Daily Archives: March 29, 2017

Cork Printmakers’ Events for Cork Lifelong Learning Festival

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5 April 2017
Cork Printmakers , Wandesford Quay, Clarke’s Bridge, Cork

You are welcome to Cork Printmakers on Wednesday 5 April for an afternoon of free printmaking activities, as part of Cork Lifelong Learning Festival 2017. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn about the art of printmaking and discover how fine art prints are created.
11am – 1pm: Screen-printing Workshop, you will be guided through this popular technique by professional artists. You can create a two-colour Easter card, which you can take home with you! No previous experience is necessary.
11am – 1pm: There will be ongoing Tours of the Print Workshop: learn about the range of print techniques and equipment artists use to create their work.
All that glitters, an exhibition of new woodcut prints by one of our artist members – Jackie Raftery, will be on display in our Print Showroom.

Entry is free and it is not necessary to book a place, just drop in. Under 16’s must be accompanied by a parent / guardian.
Cork Printmakers at (021) 4322422, E: info@corkprintmakers.ie
www.corkprintmakers.ie

Seamus Nolan Announced As Recipient of CAPP Commission

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Create and Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane are delighted to announce that Seamus Nolan has been successful in the Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme (CAPP) Open Call for a socially engaged commission.

This is a very significant commission in the collaborative arts sphere in Ireland. It has resulted from a successful collaboration between Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts and Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, located in Parnell Square and is supported by the Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme (CAPP) a transnational programme co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. The applications, from across the CAPP network of partners, were of particularly high calibre with forty-one artists submitting diverse proposals in cross disciplinary artforms. The commission will run from 2017 to 2018 and sets out to encourage meaningful and in depth engagement with communities of place and of interest as well as the distinct architectural, socio-political and cultural landscape of the North Inner City of Dublin.

Seamus Nolan’s proposal to investigate the idea of archive, deconstruct ideas on ‘heritage’ and engage with both communities of place and of interest, involving Traveller activists and archivists, stood out in terms of concept and imaginative power.

Ailbhe Murphy, Director of Create
“We are delighted that Seamus Nolan, one of Ireland’s leading collaborative arts practitioners, has proposed this very timely and relevant socially engaged project. With a focus on archive, identity and history in relation to the Irish Traveller community, Nolan will work with a number of collaborators to re-shape and re-work ideas about what ‘heritage’ and memory can be. We are really looking forward to working in partnership with the Hugh Lane on this exciting commission.”

Seamus Nolan, artist
“I am really pleased to have the opportunity through this commission to examine basic notions of representation and community building in relation to Traveller past and heritage. The commission will support the coming together of cultural practitioners, activists and archivists in an exploration of contested histories.”

Studio and Desk Spaces Available at Cross Studios, Dublin 3

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Cross Studios on Ossory Road have space available.

  • Private Desk Cubicle €90 p/m
  • Studio Cubicle €150 p/m
  • Hot Desk Access €50 p/m
    (Price for Larger Spaces can be negotiated if need be)

All include

-24/7 access
-Wifi
-Heating
-Bookable Client Meeting Area
-Preferential Access to Large Space for Work Showcases/Large Builds/Talks etc

Contact Tom at anytime on 083 840 8824

Open Call | Residency/Commission at madeinroath, Wales

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Deadline for applications: Friday 31 March, 5pm

madeinroath are looking for expressions of interest from artists with an interest in growing, eating, ecology, sustainability, public and social spaces and community engagement within contemporary practice. We have secured funding to look at developing the cultural and community offer of public, community garden spaces within Roath, and have identified two gardens to work with – Mackintosh Community Garden and Plasnewydd Community Garden (Shelley Gardens) – as well as space and time to develop and research within g39 gallery’s Unit(e) programme.

The appointed artist will spend a period of time researching and working with community garden users to develop the project reflecting the community needs and interests. There will be a series of skill share workshops (run alongside a madeinroath artist/workshop leader) which may feed into this research. The potential outcomes of the project are wide ranging and are not predetermined – they could include performance, the development of physical structures, open discussions, joint meals, seed exchanges etc. We are asking for new work or new developments on previous projects.

As part of the commission the artist will be expected to work with g39 to deliver three workshops and one seminar within their Unit(e) programme. The content and format of these workshops is open to development through the project research. You will also need have a physically present and open working relationship with both community gardens and their users.

Budget
There is £3000 fee available to the artist, as well as a budget for materials. Support in development of ideas will be offered by the WARP programme at g39, as well as 24 hour access to a studio space and to the Unit(e) programme of peer learning and professional crits. We expect the fee to cover around 1 – 1.5 days per week over the 6 months, however this will be flexible to the needs of the project and the appointed artist.

For more information see: madeinroath.com/rkgp-opportunity-2017-eng/

Vacancy | Galway 2020 Seeking Board Members

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Deadline for applications: Thursday 13 April, 4pm

Since securing the European Capital of Culture (ECOC) in July 2016, the Galway 2020 team has been working hard to build the organisation and structures required to deliver this landmark project for the city and county. As outlined in the Galway 2020 Bid Book, a Company Limited by Guarantee (Galway Cultural Development and Activity CLG) has been incorporated with its clearly defined function being the delivery of the ECOC in Galway in 2020, as well as ensuring that a strong legacy follows from the designation. The Company has registered the trading name ‘Galway 2020’.

The company’s intention is to provide a governance and management structure that is an exemplar of best practice in corporate governance, not for profit, truly representative of wide interests, transparent, independent, effective, and accountable at every level.
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Access to free dental and eye tests for the Self-Employed in new legislation

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Some 500,000 self-employed people will be able to access free dental benefits for the first time this week, as the Department of Social Protection introduces a measure signalled in last October’s budget. The self-employed can also look forward to a free eye test every 2 years and a contribution of €42 towards glasses.

The move means that the self-employed who were previously excluded from receiving a free annual check-up with their dentist or a free eye check, on the grounds that they paid a different category of PRSI, will now be entitled to it. Minister for Social Protection Leo Varadkar signed the enabling legislation last week, and the scheme is due to commence from this week, March 27th.

The Government also signalled in last October’s budget the re-introduction of an annual scale and polish treatment, which was discontinued in 2010, and protracted periodontal treatment, where this is clinically required. Speaking in the Dáil last week, Mr Varadkar said the re-introduction of the free annual scale and polish and protracted periodontal treatment will occur from October 2017.

People with the required PRSI contribution history paying Class S contribution will be qualified to receive the benefits under the scheme.

The change will be welcomed by professional artists in Ireland, many of whom are registered as self-employed. Artists registered as self-employed can avail of Artists Tax Exemption (See VAI article on Tax and Self Employment for Artists).

Georgina Jackson Appointed Director of The Douglas Hyde Gallery

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The Douglas Hyde Gallery is delighted to announce the appointment of Georgina Jackson as Director. She will take up her new role in May, succeeding John Hutchinson, following his twenty-five year tenure.

Georgina comes to the Douglas Hyde Gallery from Mercer Union, Toronto, where she has been Director of Exhibitions and Programmes since 2013. During this time she led the organisation towards a renewed focus on the commissioning of work by emerging and established contemporary artists, while elevating its reputation within the local, national and international art world.

Georgina says, “I’m honoured to be joining the Douglas Hyde Gallery and am looking forward to shaping its future. Its location within the leading research university in Ireland – and at the threshold between the university and the city – marks an important and exciting space for contemporary art. I look forward to working with the team, Trinity College and the wider arts communities to build on John Hutchinson’s extraordinary legacy, and to shape the Douglas Hyde Gallery as an artist-centred space.”
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Matt Packer Appointed Director of EVA International

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EVA International are delighted to announce the appointment of Matt Packer as the new Director of Ireland’s Biennial. Matt comes to EVA from CCA Centre For Contemporary Art Derry ~ Londonderry, where he has been Director since 2014. He has extensive experience as a curator in a temporary exhibition context nationally and internationally; he co-curated the Lofoten International Art Festival – a biennial exhibition in Norwa

Matt will curate the 15th edition of Tulca Festival of Visual Arts in Galway and was part of the selection committee for the British representation at the Venice Biennale 2017. Matt previously held the role of Curator of Exhibitions and Projects at Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork from 2008 to 2013.

Of his appointment Matt says, “I am delighted to be announced as Director of EVA International, an organisation that I have seen transform since I first arrived in Ireland almost ten years ago. Now approaching its 40th anniversary, it’s remarkable how EVA has continued to set the horizon for changing ideas of artistic and curatorial practice, while also being respondent to broader cultural and political changes that have impacted Ireland and its relations to the wider world. Given its enormous legacy, I am very proud to be entrusted with the job of developing EVA over the coming years, strengthening its voice and deepening its impact at local, national and international levels.”

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Aideen McGinley appointed Director and Chairperson of Galway 2020

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Galway 2020 is delighted to announce the appointment of Ms Aideen McGinley as a Director and Chairperson designate of the Board. A national trustee for Northern Ireland on the BBC Trust, she has 37 years local and central government experience in Northern Ireland being the first woman CEO in NI local government and subsequently the first woman Permanent Secretary in central government when she took up post, on devolution, to create the first Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure and then moved to the Department of Employment and Learning where she was responsible for further and higher education, employment and skills.
Reflecting her interest in regeneration she took up a secondment in 2009 as CEO of ILEX, the urban Regeneration Company for Derry-Londonderry, where she was instrumental in developing the £400m, 10-year regeneration plan, building the symbolic peace bridge and successfully securing the inaugural UK City Of Culture title 2013 for the city.

Aideen has a particular experience of effective stakeholder engagement across a range of interests and sectors from urban and rural regeneration , social entrepreneurship and Creativity, to women and leadership development.
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Dublin Dance Festival 2017 Seeking Volunteers

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Deadline for applications: Friday 28 April, 5pm

The 13th edition of the Dublin Dance Festival takes place from 18th to 28th of May. Volunteering with the festival gives those who are either avid dance enthusiasts or novices circus performers or performance artists, music lovers or music creators, committed students or retired ballroom dancers- one of the best ways to experience first hand what it takes to run an event of this scale and also a chance to meet fellow artists and volunteer peers alike. DDF2017 volunteers are from all walks of life and backgrounds, from those to whom dance is just a hobby to those who want to make a career out of it either as dancers or in events management.

For more information and to download the application form visit: www.dublindancefestival.ie/volunteer

Call Out for New Members | Sample-Studios, Cork

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Sample-Studios: Call Out for New Members

Sample-Studios is a not-for-profit centre for contemporary arts in Cork City. We provide affordable workspaces for professional artists, along with a public programme of activities through our in-house performing arts residencies, events and visual arts programme, TACTIC. We currently have a number of workspaces and membership options available at our new venue in Churchfield, Cork. We are supported through the Arts Council Visual Artists Workspace Scheme and the Cork City Council Arts Grants Scheme.

Contracts for membership are flexible, with short-term and long-term options available.
All members are profiled on our website, and have the opportunity to submit work to the TACTIC annual members exhibition along with other in-house curated events.

For a full list of memberships please visit: www.sample-studios.com/membership-application.html

 

 

Funding | Arts and Disability Connect Scheme 2017

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Deadline: Thursday 4 May 2017 at 4pm

Specifically targeted at individual artists with disabilities Arts and Disability Connect includes New Work, Mentoring and Training awards. The scheme offers artists the opportunity to: connect with other practitioners or venues; make a change in their practice; ‘step up’ in terms of scope and scale; reach new audiences and to engage in mentoring and training.

Application forms and guidelines for Arts and Disability Connect 2017 will be available to download from www.adiarts.ie/connect on Thursday 16 March.

Information Clinics
Arts & Disability Ireland will host information clinics in Galway, Cork, Kilkenny, Dublin, Limerick and Leitrim.

  • Galway: 27th March | 3pm | Town Hall Theatre
  • Cork: 3rd April | 3pm | St Peter’s
  • Kilkenny: 6th April | 3pm | Kilkenny Ormonde Hotel
  • Dublin: 7th April | 2pm | The Ark
  • Limerick: 10th April | 2pm | Limerick City Gallery of Art
  • Leitrim: 12th April | 2pm | The Dock

To attend please RSVP to info@adiarts.ie . All of the venues are accessible for wheelchair users. Irish Sign Language interpretation and speech to text will be provided at the Dublin information clinic on the 7th April at The Ark. Please contact ADI if you have any additional access requirements.

For general queries about the awards please contact:
amie@adiarts.ie/ 01 8509002

Arts and Disability Connect is Funded by the Arts Council and managed by Arts & Disability Ireland.

Per Cent For Art Commission | Castlebar Pool, Co. Mayo

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Submission deadline: Monday 8 May, 4pm

Mayo County Council invites submissions for a public art project at the new Castlebar Pool site, County Mayo. The funding for this project has been provided by the Percent for Art Scheme through the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport and Mayo County Council.

This is an exciting opportunity for an artist to create new work at an impressive, innovative development in the county town, close to Lough Lannagh. Two adjoining buildings will be home to the pool, a 25m swimming pool plus a children’s pool, and a National Outdoor Pursuits Academy. As the development is still under construction, due to complete at the end of 2017, there is scope to include any permanent work/s as the building is being completed and avail of the potential to get help and support from the construction workers and architect who will be on site during installation.
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Get’cha Head in the Game | Group Show at The Naughton Gallery, Belfast

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6 April to 21 May 2017
The Naughton Gallery at Queen’s, Lanyon Building, Queen’s University, Belfast

With work by Robert Crumb, Michael DeForge, Brian Finke, Riikka Hyvönen, Lilian Martinez (BFGF), Dougal McKenzie, Sean O’Connor, Paul Pfeiffer, Jody Rogac, Tom of Finland and Keenan Wells

Get’cha Head in the Game is an international group exhibition which explores the relationship between art and sport. From American football, tennis and basketball to skiing, weightlifting and roller derby, the exhibition champions sport and its players through various media.

Featuring work by sports photographers and artists who have been influenced by sport or who incorporate sports iconography into their work, Get’cha Head in the Game ultimately tackles larger cultural topics including politics, gender, race, sexuality and identity. The exhibition also presents a selection of independent sports publications, with contributions from FRANCHISE magazine, SEASON zine, SPRTS periodical, and Victory Journal.

www.naughtongallery.org/sites/NaughtonGallery/Exhibitions/

Group Show at The Higher Bridges Gallery, Co. Fermanagh

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8 to 29 April 2017 | Opening: 7 April, 7pm
The Higher Bridges Gallery, Clinton Centre, Belmore St, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh

Fermanagh & Omagh District Council would like to invite you to The Higher Bridges Gallery for the launch of Cirque des Oiseaux: Artists & Augurs. Exhibiting visual artists: Simon Waters, Tom Hughes, Helen Sharp, Irene Uhlemann, Bernard Lynn, Rosie McGurran, Catherine Gaston & Pearl Kinnear

In response to the poetry of Fermanagh poet, Maria McManus, this collaborative exhibition is a contemporary taking of ‘the auspices’; the ancient art of interpreting the will of the gods from the flight patterns of birds. The exhibition is a stellar line-up of artists’ new works, including soundscape, film, visual arts: painting, printing, applied and fine arts, photography, poetry and mixed media works. Opening speeches by Dr. Denise Ferran, President of the RUA & Fermanagh Writer Seamás Mac Annáidh.

www.fermanaghomagh.com

 

 

 

A House and Its Head | Aleana Egan at the Kerlin, Dublin 2

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31 March to 13 May 2017
Opening Reception Thursday 30 March, 6 – 8pm

Kerlin Gallery is pleased to present ‘A House and Its Head’, an exhibition of new work by Aleana Egan.

In ‘A House and Its Head’, Aleana Egan uses materials including metal, plaster, paint and household objects to create sculptures and installations. Numerous fabrics, including silks, linens, canvas, noil and dyed Indian cotton, are also employed throughout this body of work. These disparate materials are grouped into sculptural arrangements, at times bearing semblance to architectural forms or domestic interiors.

www.kerlin.ie

Form to Abstraction | Group Show at The Copper House, Dublin 8

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6 to 8 April 2017 | Opening: 6 April, 5pm
The Copper House, St Kevin’s Cottages, Synge Street, Dublin 8

This exhibition by painters Josephine Mannion, Jacinta Monks and Liz Levey consists of traditional figurative works and medium to large scale abstracted city scapes. Josephine’s section is entitled Daily Commute taking inspiration from fellow dart travellers with just a hint of humour. Jacinta presents a collection of nude studies and abstract urban scenes inspired by her walks around the city and along the Liffey. Liz’s medium to very large abstract works exude energy, colour and show the Artist’s command of her medium.

www.facebook.com/events/343198936080839/ |  www.thecopperhousegallery.com

The Devils Jigsaw | Kirsten Murray at The Gallery Room, Cork

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8 April to 31 May 2017 | Opening: 7 April, 6pm
The Gallery Room, The Natural Foods Bakery, Paul Street, Cork

Kirsten Murray presents ‘The Devils Jigsaw’ an exhibition of fine art picassiete mosaic works.

Murray has been making fine art mosaics from a wide variety of materials for the past seven years. The opening features local musicians Niall O’Carroll and Fintan Lucy.

Contact @thedevilsjigsaw on facebook or @kirstenblah on twitter for further information.

kirstenmurraymosaics.com

Group Show at Platform Arts Gallery, Belfast

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7 to 22 April 2017 | Opening: 6 April, 6pm
Platform Arts Gallery 1 & 2, 1 Queen Street, Belfast

“Th’ whole worl’ is in a terrible state o’ chassis” features the work of Dermal Baker, Andrew McSweeney, David Mathuna, Kevin O’Shea and Niamh Cooney.
An exhibition exchange with TACTIC and Sample studios, Co. Cork. “Th’ whole worl’ is in a terrible state o’ chassis” “Captain” Jack Boyle moans in the final line of Sean O’Casey’s tragi-comedy Juno and the Paycock. Drawing parallels between the 1920’s Ireland of O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock and the Ireland of today, as well as taking the use of tragi-comedy as a vehical for expression, this exhibition will address themes common in both, and furthermore in the world of today.

platformartsbelfast.com/project/th-whole-worl-terrible-state-o-chassis/
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