Ciaran Luke Buttress
Fine Artist
The More Than Enough Meal
A synthesis of The Japanese Tea Ceremony, The Eucharist, and contemporary socially engaged fine art practice.
A place were art is actively experienced and becomes the catalyst for community.
When Guest arrived They were guided through rituals in order to prepare them for a time of self awareness and communal intimacy.
季節が変わるでも. 季節の移ろい．The theme of the evening, Even thought the seasons change is submitted to by each guest as the enter the tea room below it.
Ritual is its own form of art that is an intersection between many different midiums and forms of artistic expression. I am particularly interested how the creative curation of these events enables a catalysist for social-spiritual expirience. This particular occasion reflects the structure of the Japanese tea ceremony, but focuses on the changing of the artworks to create a socially interactive journey for the guests. In other sessions, I have combined the tea ceremony with aspects of the Christian eucharist to invoke new ways of social and religious thinking. The bringing together of two socio-religious rituals of east and west expresses a universal signification of human spirituality and helps question the importance of the divine manifesting itself in art. More over, it explores humanities connection to the divine through art.
The Dales Christmas Pudding
The Dales christmas pudding was an experiment to create community through traditional culture and business. Digital comercialism and capitalism has not only broken down community by delocolising food production and shopping, but through its need for ever increasing prifit has made the nation addicted to sugar. craving for sweetness and refined textures has regressed our taste. The christmas pudding is decreasing in popularity year by year. This campaign used local increadients and only sold personally to residents of Dales View Road. Through my education in Art and Art history I aimed to not only restore respect to and venerate the figgy pudding but to personify it to a historical museological status. I used the original christmas pudding recipe given to Queen Victoria in 1849 to help reinvigorate peoples love for the dessert and through the history of our culture.