The home of the Redfox

The new studio and fresh paint .. our place on Achill Island.

Polaroid photographe with 600 SE camera.

POLAROID ARTIST'S BOOK

POLAROID BOOKS
Our first Polaroid book - snapshots from Achill Island.
Each book has an original Polaroid on it's cover.
A limited hand made edition.
See http://www.redfoxpress.com/polaroidbooks.html

Our island in Polaroid

Polaroid fascination continues .. testing out different cameras, different films.
Soon our first polaroid book will come.

exhibition with 8 artists from Achill Island

Preparing for tomorrow's exhibition of 10 Achill Artists 3pm in Dooagh, Achill Island ..
Antic Ham is cleaning while John Mchugh is making the list of the 52 exhibited items (paintings, sculptures, photographs, prints, collages, videos..)


showing 10 screenprints from "Franticham's Dada Univers"
and 8 original collages.

Achill Island Postcards

A series of 9 ACHILL POSTCARDS being offset printed in Seoul,
for selling at our Redfoxpress shop opening july 1st in Dugort, Achill.

new shed and painting job

View from our window

swiss artist Fritz Sauter

Lisa Spani and Fritz Sauter from Schaffhausen, Switzerland.
Fritz is for a 2 weeks stay in Achill to work on a screen printed book containg his poems and 10 prints.

3 from the 10 works printed

01.01.10 - 9 am full moon

Full moon wishing a happy new year when opening my curtains

4 days in london

4 days in London with son Jaya

... and back to work in Achill.
An unusual picture from our screen printing studio.

Visit from Bernd Reichert

Bernd Reichert, german artist living in Brussels has been working in our studios for 2 weeks.
He realised 19 screen prints.
On Achills' Atlantic Drive, visiting Thies and on a Connemara beach in the foot steps of Wittgenstein, who spent several months there in 1947.

Heinrich Böll Memorial Weekend in Achill

Nobel Prize winner novelist Heinrich Böll
spent many summers between 1955 and 1983
writing in his cottage
in Dugort (where we live) on Achill Island.

Since 1992 his cottage has been used as residency for
writers and artsists from all over the world.

Last week end, for the 5th time took place the
Heinrich Böll Memorial week end
with readings, exhibitions, workshops,
film projections and guided walks.

Francis strolling on Dugort beach with René Böll who spent
many of his summer vacations here as a child many years ago.

lecture of Achill born poet John F. Deane

René Böll giving an illustrated lecture

Ham and Francis selling books at the various readings.

'Aquila' Achill Artists Group exhibition in Koeln

Achill Artists Group Exhibition
in Kunsthaus Rhenania in Koeln,
on invitation of René Böll.

Antic-Ham and Francis' part of the exhibition.
Prints from our "1969" and "Tokyo Umbrella" books.
On the left at the back Ronan Halpin's bronzes.
At the front John McHugh's sculptures.

Antic-Ham with Mailys, Fraenz Dasbourg's daughter
on visit from Luxembourg to the opening

All 9 artists from Achill
with some artists from Kunsthaus Rhenania

Gottfried Bräunling's work in Achill

Gottfried left Achill after 10 days of hard work.

One of the two wall paintings he made on the studio...
and 2 books he managed to print in silk screen.
Both books are a homage to the greec author JANNIS RITSOS
at the occasion of his 100th birthday on may 1st.

A third book was left unfinished.. an opportunity to come back soon in Achill.

visit from Germany

Artist Gottfried Bräunling on a 10 day working visit at the Redfoxpress Studios.
Our first collaboration dates back to 1990, where we made a screen printed book on texts from Giorgos Seferis.

FRANTICHAM BOOKARTSHOP

During the summer months we opened a shop in our living room. We exhibited our artist's books, screen prints and photographs. For a few weeks in the year Achill tourists come visit this remote island. Antic-ham left last week for Seoul and I'm leaving to join her at the end of the week. Early September we will have an exhibition in Seoul and then we will spend a few days in Tokyo.. so, look for next coming posts from the Far East.
Sheep! please come visit the garden regularly.. then I don't have to cut the grass at my return.

from truck to book cover

We have bought from Jacob Trucks from Foxford the tarpaulin from the truck used by Sweeney's from Achill Sound. We use this tarpaulin as book cover for our new project of screen prints about the sixties. After washing and cutting into the right size we screenprinted the cover with special inks for PVC. Book binding is done with 3 screws.
If someone wished more information please write to info@redfoxpress.com in Ireland or anticham@hanmail.net in South Korea.

10 PM at my window

long days .. quiet peacefull late evenings

St Patrick's day in Achill

For once not a windy, rainy, cold day...
Each major village on the Island has it's own proud pipe band.
On St. Patricks day they march from village to village..
and at the end they play all together before disappearing in the pubs.