The Infinite Line [A Search for the Unknown]
8 May 2014 - 22 May 2014
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The Infinite Line [ A Search for the Unknown ]
An Exhibition and Symposium in Tactic Gallery, Cork.
By Artists Roseanne Lynch, Richard Forrest & Cassandra Eustace.
With a live performance piece by Fergus Byrne.
May 9th – 22nd
Preview Thursday 8th of May at 6pm
Symposium Date : Lunchtime, Thursday 15th
About the Exhibition
The Infinite Line [ A Search for the Unknown ] is an exhibition of new artworks by
Roseanne Lynch, Richard Forrest and Cassandra Eustace, which will beaccompanied by
a once-off endurance performance piece by Fergus Byrne.
There will also be a mini-symposium and publication on A Search for the
Unknown.
The artists work loosely through the medium of drawing in
the tri-dimensions and the experiential qualities of light. This is translated
through sculpture, photography, drawing and installation.
This show takes as its genesis ideas of spatial and temporal slippage and the
unknown. Our knowing is through our individual perception of things and of our
surroundings. Ultimately not knowing is the only thing that we can be certain of.
The exhibition questions the things beyond our understanding and the nature of
knowledge itself. It deals with knowledge as an unstable ground and precarious
truth. The work will explore the unknown from the angles of art, physics and
architecture and look at their relationship to philosophical ideas of perception.
The publication for the event will feature a commissioned essay by Dublin Based
Poet/Physicist Noel Duffy and a paragraph by Tracy Hanna
Dates:
Friday 9th May – Thursday 22nd May 12-3pm (closed Sunday and
Monday) Preview May 8th 6pm.
Symposium: A Search For the Unknown, Lunchtime, Thursday 15th
Where:
TACTIC GALLERY,
3rd Floor Sample-Studios,
Former Government Buildings (Old Tax & Fás Office),
Sullivan’s Quay,
Cork City.
Open 12-3pm (closed Sunday and Monday)
Contact:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinfiniteline
Twitter: @LineInfinite
Email:theinfiniteline(at)hotmail.com
Artists:
Roseanne Lynch
Roseanne Lynch uses photography and installation as vital elements of her artistic
practice. Her practice explores ambiguities within the implied space of the
photographic image. Her works generate an attentiveness of experiential encounter
for the viewer; in relation to objects, light, and the viewer in site and space.
The photograph as object, the materiality of that object and of the subject
depicted, including an understanding held within the unknowing are among her areas
of exploration. Her Masters by Research, completed in 2010, placed her practice
within phenomenological discourse regarding the corporal presence of looking. Her
work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
She received the inaugural Alliance Francaise Photography Laureate Award in
2011. Roseanne lectures in Photography at CIT Crawford College of Art and Design
and at Cork Centre for Architectural Education. She is represented by Mark St.John
Ellis, of nag Gallery, Dublin. She has just been awarded a 2 year artist residency
at Cork Centre for Architectural Education.
Richard Forrest
In his work he investigates information systems such as the brain and computer. He
is concerned with discovering and manipulating the inbuilt tools these systems use
to interpret their environments. By deconstructing how these biological and digital
systems operate he wishes to investigate their boundaries and explore unknown
areas. Through the understanding and manipulation of these information systems he
wishes to get a better comprehension of their limits and investigate some of the
cultural, technological and environmental forces that shape our reality. To
understand this new information he often implements ideas and methodologies from
fields such as mathematics, science, psychology and philosophy – it is in the
intersection of these disciplines that the work evolves.
Richard Forrest, born 1988, Co. Cork, is a practicing artist and is currently based
in Dublin. Forrest graduated in 2011 with a First Class Honours Bachelor of Arts
from CIT Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork. For his exhibition in the 2011
CCAD degree show he was awarded numerous prizes of note. He is a founding member of
Sample Studios, Cork. Forrest has exhibited throughout Ireland and has had works
and projects included in numerous group shows that include: The Black Mariah, Cork,
Catalyst Arts Centre, Belfast, Tactic Gallery, Cork, Occupy Space, Limerick, SOMA
Contemporary, Waterford, The Crawford Art Gallery, Cork. He recently had a well-
received solo show in The Joinery, Dublin. In 2012 he was a prizewinner of a
micro-grant at 'SUPPER'. In 2013 he was shortlisted for the Siamsa Tire Emerging
Artist Award.
Cassandra Eustace
‘Not as something is but what it might be,’ is at the core of Eustace’s practice.
Drawing makes light visible and these are constant tools she uses for analysing and
challenging our endless self-perceptions and circuitous habits. Challenging the
concept of being stuck in limiting patterns she uses her materials to reinvent and
embrace the potential of uncertainty with no known outcome. Eustace draws from her
immediate space expanding from the 2D surface into the tri-dimension.
Eustace recently graduated from CIT Crawford College of Art and Design MA in Art
and Process. She graduated with a BA (Hons.) Degree in Fine Art in 2012, from the
CIT Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork. On graduating Eustace was awarded the
Barry Maloney Student of the Year and the Backwater Artists Group Studios in Cork
awarded her a six-month residency, the Ciaran Langford Memorial Bursary. She was
also awarded the Tyndall Institute Printmaking purchase prize, and the CIT Artsfest
Prize. This culminated in her solo exhibition Of light and Structure in 2012 at the
James Barry Exhibition Centre, Cork Institute of Technology to coincide with
National Science Week.
Fergus Byrne
Fergus Byrne is an artist working in performance and visual arts. He is a member of
the Visual Arts Centre in Dublin, Ireland. His practice involves video, drawing,
sculpture, writing and performance. For this durational performance, Byrne will
engage in a focused period of dance with mobile wooden frame sculptures. Balance
and imperceptible movement are his current areas of exploration with these
sculptures. The result of combining body and frames will be a mutual engagement
whereby his movements are influenced by the wood and vice versa. The pace will be
slow and sculptural.
Recent solo work has been in Unit H, Market Studios, Pallas Contemporary
Projects, Present at Queen’s University, Link Culture Fest, Dublin and The Dock,
Leitrim. He performed in John Byrne’s Good Works Black Market International’s
collective performance The Art of Encounter at Present, Lisa McLoughlin’s Below
the Tide(2012) and in Brian O’Doherty’s Hello Sam in Dublin Contemporary 2011.
Since 2010 he has curated with Deirdre Murphy the annual performance events
Transversal at different locations in Dublin.
Residency programmes have included Public House, Allen, Kildare (2011),
Movement Research/Dance Ireland Exchange (2010), Genesis Project, Philadelphia
(2009) and the Irish Museum of Modern Art (2008).
Curators:
Sophie Behal & Maeve Lynch
Behal & Lynch both hold First Class Honours Degrees from the CIT Crawford
College of Art and Design, having graduated in 2012. As well as working
independently as practicing artists they regularly collaborate on publications,
curation and one-off events. Including most recently an exhibition in the CIT
Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork City, i’ve started so i’ll finish and a student event
Space and Ladders at Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, Co. Waterford. They aim to
present contemporary art as a multi-disciplinary cross over.
About the symposium:
The mini-symposium A Search for the Unknown will take place in Sample-Studios
auditorium and feature talks and screenings by invited contributors that explore
the unknown from various angles. There will also be a conversation between the
artists and curators followed by a Q&A session.
An Exhibition and Symposium in Tactic Gallery, Cork.
By Artists Roseanne Lynch, Richard Forrest & Cassandra Eustace.
With a live performance piece by Fergus Byrne.
May 9th – 22nd
Preview Thursday 8th of May at 6pm
Symposium Date : Lunchtime, Thursday 15th
About the Exhibition
The Infinite Line [ A Search for the Unknown ] is an exhibition of new artworks by
Roseanne Lynch, Richard Forrest and Cassandra Eustace, which will beaccompanied by
a once-off endurance performance piece by Fergus Byrne.
There will also be a mini-symposium and publication on A Search for the
Unknown.
The artists work loosely through the medium of drawing in
the tri-dimensions and the experiential qualities of light. This is translated
through sculpture, photography, drawing and installation.
This show takes as its genesis ideas of spatial and temporal slippage and the
unknown. Our knowing is through our individual perception of things and of our
surroundings. Ultimately not knowing is the only thing that we can be certain of.
The exhibition questions the things beyond our understanding and the nature of
knowledge itself. It deals with knowledge as an unstable ground and precarious
truth. The work will explore the unknown from the angles of art, physics and
architecture and look at their relationship to philosophical ideas of perception.
The publication for the event will feature a commissioned essay by Dublin Based
Poet/Physicist Noel Duffy and a paragraph by Tracy Hanna
Dates:
Friday 9th May – Thursday 22nd May 12-3pm (closed Sunday and
Monday) Preview May 8th 6pm.
Symposium: A Search For the Unknown, Lunchtime, Thursday 15th
Where:
TACTIC GALLERY,
3rd Floor Sample-Studios,
Former Government Buildings (Old Tax & Fás Office),
Sullivan’s Quay,
Cork City.
Open 12-3pm (closed Sunday and Monday)
Contact:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinfiniteline
Twitter: @LineInfinite
Email:theinfiniteline(at)hotmail.com
Artists:
Roseanne Lynch
Roseanne Lynch uses photography and installation as vital elements of her artistic
practice. Her practice explores ambiguities within the implied space of the
photographic image. Her works generate an attentiveness of experiential encounter
for the viewer; in relation to objects, light, and the viewer in site and space.
The photograph as object, the materiality of that object and of the subject
depicted, including an understanding held within the unknowing are among her areas
of exploration. Her Masters by Research, completed in 2010, placed her practice
within phenomenological discourse regarding the corporal presence of looking. Her
work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
She received the inaugural Alliance Francaise Photography Laureate Award in
2011. Roseanne lectures in Photography at CIT Crawford College of Art and Design
and at Cork Centre for Architectural Education. She is represented by Mark St.John
Ellis, of nag Gallery, Dublin. She has just been awarded a 2 year artist residency
at Cork Centre for Architectural Education.
Richard Forrest
In his work he investigates information systems such as the brain and computer. He
is concerned with discovering and manipulating the inbuilt tools these systems use
to interpret their environments. By deconstructing how these biological and digital
systems operate he wishes to investigate their boundaries and explore unknown
areas. Through the understanding and manipulation of these information systems he
wishes to get a better comprehension of their limits and investigate some of the
cultural, technological and environmental forces that shape our reality. To
understand this new information he often implements ideas and methodologies from
fields such as mathematics, science, psychology and philosophy – it is in the
intersection of these disciplines that the work evolves.
Richard Forrest, born 1988, Co. Cork, is a practicing artist and is currently based
in Dublin. Forrest graduated in 2011 with a First Class Honours Bachelor of Arts
from CIT Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork. For his exhibition in the 2011
CCAD degree show he was awarded numerous prizes of note. He is a founding member of
Sample Studios, Cork. Forrest has exhibited throughout Ireland and has had works
and projects included in numerous group shows that include: The Black Mariah, Cork,
Catalyst Arts Centre, Belfast, Tactic Gallery, Cork, Occupy Space, Limerick, SOMA
Contemporary, Waterford, The Crawford Art Gallery, Cork. He recently had a well-
received solo show in The Joinery, Dublin. In 2012 he was a prizewinner of a
micro-grant at 'SUPPER'. In 2013 he was shortlisted for the Siamsa Tire Emerging
Artist Award.
Cassandra Eustace
‘Not as something is but what it might be,’ is at the core of Eustace’s practice.
Drawing makes light visible and these are constant tools she uses for analysing and
challenging our endless self-perceptions and circuitous habits. Challenging the
concept of being stuck in limiting patterns she uses her materials to reinvent and
embrace the potential of uncertainty with no known outcome. Eustace draws from her
immediate space expanding from the 2D surface into the tri-dimension.
Eustace recently graduated from CIT Crawford College of Art and Design MA in Art
and Process. She graduated with a BA (Hons.) Degree in Fine Art in 2012, from the
CIT Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork. On graduating Eustace was awarded the
Barry Maloney Student of the Year and the Backwater Artists Group Studios in Cork
awarded her a six-month residency, the Ciaran Langford Memorial Bursary. She was
also awarded the Tyndall Institute Printmaking purchase prize, and the CIT Artsfest
Prize. This culminated in her solo exhibition Of light and Structure in 2012 at the
James Barry Exhibition Centre, Cork Institute of Technology to coincide with
National Science Week.
Fergus Byrne
Fergus Byrne is an artist working in performance and visual arts. He is a member of
the Visual Arts Centre in Dublin, Ireland. His practice involves video, drawing,
sculpture, writing and performance. For this durational performance, Byrne will
engage in a focused period of dance with mobile wooden frame sculptures. Balance
and imperceptible movement are his current areas of exploration with these
sculptures. The result of combining body and frames will be a mutual engagement
whereby his movements are influenced by the wood and vice versa. The pace will be
slow and sculptural.
Recent solo work has been in Unit H, Market Studios, Pallas Contemporary
Projects, Present at Queen’s University, Link Culture Fest, Dublin and The Dock,
Leitrim. He performed in John Byrne’s Good Works Black Market International’s
collective performance The Art of Encounter at Present, Lisa McLoughlin’s Below
the Tide(2012) and in Brian O’Doherty’s Hello Sam in Dublin Contemporary 2011.
Since 2010 he has curated with Deirdre Murphy the annual performance events
Transversal at different locations in Dublin.
Residency programmes have included Public House, Allen, Kildare (2011),
Movement Research/Dance Ireland Exchange (2010), Genesis Project, Philadelphia
(2009) and the Irish Museum of Modern Art (2008).
Curators:
Sophie Behal & Maeve Lynch
Behal & Lynch both hold First Class Honours Degrees from the CIT Crawford
College of Art and Design, having graduated in 2012. As well as working
independently as practicing artists they regularly collaborate on publications,
curation and one-off events. Including most recently an exhibition in the CIT
Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork City, i’ve started so i’ll finish and a student event
Space and Ladders at Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, Co. Waterford. They aim to
present contemporary art as a multi-disciplinary cross over.
About the symposium:
The mini-symposium A Search for the Unknown will take place in Sample-Studios
auditorium and feature talks and screenings by invited contributors that explore
the unknown from various angles. There will also be a conversation between the
artists and curators followed by a Q&A session.