CURRENT EXHIBITION: CAHOOTS: THE SPACE BETWEEN

A digital exhibition of the work of the members of
Sample-Studios, A4 Sounds and Engage Art Studios
Curated by Guest Artist Curator Nicola Anthony
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Click HERE to view the series of artist interviews
Artists: Paul Malone, Brigid Mulligan, Noelle Gallagher, Aoife Claffey, Kim-Ling Morris, Seiko Hayase, Kathryn Kelly, Aideen Farrell, Alisha Doody, Megan Scott and Vivienne Molloy.
December 18th 2020 - February 28th 2021
Supported by Cork City Council and Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture
Our minds can work in a hybrid of sensory, verbal, and emotional modes. If we choose to, we can look under the surface of everything that we think of as a constant and understand it anew. As a result of Covid 19, the boundaries our personal realms have shifted. A more ambiguous space has opened up: how we read and understand the language and landscape of the world has changed. This exhibition brings together artworks which explore the liminal space in between: art borne of the year 2020 when we can often find ourselves at a loss for words, when time has elongated and place has been constricted, when death and loss have loomed large in all our lives.
Through the lens of the artists we start to see how messages and traces are present in unexpected places. The artists bring a glimmer of hope as well as an honest look at themes which are often deeply coded, hard to process, or unspoken. From artworks which explore the histories embedded within objects and spaces; to explorations of aphasia, anxiety, loss and death; to artworks examining the markers of place and time, language barriers, and otherness. The mediums include hologram, sculpture, morse code, soil, photography, embroidery and an interactive sound/art walk. The artists invite you to see the world from a more permeable, liminal, intangible place.
This exhibition will be accompanied by a series of weekly filmed interviews with participating artists.
Click HERE to view the digital exhibition
Image Credit: Kathryn Kelly, Untitled #6 2020 45x30cm Giclee print on paper
Sample-Studios, A4 Sounds and Engage Art Studios
Curated by Guest Artist Curator Nicola Anthony
Click HERE to view the digital exhibition
Click HERE to view the series of artist interviews
Artists: Paul Malone, Brigid Mulligan, Noelle Gallagher, Aoife Claffey, Kim-Ling Morris, Seiko Hayase, Kathryn Kelly, Aideen Farrell, Alisha Doody, Megan Scott and Vivienne Molloy.
December 18th 2020 - February 28th 2021
Supported by Cork City Council and Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture
Our minds can work in a hybrid of sensory, verbal, and emotional modes. If we choose to, we can look under the surface of everything that we think of as a constant and understand it anew. As a result of Covid 19, the boundaries our personal realms have shifted. A more ambiguous space has opened up: how we read and understand the language and landscape of the world has changed. This exhibition brings together artworks which explore the liminal space in between: art borne of the year 2020 when we can often find ourselves at a loss for words, when time has elongated and place has been constricted, when death and loss have loomed large in all our lives.
Through the lens of the artists we start to see how messages and traces are present in unexpected places. The artists bring a glimmer of hope as well as an honest look at themes which are often deeply coded, hard to process, or unspoken. From artworks which explore the histories embedded within objects and spaces; to explorations of aphasia, anxiety, loss and death; to artworks examining the markers of place and time, language barriers, and otherness. The mediums include hologram, sculpture, morse code, soil, photography, embroidery and an interactive sound/art walk. The artists invite you to see the world from a more permeable, liminal, intangible place.
This exhibition will be accompanied by a series of weekly filmed interviews with participating artists.
Click HERE to view the digital exhibition
Image Credit: Kathryn Kelly, Untitled #6 2020 45x30cm Giclee print on paper
FORTHCOMING EXHIBITION: HALF WAY TO FALLING
Half Way to Falling
February 18th - March 9th 2021 Open Daily: Wed-Sat, 11am - 4pm The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Fitzgerald’s Park, Cork ‘Half Way to Falling’ is artist Kate O’Shea’s first series of art works from ‘How Much Is Enough?’ a collective response to the Just City - Counter Narrative Neighbourhood Residency Award. ‘Half Way to Falling’ is a series of collaborative printworks, art works and responses by The Just City Reading Collective, Aideen Farrell, Emma O’Hara, Eve Olney, Raphael Olympio, Aideen Quirke, Gemma Dardis, Lucia Pola, Enya Moore, Louise Harrington, Evelyn Broderick, Leah Brown, Lisa Crowne, Pat Curran, Aoife Barrett, Fionnuala O’ Connell, Siobhan Kavanagh, Craig Cox and Alec Moore, presented in The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Fitzgeralds Park, Cork. This exhibition commences Sample-Studios’ TACTIC Visual Arts Programme 2021 programme, which marks its 10th anniversary. Common Ground awarded Kate O’ Shea the Just City - Counter Narrative Neighbourhood Residency Award in March 2020, when Ireland entered its first period of lockdown. The impact and realities of that experience has pushed us all into new realms and forms of creating social solidarity, communication and work practices, being both transformational and challenging, individually and collectively. In April 2020, Kate O’ Shea established an online reading group of international activists, community workers, artists and academics from eight cities around the world. Her development process has involved engagement with local groups in the Dublin 8 area in which her studio is based, testing new film and music performances, creating soundworks and temporary large scale print installations, resulting in a film by Alec Moore, with music by Siobhán Kavanagh and Craig Cox and an iterative online platform built by Lucia Pola which are presented within and alongside this exhibition. This exhibition represents collective energy and is immersive in nature - the internal structure of The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion will be wrapped with large scale collaborative prints made by The Just City Reading Collective and sculptural work by HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH? collaborators will inhabit the space. The exhibition will also mark the launch of the online platform for HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH? which will examine ideas and practices around spatial injustices in multiple cities internationally. This online platform will continue to grow over the coming years, contextualising the work and incorporating past present and future collaborative projects. This exhibition will also premiere the first short film of The Just City Residency. Reflecting on ideas of legacy within collaborative arts practice, this exhibition reflects on Kate O’ Shea’s 10 year social arts practice. The necessity of physical spaces in which to imagine alternative social imaginaries to that of capitalism will be examined through a series of discussions around temporary and permanent spaces which Kate O’ Shea has engaged with over the last 10 years, in her practice. One of these events will reflect on SPARE ROOM Art Architecture Activism and future plans connected to the work and its international network. SPARE ROOM Art Architecture Activism which was co-produced with Eve Olney on North Main Street, Cork in September 2019, a two-week exhibition and social space with over 40 collaborators, which was framed within the rationale of critiquing institutional complicity within different forms of precarious living conditions. How Much Is Enough? is in response to the Just City Residency, working with Common Ground and local and international activists, community workers, artists, academics and urban planners to create artistic practices and events that challenge spatial injustice in cities. Each of the collaborators on HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH? has worked within fluid and emergent social practices. She is supported in her practice by mentors, John Bissett and Rita Fagan. |
TACTIC
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![]() STUDIO & MEMBER ACTIVITIES Monthly Professional Development Workshops: 'Writing Applications' with Maeve Mulrennan: Thursday, January 14th, 5.30 - 7.30pm This free workshop for members only will address the application writing process for visual artists, designers and makers. Maeve Mulrennan is Assistant Arts Officer, Cork County Council. She is formerly the Venue Co-ordinator for Dublin City Council Culture Company in Richmond Barracks and a Creative Associate with Creative Schools. She was the Head of Visual Art in Galway Arts Centre from 2006 - 2020. Maeve is a board member for Galway Community Circus and was previously on the Board of Directors for TULCA Festival of Visual Art. She has An MA Vis Arts from IADT Dun Laoghaire, h.Dip Arts Administration from NUI Galway, BA hons. in Fine Art (Painting) from Limerick School of Art and Design and a BA hons in English Literature, Sociology & Politics from NUI Galway. Artist in the Community Scheme Funding Information Session and Artist Talk
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December 12th - 23rd 2020
(Closed: December 24th - January 10th due to Covid 19 Restrictions) Winter Members Exhibition The Lord Mayor's Pavilion December 18th 2020 - February 14th 2021 Cahoots 2020 Exchange with A4 Sounds and Engage Art Studio Online February 18th - March 9th 2021 Half Way to Falling The Lord Mayor's Pavilion March 16th - April 11th 2021 Extrasolar The Lord Mayor's Pavilion St. Luke's Crypt April 22nd - May 2nd 2021 Lily O' Shea, Graduate Residency Exhibition The Lord Mayor's Pavilion |
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