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Sample-Studios are delighted to partner with Gurranabraher Credit Union and Cork City Council to present PhotoGo 2020 October 30th - November 30th 2020 PhotoGo is a community photography competition and exhibition presented by Sample-Studios in partnership with Gurranabraher Credit Union and Cork City Council Commemoration Fund. PhotoGo competition launched on Culture Night, Friday 18th of September and invited members of the public to take photographs which celebrate Cork City’s Northside communities and the theme of ‘legacy’, to mark this important centenary year of the Burning of Cork in 1920. Over 60 entries were received, as well as over 50 entries by local Transition Year students, who participated in a series of free schools photography workshops with artist and Sample-Studios member Kate McElroy. If you live within 5km of Fitzgerald's Park, we invite you to enjoy this selected presentation of PhotoGo entries in The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion. Photographs are presented in the windows, as our exhibition space remains closed to visitors. Whether you’re in the Park to exercise, to walk the dog, meet up with your support bubble or just to get some fresh air within 5km of your home, we invite you to enjoy a moment of reflection and celebration of community, as presented in PhotoGo. When viewing the photographs, please ensure you do so safely and maintain 2m distance from other park users. Follow us on Facebook @SampleStudios to vote for the People’s Voice Award and find out the winners of the People’s Voice Award, the School Award and the overall PhotoGo Award. PhotoGo is proudly supported by Gurranabraher Credit Union and Cork City Council Commemoration Fund. |
Postponed due to Covid 19 Restrictions. Watch this space for rescheduled exhibition dates.
Revolve
Solo Exhibition by Aoife Claffey
St Luke’s Church, Summerhill North, Cork
Sample-Studios Visual Arts Programme TACTIC presents an exhibition of work by Aoife Claffey. In today’s world, rapid developments in transportation, communication and media are seen as progressive. However, they also exacerbate the fracturing and destabilisation of society. Societal structures appear to be dissolving through the acceleration of technologies. Claffey creates immersive environments for sensory stimulation. Reflective and translucent objects shift, with transparent layers of imagery and sound transforming unexpectedly each time the work is experienced. By manipulating the physical properties of sound and vision, she aims to provide an ambiguous space for the viewer to recall the peripheral, a space that is in the midst of current, perpetual transformation; a non-space.
Her work examines Irish transportation systems and locations utilising associated materials and objects. This is to explore how global capitalism continues to consume us. In a world of disposable products, the relationship binding humans to such objects has become increasingly tenuous, and the ontological status of material things are reduced to either pure sensory stimulation or hallucination on identity. During the process of making, she often allows activity to go beyond (transcend) her control. Physiological and psychological tensions between chaos and order are encouraged both during the making, and within the work, to evoke uncanny effect or altered cognitive states. Using projection, found objects, motors and surround sound as agents for political and social change, she hopes to communicate the idea that history has a tendency of repeating itself if regulations are not put into place. Her installations aim to critique social and political systems by encompassing notions of unpredictability, fragility and movement.
Aoife Claffey is an Irish Installation Artist. Claffey is currently undertaking an MA in Art & Process in the Crawford College of Art and Design and is a current member of Sample Studios and Cork Printmakers
https://www.aoifeclaffeyart.com
@aoifeclaffeyart
aoifeclaffeyart@gmail.com
@tactic_gallery @samplestudios
Revolve
Solo Exhibition by Aoife Claffey
St Luke’s Church, Summerhill North, Cork
Sample-Studios Visual Arts Programme TACTIC presents an exhibition of work by Aoife Claffey. In today’s world, rapid developments in transportation, communication and media are seen as progressive. However, they also exacerbate the fracturing and destabilisation of society. Societal structures appear to be dissolving through the acceleration of technologies. Claffey creates immersive environments for sensory stimulation. Reflective and translucent objects shift, with transparent layers of imagery and sound transforming unexpectedly each time the work is experienced. By manipulating the physical properties of sound and vision, she aims to provide an ambiguous space for the viewer to recall the peripheral, a space that is in the midst of current, perpetual transformation; a non-space.
Her work examines Irish transportation systems and locations utilising associated materials and objects. This is to explore how global capitalism continues to consume us. In a world of disposable products, the relationship binding humans to such objects has become increasingly tenuous, and the ontological status of material things are reduced to either pure sensory stimulation or hallucination on identity. During the process of making, she often allows activity to go beyond (transcend) her control. Physiological and psychological tensions between chaos and order are encouraged both during the making, and within the work, to evoke uncanny effect or altered cognitive states. Using projection, found objects, motors and surround sound as agents for political and social change, she hopes to communicate the idea that history has a tendency of repeating itself if regulations are not put into place. Her installations aim to critique social and political systems by encompassing notions of unpredictability, fragility and movement.
Aoife Claffey is an Irish Installation Artist. Claffey is currently undertaking an MA in Art & Process in the Crawford College of Art and Design and is a current member of Sample Studios and Cork Printmakers
https://www.aoifeclaffeyart.com
@aoifeclaffeyart
aoifeclaffeyart@gmail.com
@tactic_gallery @samplestudios
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**DATES FOR YOUR DIARIES**
19 September- 6 October 2020
Film/Sound Graduate Residency Award Exhibition 2020 An exhibition of work by Nellie Corbett and Trevor Boyle. In conjunction with Indie Cork 2020 Postponed Aoife Claffey 2019 Residency Exhibition St Luke's Crypt 30 October - 30 November 2020 PhotoGo Exhibition The Lord Mayor's Pavilion Dates to be announced Cahoots 2020 Exchange with A4 Sounds and Engage Art Studio St Luke's Crypt Click here for visiting times |
Connolly Cleary: Private Online Exhibition Tour for Sample-Studios Members
Connolly Cleary who are currently exhibiting 'Invisible Light' in Crawford Art Gallery will offer members a private virtual tour of their exhibition on Friday, 6th of November from 11am-12.30pm. 'Invisible Light' explores all the light in the universe - the entire electromagnetic spectrum - through 7 new artworks, created by School of Looking over 2 years working with Tyndall National Institute in Cork. 
Sample-Studios TACTIC Visual Arts Programme is hosting 'Cahoots 2020: The Space Between', an exchange exhibition curated by Guest Artist-Curator Nicola Anthony with A4 Sounds (Dublin) Engage Art Studio (Galway) and Sample-Studios (Cork) in the Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Cork City in November 2020. Sample-Studios have invited members from all three studios to submit work that will be curated by Sample-Studios for the exhibition. As part of the exchange, Sample-Studios will host a series workshops to enable members from all the three studios to respond to the exhibition themes of Language and Landscape.
Writing Proposals Workshop with Maeve Mulrennan: Tuesday, 3rd November, 10am-1pm. This free workshop for members only will go through the proposal making process for visual artists, designers and makers from stating your current practice to articulating new work, research and ideas. The workshop will also include discussion on adjudication panels and supporting materials. Maeve Mulrennan is Venue Co-ordinator for Dublin City Council Culture Company in Richmond Barracks. She is also 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. 
'Art and Language' Workshop Open to Members of Sample-Studios, Engage Art Studios and A4 Sounds as part of 'Cahoots 2020: The Space Between'
August 26th and September 11th FULLY BOOKED Art and Language Workshop: The first of the 'Cahoots' workshops 'Art and Language' was led by artist Nicola Anthony. This workshop enabled members to explore and navigate the many ways in which language, literature, words and voices can form part of artistic research, conceptualisation, or even become part of finished pieces. We explored how artistic practice can be informed by language, storytelling, and narratives, and develop your understanding and interpretation of linguistics and other signifiers in your work. Nicola shared insights from her own practice and facilitated discussion and practical exercises around the subject of language and art. Acouscenic Listening & the Creative Soundwalk Workshop: A Consideration of Landscape as part of the 'Cahoots' Exchange Fitzgerald's Park, Cork City, 2-4.30pm, Sat 12th of September 2020, with Sean Taylor This half -day Acouscenic Listening workshop hosted by Sean Taylor focused on the study of listening, creative soundwalking and the meditative practices of Tai Chi and Qigong. The workshop enhanced participant’s perception of sound and silence, offering a unique approach for situated soundscapes, as well as offering movement/sound/and listening improvisations and strategies. Cahoots Exchange is proudly supported by Cork City Council and Galway 2020 
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Autumn/ Winter 2020:
10-29 August 2020 Host Cork Printmakers The Lord Mayors Pavilion 18 September 2020 Drawing workshop Culture Night Lord Mayors Pavilion 10 -19 September 2020 Rosalind Spencer 2019 Residency Exhibition 19 September- 6 October 2020 Film/Sound Graduate Residency Award Exhibition 2020 An exhibition of work by Nellie Corbett and Trevor Boyle. In conjunction with Indie Cork 2020 Postponed Aoife Claffey 2019 Residency Exhibition 30 October - 30 November 2020 PhotoGo Exhibition The Lord Mayor's Pavilion Dates to be announced Cahoots 2020 Exchange with A4 Sounds and Engage Art Studio St Luke's Crypt |
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