Daily Archives: May 18, 2017

Of Birds and Beasts | Ronan Halpin at Solomon Fine Art

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26 May to 25 June

Solomon Fine Art is delighted to host an exhibition of new sculpture by Ronan Halpin. The work for this exhibition ranges in size from small to medium-scale and in style from representational to purely abstract. Ronan Halpin, a master of materials, uses painted steel, brass, bronze, copper, polished concrete and the recycled parts of old machines. He also uses Corten steel which has been allowed to rust and take on the patina of its surroundings. These works were designed to inhabit the landscape and were shaped by it. Colour is very much to the fore in this body of work.

Ronan Halpin lives and works on Achill Island in Co. Mayo. He has worked as a sculptor for almost 30 years and is a graduate of the National School of Art & Design and Yale School of Art in the US where he achieved a Masters in Fine Art in 1984. His work is in numerous private collections, including those of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney and former Taoiseach John Bruton.

The title of this exhibition ‘Of Birds and Beasts’ makes a reference to the title of John Steinbeck’s novel ‘Of Mice and Men’ and also to the fantastical work of Lewis Carroll. The work on show evokes the mystery and mythology of dreams with references to history, archaeology and religion.

Solomon Fine Art, Balfe Street, Dublin 2
T: +353 (0)86 8142380
E: info@solomonfineart.ie
W: solomonfineart.ie

Celina Muldoon | Live Installation/Performance at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios

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Saturday 27 May, 8pm

Adorned in lavishly constructed costumes, multiple performers interact with and invite audience participation to interrogate and challenge notions around stereotypical ideas of representation and identity. The event commences with a voyeuristic tableaux and transfigures into a role swapping spectacle. Militaristic helmets adorned with go-pro cameras; live footage streamed to monitors positioned among the audience. How do we respond when the gaze is flipped? What unfolds when…’The Watcher’… becomes… The Watched? The farce plays out; perpetual; nonsensical; tit for tat squabbling; resonating; an underlying collective understanding. We are passively and unconsciously subject to constant scrutiny.

This ‘Untitled’ live interactive installation is an architecturally informed response to Studio 6 and The Atrium Space in TBG+S. Referring to Foucault’s Panopticon theory, Judith Butler’s ‘Gender Performativity’ and analysing the body as representation of political agency, the work is realised through a sci-fi re-enactment of mythological narratives. Designed by Jeremy Benthom in 1798 the Panopticon is a laconic architectural construct of modern disciplinary power. With this in mind Muldoon attempts to initiate dialogue between the elliptical aspect of Temple Bar Gallery and Studios’ Atrium space and Bentham’s design.

Tickets €8, book your ticket here: ow.ly/tLtP30butqk

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios
5 – 9 Temple Bar, Dublin 2
T: 01 671 0073
E: info@templebargallery.com
W: templebargallery.com

Job Vacancy | Cultural Project Managers at Dublin’s Culture Connects

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Application deadline: Monday 12 June, 5pm

Dublin’s Culture Connects seeks Project Managers from July 2017 to March 2018 on a part-time basis for new cultural projects to be developed within existing partnerships as well as connecting with new partners, as is relevant. Project Managers will be connecting the interests of audiences and communities in a way that is developmental, authentic and meaningful for both, with artists, the cultural services of Dublin City Council and the National Cultural Institutions partnered with the project area.

Over the past year, a series of Dublin’s Culture Connects: The National Neighbourhood projects has connected Dubliners to their communities, to artists, and to cultural institutions and the cultural resources of their city. We’ve seen villages come alive with all sorts of activities and creative outcomes, from musicals to morse code messages, and from hakas to hip hop gigs in people’s homes. Seeking real change in the city by creating projects with communities that are relevant to them – based on their own stories, wishes and experiences. Dublin’s Culture Connects is an initiative of Dublin City Council partnering the Area Offices of each of the five administrative regions, with Dublin City Public Libraries and Archives, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, and the City Arts Office with the Dublin-based National Cultural Institutions – The Abbey Theatre, The National Museum of Ireland, The National Library of Ireland, The National Gallery of Ireland, The National Concert Hall, The Chester Beatty Library, The National Archives and The Irish Museum of Modern Art.

Full job description and info at www.dublinscultureconnects.ie/project-managers/

Personal Deployable Crannog | Paddy Bloomer at the Leitrim Sculpture Centre

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19 May to 3 June

Bloomer’s creations of ‘machines that don’t exactly work’ present a humorous and critical challenge to the dysfunctional and irrational technologies that drive societal change. Working mostly with the found detritus of technology Bloomer presents hybrid experiments that move across diverse concerns and boundaries placing himself and his work within the technological landscape and the many challenges, opportunities as well as dangers that underpin its unfettered development.

His interests lay in finding and exploiting unusual power sources, waste disposal sites, health and safety legislation and subverting public infrastructure towards alternative forms of mobility and human settlement. This highly collaborative practice engages with a wide range of communities and found materials through extensive and immersive fieldwork and it is out of these encounters that the artist orchestrates new work and activates new sites of concern.

Leitrim Sculpture Centre
Manorhamilton, North County Leitrim
T: 071 9855098
E: info@leitrimsculpturecentre.ie
W: leitrimsculpturecentre.ie

Performing a Translation | Group Exhibition at Ormond Studios

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26 to 28 May

AsWeMaySink, Dorota Borowa, Chloe Brenan, Claire Burke, Niamh Coffey, Sarah Edmondson, Hazel Egan, Kieran Gallagher

Performing a Translation is the first exhibition of work by current members of Ormond Studios since its relocation. ‘Translation’ is a term used in geometry to describe a function that moves an object a certain distance. The object is not altered in any other way. It is not rotated, reflected or re-sized. In a translation, every point of the object must be moved in the same direction and for the same distance.

In moving from No. 6 to No. 4 Ormond Quay, Ormond Studios have performed this translation, preserving the studio as a nucleus of art-making, a place to translate, test and transform ideas. Works reflect on this geometric term in an expanded sense, interpreting translation more broadly as a paradigm of mediation that includes aesthetic, political, topographical and intertextual transformations.

This exhibition is held in conjunction with Bealtaine Festival 2017.

Ormond Studios
4 Ormond Quay Lower, North City, Dublin
E: ormondartists@gmail.com
W: ormondstudios.wordpress.com

Job Vacancy | Arts Engagement Officer at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, UK

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Application deadline: 1 June

An exciting opportunity is available for an Arts Engagement Officer to join the education department at Chatsworth. We are looking for an enthusiastic, creative person with a passion for the arts to devise and oversee our new program of engagement with children and young people, and visitors of all ages.

Chatsworth currently offers a range of educational activities which showcase the wealth of historic, environmental and artistic learning opportunities on the estate. This new post will focus on the development and delivery of arts activities linked to our exhibition and events programs. In the autumn this will include working directly with artists on our education sessions presented as part of the Chatsworth Festival ‘Art out Loud’ and also the promotion of the Sotheby’s outdoor sculpture exhibition ‘Beyond Limits’.

You will have a background in teaching or experience of working in a museum, gallery, or heritage setting. You will also have excellent creative skills and the ability to inspire creativity and curiosity about the arts in others. An interest in and experience of working with young people is essential, as are excellent communication skills and the ability to engage positively with a range of people.

This is initially offered as a one year fixed term post that will be working a 37.5 hour week with a salary of £24,000 pa. We are currently seeking funding to secure this post into the future and part of the role will include gathering evidence to support these funding applications. Further details and a job description can be found on the Chatsworth website.

Please note that previous applicants need not apply.

To apply, please send your CV and covering letter, to: The HR Department, Chatsworth Estate Office, Edensor, Bakewell, Derbyshire DE45 1PJ or via email hr@chatsworth.org

For more information see: www.chatsworth.org/work-with-us/current-vacancies/

Insect Exhibition | Lica B Browne at Outhouse, Capel Street

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22 May to 3 June
Opening Friday 26 May, at 7pm (Gourmet Menu served this date)
Outhouse, 105 Capel St Cafe

How beautiful are we? Humans ask the mirror. It reflects back to us the answer in a curious Insect form.

The Insects in this exhibition share with us their private sexual lives; their varied gender types; and their numerous relationship styles. Their answer to ‘How beautiful are we?’ is that we are beautiful is our endless variations. Celebrating them amongst ourselves is the pinnacle of human civilization and key to our future survival.

To integrate their wisdom and life experience, the insects bravely offer themselves to us in the Gourmet Menu:

Water crackers with stout cheese and organic Crickets
Spicy Libyan salad with fine English herb Crickets
Exotic dates, California raisins and mighty Buffalo Worms
Natalie shot with Queen Mealwaorms
Granberry and Orange energy bar
Coconut and Cacao energy bar
One Alien Grasshopper (first to eat it, gets a free picture!)

CAFE HOURS: Monday – Friday: 1:00pm – 9:30pm and Saturday: 1:00pm – 5:30pm

Lica B Browne
Professional Artist, Writer, DJ, Healer and Teacher.
E: meetingbbrowne@gmail.com
W: www.meeting-bbrowne.com

Graduate Exhibition Institute of Art, Design + Technology, Dun Laoghaire

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26 May to 1 June

The Institute of Art, Design + Technology will host their annual Graduate Exhibition which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. Exhibition is an ideal opportunity for potential employers, collectors and the public to spot the latest talent and see the current trends in design, art and film.

Curated by students the show will feature a culmination of work from our degree programmes including students of Animation, Art, Design for Stage and Screen, Film, Photography, Visual Communications, and 3D Design + Model-making.

Filmmaker and founder of Other Voices Philip King will officially open the Exhibition on Friday, 26 May at 5pm.

Institute of Art, Design + Technology
Kill Avenue, Dún Laoghaire,
Co. Dublin
T: + 353 1 239 4000
E: info@iadt.ie
W: iadt.ie

Archive | Margo McNulty at Linenhall Arts Centre

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26 May to 1 June

A multimedia exhibition of video, photoetchings and photographic prints based on the experiences of the artist’s grand uncle, who was detained as one of many Republican internees in the 1940s in the Curragh camp in Kildare. The exhibition also connects with the subject’s family home on Achill Island, Co. Mayo.

McNulty’s work concerns itself with the intersection of personal and public histories and how these histories and meanings can be embedded in material objects. Recent Irish exhibitions include the Museum of Country Life, Roscommon Arts Centre, and Claremorris Open Exhibition, and recent international group shows include Paris, Cologne, Leuven (Belgium) and Poland. McNulty studied Fine Art in GMIT and completed a Masters in Fine Art at NCAD, Dublin. She is currently a member of Graphic Studio and lectures in the Design Department in AIT.

Curated by Catherine Marshall.

Linenhall Arts Centre, Linenhall Street, Castlebar, Co. Mayo
T: 094 9023733
E: linenhall@anu.ie
W: thelinenhall.com

Stray Lines | Live Comics Reading at Instituto Cervantes, Dublin

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22 May, 6.30pm

Instituto Cervantes and the Irish comics collective Stray Lines invites you to a live reading of comics by seven of the most promising indie comics makers from Ireland and beyond. They will perform live readings of their short comics. This immersive storytelling event combines music, sound design, projected illustration and live performance in what feels like a cross between theatre and animation. As well as contributions from the authors, we will wrap up the evening with some audience participation, where the attendees, alongside the illustrators, will create a story live. Don’t miss the chance to leave your imprint.

Featuring the participation of Sarah Bowie (IE), Alan Dunne (IE), Debbie Jenkinson (IE), Elida Maiques (ES), Alé Mercado (ES), Fintan Taite (IE) and Emy Peyret (FR), this is an unmissable event.

Price: Free, yet ticketed. Bookings: ilfdublin.com
(Early booking strongly recommended)

Instituto Cervantes, Lincoln House, Lincoln Place, Dublin 2
Tel.: 353 01 631 15 33
E: cendub@cervantes.es
W: dublin.cervantes.es/en

At Sea | Lisa McGill at An Grianan Theatre, Co. Donegal

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3 March to 17 June 2017
An Grianan Theatre, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal

‘At Sea’ is a solo exhibition by seascape artist, Lisa McGill. As a young girl, Lisa spent several summers on Rutland Island off the coast of Donegal, the island of her forbears, so she likes to believe that this explains the tug of the sea. She regularly spends time painting on the now uninhabited island.

For further details, contact An Grianan, +353 74 912 3288/ 074 912 0777
www.angrianan.com/event/exhibition-at-sea-lisa-mcgill/
lisamcgillatsea.com

 

WHO GOES THERE | Chris Doris at Ballina Arts Centre and Custom House Studios, Westport

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20 May to 11 June

Who Goes There inquires into ideas of self and a rural society on an ambiguous edge between disintegration or renewal as old structures and resources give way and new potentialities arise.

Large scale monoprints, Open paintings and a series of landscape works on paper utilize a balance of text and image to evoke the freedom in observing phenomenal reality as contingent and empty of permanence and inherent substantiality.

This perspective is applied in black and white, in the context of post crash rural Ireland, so-called “austerity”, economic and social duress, dubious truths in the public space and a questioning of fundamental tenets of social and personal meaning. Chris Doris’ clinical practice in Dublin and Mayo has shifted from trauma work to a creative performance consultancy for creative professionals.

Ballina Arts Centre
Barrett St, Ballina, Co. Mayo
T: 096 73593
E: info@ballinaartscentre.com
W: ballinaartscentre.com

The Custom House Gallery and Studios
The Quay, Westport, Co. Mayo,
T: +353 (0)98 28735
E: info@customhousestudios.ie
W: customhousestudios.ie

Pathway | Exhibition at Nazareth Care Village, Sligo

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26 May to 3 June

‘Pathway’ is a collaborative art commission between residents of Nazareth Care Village and artists Catherine Fanning and Brigitta Varadi.

Twelve sculptural ceramic artworks have been designed and made for the grounds of the Care Village. Preceding the sculptural work an exhibition will show the interaction and journey the project took over a nine month period.

The commission is funded by the Per Cent for Art Scheme, managed and administered by Sligo County Council Arts Office in partnership with Nazareth Housing Association.

Atrium Gallery, Nazareth Nursing Home, Church Hill, Sligo.
26 May, 2pm – Opening Reception, 3pm – Artists Talk.

www.sligoarts.ie

Open Call | Toyota Foundation International Grant Program 2017

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Deadline: 20 June 2017

The grant program focuses on deepening mutual understanding and knowledge-sharing among people on the ground in East and Southeast Asia* who are finding solutions to shared issues. Through promoting direct interaction among key players, the grant program aims to survey and analyze situations in target countries, obtain new perspectives, and expand the potential of future generations.

With multinational teams comprised of participants from diverse backgrounds, projects can avoid conventional linear relationships, such as “supporter and supported” or “instructor and trainee,” and instead form cooperative and creative alliances that consider, act on, and construct solutions to shared issues. The grant program anticipates that these partnerships, which extend beyond such factors as nationality, age, and organizational affiliation, will produce significant social change through fostering a process of mutual learning.

Thematic areas:

A. Multigenerational and Multicultural Inclusion in Communities
B. Creating New Culture: Toward a Common Platform for Asia
C. Open Field
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Open Call | STARTAS International Contemporary Art Festival, Lithuania

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Deadline: 1 June 2017

The Culture Center of Rokiškis is for the first time organising the international contemporary art festival STARTAS and is curently looking for various artists to present their works. International contemporary art festival STARTAS aims to develop new international relationships and establish collaboration between Lithuanian and foreign artists, performers, dancers, visual artists, and etc. The organisers are looking for site specific projects to be presented at the festival (indoors – outdoors). . Festival is taking place in Rokiškis from 3 – 9 July 2017.

What is offered:

  • Accommodation
  • Catering
  • Technical support for the project
  • Project, performance fee (negotiable) / travel cost up to 150 EUR

For more information and to apply online: rokiskiokc.lt

Open Call | Greywood Arts Residency, Co. Cork

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Application deadline: Friday 26 May, 4pm

Greywood Arts invites proposals from visual artists (or small teams of collaborators) for a one-week residency to take place the last week in June, leading up to our Opening Celebration 1st July, 2017.

Artists will receive free accommodation and workspace. We are interested in process, thus a requirement of this residency is that the selected artist (or group of artists) share some aspect of their process via demonstration, exhibition, discussion, etc. at our opening celebration Saturday 1st July. Projects that respond to or interact with the site are especially encouraged.

Residency: Sunday 25th June – Sunday 2nd July
Artists will be notified by 31st May

To apply, send the following to: create@greywoodarts.org

  • Name(s), contact information
  • CV (one page max)
  • Artist Statement
  • Up to 5 Work samples

Proposal (one page max):

  • Tell us about your project
  • Tell us about your process
  • How would you engage with the community at our opening celebration?
  • What kind of support does your project require?

Selected artist(s) receive:

  • Accommodation (self-catering)
  • Workspace: the visual arts studio is 5.2m square (17×17 ft) with four south-east facing windows and high ceilings. There are work tables, a drafting table, and a sink. Note the studio is located on the second floor.
  • Transportation from Cork City to Killeagh if required.
  • Inclusion in all marketing for the Opening Celebration and a feature on our website Greywoodarts.org

Greywood Arts
Main Street
Killeagh
Co. Cork
Éire
T: 083 845 1750
E: create@greywoodarts.org
W: greywoodarts.org

Job Vacancies | Various Box Office Roles at Dublin Theatre Festival 2017 (seasonal)

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Application deadlines: 12 June

Dublin Theatre Festival has presented an annual season of Irish and international theatre performances since 1957. Its aims are to develop and promote the theatre art form and to excite, surprise and move its audiences. The festival takes place from the last Thursday in September for 18 days and its next edition will run from 28 September – 15 October 2017. The organisation’s governing body is a voluntary board, the Board of Dublin Theatre Festival.

Box Office Supervisors
Dublin Theatre Festival is currently seeking currently seeking to recruit 2 Box Office Supervisors to supervise the Box Office and its staff and to maximise all sales opportunities, ensuring targets are reached and high standards of customer care are maintained. The Box Office Supervisor is responsible for the smooth and effective running of the Box Office, the ticketing system and financial returns. The Box Office is the centre for all ticket sales including telephone, postal, web and over the counter bookings.

Download applicant briefing and job description including information about how to apply for the role here: dublintheatrefestival.com/Supervisor.pdf
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Open Call | Draiocht Studio Incubation Residencies For Artists 2017/2018

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Deadline: 2 June 2017
Draíocht, The Blanchardstown Centre, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15

The INCUBATE Residencies are for emerging, early career artists and curators (individual or small collective) who wish to have time and space to research, test new ideas, develop new work. Draíocht has a particular interest in artists and curators whose interests lie in one or more of the following:
– interdisciplinary practice;
– visual culture and new technologies;
– socially engaged and collaborative practices;
– visual arts practice for children and young people.
The Curator-in-Residence, Sharon Murphy will liaise with the artists and provide supports as required.
A fee of €300 will be available for each residency.

If you wish to be considered please send the following information to draiochtincubate@gmail.com

A current CV (2 pages maximum); A covering letter detailing your interest in and intention for DRAÍOCHT INCUBATE including an artist statement, outline plan, details about the nature of your artistic practice and process and; Website and/or other links to your work and/or up to ten images of relevant work in jpeg format.

Further details from draiochtincubate@gmail.com
www.draiocht.ie/blog/entry/studio_incubation_residencies_for_artists_2017_2018

Open Call for Emerging Artists | BLOOOM Award, Germany

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Application deadline: 31 July

BLOOOM Award by WARSTEINER, Germany’s biggest international competition for emerging artists, is now open for entries for 2017.

The competition funded by Warsteiner brewery is a steppingstone for emerging artists and offers young artists from all around the world the possibility to gain a foothold in the international art market via personal mentorings, exhibitions and travels to important art fairs in the whole world.

The organizers are looking for artists who knowingly work at the interfaces between art and creative industries, whose works blur boundaries of traditional forms of expression. The competition is completely open for any topic and artistic form of expression.

Since its beginning in 2010, BLOOOM Award by WARSTEINER emphasizes interdisciplinarity, power of innovation, courage and progressiveness. For the last edition, more than 2,000 artists applied from 84 countries. For the first time in 2017, a special prize for the category music video will be awarded.

For one year, the winner will be actively supported in his career: As part of a one-year mentoring by one of the jury members, the winner defines goals with the mentor to boost his career. Next steps are planned together and the winner benefits from the contacts and experience of his mentor. Additionally, the first place receives a travel to Art Basel in Miami or Hong Kong including 1,500 Euro pocket money. The second place gets the chance to exhibit in a selected gallery and a travel to Art Paris and the winner of the third place enjoys a one-day mentoring. All ten finalists get the chance to exhibit their works during BLOOOM – the one artist show, that counted 37,000 visitors last year.

Register and apply online: www.blooomawardbywarsteiner.com/Step_1_Registration
If you have any questions please send a mail to info@blooomaward.com.

Celina Muldoon | Live Installation/Performance, TBG+S, Dublin 2

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Saturday 27 May 2017, 8pm | Cost: €8
Studio 6, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin 2
(Entrance through the side door, Fownes St. Lower)

Live Installation/Performance by Celina Muldoon.
Adorned in lavishly constructed costumes, multiple performers interact with and invite audience participation to interrogate and challenge notions around stereotypical ideas of representation and identity. The event commences with a voyeuristic tableaux and transfigures into a role swapping spectacle. Militaristic helmets adorned with go-pro cameras; live footage streamed to monitors positioned among the audience. How do we respond when the gaze is flipped? What unfolds when…’The Watcher’… becomes… The Watched? The farce plays out; perpetual; nonsensical; tit for tat squabbling; resonating; an underlying collective understanding. We are passively and unconsciously subject to constant scrutiny.

For more information visit: www.facebook.com/events/254450585025555/

Book your ticket here: ow.ly/tLtP30butqk