I was re-arranging my bookcase the other day and (amongst other art books) found a joint publication from the Dublin and Belfast governments of Ireland, showing paintings from a travelling exhibition (Beyond Boundaries) of Northern and Southern artists, which was at Downpatrick in October 2005.
Most of the paintings were uninspired and uninspiring, but one which particularly caught my eye was a lovely fuzzy-mizzly 'treatment' of an Irish hillside in the rain, by a certain John Conway, born in Dungannon in 1967 and reportedly resident in Belfast in 2005. I went to the web to see what else he had done...and there was no mention of him, no paintings to see. No mention of the exhibition.
There is a millennial John Conway resident in Dublin whose pics are depressingly commercial, and a John Conway who produces Photoshop images (mainly of dinosaurs) – but the chap in the exhibition that I saw is without trace on the web. So are others from the same exhibition. Likewise his gallery, The Cavehill Gallery, which I remember from the 1970s...no trace.
So now I am pleased to give him Presence on the Web (if my blog counts).
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