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Visual Arts - Current Exhibitions
Cecilia Danell Emerging Visual Artist Award Winner 2011
From Thu 01-12-2011 to Mon 24-12-2012
Cecilia Danell - Emerging Visual Artist Award Winner, 2011
Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford County Council and the Arts Council are pleased to announce that Galway based visual artist Cecilia Danell is the recipient of the fifth annual Emerging Visual Artist Award.
The initiative supports promising visual artists in Ireland through providing a monetary prize of €5,000 plus a solo exhibition at Wexford Arts Centre. This award is aimed at recognising and supporting the development of committed emerging artists, in kick starting their career and achieving professional recognition. Following a national open competition selection process, Danell, was selected from over eighty submissions received. The submissions were assessed by an independent selection panel, all of which had appropriate expertise in the visual arts.
Bridget O'Gorman, Material Culture
From Tue 10-01-2012 to Sat 04-02-2012
Ticket price: Free
Bridget O'Gorman, Material Culture
Curated by Sinéad K. Rice
Technician: Andrew Kenny
Tuesday 10th January – Saturday 4th February 2011
Public Talk with Bridget O'Gorman and Sinéad K. Rice: Friday 13th January at 11am
Official Opening: Saturday 14th January at 4pm. Guest Speaker: Rosie Lynch
‘Material culture as we understand it is a direct consequence of the collecting traditions of the nineteenth century, liberal Enlightenment era notions of universality, colonial expansion, industrialization and the birth of consumerism’. (Buchli, Victor 2002)
For ‘Material Culture’, Bridget O’ Gorman, recipient of the 2010 Emerging Visual Artist Award, has produced a series of sculptural and video based narratives referencing a 19th Century ethos of imagination, anthropomorphism and collation. Informed by themes of historical mass production and consumption, her work explores elements of social commentary and wordplay particularly pertaining to 19th C culture in painting, experimentation and natural history.
