to look after my daughter. I don’t have any ill feeling toward Foam Café, as they gave me the opportunity to get my work shown to the public. What angers me is that someone would take it upon themselves to steal art work, when the artist themselves are struggling to make money. I know I speak for a lot of artists out there.
I wanted to get this out there, to anyone who sees this painting hanging up, it’s stolen! Shame on you, I hope karma bites you in the arse!!!
Anyone?
I’ve been involved in a few group exhibitions around town (usually pubs / cafes), and this has happened once or twice.
Nowadays they’re all fixed flush to the wall with mirrorplates. it’s a pain in the hole for hanging stuff, but unfortunately it has to be done because even the right-on hipster set in Dublin think that they can just take what they want.
Robin bastards
You should retweet that
Heh :)
It’s hard to value “art”. Perhaps the culprit recently threw €1 in a homeless persons cup? Surely that would sort the karma thing out? If you don’t get the kudos you think you deserve now perhaps it’ll come posthumously. Let Edvard be an example to you.
How do you know it was robbed? Maybe they found it simply unbearable to look at.
you must use your anger in order to make peace with the universe.
or some such poo on some artist’s list somewhere
think of the publicity….me da had one of his sculptures stolen from an exhibition years ago and it was all over the papers…. gave a little bump to the attendance figures all the same.
but yeah Robbers are feckers!!!!
So you are struggling to make money as an artist? Perhaps time to question your talents and/or your choice of career. Sorry to hear about the theft however, that sucks.
Jaysus.
wow you are sound…..
surely if the picture was worth stealing then someone thought it had value. you should take it as a positive and a validation of your career choice. do not be deterred from your goal. and remember someone, somewhere is enjoying your picture all the more because of what they had to risk to get it.
so stop being so whiney and bourgeoise and enjoy your compliment, no matter how back-handed you think it is.
Lol that’s what I was thinking but did not have the empathy to say it and so settled for a sneering putdown instead
Scottser looks out the bedroom window at an empty driveway. He rushes downstairs. The front door is open, the place is trashed, his car keys are gone.
A note is pinned to the front door:
“Your car was worth stealing. You should take it as a positive and a validation of your taste. Do not be deterred from working to make money to buy a new one, and remember someone, somewhere is enjoying your car all the more because of what they had to risk to get it.
So stop being so whiny and bourgeois and enjoy your compliment, no matter how back-handed you think it is.”
scottser has car insurance, mick.
and why is my place trashed? hers wasn’t. no fair.
You’re making me feel bad now, Scottser. I wish I could take back what I did in your cutlery drawer.
you didn’t leave one of your bogey drawings in there, did you?
i feel so dirty now. i shower and shower but i never feel clean..
I can’t understand stealing a painting. It’s not like you’d be able to hang it up and properly enjoy it… at least, I think I’d have a constant voice in my head telling me ‘you stole that, ya pr*ick’ everytime I looked at it. And that’d be pointless now wouldn’t it. Like the traffic cone that sat in my hall for three semesters.
ooh look at you, it’s far from semesters you were reared
Ah now Joe, no need for that kinda carry on. Although true, semesterisation was only being introduced as I left :)
Not so far from trimesters though I’d wager.
If it’s not nailed down, its up for grabbing to some people. Scumbags.
Nice piece. I’ll keep an eye out.
Maybe it was a victim of Thomas Byrne thinking that they were getting a small bit of revenge against him.
http://www.newstalk.com/Former-solicitor-ran-a-business-while-awaiting-trial