Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Images from Latency @ The Linnenhall Castlebar
The exhibition runs until November 24th
“To
embrace latency goes against the grain of the logic of high
performance. The appraisal of latency restores dignity to the unsaid,
the unshown, and everything that can’t be dragged out into the open in
the rush of high performance when the value of all our potentials
appears to depend entirely on our capacity to actualise them right here,
right now.” Jan Verwoert in ‘Exhaustion and Exuberance’
An exhibition of works by members of Engage Art Studios, curated by arts writer Michaële Cutaya. Michaële expla
An exhibition of works by members of Engage Art Studios, curated by arts writer Michaële Cutaya. Michaële expla
ins:
“There are different ways to approach the notion of latency, whether as
something existing but not yet manifest, lying dormant until suitable
circumstances develop, or as the time lapse between a stimulus and its
response. All quite suggestive in regard to the artist’s studio with its
fascinating potential and yet often frustrating manifestations.” For
this exhibition, 18 members of Engage Art Studios are proposing artworks
in response to what latency might mean to them and their practice. The
exhibition presents works by Tim Acheson, Roisin Coyle, Cathal Curtin,
Maeve Curtis, Aja Daly, Cecilia Danell, Brid Egan, Alicia Lydon,
EimearJean McCormack, Shelly McDonnell, Angela O’Brien, Tadhg O’
Cuirrín, Roisin O’Sullivan, Matthew Quain, Sarah Quick, Victoria Smith,
Amy Taylor and Ruby Wallis.
Official opening on Friday 2nd November at 7.30pm. All welcome.
Official opening on Friday 2nd November at 7.30pm. All welcome.
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Prove That You're Not a Robot
Prove That You're Not a Robot
Silver reflective window tint and glass
Dimensions variable
2012
#008000 @ The Shed
Also have a piece in this exhibition of new work, curated by Grace McEvoy, selected from Engage Studio Members.
- The Shed, The Middle Pier, The Docks, Galway
- #008000
A group exhibition of Engage Art Studios’ members
Tim Acheson, Maeve Curtis, Aja Daly, Cecilia Danell, Eimear Jean McCormack, Shelly McDonnell, Tadhg Ó Cuirrín, Roisin O’Sullivan, Winnie Pun, Victoria Smith, Amy Taylor, and Ruby Wallis. Curated by Grace McEvoy
The Shed, The Docks, Galway21 September – 7 October 2012
Opening reception: Culture Night, Friday 21 September, 6pm. Refreshments by Kai Cafe + Restaurant.
Opening Hours: Friday – Sunday 12 – 6pm
"When we look at landscape, we're not looking at an object that our glance is directed towards as a focal operation, rather, we see the totality of all the possibilities of focus that exist within a field of vision." – Jørgen Dehs
This exhibition, #008000, draws together twelve visual artists from Engage Art Studios. The title is the HTML (a website programming language) colour code for green, the colour most associated with our landscape. HTML codes serve as a programming guide for the visual senses in the creation of digital landscapes. Similarly, the work within this exhibition explores the subjective representation of landscape, and the artistic methodologies and processes that are used in its portrayal.
Landscape is generally understood as the harmony of a set of objects, and their unification within a plane of vision. However, no ultimate definition or representation of it exists and our understanding of landscape is constantly being reformed and negotiated. It is a unity constantly under construction.
Historically, landscape has been a recurring focus within various art forms and has, as a subject matter, been revered, romanticised, territorialised and used as metaphor. Arguably, the landscapes that surround us, in both organic and inorganic forms, possess sublime features which suggest greater universal forces and powers that are beyond our comprehension. As such our efforts in trying to understand and represent landscape express our continued desire to discover who we are and why we are here.
This exhibition is not a redrawing of the notion of landscape, rather, it aims to bring together a body of work which looks at the way in which we see the external world.
Engage Art Studios is located in the heart of Galway city and supports contemporary artists in a professional environment. Founded in 2004, Engage provides a central space for professionally-oriented visual artists, of all levels, to work within a vibrant community of creativity, production, inspiration and opportunity. The unique studio space is on the top floors of the old Cathedral Building on the corner of Middle and Abbeygate Streets. Engage Art Studios is supported by the Arts Council and the Galway City Council. Engage is a member of Adapt Galway, a coalition of visual arts groups. The Shed, an empty 4000 sq ft warehouse space currently used for visual art, is a project initiated by Adapt that will continue into next year.
This exhibition is supported by The Arts Council, The Galway City Council, The Galway Harbour Company, and Kai Cafe + Restaurant. Special thanks to Adapt Galway and Grace McEvoy.
Hyperopia - Clifden Arts Festival 2012
I have some work in this exhibition curated by Shelly McDonald which is taking place as part of the Clifden Arts Festival 2012. Have a look - it's a great show!
A group exhibition of contemporary art for Clifden Arts Festival 19th-30th September 2012
An exhibition of contemporary art by Galway City based artists Ben Geoghegan, Louise Manifold, Tadhg Ó Cuirrín, Shelly McDonnell, Kate Howard, Alison Regan, Mara Sola, Finbar McHugh, Marrian Hughes Brown, Frances Kilcommins, Mariann Hughes Browne, Martina Navratilova Brian Kenny and Anthony Murphy.
The exhibition is part of the 35th annual Clifden Community Arts Week, 19th – 30th September 2012.
Don't try and help, you'll only make it worse.
Don't try and help, you'll only make things worse
Mixed media installation
Dimensions variable
Dimensions variable
2012
Monday, September 3, 2012
Friday, July 27, 2012
Unrequited Hatred
Curated by Darren Barrett and Tadhg Ó CuirrínThe Shed, Galway Docks
11th - 25th August
Opening reception; Friday August 10th, 7pm
Opening Hours; Wednesday to Saturday 12pm - 6pm
Image credit: Tadhg Ó Cuirrín; 'Francophile' video still 2011
Featuring work by: Darren Barrett, Alan Bulfin, Daniel Cunniffe, Terence Erraught, Nevan Lahart, Tadhg Ó Cuirrín, Jeroen Van Dooren, Kees van Lankveld, Francis Quinn.
'Play is nothing if nothing if not an open and unreserved challenge to everything opposed to play'
Georges Bataille
Unrequited Hatred will
be a diverse and multi-faceted constellation of work, that is
representative of a shared attitude or stance towards our artistic
practice. This attitude manifests itself in the form of a collective
desire to create work that is provocative, energetic, assertive and that
is indifferent towards the increasing commercialisation of the
contemporary art world.
Thematically,
the exhibition will confront the obsession with utilising or killing
time efficiently within the present consumerist society. This obsession
filters itself through the mediums of technological devices such as
television, computers, the internet and mobile phones. Champions of
communicative technology posit that this free flow of information has
helped liberate the role of the individual within Western society.
However a convincing argument could be made that precisely the opposite
has occurred; namely that the constant bombardment of information and
visual stimuli has had the effect of debilitating the individuals
capacity to think and reflect, contributing to the pervading sense of
ennui and lethargy that characterises the postmodernist epoch.
The exhibition Unrequited Hatred will respond to, and attempt to transcend the present condition. In this project the artists will attempt to carve up the exhibition space as an independent site from this culture of passivity. By intermixing a variety of different materials and sources, the objective will be to create work that is allusive and rich in connotations, that resists constrictive judgement and easy classification. The processes of play and humour will be used to provoke; but also to induce more expansive methods of thinking and creating. In the final instance, while the project will ultimately remain firmly rooted within the fabric of the contemporary landscape, we will nonetheless strive to present to the viewer something of the disavowed and fantastical desires that lurk beyond the façade of everyday life
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Friday, May 4, 2012
Monday, April 30, 2012
Catalyst Arts & La Station presents...
Sunshine & Precipitation - De la Pluie & Du Beau Temps
La Station promotes the most contemporary artistic creations through its artists' studios and its exhibition space. The collective has occupied many different spaces since 1996 and is now situated in a disused slaughterhouse. La Station has participated in several projects and exchanges with other organisations around France and Europe.
Artists exhibiting in Sunshine & Precipitation are: Jane Butler, Gerard Carson, Jayne Cherry, Colm Clarke, Benjamin De Burca, Fionnuala Doran, Heather Gabel, Jacqueline Holt, Jordan Hutchings, Emmet Kierans, Kim Mc Aleese, Zoe Murdoch, Tadhg Ó Cuirrín, Brendan O' Neill, Paulina Sandberg, Ian Wieczoreck, Shelby Woods & Beatriz G Zambrana.
The exhibition opens on 12 May at 6pm with a performance and a concert by Sarah Maison
& Litttle d Big B.
For more information visit http://www.catalystarts.org.
uk/category/upcoming/
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Friday, April 6, 2012
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