THE IRISH TIMES - THE ARTS, Aidan Dunne
In A&E: Art and the Experience, John Roch Simons has had the interesting idea of making work about the reception of contemporary art, focusing on a normally invisible component of the process: the audience. His photographic piexes record people at points of contact with art, including works by Damien Hirst in the Saatchi Museum, for example. Slick photographic images are framed by rough hewn swatches of pigment, as though to remind us that contemporary artworks are still things made, despite the prevalence of technology....
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THE IRISH TIMES - WEEKEND MAGAZINE (7 things to do this week), Roisin Ingle
John Roch Simons oeuvre is impossible to catagorise. He has done everything from painting portraits of Edge and Shane McGowan to taking acclaimed photographs of a young immigrant woman and her daughter on Baggot street.
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SUNDAY INDEPENDENT - LIVING SECTION (If you do one thing this week)
Art and the Experience is an exhibition by John Roch Simons, comprising painted phots and a tent installation. It opens tomorrow at the Bank of Ireland Arts Centre and runs until December 3. The self-taught Simons has worked for the Edge, Seam McGinley and Shane MscGowan
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SUNDAY BUSINESS POST - AGENDA, Fiona Ness
John Roch Simons' exhibiton Art and the Experience is divided into two parts one is a collection of 20 mixed media pieces of painted photography, the other is a tent installation which contains "his personal insights into aspects of the art experience . The self-taught Dublin artist has based this body of workon the question, How should we experience art?
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