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I trained in signwriting and graining and marbling at the London College of Building in the 1980s, and worked for many years in the sign trade. On returning to Ireland in 1990 I continued working as a signwriter and community artist, running workshops and facilitating arts projects with a wide variety of groups in both formal and informal settings. Although I am now busy lecturing at GMIT, I still run occasional signwriting, hand-lettering and letterpress workshops in Westport, as well as undertaking the odd signwriting project.
M. Mulloy & Sons sign
This is a sign I did many years ago for my family's hardware shop in Westport (since closed). The monogram is based on a 19th-century version painted on the inside of the safe in the old shop.
Tadpole sign
This is a small gilding on glass sign made as a sample for a project, with everything done from back to front on the glass pane.
Harvest Moon
This job involved a colour scheme and the signwork for a health food shop in Westport. Having a tiny front, it really needed to shout, so I tried to make the colours sing!
Danu sign
A small brush-gilded house sign with painted returns and cast shadows on the lettering.
GMIT mural
Students at work on a mural outside our Creative Space in GMIT Mayo - a project which included them designing and executing some signwriting.
Signwriting workshop
Scene from a busy signwritng taster workshop at GMIT, where people learn the basics of brush lettering and using the mahlstick.
Open Day Chalkboard
A chalkboard advertising the part-time BA in Contemporary Art Practices at GMIT Mayo, written during the evening open day session.
Walsh's shop
A sign for the local shop - the archetypal country shop that had everything from rat poison to ladies stockings, now sadly gone.
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