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.
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.
TACTIC 2020 Visual Arts ProgrammeDIARY DATES
18 September 2020
Drawing workshop Culture night Lord Mayors Pavilion 10 -19 September 2020 Rosalind Spencer 2019 Residency Exhibition St. Luke's Crypt 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 30 October - 30 November 2020 PhotoGo Community Photography Exhibition in The Lord Mayor's Pavilion Postponed Aoife Claffey 2019 Residency Exhibition St. Luke's Crypt Date to be announced Cahoots 2020 Exchange with A4 Sounds and Engage Art Studio |
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 7-9pm Wed -Saturday 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 PAST EVENT 2020
19 September - 5 October: Residency
6 October 2020: Exhibition. Exhibition run postponed due to Covid 19 Restrictions. Watch this space for rescheduled exhibition dates. Film/Sound Graduate Residency Award Exhibition 2020 An exhibition of work by Nellie Corbett and Trevor Boyle. In conjunction with Indie Cork 2020 Sample-Studios TACTIC Visual Arts Programme presents The Movements a residency and exhibition of work by Nellie Corbett and Trevor Boyle. The Movements is a collaborative audio visual in The Lord Mayor's Pavilion as part of IndieCork 2020. The work is inspired by what is unique to the mediums of sound and video - the ability to capture movements, and the potential to manipulate them. On Thursday 24thSeptember the artists will host two workshops in the Lord Mayors Pavilion. The workshops will be used to build experimental (non)musical instruments. Participants are invited to join in the creation of these instruments and at the end of each workshop the creators of the instruments will be recorded playing these instruments for the soundtrack of the film piece. Following the workshops there will be a jam session/performance that will also be recorded. Trevor Boyle is an audio visual artist from Cork city who works primarily with found footage, collage, and mash-up. His work tends to focus on themes of anxiety and decay, most often connecting to the human form. Nellie Jean Corbett is a Cork city based artist who works with audio and video. The primary subject matter within the work tends towards a use of the human body captured in movement. Her most recent project following an autobiographical narrative with undercurrents of nostalgia and memory. Sound and Movements Workshop - Thursday 24 September 2020, 11am-12.30pm & 2pm-3.30pm Open Studios: September 28 and 29. Exhibition: 6 October, 2-5pm Booking: Lmp.samplestudios@gmail.com 
Sample-Studios TACTIC Visual Arts Programme presents
Dominion : A solo exhibition by Rosalind Spencer. 9 - 19 September, St. Luke's Church, Summerhill, Cork City On the sixth day God said “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” (Genesis 1:26) In western society during the 13th century the idea of dominion over nature was compounded by the Italian theologian philosopher St. Thomas Aquinas (c.1225–1274). In his most widely read work, Summa Theologica (published in 1485), Aquinas wrote that God had created animals and plants for the benefit of man and that animals cannot reason therefore man may use them as he wishes. He postulated that killing animals is only a violation if they are someone's property. Aquinas quotes Genesis 9:3 “Everything that moves and lives shall be meat to you”. Ethical thought on animals only began challenging these assertions during the 18th century. In our contemporary world animals are subjected to countless acts of violence that are both culturally and legally approved - violence that ranges from intensive agricultural systems to mass extinction through human activities. Industrialisation, domestication and capitalism have augmented human detachment from animals arriving at a point where they are perpetually objectified and commonly regarded as commodities for human consumption. I am interested in confronting anthropocentric ideas and activity, focusing on our complex relationship with animals. Reoccurring themes within my work address speciesism, objectification, manipulation, trauma and empathy. Dominion is an installation of drawings, an uncompromising look at the brutal reality of industrial farming and animal slaughter. 
Looking Glass:
A solo exhibition by Calum Fenton 2019 Graduate Residency Exhibition Sample-Studios Visual Arts Programme TACTIC presents an exhibition of new work Calum Fenton. Calum’s work looks at the contrast between domesticated nature and wild nature. The metaphor of the mirror or looking glass, refers to the process of looking into nature and seeing a reflection of ourselves. Opening online: Live online Wednesday 15th July, 1pm on TACTIC's Facebook and Instagram Pádraig Spillane in discussion with Calum Fenton 
Host
10-29 August Sample Studios hosted Cork Printmakers in The Lord Mayors Pavilion, Fitzgerald's Park: Host is an exhibition by Cork Printmakers hosted by Sample Studios in The Lord Mayors Pavilion, Cork City, nfeaturing the work of four artists: Aoife Claffey, Jennifer Cummins, Diane Keating and Rory O’ Mahony. These four artists are recipients of Cork Printmakers’ graduate bursary awards, from Limerick School of Art and Design and CIT Crawford College of Art and Design. The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion is a small Art Nouveau structure, built in 1901 for the International Industrial Exhibition to host distinguished guests and visiting dignitaries. Situated inside the main entrance to Cork City’s Fitzgerald Park, beside Cork Public Museum, the Lord Mayor’s Pavilion is now a contemporary arts project space and gallery, programmed by Sample-Studios under their Tactic Visual Arts Programme. In partnership with Sample-Studios, Cork Printmakers invited their graduate bursary award recipients to exhibit their work at the Lord Mayor's Pavilion in August in a slightly different format to usual, presenting work as part of the artists’ expanded printmaking practice. The artists’ work is exhibited in a way that visitors to Fitzgerald’s Park can view it through the windows, without the need to enter the building. This exhibition is entitled Host: a word with different interpretations, relating to hospitality, exhibitions, events, internet servers and the life cycle of a virus or parasite. The exhibition is concurrently presented online following documentation the work, allowing people to engage and interact with the work in a deeper way. The placement of the work in an online space questions the traditional exhibition format: how can galleries present work and how do audiences engage with art in this new age of physical distancing and restrictions? The building becomes a host, in which the artwork is put out into the world via the internet, but also has a physical manifestation in the Lord Mayor's Pavilion. View the online exhibition https://corkprintmakers.ie/host Supported by Cork City Council and the Arts Council of Ireland
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