TACTIC 2016 Visual Arts Programme
Forward Looking, Looking Back Now
Sophie Gough
Evgeniya Martirosyan
Kim Morris
Tom Doig
Killian O'Dwyer
Kevin Mooney
Opening Reception November 24th - 7PM
TACTIC, 3rd Floor Sample-Studios
Curated by Alison Fogarty
25th-30th November 2-6PM
TACTIC and Sample-Studios invites you to the final exhibition that will take place at the current location in the Former Government Buildings on Sullivans Quay, Cork. Forward Looking, Looking Back Now is an exhibition by Sample-Studios members responding to themes relating to TACTIC and Sample-Studios’ move, and the future of the gallery and studios.
Since 2011 TACTIC and Sample- Studios have been a part of Cork's artistic and cultural scene, currently housing more than 80 artists and cultural practitioners. Sample's move highlights the need for artistic and cultural spaces.
Themes relating to place, transience, departures, deconstruction, rebuilding and rebirth are central to this exhibition, as well as members’ own experience during their time at Sample-Studios.
Taking this exhibition not as a final closing of TACTIC, but as an event signifying TACTIC's departure and proclamation of intent, Forward Looking, Looking Back Now is future orientated, yet celebrating Sample-Studios and TACTIC’s time at Sullivan’s Quay.
Sophie Gough
Evgeniya Martirosyan
Kim Morris
Tom Doig
Killian O'Dwyer
Kevin Mooney
Opening Reception November 24th - 7PM
TACTIC, 3rd Floor Sample-Studios
Curated by Alison Fogarty
25th-30th November 2-6PM
TACTIC and Sample-Studios invites you to the final exhibition that will take place at the current location in the Former Government Buildings on Sullivans Quay, Cork. Forward Looking, Looking Back Now is an exhibition by Sample-Studios members responding to themes relating to TACTIC and Sample-Studios’ move, and the future of the gallery and studios.
Since 2011 TACTIC and Sample- Studios have been a part of Cork's artistic and cultural scene, currently housing more than 80 artists and cultural practitioners. Sample's move highlights the need for artistic and cultural spaces.
Themes relating to place, transience, departures, deconstruction, rebuilding and rebirth are central to this exhibition, as well as members’ own experience during their time at Sample-Studios.
Taking this exhibition not as a final closing of TACTIC, but as an event signifying TACTIC's departure and proclamation of intent, Forward Looking, Looking Back Now is future orientated, yet celebrating Sample-Studios and TACTIC’s time at Sullivan’s Quay.
PAST EXHIBITIONS
Colour – Paint – Painting is a collaborative exhibition by the artists Helen Mac Mahon, Kate O’Shea, and Elad Rosen.
Curated by Moran Been-Noon, this is part of the Platform Arts, Belfast – TACTIC, Sample-Studios curatorial exchange.
Each artist brings to this project their own unique practice and way of interpreting the concepts of painting; as a method, as a material, as well as the importance of light in this process and the way it engages its audience.
The three artists will work in their studios and in the gallery, as part of the preparatory process and through-out the run of the exhibition, developing the space as a collaborative piece. The work will include layers of light, colour, paint, and print. It will involve a wide range of materials and methods, forming an eclectic comment on contemporary painting and installation practices.
Exhibition runs until 1 October. On the last day of the exhibition, visual artist Anita Groener & poet Kathy D’Arcy will conduct a critical conversation about the exhibition’s outcomes and processes. The two artists, whose work is tightly engaged with the political reality which surrounds it, will discuss not only the curatorial and artistic outcomes but also the creative and conceptual intentions from which the exhibition developed.
Read about the collaborative processes of the exhibition here: https://colourpaintpainting.wordpress.com/
http://platformartsbelfast.com/
Curated by Moran Been-Noon, this is part of the Platform Arts, Belfast – TACTIC, Sample-Studios curatorial exchange.
Each artist brings to this project their own unique practice and way of interpreting the concepts of painting; as a method, as a material, as well as the importance of light in this process and the way it engages its audience.
The three artists will work in their studios and in the gallery, as part of the preparatory process and through-out the run of the exhibition, developing the space as a collaborative piece. The work will include layers of light, colour, paint, and print. It will involve a wide range of materials and methods, forming an eclectic comment on contemporary painting and installation practices.
Exhibition runs until 1 October. On the last day of the exhibition, visual artist Anita Groener & poet Kathy D’Arcy will conduct a critical conversation about the exhibition’s outcomes and processes. The two artists, whose work is tightly engaged with the political reality which surrounds it, will discuss not only the curatorial and artistic outcomes but also the creative and conceptual intentions from which the exhibition developed.
Read about the collaborative processes of the exhibition here: https://colourpaintpainting.wordpress.com/
http://platformartsbelfast.com/
Tactic and Sample-Studios are proud to present
I HAVE NADA SO FAR BUT I REMAIN OPTIMISTIC a solo exhibition by artist David Fagan.
Through the seemingly arbitrary appropriation of a foreign culture Fagan attempts to fall in love with the familiar, specifically his home town of Tallaght.
Soul music, carparks, cowboys and beer are collected within individual narratives as Fagan affirms that everything is interesting from a distance.
Curated by Aoife Power, Curatorial Graduate Residency Award winner 2015.
This exhibition is presented as part of Cork Photo 2016
http://corkphoto.com/
OPENING RECEPTION 23 JUNE 7PM
Exhibition runs from:
23 June - 30 July
Wednesday - Saturday: 2pm -6pm
Tactic and Sample Studios, 3rd Floor, Former GOVT. Buildings, 10-19 Sullivans Quay, Cork.
I HAVE NADA SO FAR BUT I REMAIN OPTIMISTIC a solo exhibition by artist David Fagan.
Through the seemingly arbitrary appropriation of a foreign culture Fagan attempts to fall in love with the familiar, specifically his home town of Tallaght.
Soul music, carparks, cowboys and beer are collected within individual narratives as Fagan affirms that everything is interesting from a distance.
Curated by Aoife Power, Curatorial Graduate Residency Award winner 2015.
This exhibition is presented as part of Cork Photo 2016
http://corkphoto.com/
OPENING RECEPTION 23 JUNE 7PM
Exhibition runs from:
23 June - 30 July
Wednesday - Saturday: 2pm -6pm
Tactic and Sample Studios, 3rd Floor, Former GOVT. Buildings, 10-19 Sullivans Quay, Cork.
DO WHY BIRDS
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ADVENTURE TIME
New works by Cecilia Danell & EimearJean MacCormack 21 April - 14 May 2016 TACTIC and Sample-Studios are proud to present ADVENTURE TIME, an exhibition by Engage Art Studios residents Cecilia Danell and EimearJean McCormack. ADVENTURE TIME is part of a collaborative project undertaken by Engage Art Studios, Galway and TACTIC, Sample-Studios, Cork. This is the second exhibition of the collaboration, "Shills" by Pádraig Spillane, curated by Shelly Mc Donnell, exhibited at 126 Gallery Galway January 2016, being the first. ~ In 2009 Australian mountaineer Lincoln Hall died at the age of 56. Hall is best known for surviving a night at more than 28,000 feet on Mount Everest in 2006. He’d become disoriented near the summit, and couldn’t move — to the peril of his sherpas. They left him for dead and Hall’s death was announced to his family. But the next day, a group of climbers found Hall sitting up, jacket unzipped, mumbling, badly frostbitten — but alive. He later wrote a book, “Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest.” Hall died middle aged from a humancaused malady from urban life — mesothelioma, attributed to childhood exposure to asbestos. ~ Danell and McCormack invite us to visit a wonderful, hyper-saturated landscape contained securely within the walls of TACTIC. Presenting us with a post-nature futurology, the exhibition attempts to satisfy our genuine desire to return to nature which has now become skewed by the commodification of the authentic natural experience. Within this narrative we have evolved past luxury safari vacations and the convenience of “glamping”, yet still search to have risk-free interactions with nature in a controlled, comfortable setting, preferably with candid photo opportunities! |
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‘Sincerely, COLGATE’
Andrew Mc Sweeney 10 March - 2 April 2016 ‘Sincerely, COLGATE’ is the first Solo Exhibition of Crawford College of Art and Design graduate Andrew McSweeney. Categorised exclusively as a ‘painting exhibition’, McSweeney presents formal arrangements consisting of video, projection, neon light and raw materials; which subsequently force the surfaces of the gallery in to the context of one large painting. Reaching beyond chromatic value, McSweeney pursues perfection while simultaneous acknowledging the futility of this endeavour. The joviality of ‘Sincerely, COLGATE’ seeks to contemplate what painting could be rather than should be. Andrew McSweeney is TACTIC Sample-Studios, in conjunction with CrawfordCollege of Art and Design, Graduate Residency Award winner 2015. Text by Aoife Power, Curatorial Graduate Residency Award winner 2015, from the accompanying catalogue. Opening Reception March 10th 7PM 10 March - 2 April 2016 Tues-Sat 2-6PM *Sample-Studios 5th Birthday weekend March 10th - 13th opening hours : 11am - 6pm |