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~ Ste Murray

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Inspiration: Stephen Shore

Inspiration: Stephen Shore

“Wisdom’s a gift, but you’d trade it for youth,
Age is an honour, it’s still not the truth”

Had the pleasure of meeting Irish Artist Mark Garry yesterday.I was familier with his work, but didn’t know he was responsible for such poetic installations; images of his exhibition Being Here have been an internet sensation of late. It was nice to put a face to the work. But strange that I was aware of these images from the internet, yet didn’t know he’s Irish and based down the road from me. 

Had the pleasure of meeting Irish Artist Mark Garry yesterday.

I was familier with his work, but didn’t know he was responsible for such poetic installations; images of his exhibition Being Here have been an internet sensation of late.

It was nice to put a face to the work. But strange that I was aware of these images from the internet, yet didn’t know he’s Irish and based down the road from me. 


I have this ‘Top 5 Songs Ever’ list in my head that I’ve been trying (nervous) to complete for the past few years.

I think this has to be the final piece in the puzzle.

“Find yourself a new frontier, Cause life is going, going gone”


“…thoughts arrive like butterflies…”

MACDUFF, LENNOX & MACBETH by tiarnan_design on Flickr. Still a massive highlight of this year? Playing Macbeth.

MACDUFF, LENNOX & MACBETH by tiarnan_design on Flickr.

Still a massive highlight of this year?

Playing Macbeth.

“Life turns to dust,

And rain it turns to rust

Gossip is a truth,

And money pays for the lies we trust

Your love is a surprise,

Hopeless saints are in disguise

I’m just trying to find

A nice place for you and I”

Set Design for Laura Wade’s ‘Breathing Corpses’ by UCD Dramsocwith Jack O’Connor, Lisa Carroll and Tiarnán Fallon VerbruggenNominated for Best Set at the Irish Student Drama Association Awards, 2013The play consists of 5 scenes in different locations; a hotel room, a self-storage facility, a kitchen, a garage, and a hotel room again.With the idea of unpacking the story in mind the set unfolds to mirror the narrative of the play. Wade presents us with a series of seemingly disparate scenes, laying clues for us as audience members to assemble together into a whole.The idea of apparent transparency and partial concealment was influenced by Director Lisa Carroll’s interest in ‘seeing and seeing again’.Props and objects used throughout the play are left behind on the shelves of the set; as memories layered and weaved into the skeletal tapestry. 4 ‘gates’ are used to distinguish between the various locations’ entrances. Actors, as a storytelling troupe, sit on boxes (with their props within) to the rear of the framework, coming to life during choreographed scene changes. The collective ensemble setting the next scene.The set is a magic box inspired by the impossible paradoxes illustrated by MC Escher. It is a toy, and a tool, to tell a tale.

Set Design for Laura Wade’s ‘Breathing Corpses’ by UCD Dramsoc
with Jack O’Connor, Lisa Carroll and Tiarnán Fallon Verbruggen

Nominated for Best Set at the Irish Student Drama Association Awards, 2013

The play consists of 5 scenes in different locations; a hotel room, a self-storage facility, a kitchen, a garage, and a hotel room again.

With the idea of unpacking the story in mind the set unfolds to mirror the narrative of the play. Wade presents us with a series of seemingly disparate scenes, laying clues for us as audience members to assemble together into a whole.

The idea of apparent transparency and partial concealment was influenced by Director Lisa Carroll’s interest in ‘seeing and seeing again’.

Props and objects used throughout the play are left behind on the shelves of the set; as memories layered and weaved into the skeletal tapestry. 
4 ‘gates’ are used to distinguish between the various locations’ entrances.
Actors, as a storytelling troupe, sit on boxes (with their props within) to the rear of the framework, coming to life during choreographed scene changes. The collective ensemble setting the next scene.

The set is a magic box inspired by the impossible paradoxes illustrated by MC Escher. It is a toy, and a tool, to tell a tale.



Got to see ‘Sound City’ film this evening. Fantastic! 

Crazy busy this week.
I want more time.

“All the time in the world
Is all that’s necessary”

This brought back boyhood dreams of going into space. 

…

(I’m aware that I sound like an idiot)

“the creed or the culture

we can move beyond it now

now the wolf is knocking at my door

bang-bangin’, ask for more

stand here, stand tall

we could move beyond these walls”

“We wrote our names down on the sidewalk
But the rain came and washed them off
So we should write them again on wet cement
So people a long time from now will know what we meant”

“…and it was up, up and away,
oh, but it’s right hard to remember…”