Upcoming Artist Talks
Our talks are open to public and free of charge.
Upcoming Artist Talks
Our talks are open to public and free of charge.
Talk with writer, lecturer Maeve Connolly:
Actors, Peforming Bodies & the Matter of Support
Postponed until further notice
Tuesday 10th April, 11am
In association with Wexford Campus School of Art & Design (Carlow IT)
Maeve Connolly co-directs the MA in Art & Research Collaboration (ARC) at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dublin. She is the author of TV Museum: Contemporary Art and the Age of Television (Intellect, 2014), on television as cultural form, object of critique and site of artistic intervention, and The Place of Artists’ Cinema: Space, Site and Screen (Intellect, 2009), on the cinematic turn in contemporary art. Recent publications include contributions to anthologies such as Workshop of the Film Form, (Fundacja Arton and Sternberg Press, 2017), Extended Temporalities: Transient Visions in the Museum and in Art (Mimesis International, 2016) and Exhibiting the Moving Image: History Revisited (JRP Ringier, 2015). She has also programmed screenings related to her own research at venues such as Bluecoat (Liverpool), the Irish Film Institute (Dublin), LUX (London), Mother’s Tankstation Gallery (Dublin), Project Arts Centre (Dublin) and Tate Modern. Her current research focuses on art practice and the matter of infrastructural change.
Our talks are open to public and free of charge.
Talk with artist Brian Maguire
Tuesday 10th April, 11am
In association with Wexford Campus School of Art & Design (Carlow IT)
A fiercely expressive painter, Brian Maguire’s work essentially emerges from social and political situations and the artist approaches painting as a gesture of solidarity. He operates a truly engaged practice, compelled by the raw realities of humanity’s violence against itself, and the potential for justice.
Maguire has shown extensively in Europe and the US, also participating in shows in Korea, China and Japan. Upcoming solo exhibitions include War Changes Its Address: The Aleppo Paintings, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (26 January – 6 May 2018). Recent solo exhibitions include The Void, Derry (2015–2016); Fergus McCaffrey, New York (2015); X Espacio de Arte, Mexico City (2013); European Parliament, Brussels (2012) and Cultuurcentrum de Werft, Geel, Belgium (2012). In 2000, a major retrospective toured from Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane to Crawford Art Gallery, Cork and the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston.
Group exhibitions and biennales include the Irish Museum of Modern Art; WIELS, Brussels; VISUAL, Carlow; Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane; RAM Foundation, Rotterdam; National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Korea; Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Japan; Dublin Contemporary (2011); the Beijing Biennale (2008) and the 24th Sāo Paolo Bienal (1998). Maguire’s work is held in numerous public and private collections including the Museum of Fine Art Houston, USA; Irish Museum of Modern Art; Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane; Trinity College Dublin; Alvar Aalto Museum, Finland; Gemeentemuseum, Den Hague, Netherlands; Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK; and Crawford Art Gallery, Cork.
Image: Brian Maguire, Aleppo 4, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 200 x 400cm
Past Talks
Talk with artist Brian Maguire
Tuesday 10th April, 11am
In association with Wexford Campus School of Art & Design (Carlow IT)
A fiercely expressive painter, Brian Maguire’s work essentially emerges from social and political situations and the artist approaches painting as a gesture of solidarity. He operates a truly engaged practice, compelled by the raw realities of humanity’s violence against itself, and the potential for justice.
Maguire has shown extensively in Europe and the US, also participating in shows in Korea, China and Japan. Upcoming solo exhibitions include War Changes Its Address: The Aleppo Paintings, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (26 January – 6 May 2018). Recent solo exhibitions include The Void, Derry (2015–2016); Fergus McCaffrey, New York (2015); X Espacio de Arte, Mexico City (2013); European Parliament, Brussels (2012) and Cultuurcentrum de Werft, Geel, Belgium (2012). In 2000, a major retrospective toured from Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane to Crawford Art Gallery, Cork and the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston.
Group exhibitions and biennales include the Irish Museum of Modern Art; WIELS, Brussels; VISUAL, Carlow; Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane; RAM Foundation, Rotterdam; National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Korea; Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Japan; Dublin Contemporary (2011); the Beijing Biennale (2008) and the 24th Sāo Paolo Bienal (1998). Maguire’s work is held in numerous public and private collections including the Museum of Fine Art Houston, USA; Irish Museum of Modern Art; Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane; Trinity College Dublin; Alvar Aalto Museum, Finland; Gemeentemuseum, Den Hague, Netherlands; Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK; and Crawford Art Gallery, Cork.
Image: Brian Maguire, Aleppo 4, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 200 x 400cm
Past Talks
Talk with artist Gerard Byrne
Tuesday 20th March, 11am
In association with Wexford Campus School of Art & Design (Carlow IT)
The work of Gerard Byrne (b.1969) has been shown at international exhibitions including Skulptur Projekte Muenster (2017), Documenta 13 (2012), the Venice Biennale (2011), the Sydney Biennale (2008), Gwangju Biennale (2008), and the 8th Istanbul Biennial (2003) as well as in major museums in Europe and the US. Museum solo exhibitions include Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2017), ACCA, Melbourne (2016), Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (2015), FRAC Pays de la Loire (2014), Whitechapel Gallery (2013), IMMA (2011), Renaissance Society, Chicago (2011), and ICA, Boston (2008). In 2007 he represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale. In 2006 he was a recipient of the Paul Hamlyn award. His major works feature in the collections of San Francisco MOMA, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Tate Britain, London, Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo, Hirschhorn Museum, Washington, MUDUM, Luxembourg, Museion, Bolzano, GAM, Torino, IMMA, Dublin, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Kunsthalle Bern Foundation (CH), Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (CH) and the FRAC collections of Nord Pas-de-Calais and Pays de la Loire amongst others.
He is represented by the Lisson Gallery in London, Kerlin Gallery in Dublin, and Nordenhake Gallery, Stockholm. He was Professor of Time Based Media at the Royal Danish Academy for Fine Art from 2007 - 2016.
Image: Jielemeguvvie guvvie sjisjnjeli (Film inside an Image), 2016
Talk with artist Gerard Byrne
Tuesday 20th March, 11am
In association with Wexford Campus School of Art & Design (Carlow IT)
The work of Gerard Byrne (b.1969) has been shown at international exhibitions including Skulptur Projekte Muenster (2017), Documenta 13 (2012), the Venice Biennale (2011), the Sydney Biennale (2008), Gwangju Biennale (2008), and the 8th Istanbul Biennial (2003) as well as in major museums in Europe and the US. Museum solo exhibitions include Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2017), ACCA, Melbourne (2016), Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (2015), FRAC Pays de la Loire (2014), Whitechapel Gallery (2013), IMMA (2011), Renaissance Society, Chicago (2011), and ICA, Boston (2008). In 2007 he represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale. In 2006 he was a recipient of the Paul Hamlyn award. His major works feature in the collections of San Francisco MOMA, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Tate Britain, London, Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo, Hirschhorn Museum, Washington, MUDUM, Luxembourg, Museion, Bolzano, GAM, Torino, IMMA, Dublin, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Kunsthalle Bern Foundation (CH), Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (CH) and the FRAC collections of Nord Pas-de-Calais and Pays de la Loire amongst others.
He is represented by the Lisson Gallery in London, Kerlin Gallery in Dublin, and Nordenhake Gallery, Stockholm. He was Professor of Time Based Media at the Royal Danish Academy for Fine Art from 2007 - 2016.
Image: Jielemeguvvie guvvie sjisjnjeli (Film inside an Image), 2016
Talk with artist Mark Swords
Tuesday 20th February, 11am
In association with Wexford Campus School of Art & Design (Carlow IT)
The hand-made aspect of Mark Swords’ work is clearly evident, and together with the materials, forms and use of colour relay a sense of curiosity and workmanship. The works are finely executed, and this curiosity is apparent in the artist’s self learning and even re-learning through his engagement with materials, such that a piece of work may result from the solving of a self imposed problem. Utilising materials that are often overlooked, including carpet, tent fabric, and string, and without attempting to hide the processes of making, the strength of Swords’ work resides in its fragility and careful informality.
Mark Swords studied at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. His recent exhibitions include; The Living and the Dead, Temple Bar Gallery (2017), Mystery Ewer, (two person show), ArtBox (2016); Hinterlands, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin (2014); I won’t say I will see you tomorrow (2013), a group project and multi-venue exhibition curated by Aoife Tunney, and Mosaic, Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford (2012).
Image: The Living and the Dead, Temple Bar Gallery, 2017
Talk with artist Mark Swords
Tuesday 20th February, 11am
In association with Wexford Campus School of Art & Design (Carlow IT)
The hand-made aspect of Mark Swords’ work is clearly evident, and together with the materials, forms and use of colour relay a sense of curiosity and workmanship. The works are finely executed, and this curiosity is apparent in the artist’s self learning and even re-learning through his engagement with materials, such that a piece of work may result from the solving of a self imposed problem. Utilising materials that are often overlooked, including carpet, tent fabric, and string, and without attempting to hide the processes of making, the strength of Swords’ work resides in its fragility and careful informality.
Mark Swords studied at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. His recent exhibitions include; The Living and the Dead, Temple Bar Gallery (2017), Mystery Ewer, (two person show), ArtBox (2016); Hinterlands, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin (2014); I won’t say I will see you tomorrow (2013), a group project and multi-venue exhibition curated by Aoife Tunney, and Mosaic, Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford (2012).
Image: The Living and the Dead, Temple Bar Gallery, 2017
Talk with artist Aideen Barry
Thursday 8th February, 11am
In association with Wexford Campus School of Art & Design (Carlow IT)
Aideen Barry is an artist whose means of expression are interchangeable, incorporating performance, moving image and sculptural manifestations. Employing visual trickery to create a heightened suspension of reality, the common denominator of Barry's work is an attempt to deal with anxiety.
At play in her more recent works is an emphasis on optical fiction to generate a sense of cognitive dissonance. The viewer experiences the work in a paradoxical fashion: attracted and yet repelled. Barry often engages with the instance where something can be familiar, yet foreign at the same time, questioning an idea of phenomenology and resulting in situations of the uncomfortably strange and threatening. Feminist meditations on gynophobia and the monstrous are a McGuffin in her most recent moving image works.
Aideen Barry has a national and international profile. Projects include a solo show at the Galeria Concreta at Matucana 100, Chile, curated by Ximena Moreno (2018); The Lexicon Commission Award (2017); By Association-A Performative Response to Carol Rama, commissioned by the Irish Museum of Modern Art and Lismore Castle Arts (2016).
Image: ©Aideen Barry, commissioned by the Arts & Heritage Trust, UK.
Talk with artist Aideen Barry
Thursday 8th February, 11am
In association with Wexford Campus School of Art & Design (Carlow IT)
Aideen Barry is an artist whose means of expression are interchangeable, incorporating performance, moving image and sculptural manifestations. Employing visual trickery to create a heightened suspension of reality, the common denominator of Barry's work is an attempt to deal with anxiety.
At play in her more recent works is an emphasis on optical fiction to generate a sense of cognitive dissonance. The viewer experiences the work in a paradoxical fashion: attracted and yet repelled. Barry often engages with the instance where something can be familiar, yet foreign at the same time, questioning an idea of phenomenology and resulting in situations of the uncomfortably strange and threatening. Feminist meditations on gynophobia and the monstrous are a McGuffin in her most recent moving image works.
Aideen Barry has a national and international profile. Projects include a solo show at the Galeria Concreta at Matucana 100, Chile, curated by Ximena Moreno (2018); The Lexicon Commission Award (2017); By Association-A Performative Response to Carol Rama, commissioned by the Irish Museum of Modern Art and Lismore Castle Arts (2016).
Image: ©Aideen Barry, commissioned by the Arts & Heritage Trust, UK.
Talk with artist Mairead O'hEocha
Tuesday 28th November, 11am
In association with Wexford Campus School of Art & Design (Carlow IT)
Mairead O’hEocha's third solo exhibition, Blackbirds in the Garden of Prisms, with mother’s tankstation limited, Dublin was held in 2016. Other notable exhibitions include A Painter’s Doubt: Painting & Phenomenology, Salzburger Kunstverein (2017), 2116: Forecast of the Next Century, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, which traveled to Broad Art Museum, Michigan (2016-2017), Coup de Ville Contemporary Art Festival, WARP, Belgium (2016), The Mud of Compound Experience, Hong Kong, mother’s tankstation in collaboration with Leo Xu Projects (2016), Whisper Concrete, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny (2011), The Model, Sligo (2012), The Hudson Franklin Gallery, New York (2008). O’hEocha’s acclaimed, second museum exhibition, via An Lár, at Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2011) was reviewed in Frieze, no. 141 and selected as an Artforum critics’ picks of 2011. Her work was presented by mother’s tankstation at ‘Art Statements’, Art Basel 44, 2013 and is featured in the third issue of the survey publication of contemporary painting; ‘Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting’ (2016).
Mairead O'hEocha is represented by mother's tankstation limited. For further information on her practice please click here.
Image: Mairead O'hEocha, Plant Dressage with Escaped Cobra, 2016, oil on board
Bealtaine Artists' Residency, Cow House Studios Wexford
7th - 20th May
Panel discussion with Vivienne Dick, Kevin Gaffney & Kathy Prendergast.
Chaired by Linda Shevlin
Friday 19th May, 2pm
Artists Vivienne Dick, Kevin Gaffney & Kathy Prendergast have been invited by Bealtaine to take up residence in the beautiful setting of Cow House Studios in Co. Wexford from May 7th-20th. The premise for this residency is to allow this intergenerational group of artists time to consider their art practice in this rural surrounding.
Join us on May 19th for an event with the artists and a local historian at Wexford Arts Centre to mark the end of their residency. Presented in partnership with Wexford Arts Department, the artists will discuss their practice and the experience of working in Wexford in the context of this residency and there will also be an opportunity for critical engagement with the artists.
All welcome, no booking required.
One on One mentoring sessions with Vivienne Dick, Kevin Gaffney or Kathy Pendergast
We are running a limited number of one on one mentoring sessions for artists with the residents. To apply, state who you'd like to have a one on one clinic with and why (200 words). Email this along with 5 images of recent work and a statement to linda@lindashevlin.com by April 21st.
Sessions will last approximately 45 minutes and places are very limited so applying will not guarantee a place.
Image: Kevin Gaffney, still from A Numbness in the Mouth, 4K video, 2016
Artists Vivienne Dick, Kevin Gaffney & Kathy Prendergast have been invited by Bealtaine to take up residence in the beautiful setting of Cow House Studios in Co. Wexford from May 7th-20th. The premise for this residency is to allow this intergenerational group of artists time to consider their art practice in this rural surrounding.
Join us on May 19th for an event with the artists and a local historian at Wexford Arts Centre to mark the end of their residency. Presented in partnership with Wexford Arts Department, the artists will discuss their practice and the experience of working in Wexford in the context of this residency and there will also be an opportunity for critical engagement with the artists.
All welcome, no booking required.
One on One mentoring sessions with Vivienne Dick, Kevin Gaffney or Kathy Pendergast
We are running a limited number of one on one mentoring sessions for artists with the residents. To apply, state who you'd like to have a one on one clinic with and why (200 words). Email this along with 5 images of recent work and a statement to linda@lindashevlin.com by April 21st.
Sessions will last approximately 45 minutes and places are very limited so applying will not guarantee a place.
Image: Kevin Gaffney, still from A Numbness in the Mouth, 4K video, 2016
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Talk with artist Joy Gerrard
Tuesday 28th March, 11am
In association with Wexford Campus School of Art & Design (Carlow IT)
Joy Gerrard is an Irish born artist based in London and working from a studio in Shoreditch, London. She received an MA and an Mphil from the Royal College of Art, London. Recent awards include the Ortho mid career artist award from the RHA, 2015, an Irish Arts Council Bursary in 2011 and the Man Group drawing prize in 2007.
The primary focus of Joy Gerrard’s work in recent years has been the depiction of crowds. She makes small monochrome drawings, and more recently large paintings, of dense crowd scenes taken from newspaper and online images of mass urban protest. Viewed from above, from tall buildings or from news helicopters, Gerrard’s images present a topographical view of people contained within or spilling out of huge civic spaces in a kind of calligraphic active groundswell. Hundreds of intense, tiny brush marks draw the viewer into particular incident within the works, but equally, they are immediately recognisable – being derived from powerful images that have proliferated via the mass media of the Arab Spring, the Occupy movement, mass actions across European cities, US inner city demonstrations and many others. These are all part of our recent history.
The second element of her work engages public space and built environments. She has produced ten major public installations 2004. These include the London School of Economics (Elenchus/ Aporia, 2009) and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital (Assemble/Move/Map, 2012).
Image: Protest Crowd Beirut, ink on paper, 40 x 58cm, 2009
Talk with artist David Beattie
Tuesday 14th March, 11am
In association with Wexford Campus School of Art & Design (Carlow IT)
David Beattie is an artist who lives and works in Dublin, Ireland. He has received a number of Arts Council bursaries, most recently 2015 and was awarded the Harpo Foundation Award in 2010. His work is in a number of public and private collections and most recently was a recipient of the Hennessy Art Fund for IMMA collection, 2016. Recent solo exhibitions include CCA Derry-Londonderry (2017), Temple Bar Gallery and Studios (2011); The Mattress Factory Art Museum, Pittsburgh and Mercer Union Centre for Contemporary Visual Art, Toronto, Canada (both 2010). Beattie has been included in numerous group exhibitions including In the Line of Beauty, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2013), O Brave New World, Rubicon Projects, Brussels (2013) All Humans Do, The Model Sligo and Whitebox, New York (2012); Feedback, Galway Arts Centre (2011); Holding Together at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2010); La Part des Choses, Mains d’Oeuvres, Paris, and in Quiet Revolution, Hayward Touring, UK (2009).
Playfully welcoming new connections between foreign ‘things’, Beattie encourages a sense of curiosity and exploration in the act of displacing quotidian objects. Assembled from a variety of everyday materials the work attempts to provide a framework for assessing our daily surroundings. The interactions between object, space and viewer create a dialogue or wider system in which all elements have a role to play. This process of engagement can be seen as a search for a tangible present through the intermediary moments where physics, philosophy, technology and nature collide.
Image: Approaching Reality, mixed media, variable dimension, 2013
Talk with artist Damien Flood
Tuesday 21st February, 11am
In association with Wexford Campus School of Art & Design (Carlow IT)
Damien Flood is an Irish artist based in Dublin.
His work is grounded in early writings on philosophy, theology, alchemy and the natural sciences and explores the mutability of 'reality' and language.
Recent group shows include The Studio Chronicles at RH Contemporary, New York (2015), Product Recall, Galway Arts Centre, Galway (2015), NGORONGORO, Lehder Strasse 34, Berlin (2015), Cú Chulainn Comforted, Basic Space, Dublin (2015), Promise of Palm Trees, Breese Little, London, (2015), Pull Bite Rally, NCAD Gallery, Dublin (2014). Renew, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin (2014,) Was Uns Trend, Glue, Berlin (2014). In 2013, he exhibited in the group exhibition Island: New Art From Ireland in Galleria Civica diModena, Italy; in the three-person show Flood/NiBhriain/Vari at DOMOBAAL, London; and the group show Cafe Paridiso (Least common denominator, or Rustenschacher) at M1, Hohenlockstedt, Germany. In 2012, he was part of the group show Making Familiar at Temple Bar Gallery, Crystalline at Millennium Court Arts Centre and Last at Douglas Hyde Gallery. He has been selected for the John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize in 2008 and 2010. In 2014 he was the recipient of the Elizabeth Fitzpatrick Travel Bursary administered by the Royal Hibernian Academy.
Solo shows include: Infinite Plane, Grey Noise, Dubai, 2015, Interior Sun, Green On Red Gallery, 2014, Theatre of the World, Ormston House, Limerick, 2012, Upland, Mermaid Arts Centre, 2011, History of the Visitation, Green On Red Gallery, 2011, Counter Earth, Green On Red Gallery, 2010.
Publications include: Afterworlds, 2013, Spectral Gallery, 2011, Selected Works, 2010.
He has been a tutor at Limerick College of Art, Wexford College of Art, Sligo College of Art, Burren College of Art and has been a Visiting Lecturer at the National College of Art, Dublin and Belfast College of Art. Damien Flood is represented by Green On Red Gallery, Dublin.
Image: Taste, oil on canvas, 60 x 50cm, 2016
Talk with Writer/Director Dick Walsh
Tuesday 31st January, 11am
In association with Wexford Campus School of Art & Design (Carlow IT)
Dick Walsh is an experimental theatre writer and director. He is an Associate Artist with Pan Pan Theatre and is supported by the Irish Theatre Institute. His play ‘Newcastlewest’ was produced by Pan Pan and featured in the Dublin Theatre Festival and the Korjaamo Festival in Helsinki. This year he has been nominated for The Stewart Parker Award and his most recent play ‘George Bush and Children’ was nominated for the Judges Choice Award at the Dublin Fringe Festival.
Talk with Professor Valentina Vitali
Thursday 10th November, 11am
In association with Wexford Campus School of Art & Design (Carlow IT)
Valentina Vitali is a film historian. Her research explores, from a comparative perspective, the relation between history, economics and film aesthetics. She has written extensively on Hindi cinema, on concepts of the national in cinema, and on film historiography. She has been teaching film history and theory for twenty years.
The talk will include a brief introduction to Indian cinema as the first form of national popular culture. It will also focus on women in silent action films and the recuperation of this genre and type of heroine by contemporary Indian installation / performance artist Pushpamala N.
Valentina is a member of the editorial board of Sine/Cine: the Journal of Cinema Research and of the editorial advisory committee of The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism. She is a fellow of the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore and, at UEL, has acted as subject area representative on her school’s Research & Knowledge Exchange Committee and on the Research Degrees Sub-Committee for eight years.
Artist Talk
Tuesday 10th October, 11am
Featuring artist Wim Cuyvers
In association with Wexford Campus School of Art & Design (Carlow IT)
More than often controversy encircles his work, which he nevertheless does not seek, yet when asking fundamental questions, these easily show themselves as problematic questions. He does not make a distinction between his architecture, texts or art. "When limiting its means, architecture clips its own wings. Architecture is not merely about constructing buildings, but about thinking. Architecture has to construct existential spaces, instead of functional spaces." As an architect Wim Cuyvers is looking for existential spaces - space that questions, that nurtures a degree of confrontation or concentration, that can only be negatively defined: not privatised, not economical, not claimed and not controlled...
Graduated as an architect at the Hoger Architectuurinstituut Gent (B) in 1982. His work, often remarkable because of the wayward interpretation and projective transposition of its prior conditions, has been frequently published (a.o. in A+, Archis, De Architect, S/AM, Flanders Architectural Yearbook, A+U, Oase) and exhibited (monographic exhibition deSingel Antwerp, 1995; numerous Group Exhibitions a.o: “Nouvelle architecture en Flandres”, Bordeaux, 1996; “De rijkdom van de eenvoud”, Brussels, 1996; “Homeward, Contemporary Architecture in Flanders” Antwerp, Bordeaux, Rome, Venice, Plymouth, 2000, Archilab, Orleans, 2004, Kunst&Zwalm 2007.
He has been active as an author of critical essays on architecture and on broader cultural questions. Together with photographer Mark De Blieck he is the author of an untitled book treating about the rear of public space (Yves Gevaert publisher, Brussels, 2002) and published in 2005 ‘Text on Text’. In 2010 he published ‘Poor being poor’, a theater text. Cuyvers has taught in Sint Lucas Gent (B), Design Academy Eindhoven (NL), Academie voor Bouwkunst Tilburg (NL), Technische Universiteit Delft, Ecole d’Architecture Paris Malaquais (F) and was advising researcher in the design department at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht (NL). Recent works were mainly about ‘reading’ public spaces in urban areas (Sarajevo, Belgrade, Tirana, Bucuresti, Brussels, Kinsjasa, Brazzaville, Manhattan...) He obtained honourable mentions in different design competitions and won the Culture Prize – Architecture of the Flemish Community in Belgium in 2005.
Public Discussion
Friday 13th May 2016, 2pm
Following last year’s artists’ residency and public discussion at the beautiful Cow House studios in Wexford, in 2016, the Bealtaine Festival have invited sculptor Tina O Connell, painter Brian Bourke and Sarah Tynan spending time exploring their practices. The idea behind the residency is to create a quiet space over the course of two weeks for artists of mixed generations to consider their practices, and the changing contexts of those practices as time has moved on in their career, over a two week period. At the end of the residency there will be a public discussion with the three artists.
Tina O'Connell is an Irish artist living and working in London. She completed her MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art, London, before taking another postgraduate degree in Marseilles, France. Following this she undertook a prestigious Henry Moore Fellowship in Sculpture at Winchester School of Art. She since completed residencies at; La Friche Belle de Mai (Marseilles), 18th St. Arts Complex (Los Angeles) and IMMA, Ireland. O’Connell’s solo exhibitions include; Templebar Gallery (Dublin), Belltable Gallery (Limerick), Project Arts Centre (Dublin), Kunstbunka (Germany), Spacex Gallery (Exeter, UK), College des Irelandais (Paris), Limerick City Gallery (Limerick) and The Jerwood Gallery (London). She has worked on a number of high profile commissions, and has received many awards, from the Lorne (Slade School of Art) to British and Irish Arts Council. She has completed three recent International commissions; a new collaborative work for a Sculpture Biennale, Germany (2012); a public art commission for Washington DC Arts and Humanities Commission Centenary Cherry Blossom Festival (2012) for Golden Mountain, as part of the TULCA Contemporary Arts Festival in Galway, Ireland (2013) a commission for Objectif Exhibitions (2015) and a new commission for the Royal College of Art Dyson space (2016).
Connemara-based Brian Bourke is one of Ireland’s most significant artists and was born in Dublin in 1936. Bourke was educated at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin and St Martin’s School of Art in London. In 1965, Bourke was chosen to represent Ireland at the Paris Biennale and the Lugano Exhibition of Graphics. He is a member of the RHA and was awarded the O’Malley Award from the Irish-American Cultural Institute in 1993, won the Arts Council portrait competition, the Munster and Leinster bank competition in 1966, and first prize in the Irish Exhibition of Living Art competition in 1967. Bourke is mainly known for his painting and drawings and his work hangs in many important collections and galleries throughout Europe.
Sarah Tynan is an Irish artist living and working in London & Dublin. She completed a BA in Painting at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin (2009) and an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, London (2012) Recent exhibitions include Dazed X Confused Emerging Artist Award, Royal Academy, London (2015); Lobby Part I & II,Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin (2015); Pavilion, Store, London; Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Spike Island, Bristol and ICA, London (2014); Notes on an Autobiography, ASC Gallery, London (2014)
Image credit: Sarah Tynan and Tamsin Snow, Pavilion, 2014 (courtesy of the artist)
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Artist Talk
Wednesday 20th April 2016, 2.15pm
Featuring artist Alice Maher
In association with Wexford Campus School of Art & Design (Carlow IT)
Alice Maher’s work touches on a wide range of subjects often reprising, challenging and expanding mythic and vernacular narratives. Her artistic practice spans painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, animation and video. The various art works and materials lend themselves to lateral, associative or enigmatic display, aided by her very particular attention to setting and context. Animated films expand on a lifelong devotion to the practice of drawing. Her first major solo show was at the Douglas Hyde Gallery in 1994. That same year she represented Ireland at the Sao Paolo biennale. In 2012 the Irish Museum of Modern Art presented a retrospective of the artists 30 year practice. ‘Becoming’ included many iconic works as well as a newly commissioned two screen film installation, ‘Cassandra’s Necklace’. Her work can be seen in many international collections including The Neuberger Museum, The Hammond Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MOMA, the British Museum and the Georges Pompidou Centre Paris.
For further information on the artist please log onto: http://alicemaher.com/
Image: Cassandra's Necklace, Film Still, 2012
Artist Talk
Wednesday 2nd March 2016, 2.15pm
Featuring artist Lee Welch
In association with Wexford Campus School of Art & Design
(Carlow IT)
Lee Welch (IRL/USA) completed an MFA at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam and gained his BFA from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. He has received awards from the Arts Council, Culture Ireland, Dublin City Council and Fire Station Artists' Studios.
He was recently awarded a residency at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. Welch’s work has been featured in numerous institutions including Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane; John Jones Project Space, London; CCA, Derry; Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany; Museo de Arte Contemporneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC) curated by Latitudes, Leon, Spain, Objectif Exhibitions curated by Raimundas Malasauskas, Antwerp and Project Arts Centre, Dublin. He currently is exhibiting in Catalyst Arts, Belfast and is co-director at Basic Space.
For further information on the artist please log onto: http://www.leewelch.com/
Artist Talk
Wednesday 10th February 2016,1.15pm
Featuring artist Brian Maguire
In association with Wexford Campus School of Art & Design
Carlow IT)
Brian Maguire studied drawing and painting at the Dun Laoghaire School of Art, and fine art at the National College of Art and Design(NCAD) in Dublin. A gifted student and artist, Maguire was appointed Professor of the Fine Art faculty at NCAD, in 2000.
Brian Maguire's expressionistic drawings and paintings (as well as his video, photography, and poster artworks) deal with themes of physical and political alienation. His focus on marginalized or disenfranchised groups has led him to work at a number of prisons, hospitals and other institutions in Ireland, Poland, and the USA, including: Mountjoy Jail, Dublin, Portaloise Jail, Spike Island, Co. Cork, Fort Mitchell Prison and Bayview Correction Center, New York. His recent paintings have also been inspired by American and world political events.
A former member of the Independent Artists Group, Maguire has exhibited extensively throughout Europe, America and Japan. He represented Ireland at the 1998 Sao Paulo Bienal, and created the "Casa de Cultura" series based on people from that city's slums. Maguire has also enjoyed a number of successful solo exhibitions, including Lincoln Gallery, Dublin (1981); Triskel Gallery, Cork (1982); Irish Pavilion, Leeuwarden, Netherlands (1990); Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (2001); Fenton Gallery, Cork (2003). In 2000, The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin hosted a major retrospective for Maguire, which travelled to the Crawford Arts Gallery in Cork and the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, Texas. Maguire also won the Irish-American Cultural Institute's O'Malley Art Award in 1990.
Maguire's paintings and other artworks are represented in collections including: the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Hugh Lane Municipal Art Gallery in Dublin, University College Dublin, Office of Public Works (OPW), Crawford Municipal Gallery Cork, the Alvar Aalto Museum in Finland, and the Gemeentemuseum in the Hague, Netherlands.
Wednesday 10th February 2016,1.15pm
Featuring artist Brian Maguire
In association with Wexford Campus School of Art & Design
Carlow IT)
Brian Maguire studied drawing and painting at the Dun Laoghaire School of Art, and fine art at the National College of Art and Design(NCAD) in Dublin. A gifted student and artist, Maguire was appointed Professor of the Fine Art faculty at NCAD, in 2000.
Brian Maguire's expressionistic drawings and paintings (as well as his video, photography, and poster artworks) deal with themes of physical and political alienation. His focus on marginalized or disenfranchised groups has led him to work at a number of prisons, hospitals and other institutions in Ireland, Poland, and the USA, including: Mountjoy Jail, Dublin, Portaloise Jail, Spike Island, Co. Cork, Fort Mitchell Prison and Bayview Correction Center, New York. His recent paintings have also been inspired by American and world political events.
A former member of the Independent Artists Group, Maguire has exhibited extensively throughout Europe, America and Japan. He represented Ireland at the 1998 Sao Paulo Bienal, and created the "Casa de Cultura" series based on people from that city's slums. Maguire has also enjoyed a number of successful solo exhibitions, including Lincoln Gallery, Dublin (1981); Triskel Gallery, Cork (1982); Irish Pavilion, Leeuwarden, Netherlands (1990); Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (2001); Fenton Gallery, Cork (2003). In 2000, The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin hosted a major retrospective for Maguire, which travelled to the Crawford Arts Gallery in Cork and the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, Texas. Maguire also won the Irish-American Cultural Institute's O'Malley Art Award in 1990.
Maguire's paintings and other artworks are represented in collections including: the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Hugh Lane Municipal Art Gallery in Dublin, University College Dublin, Office of Public Works (OPW), Crawford Municipal Gallery Cork, the Alvar Aalto Museum in Finland, and the Gemeentemuseum in the Hague, Netherlands.
Artist Talk
Tuesday 14th April 2015, 11am
Featuring artist Diana Copperwhite
In association with Wexford Campus School of Art & Design (Carlow IT)
Diana Copperwhite is a painter based in Dublin and Berlin whose work is about painting first and foremost. Diana Copperwhite’s work deals primarily with memory; both the subjective and the collective. Her concern, though, is not the recreation of a specific image or moment, but the creation of something informed by the act of remembering; an act which, subject as it is to it’s own shifting vagaries, renders past instances as ephemeral, untrustworthy, constantly in flux, resulting in works which themselves perpetually shift; their images lyrical, ghostlike, ethereal, though often checked by a single element of solidity, a sharpness, the overall aim of which is to suggest an instance where “reality, memory and fantasy collide”.
Copperwhite completed a BA(hons.) degree in painting in NCAD and an MFA in European Fine Art in Winchester School of Art and Design, Barcelona. Her works are in collections of Irish Museum of Modern Art, Allied Irish Banks, Arts Council of Ireland, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Office of Public Works, Contemporary Irish Art Society, Bank of Ireland, Dublin Institute of Technology, Jefferson Smurfit, KPMG, Arthur Andersen Plc, International Red Cross Netherlands, Mariehamn Stadbiblioteque, Aland, Finland, The President of Ireland, Jean Cherqui, Paris and several private collections in Ireland, Belgium, Finland, France, America and UK.
Tuesday 14th April 2015, 11am
Featuring artist Diana Copperwhite
In association with Wexford Campus School of Art & Design (Carlow IT)
Diana Copperwhite is a painter based in Dublin and Berlin whose work is about painting first and foremost. Diana Copperwhite’s work deals primarily with memory; both the subjective and the collective. Her concern, though, is not the recreation of a specific image or moment, but the creation of something informed by the act of remembering; an act which, subject as it is to it’s own shifting vagaries, renders past instances as ephemeral, untrustworthy, constantly in flux, resulting in works which themselves perpetually shift; their images lyrical, ghostlike, ethereal, though often checked by a single element of solidity, a sharpness, the overall aim of which is to suggest an instance where “reality, memory and fantasy collide”.
Copperwhite completed a BA(hons.) degree in painting in NCAD and an MFA in European Fine Art in Winchester School of Art and Design, Barcelona. Her works are in collections of Irish Museum of Modern Art, Allied Irish Banks, Arts Council of Ireland, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Office of Public Works, Contemporary Irish Art Society, Bank of Ireland, Dublin Institute of Technology, Jefferson Smurfit, KPMG, Arthur Andersen Plc, International Red Cross Netherlands, Mariehamn Stadbiblioteque, Aland, Finland, The President of Ireland, Jean Cherqui, Paris and several private collections in Ireland, Belgium, Finland, France, America and UK.
Artist Talk
Tuesday 3rd March 2015, 11am
Featuring artist Sarah Browne
In association with Wexford Campus School of Art & Design (Carlow IT)
Sarah Browne’s practice includes exhibitions, public projects, publishing and critical writing and she also works collaboratively with Gareth Kennedy as Kennedy Browne. Her research-based practice implicitly addresses ‘the economy’ as the dominant metaphor for contemporary social and political relations. She is concerned with the creation or documentation of intentional economies and temporary communities, typically small-scale systems influenced by emotional affects. An interest in forms of non-market exchange such as gifting, subsistence, subsidies and poaching leads to the creation of particular bespoke objects for circulation and use to map existing but sometimes hidden social relations. This work is typically domestic in character, using technologies such as knitting, flower-pressing, letter-writing, carpet-knotting and film-making, and is often carried out with the participation of a ‘community’ where it is based, or creates a fictional or temporary ‘community’ for itself.
Recent exhibitions include The Peacock, Grazer Kunstverein, Austria; One Foot in the Real World, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; The Twentieth Century as Never Seen Before, Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia (2013); How to Use Fool's Gold, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham and Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2012); Second Burial at Le Blanc, Project Arts Centre, Dublin (2011); Minimalism and Applied II, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, and Unto This Last, Raven Row, London (both 2010). In 2009 she co-represented Ireland at the 53rd Venice Biennale with Gareth Kennedy and Kennedy Browne. She currently lectures at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
Tuesday 3rd March 2015, 11am
Featuring artist Sarah Browne
In association with Wexford Campus School of Art & Design (Carlow IT)
Sarah Browne’s practice includes exhibitions, public projects, publishing and critical writing and she also works collaboratively with Gareth Kennedy as Kennedy Browne. Her research-based practice implicitly addresses ‘the economy’ as the dominant metaphor for contemporary social and political relations. She is concerned with the creation or documentation of intentional economies and temporary communities, typically small-scale systems influenced by emotional affects. An interest in forms of non-market exchange such as gifting, subsistence, subsidies and poaching leads to the creation of particular bespoke objects for circulation and use to map existing but sometimes hidden social relations. This work is typically domestic in character, using technologies such as knitting, flower-pressing, letter-writing, carpet-knotting and film-making, and is often carried out with the participation of a ‘community’ where it is based, or creates a fictional or temporary ‘community’ for itself.
Recent exhibitions include The Peacock, Grazer Kunstverein, Austria; One Foot in the Real World, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; The Twentieth Century as Never Seen Before, Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia (2013); How to Use Fool's Gold, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham and Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2012); Second Burial at Le Blanc, Project Arts Centre, Dublin (2011); Minimalism and Applied II, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, and Unto This Last, Raven Row, London (both 2010). In 2009 she co-represented Ireland at the 53rd Venice Biennale with Gareth Kennedy and Kennedy Browne. She currently lectures at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
Artist Talk
Tuesday 4th November 2014, 11am
Featuring artists Mathilde Ganancia and Joey Bryniarska
In association with Wexford Campus School of Art & Design (Carlow IT) and Cow House Studios
Artists Mathilde Ganancia (France), Joey Bryniarska (UK) and Paul Gaffney (Ireland) are currently undertaking a residency at Cow House Studios. Situated within the rural tranquility of Rathnure, Co. Wexford, Cow House Studios offers a valuable support structure for emerging visual artists as well as introducing critically engaging contemporary work to the rural community. During their residency, these artists are given the time and space to develop a new body of work.
French artist Mathilde Ganancia lives and works in London. In 2013 she completed an MA at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France. Solo exhibitions include Sautes d’humR, DNSAP, Paris, 2013; and Soudain, DNAP, atelier Gauthier, Paris, 2011. She has participated in many group exhibitions including Chinese New YearArt curated by Cedric Christie, Q Park ArtLyst, London, UK; TEŠKO JE BITI… u vremenu (It is difficult to be...in the time), Prateći Umetnički, Belgrade, Serbia, 2013; Piquade d’humR, ENSBA , Paris, France, 2012. In 2013, she undertook a residency iat Rhizome Art Center with Winter Story, Lijiang, China.
Joey Bryniarska lives and works in London. She received a post-graduate diploma from the Royal Academy Schools in 2009. She was the recipient of a Spike Island Graduate Fellowship in 2005 and was awarded the Sainsbury Scholarship in Painting and Sculpture at the British School at Rome from 2009 - 2011. Recent exhibitions include Postbox Gallery (London, UK), Fold Gallery (London UK) and Hidde van Seggelen Gallery (London, UK). Joey has recently been awarded a NEARCH Fellowship at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastrict which will run from 2015 - 2017. She is currently an Associate Lecturer in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, London.
Tuesday 4th November 2014, 11am
Featuring artists Mathilde Ganancia and Joey Bryniarska
In association with Wexford Campus School of Art & Design (Carlow IT) and Cow House Studios
Artists Mathilde Ganancia (France), Joey Bryniarska (UK) and Paul Gaffney (Ireland) are currently undertaking a residency at Cow House Studios. Situated within the rural tranquility of Rathnure, Co. Wexford, Cow House Studios offers a valuable support structure for emerging visual artists as well as introducing critically engaging contemporary work to the rural community. During their residency, these artists are given the time and space to develop a new body of work.
French artist Mathilde Ganancia lives and works in London. In 2013 she completed an MA at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France. Solo exhibitions include Sautes d’humR, DNSAP, Paris, 2013; and Soudain, DNAP, atelier Gauthier, Paris, 2011. She has participated in many group exhibitions including Chinese New YearArt curated by Cedric Christie, Q Park ArtLyst, London, UK; TEŠKO JE BITI… u vremenu (It is difficult to be...in the time), Prateći Umetnički, Belgrade, Serbia, 2013; Piquade d’humR, ENSBA , Paris, France, 2012. In 2013, she undertook a residency iat Rhizome Art Center with Winter Story, Lijiang, China.
Joey Bryniarska lives and works in London. She received a post-graduate diploma from the Royal Academy Schools in 2009. She was the recipient of a Spike Island Graduate Fellowship in 2005 and was awarded the Sainsbury Scholarship in Painting and Sculpture at the British School at Rome from 2009 - 2011. Recent exhibitions include Postbox Gallery (London, UK), Fold Gallery (London UK) and Hidde van Seggelen Gallery (London, UK). Joey has recently been awarded a NEARCH Fellowship at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastrict which will run from 2015 - 2017. She is currently an Associate Lecturer in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, London.
Artist Talk
Tuesday 11th November 2014, 2pm
Featuring artist Paul Gaffney
In association with Wexford Campus School of Art & Design (Carlow IT) and Cow House Studios
Artist Paul Gaffney is currently undertaking a residency at Cow House Studios. Situated within the rural tranquility of Rathnure, Co. Wexford, Cow House Studios offers a valuable support structure for emerging visual artists as well as introducing critically engaging contemporary work to the rural community. During their residency, these artists are given the time and space to develop a new body of work.
Paul Gaffney is an Irish artist who is currently undertaking a practice-based PhD in photography at the University of Ulster in Belfast.
His self-published book, We Make the Path by Walking, was nominated for the Photobook Award 2013 at the 6th International Photobook Festival in Kassel, Germany and shortlisted for the European Publishers Award for Photography 2013. The book was selected for several 'Best Photobooks of 2013' lists, including Photo-Eye and The British Journal of Photography.
We Make the Path by Walking has been presented as solo exhibitions at Oliver Sears Gallery (Dublin), Flowers Gallery (London), Ffotogallery (Cardiff) and PhotoIreland Festival 2013 (Dublin), and in several group shows in the United States, UK, South Africa, Ireland and Italy.
Tuesday 11th November 2014, 2pm
Featuring artist Paul Gaffney
In association with Wexford Campus School of Art & Design (Carlow IT) and Cow House Studios
Artist Paul Gaffney is currently undertaking a residency at Cow House Studios. Situated within the rural tranquility of Rathnure, Co. Wexford, Cow House Studios offers a valuable support structure for emerging visual artists as well as introducing critically engaging contemporary work to the rural community. During their residency, these artists are given the time and space to develop a new body of work.
Paul Gaffney is an Irish artist who is currently undertaking a practice-based PhD in photography at the University of Ulster in Belfast.
His self-published book, We Make the Path by Walking, was nominated for the Photobook Award 2013 at the 6th International Photobook Festival in Kassel, Germany and shortlisted for the European Publishers Award for Photography 2013. The book was selected for several 'Best Photobooks of 2013' lists, including Photo-Eye and The British Journal of Photography.
We Make the Path by Walking has been presented as solo exhibitions at Oliver Sears Gallery (Dublin), Flowers Gallery (London), Ffotogallery (Cardiff) and PhotoIreland Festival 2013 (Dublin), and in several group shows in the United States, UK, South Africa, Ireland and Italy.
Artist Talk
Saturday 29th November 2014, 2pm
Featuring artists Anne Hendrick, Aileen Murphy and Emma Roche in conversation with curator Paul Doran.
Patient Staring is one of our current exhibitons featuring artists, Anne Hendrick, Aileen Murphy and Emma Roche and curated by artist-as-curator, Paul Doran. The exhibition attempts to embrace each artist’s individual painting process and the visual risks applied throughout the production and eventual realisation.
Too often, the practice of painting will involve lengthy spells of planning and frequent hesitation infiltrated with self-reflexive interrogation. Here, the artist will then withdraw and begin a lengthy process of questioning before a period of intense production. Innumerable options are put forward through this creative process, and the challenge of distilling these thoughts prove to be the most daunting aspect of creating the work. At the outset for this exhibition, the artists came together to discuss their own individual thoughts around painting in an effort to clarify these processes, often viewed by many as a seemingly unattainable task.
For further information on the exhibition or artists please click here.
Saturday 29th November 2014, 2pm
Featuring artists Anne Hendrick, Aileen Murphy and Emma Roche in conversation with curator Paul Doran.
Patient Staring is one of our current exhibitons featuring artists, Anne Hendrick, Aileen Murphy and Emma Roche and curated by artist-as-curator, Paul Doran. The exhibition attempts to embrace each artist’s individual painting process and the visual risks applied throughout the production and eventual realisation.
Too often, the practice of painting will involve lengthy spells of planning and frequent hesitation infiltrated with self-reflexive interrogation. Here, the artist will then withdraw and begin a lengthy process of questioning before a period of intense production. Innumerable options are put forward through this creative process, and the challenge of distilling these thoughts prove to be the most daunting aspect of creating the work. At the outset for this exhibition, the artists came together to discuss their own individual thoughts around painting in an effort to clarify these processes, often viewed by many as a seemingly unattainable task.
For further information on the exhibition or artists please click here.
Saturday 28th June 2014, 2.00pm
Featuring artist Frank Abruzzese
Photographer Frank Abruzzese will discuss his exhibition Live Load, currently in-situ at Wexford Arts Centre.
Abruzzese’s work is process driven, and seeks to demonstrate photography’s power to reveal as much as it hides. His work is informed by interests in engineering and problem solving, new technologies, symmetry, science fiction, landmarks, repetition, traces and monuments. His working methods are often experimental, employing unorthodox film selection, exposure time and digital photographic techniques to transform often mundane subjects into something extraordinary, ambiguous or uncanny, and question photography's role as a factual document.
Originally from Philadelphia, Frank obtained his Bachelors Degree in Moving Image Arts from the College of Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2000, and Master of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2004. He is the recipient of the Emerging Photographer of the Year award from San Francisco Magazine, and as a photographer exhibits internationally in galleries and universities. In 2007, he co-founded Cow House Studios, a progressive artist studio set in rural Wexford with his wife, artist Rosie O’Gorman.
Featuring artist Frank Abruzzese
Photographer Frank Abruzzese will discuss his exhibition Live Load, currently in-situ at Wexford Arts Centre.
Abruzzese’s work is process driven, and seeks to demonstrate photography’s power to reveal as much as it hides. His work is informed by interests in engineering and problem solving, new technologies, symmetry, science fiction, landmarks, repetition, traces and monuments. His working methods are often experimental, employing unorthodox film selection, exposure time and digital photographic techniques to transform often mundane subjects into something extraordinary, ambiguous or uncanny, and question photography's role as a factual document.
Originally from Philadelphia, Frank obtained his Bachelors Degree in Moving Image Arts from the College of Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2000, and Master of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2004. He is the recipient of the Emerging Photographer of the Year award from San Francisco Magazine, and as a photographer exhibits internationally in galleries and universities. In 2007, he co-founded Cow House Studios, a progressive artist studio set in rural Wexford with his wife, artist Rosie O’Gorman.
Thursday 3rd April 2014, 12.30pm
Featuring artist Niamh McCann
In association with Wexford Campus School of Art & Design (Carlow IT)
Niamh McCann's diverse and playful practice, which includes sculpture, installation, painting and video, explores philosophical riddles/conundrums through seemingly random visual juxtapositions and spatial relationships, looking toward themes of travel, globalization and urbanization within very particular social and political contexts.
McCann is the recipient of various Arts Council awards, and residencies at Cemeti Arthouse, Indonesia; HIAP, International Artists' Residency, Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland, URRA Artist Residency, Finland, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Ireland; and of Perspective and EV+A exhibition awards. Solo projects include: Insertions, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (2012),Niamh McCann, The Void, Derry (2011), TiltShift, The City Gallery, The Hugh Lane (2010), HIAP Project Space, Finland, 2009, Purlieu, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin (2009), EME, Pallas Heights, Dublin (2005) and Total Eclipse of …, Planet 22, Geneva, Switzerland (2001). McCann is represented in the Irish Museum of Modern Art Collection; Limerick City Gallery Collection,Swansea City Council Collection; The London Institute Collection; Hiscox Collection, London.
Thursday 8th April 2014, 12.45pm
Featuring artist James Merrigan
In association with Wexford Campus School of Art & Design (Carlow IT)
James Merrigan is an artist and art critic. As an art critic his main focus lies in writing and distributing art criticism outside of standard frameworks. From early on, psychoanalytic theory has informed the basis of his approach to art-making and conceptualising art practice. He is co-founding editor of of the printed publication Fugitive Papers [fugitivepapers.org] and founder of the exclusively online art criticism journal +billion_ [billionjournal.com]. In 2011 he was awarded the Dublin City Council Arts Office / VAI Visual Arts Writing Award (2011). He has been invited as a visiting lecturer to The National College of Art and Design, Dublin, The University of Ulster, and Trinity College, Dublin, where he taught a module on Psychoanalysis and Art for the MPhil in Psychoanalytic Studies. A book of his art criticism was published in October 2013 entitled Agents of Subjectivism. He is a member of AICA (The International Association of Art Critics).
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