WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT - MONSTER WORKSHOP- Saturday 10th of September at 14.30 -16.30- The Parochial Hall, Cappoquin,Co.Waterford, Ireland, P51 VY40 - At New Reality: Contemporary Collage in Ireland.

WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT

MONSTER COLLAGE WORKSHOP

Cappoquin! Get your monster hunting hats on!!!

You are invited to join me in this swashbuckling, hair raising opportunity to explore with humour, the topics of fear, monsters and the healing power of storytelling, through the rich medium of collage.

I will be demonstrating the three basic types of monsters “The Ghostees”, “Giants/Miniatures” and “Chimeras”. I will then invite you the dazzlingly courageous participants to generate “Monster Reports” of your own. Join me if you dare!!!

To visit the Rare Monster Archives simply click here.

WORKSHOP TIME:

Saturday the 10th of September at 14.30 -16.30

LOCATION:

The Parochial Hall, Cappoquin, Co.Waterford, Ireland, P51 VY40

PRICE:

€7.50

REGISTER:

!!!Booking essential as places are limited!!!

To register for this event call 087 2187962 or through Eventbrite by clicking here.

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I also highly recommend the “Lets Dance” workshop hosted by the amazing Una Gildea & Marta Janik. During this fun workshop you will be invited create a collage inspired by your favourite dance moves!

Sat, 10 September 2022 between 12:00 – 14:00

To register for this event call 087 2187962 or through Eventbrite by clicking here.

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For the other amazing workshops "Cut it Out" with Alan Murphy & Tatyana Feeney Come along and have some fun creating your own collage at 10am 11.30am . Call 087 2187962 or register here .

Or "Collect/Cut/Compose/Paste" with Tom Doig at 16.00 - 18.00. Tom Doig's workshop is an introduction to collecting collage materials, the use of tools, materials and practical techniques used in the collage process. Call 087 2187962 or click here.

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For more from Market House Craftworks visit: https://markethousecraftworks.ie/

The Freeform Trouble Rare Monster Archives - The Calamitous Compendium of Year Four

😈👹👺🤖!!!!!MONSTER SEASON COMMENCES!!!!!!👾👽👻🎃

Woe betide us!

The slimy, scaly, unscrupulous claw of October has arrived once again to clasp at our wavering hearts and instill a dread so deep, so grievous, and so dark, that no light can ever hope to reach within it.

It is with the greatest of fear and trepidation that I must once more pry open the jaws of the Rare Monster Archives to reveal the ill-contents of this, The Calamitous Compendium of Year Four.

What array of monstrosities awaits us within? Who could possibly say? Who would want to? Anyone with an ounce of sense would have fled to the hills long ago. . . If you remain, I can only thank you for accompanying me on this, most perilous of journeys.

What a haul this year! We have a rich assortment amongst these findings and profiles, the materials within have been carefully obtained by our world class agents through sneakery, snakery, covert maneuvering, safe-cracking, breaking and entering, trickery, misdirection, cajolery, roguery, conspiracy and outright armed robbery. Through these skills and others our daring team have gained exclusive access to ancient ruins, undersea laboratories, classified astronomical charts, underground military bases, forbidden libraries, lunar outposts and all manner of confidential records.

The stupendous scope of our scintillating specimens is summed up by this quote from the eminent Swiss-American Biologist and Geologist Louis Agassiz:

“The possibilities of existence run so deeply into the extravagant that there is scarcely any conception too extraordinary for nature to realize.”

So brave with us if you will in the coming days and weeks as we reveal the results of this year’s intrepid investigations.

Or if you are feeling particularly courageous you can explore the riveting results from the previous three years over at the Freeform Trouble Rare Monster Archives.

The Freeform Trouble Rare Monster Archives - The Terrible Telegraphs From Year Three

😈👹👺🤖MONSTER SEASON👾👽👻🎃

The frightful month of October has slithered around again, bringing with it the latest in monster research from the world class agents of the Freeform Trouble Rare Monster Archives Team. Join us for the rest of this month as we peel back the pernickety pages of these dastardly dossiers of devilish denizens. Who knows what kind of hellish and haunting creatures we may encounter? Can we possibly imagine? Do we dare?

All I know is that there is a rich assortment amongst these findings and profiles, the materials for which have been gleaned by our agents through subterfuge, thievery, ransacking, piracy, diplomacy, trickery, burglary and outright tom-foolery. Through these skills and others our daring team have gained exclusive access to hidden government vaults, sunken shipwrecks, secret military bases, forgotten libraries and confidential records.

The stupendous scope of our scintillating specimens is summed up by this quote from the eminent Swiss-American Biologist and Geologist Louis Agassiz:

“The possibilities of existence run so deeply into the extravagant that there is scarcely any conception to extraordinary for nature to realize.”

So brave with us if you will in the coming days and weeks as we reveal the results of this year’s intrepid investigations.

And if you are feeling particularly courageous you can explore the riveting results from the previous two years over at the Freeform Trouble Rare Monster Archives.

The Freeform Trouble - Rare Monster Archives Returns With Dastardly Dispatches From Year -Two

The month of October upon us and as Halloween lurches towards us with one piercing eye and an outstretched claw, it is once again time for our researchers at the Freeform Trouble - Monster Archives Team to reveal this years ghastly findings. Seen here for the first time outside of government vaults, secret collections and classified files and for your viewing pleasure the Dastardly Dispatches from Year-Two.

The image above is Recorded Sighting: #14 – Negasus the Inverticorn

“Negasus the Inverticorn Drains the Happiness and Wonderment from Mrs. Elizabeth Jeffrey Barnstaple” (1936) - Shot taken by Martin Jeffrey Barnstaple in the bedroom of their home on Bannister Street, Withernsea, U.K.

We have all heard of the magical wonder of that rare mystical animal the Unicorn. Yet thankfully many of us have never encountered or even learned of its darkling twin. Only one Inverticorn has ever been known to exist in our world and its name is Negasus. Instead of a singular distinctive glistening horn, Negasus has a deep indentation in its forehead; and it is this deep pit, between its eyes that gives the creature its name. Here exists a pure negative space, a zero point of true nothingness, which draws all joy, magic, motivation, wonder and hope out from those who peer into it. It would in fact be correct to classify the Inverticorn as a form of Equine Vampire which feeds upon the emotional life-force of its human victims.

In this incredible image we can see that Negasus having attacked its victim in her sleep is now mid-feed, draining the joy and wonderment out of Mrs. Elizabeth Jeffrey Barnstaple like it is chomping down on a tasty bag of oats. This whole event was recorded by her husband Martin Jeffrey Barnstaple who amazingly went to get his camera instead of for help; but there are those who live on Bannister Street that have suggested that Martin was involved somehow. A charge he dually denies. Yet Martin had been seen meeting with unusual robed figures, at odd hours, in strange locations. Perhaps the Inverticorn was intentionally summoned to the Barnstaple residence that fateful night. What sinister forces were at work? Who were those hooded figures? Why didn’t Martin try to help? We will probably never know the answers to these questions. . .

Visit the archive vaults for more fearsome findings . . .

Announcement- The Free Form Trouble - Rare Monster Sighting Archives

Here at Free Form Trouble we scour the worlds greatest Libraries, Aquire the most deeply classified military documents and trade in the most exotic black markets to uncover, catalogue and record these rarest of beasts in the annals of our archives. Whilst (Hopefully) most of these creatures have disappeared many moons ago, We are commited to recording their details here in case we ever encounter their Ilk again. So without further ado Rare Monster Sighting #1: The Great Winged Aphyatrix.

"Allied Forces Take Cover From The Great Winged Aphyatrix" (1938) - Photographer Unknown.

This is the only surviving photographic record of this terrifying beast. Allied Troops are seen here taking cover during a chance encounter with a Great Winged Aphyatrix on the battlefield. Reaching over 45 Meters tall and with a wingspan of 30 Meters the Aphyatrix is completely flightless, but it is extremely venomous and with razor sharp talons it is capable of running at top speeds of 24km. Although they were hunted to extinction only as recently as the 1980's its already hard to believe that such frightening creatures ever existed!

For more Rare Monster Sightings check out the archive here.