Johnadamsartist

If An Artist Puts Up
Their Work On Social Media.
Is it a Terrible Thing To Be Constructively Critical?
I Prefer When People are Honest With Me.

I was drummer and manager of
The Crawdaddys
1985 - 1991
Tell me what you think

The Crawdaddys - Tear It Down The Crawdaddys 1985-1991Poodle (Robert Blair) - Singer & HarmonicaAlistair Moir - GuitarDonald Young - BassJohnny Adams Drums/ManagerRecorded 1987 On the ba...

Get Up The Yard Trailer

A film about an Artist. John Adams

Made by GM Media Solutions 2022

Touring the film festivals of the world.

Audience winner ÉCU - The European Independent Film Festival
Short Documentary Winner Indian Independent Film Festival.
Finalist World Film Festival in Cannes.

ÉCU 2024 - John Adams-Get Up The Yard Trailer "John Adams - Get Up The Yard" directed by Jose Ángel Catalán Ruiz was officially selected in the European Documentary category for ÉCU 2024! ✨Delving into J...

Come into my forest. 🌳

Remain in Light Five, 2005

John Adams asking all my friends for a big favour PLEASE DO THIS FOR ME (It only takes a minute).

Please CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW AND VOTE FOR MY PAINTING - (HOGG'S HEAD by John Adams) To finally be seen after 25 years in storage in the Crawford Art Gallery

Its one of my best paintings and has been in the Crawford Art Gallery collection since 1999 and has never been seen again its been in their store room since then.

It is a great example of different techniques I have invented myself especially the liquid pouring of paint to get a very lifelike water quality.

A beautiful painting of Hogg's Head as seen from the amazing artists retreat Cill Railaig in Ballenskelligs County Kerry.

Please Click on the Link Below to Vote for my Painting.

https://crawfordartgallery.ie/you-tell-we-show/

John Adams asking all my friends for a big favour PLEASE DO THIS FOR ME (It only takes a minute).

Please CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW AND VOTE FOR MY PAINTING - (HOGG'S HEAD by John Adams) To finally be seen after 25 years in storage in the Crawford Art Gallery

Its one of my best paintings and has been in the Crawford Art Gallery collection since 1999 and has never been seen again its been in their store room since then.

It is a great example of different techniques I have invented myself especially the liquid pouring of paint to get a very lifelike water quality.

A beautiful painting of Hogg's Head as seen from the amazing artists retreat Cill Railaig in Ballenskelligs County Kerry.

https://crawfordartgallery.ie/you-tell-we-show/

I am John Adams a Cobh Based Artist. I have spent ten years in Cobh and have turned my house into a community Arts Space for locals to use for no profit. I am doing it to try to bring more culture to Cobh and give the ignored artists of Cobh a chance to show what they do.

I have spent these years here trying to engage and get an opportunity to exhibit my work in the Sirius Arts Centre. I have only experienced a hostile reception.

Below is an outright refusal from The Sirius Arts Centre to ever give me a chance. THIS IS SIMPLY A DISGRACE how can they say there are no opportunities for local artists to show in a local arts center?

The Sirius Arts Centre has been run by a board who are mostly not in any way artistically qualified

They have appointed two directors who have run it for ten years. Both are extremely snobbish and hostile to Cork artists in general and the people of Cobh. So much so they don’t even bother advertise events around the town.

I spent my first six years trying to get Miranda the first director to come 200 yards to my house to see my art she refused and also refused to consider my work for an exhibition there She treated my like I was dirt on her shoe.

Then the Bord appointed Miguel an arrogant man from Portugal to run the Sirius who was just as bad for Cork artists and Cobh people even some of the workers in the Sirius told me he treats them as a underclass. Two artists on the Bord resigned because of Miguel's arrogance.

I have an email from this man telling me as long as he is director of the Gallery I will never show my work there. These two directors have had an obsession with the type of are the public hate and do not understand. Conceptual art. The year after Covid we saw an exhibition with an empty tin shed filling the whole main room for a year and in the other room a table with computers and shelving full of electrical equipment. This exhibition generated a lot of anger and bemusement because of its lack of any conventional relationship to traditional arts. The Sirius Arts Center is a disgrace the Bord and director should be sacked and Artist is people who care about Cobh people should be appointed. This is the perfect example of how ignorant and uninterested local politicians are in arts and culture.

The Sirius Arts Center used to be a proper arts center hosting plays, music, poetry, and many other community events. But stopped most of these activities under the last two directors, only recently they have started again in a very limited way because of so much criticism.

The Sirius Arts Center is an example of the lack of interest in promoting Cork artists by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and Cork County Arts, they have funded this disgrace of an arts center for its entirety.

The arts establishment is run by administration that blocks Artists from decision making committees and this is why the arts in Ireland is in such a terrible state and Irish artists find it impossible to get exhibitions in Publicly funded galleries.

ITS IS TOTALLY THE POLITICIANS FAULT Fine Gael & Fianna Fáil Obviously hate the arts, they appointed a Corporate Lawyer as chairman of the The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon
Most of the Arts Officers in each county have no artistic background they were taken from the Clerical Council staff, it is my belief after many years as an arts campaigner they do this on purpose to stifle the arts and give artists no opportunities to show their work.

Even the Government organization National Campaign For The Arts that was set up as a representative of the Artists of Ireland has no artists on its committee. The do not allow artists to comment on any of their social platforms and there is no forum for artists to have a discussion. The directors and administrators have complete control of everything especially funding and decision making in the Arts.

Visual Artists Ireland Lifelong Learning refuse to discuss these issues because they are controlled by government.

Artists of Ireland, Sample-Studios Visual Arts Programme, Visual Artists Ireland Lifelong Learning, IMMA - Irish Museum of Modern Art, Crawford Art Gallery, The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Cork County Arts, Cork Arts, Cork Arts Forum, Artists of Ireland, Cobh Notice Board, East Cork Cinema Club Cobh, Cobh Golf Club, Cobh & Harbour Chamber, Cobh Tourism, Corkharbourislands, Cobh and The Great Island - History, Heritage and Folklore Group, Cobh Rescue Horses, Cobh Town History and More with John Flynn, Cllr Cathal Rasmussen, Cllr Sheila O'Callaghan, Cllr. Marcia D'Alton, Cllr. Dan Boyle - Green Party/ Comhaontas Glas, Cork City South Central, Johnny Duhan, , , SineadSheppard,

Fine Gael,Fianna Fáil Crawford Art Gallery IMMA - Irish Museum of Modern Art,Cork Arts ForumVisual Artists Ireland Lifelong Learning Cobh Animation Team,Cobh Notice Board Cobh Museum,Official Cobh - Great Island Community Centre,Cobh2024,Cobh Tourism Cobh & Harbour Ch

Can You Believe
Cork County Council
Is trying to charge me commercial rates for my
Coliemore The Artists House

Here is the trailer to our film “John Adams Get Up The Yard.

A story of John’s life as an artist in Cobh.

Wonderfully made by the amazing friends in GM Media Solutions

ÉCU - The European Independent Film Festival World Film Festival in CannesEast Cork Cinema Club CobhManchester Lift-Off Film FestivalPresident of Ireland / Uachtarán na hÉireann Michael D. Higgins Dublin Arts The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon TULCA Festival of Visual Arts ,Visual Artists Ireland Lifelong Learning Visual Artists Association IMMA - Irish Museum of Modern Art Irish Museums Association Irish Arts Review Irish Examiner Irish Film Institute (IFI) Irish Painters Community Irish Art Plus The Irish Abroad IrishArts Culture Night Cork County Cork Arts Cork County Arts. Cobh Notice Board Cork Beo EchoLive.ie Cork Arts Forum Cork's 96FM
Culture on RTÉ Taylor Galleries Solomon Fine Art Crawford College of Art and Design Crawford Art Gallery

https://youtu.be/et7ixtmKE7o?feature=shared

ÉCU 2024 - Get Up The Yard Trailer "Get Up The Yard" directed by Jose Ángel Catalán Ruiz was officially selected in the European Documentary category for ÉCU 2024! ✨Delving into the artist's u...

I booked a hotel on Hostelworld on Sunday
They took the money and say they have no record of the transaction even though I provided my bank statement with proof they took the money.

The only way to make the arts in Ireland stimulating Welcoming and exciting
Stop Politicians Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael control and influence
They hate the Arts.

FACEBOOK AND ALL SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES SHOULD BAN ISRAEL

OR WE SHOULD BOYCOTT THEM. IMAGINE THAT.

How many of you have heard the first song I wrote?

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We Should
Kick Israel
Out of Palestine
What right have they to determine Palestinian future

It makes me so mad these arts administrators the Arts Council Ireland and Visusl Artists Iteland. They are all earning lots of money to run the arts in Ireland 🇮🇪 and they have no interest in promoting Irish artists.

They seem only interested in their CV’s and think it look better to show international artists.

Have you ever known a visual artist in Ireland made famous?

Irish Examiner EchoLive.ie Cork County Council Cork City Council RTÉ News Visual Artists Ireland Lifelong Learning The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

The Echo: Cork news and sport - Echolive The Echo: Cork news and sport - Echolive

I AM SO DISGUSTED WITH ALL COUNTRIES WHO STAND AND WATCH WHAT ISRAEL IS DOING. DID YOU SEE THE NEWS TODAY? 🤮😱

Watch GM Media Solutions Award Winning Film

“Get Up The Yard”

A 23 minute Short Documentary About Cobh based Artist John Adams
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Manchester Lift-Off Film Festival

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Please let us know if you watched it and what you thought. ❤️

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Here is the Trailer to our Film. Just won best short documentary India Independent Film Festival. 2024.

https://filmfreeway.com/Getuptheyard

Rejected by Cork International Film Festival who are funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

Get up the yard The documentary "Get Up the Yard" provides a captivating and intimate look into the life of a renowned painter from Cork. Infused with both humor and emotion...

Irish Punk Band Brixton London

“The Dead B Specials”

I was Drumming for in the Early 90’s.

Take It Down From The Mast, by the Dead B Specials 1993 The Dead B Specials, 7 piece Celtic Punk band from Brixton London in the early 90's led by Rockin Pete John Chambers R.I.P. on the right in the photo and Billy Scarr (Bass) on the left, Johnny Adams o

The Crawdaddys the Band I was drummer from 1985 to 1991 based in Brixton.

Grunge before Nirvana. Unfortunately the Crawdaddys split up soon after Nirvana made Grunge popular 🙄.

F**k it I had been chasing down Record company’s in London for years while electronic 80s music was popular.

A Song about a serial Killer Dennis Nealson
He liked to stare into his victims Eyes 👀

Stare

By The Crawdaddys 1988

RMS Studios London

Robert Blair - Lyrics Singer Harmonica
Alistair Moir - Guitar
John Adams - Drums
Donald Young - Bass.

Elvera Butler, Irish Examiner The Guardian, Rollingstones , Nirvana, Robertplantofficial, Paul Brady Music, Grunge, RockMusic, Paddy Casey, Ken Doherty, Donald Canny, Joe O'Callaghan, The Grunts, The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Neil Prenderville, Tony O'Brien, Windmill Lane Recording Studios, ClayCastle Recording Studio, Tadhg Kelleher ,Cork Musicians Network ,Doc MacLean, Cobh In Many Forms, John Smith, Ben Cuddihy, Karl Long, Ricky Lynch,Graham Beano Heenan Deklan Dachau, Jim Savage, Dylan ApIvor, Paula Gjesdal, Mickey Gaston, Denise Evans ,Abigale Turnbull, Robert Eggington ,Sally Taylorson, Det Schlich,Colette Sheridan Bree Harris, Brid Breathnach, Maura Byrne ,Caroline Ellis,Don Canny , Andrew G Johnston, CoolTan Arts Brixton 1991 -1995 , Brixton Music & Arts Academy,

The Crawdaddys - Stare The Crawdaddys 1985-1991Poodle (Robert Blair) - Singer & HarmonicaAlistair Moir - GuitarDonald Young - BassJohnny Adams Drums/ManagerRecorded 1987 On the ba...

Not much publicity about my latest Exhibition because my father Quentin Adams died the day before my Exhibition Launch and I got diagnosed with Colon Cancer three weeks later.

Hog's Head

Acrylic on Canvas 5ft x4ft

1998 by John Adams

Crawford Art Gallery Collection but has never been hung in the Gallery.

Taylor Galleries, Greenonred, Solomon Fine Art, Sirius Arts Centre, National Geographic, National Gallery of Art, Tate Modern, Irish artists, Irish Times Higher Options, Irish Examiner, Evening Echo, Neil Prenderville, Cork's 96FM, Visual Artists Ireland, Arts Council Ireland, Rteart, The View, Arts Ireland, Arts IrelandMagazine, Cork Beo, Corkart, Corkart Corkart, Triskel Christchurch, Cork Culture, Artists Northern Ireland, Arts IrelandMagazine, Cobh, Ireland,