ABOUT


Sample-Studios is an artist-led studio group based in Churchfield, Cork City. With a membership of over 60 arts practitioners from a variety of disciplines, the organisation nurtures a creative environment, providing shared facilities as well as 29 affordable individual studio work spaces. We aim to support and promote emerging and established contemporary practitioners alike from Cork and beyond while endeavouring to sustain and develop local, regional and international initiatives. We encourage the promotion of research and community outreach projects.   

Through our Sample-Studios TACTIC Visual Arts Programme, we aim to contribute to the creative community in Cork with a programme of challenging and exciting art. This is realised in regular visual arts events in locations around Cork City as well as in venues further afield arranged through studio-group exchanges.  Through the introduction of our annual graduate bursaries, the organisation also harbours a unique potential for incubating and nurturing emerging artists wishing to develop their careers in an experienced and supportive environment. The Sample-Studios TACTIC Visual Arts Programme is an effective training ground for aspiring curators and emerging artists as we look to build the arts people of tomorrow. Sample-Studios endeavours to promote arts research and community outreach projects through educational and participatory events. The artist-led teams are interested in creating a dialogue and a process of collaboration across different disciplines, areas and specialities and are committed to facilitating the development and enjoyment of the contemporary arts in the city.

Appointment of Sinéad Barrett as Sample-Studios
​Programme Coordinator 

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​Sample-Studios is delighted to announce the appointment of Sinéad Barrett as Programme Coordinator. Sinéad is a Cork-based visual artist and former Sample-Studios Curator-in-Residence. She holds a BA Hons in Fine Art from Crawford College of Art and Design and brings over twenty years experience of working in project management roles in the Education, Arts and Business to her new position. Sinéad formerly worked in Munster Institute of Technology (now MTU) where she supported the establishment of ground-breaking educational initiatives such as Girls into Science and Technology and Electronic Engineering Transition Year module. As Programme Coordinator, Sinéad will support Sample-Studios in launching a new multidisciplinary Education Programme, including the 'Cork Creative Careers Programme' with local primary and secondary schools and the 'Cork Young Critics and Curators Programme' with young people. 

Join our Board! We're Recruiting for the Role of Treasurer 

Role of the Treasurer (Voluntary Board)
The overall role of Sample-Studios Treasurer is to maintain an overview of Sample-Studios’s financial affairs, ensuring its viability and that proper financial records and procedures are maintained as below. The role of the treasurer requires an estimated commitment of 3-5 hours per month and is a voluntary position. 

Skills and Experience Required:
Essential:
  • Experience of financial control and budgeting
  • Good communication and interpersonal skills
Desirable
  • Experience of being on the Board of a Charity and/or arts organisation

Role Requirement:
  • To sit on the Board of Directors to oversee and ensure the maintenance of budgets, accounts and financial statements
  • To ensure the financial viability of the organisation
  • To liaise with the Board regarding all financial matters and keep the board informed about its financial duties and responsibilities
  • To ensure that appropriate account procedures and controls are in place
  • To ensure compliance with relevant legislation
  • To oversee recording of income, making payments, bank reconciliations and such.
  • To ensure any recommendations of the auditors are implemented
  • To ensure accounts meet the conditions of contractual agreements with external agencies such as funders and statutory bodies
  • To present financial reports to the Board at monthly Board Meetings, AGM and as required
  • To advise on the financial implications of the organisation’s strategic and operational plans 
  • Acting in the best interest of the Sample-Studios
  • Act with Reasonable Care and Skill
  • To be an authorised signatory of the Sample-Studios
  • Support the Financial Manager to keep appropriate accounts and assist with the audit
  • Support the Board and Executive to comply with Good Governance codes.

​If you would like to apply, please send your CV, along with a cover letter outlining your suitability for the role to Kim-Ling Morris, Financial Manager, Sample-Studios to info@sample-studios.com

TEAM

Management Team
Artistic Director: Aoibhie McCarthy
Financial Manager: Kim-Ling Morris

Board of Directors
Chair: Carl Dixon
​Sarah Jayne Booth
Rebecca Bradley
​Oisín Creagh
James O' Sullivan
John MacMonagle
Eileen O'Hara
Kate O'Shea

VISIT US!

Sample-Studios are now located in Churchfield, Cork City, T23 XV50.

Please note, as the studios are private workspaces, an appointment will need to be made to arrange a visit. We are happy to welcome visits from educational groups and organisations interested in artist-led spaces.

To arrange a studio visit, please contact info@sample-studios.com
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