Sample-Studios Annual Members Show 2015
An annual showcase of Sample-Studios members, this year’s Annual Members' Show features works by artists Claire Lee, Pádraig Spillane, Shay Quinn and Peadar Lamb. Curated by Aoife Power and Niamh Cooney, recipients of TACTIC's Graduate Curatorial Award, the works range from painting to drawing, and photography.
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The Artists:
Claire Lee is an artist based in Cork, Ireland. Born in 1992 she graduated with Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Crawford College of Art and Design in 2015. Her work explores a clash of uncoordinated orders reflecting a landscape that is in a state of flux and lies between representational painting of architecture, spaces and abstract structures. Pádraig Spillane’s practice explores the construction of appearances through the manipulation of photographic and appropriated surfaces. Stagings of surrogates and alternates draw anthropomorphic resonances with constructive and dissipating tendencies. Working with photography, sculpture, collage and décollage, works examine the body, desire, and sensation. Shay Quinn has a background in metal craft, jewellery making and welding. Following his acceptance to CCAD in 2008, Quinn developed an interest in painting and his recent body of work is an exploration of his unique personal style. His recent work has been developed from a reworking in paint of old personal photographs, drawings and digital media, with an aim of experimenting with different palettes in gesso and acrylic. Peadar Lamb was born in Dublin in 1966. He studied at the National College of Art and Design, and went on to receive a Postgraduate in the UK. He is known primarily as a stained glass artist, but his practice also includes print and sculpture. He describes his current work as "striving for a certain simplicity and purity, that belies the complexity of its composition and technique, more evident in my earlier work." |
The Curators:
Aoife Power, born 1988, Waterford received her BA (Hons) Crawford College of Art and Design in 2015. She is interested in exploring the postmodern position which accepts the realities of the art market and comments on the blurring of the lines between commodities and fine art. The value of an art object is a subject of contention; its material/labour value versus its pricelessness, its aesthetic or contemplative value; essentially art’s ability to command a price that far exceeds its function.
Niamh Cooney is a visual artist based in Cork, Ireland. Graduating from Crawford College of Art and Design in 2015, her curatorial interests are predominantly concerned with the moving image, as portrayed through performance art. As a practicing performance artist, she is interested in the idea of spatial communication in durational performances especially, where the physicality of the space is thoroughly narrated by the artist as they become less aware of time and become more engaged in the present moment or action. In these ongoing performances, he is drawn to the means by which the space gives context to the piece being performed; paying attention to sound, light and surrounding pieces and how they might correspond with each other.
Aoife Power, born 1988, Waterford received her BA (Hons) Crawford College of Art and Design in 2015. She is interested in exploring the postmodern position which accepts the realities of the art market and comments on the blurring of the lines between commodities and fine art. The value of an art object is a subject of contention; its material/labour value versus its pricelessness, its aesthetic or contemplative value; essentially art’s ability to command a price that far exceeds its function.
Niamh Cooney is a visual artist based in Cork, Ireland. Graduating from Crawford College of Art and Design in 2015, her curatorial interests are predominantly concerned with the moving image, as portrayed through performance art. As a practicing performance artist, she is interested in the idea of spatial communication in durational performances especially, where the physicality of the space is thoroughly narrated by the artist as they become less aware of time and become more engaged in the present moment or action. In these ongoing performances, he is drawn to the means by which the space gives context to the piece being performed; paying attention to sound, light and surrounding pieces and how they might correspond with each other.
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hɛkəl~s
20 March - 2 April 2015 Preview 19th March 7pm hɛkəl~s is an exhibition of work by visual artists Nollaig Molloy and Ruth Kerr. Both Nollaig and Ruth interrogate assumptions made about the world we live in through their art practice. Both artists employ a similar artistic method - they create their work through researching and actively experimenting with materials querying human perception. Equivalently both artists have interdisciplinary practices. Their works in hɛkəl~s will subtly heckle the overlapping disciplines of art & craft and art & science, exploring the perception of the world we live in and questioning it's nature; what is reality and what is fiction? hɛkəl~s will challenge and interrupt the accepted parameters of the material world, contemplating the physical structure of things. Ways of Curating: Curation and Interdisaplinary Art Thursday 26th March, 7pm Talk by curator Róisín Power Hackett Examining how curators work with artists, the different roles of the curator and the ways of curating interdisaplinary art, this talk will be a personal view on my experience curating and will inquire into how one forms a curatorial practice. Art, Science and Virtual Reality: Interdisciplinary Visualisations Closing night - Thursday 2nd April, 7pm Talk by artist Ruth Kerr This talk will explore the practice of working in the interdisciplinary juncture of art and science. The development of imaging processes to visualise the cellular landscapes of cancer will also be investigated in this talk as a means of identifying key aspects of interdisciplinary practice. |
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Eternal Light - A solo exhibition by Katie O'Neill
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Katie O'Neill is a visual artist with a multidisciplinary practice that is concerned with themes of identity and psycho-geography. In June 2012 she self-published the artist's book 'Eternal Light' which conveys the complex experiences and whirring anxieties of an individual in their immediate environment. As a point of entry, the artist's book communicates an intimate narrative; traces of verdant landscape are countered by images of uninhabited spaces and urban monoliths, depicting a darkly poetic sense of isolation. Photographs of abandoned scenes, sublime and unsettling, changing in format and tone are placed alongside her personal writing and drawings.
These works have been revisited and re-presented in an expanded exhibition format that includes earlier works from 'Performance' a series of 100 type Polaroids. 'Performance' is a visualization of feelings of frustration, loss, confusion and helplessness. Introducing private spaces and performative gestures these images convey the importance of self-examination as a tool for growth and explores the use of the self-portrait as a means to do so. O'Neill's work often combines natural light and environment to represent a state of transition, outsiderness and a desire to escape the mainstream. Honesty and vulnerability permeate the work, the ebb and flow of emotion is framed and temporarily controlled giving pause, an opportunity to consider how we as individuals are affected by our surroundings. |
The works exhibited at TACTIC Gallery have been created through the Amharc Fhine Gall Award and we would like to acknowledge the support of Fingal Arts Office and Fingal County Council.
