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‘Nothing / Out of the Ordinary’ at Basement Project Space, Cork

Laoise — Fri, 11 May 2012 11:41:18 +0000

18th – 25th May 2012 | Opening Thursday 17th May at 7pm featuring a live sound improvisation by Declan Synott | is an exhibition of work by postgraduate students of Philosophy and Comparative Aesthetics at University College Cork. The overarching concern of the artists involved is in the exploration of the points of confluence between philosophical thought and other creative practices including visual art, sound and film. Other artists include, Chloe Brenan, Fergal Dunne, Valerio Giovannini, Laura Hadnett, Mercedes Lopez, Aishling Martin, A Non, Paul Hegarty and Ouyang Xiao. The exhibition will close on Friday 25 May with an evening of film screenings curated by Moira Hassenfuss. Tom Tykwer’s ‘Run Lola Run’ and Chris Marker’s ‘La Jetée’ which will be screened from 7pm onwards. With support from Philosophy, UCC.

Simon Fujiwara at The Crawford Art Gallery, Cork

Laoise — Tue, 08 May 2012 09:36:11 +0000

10 May – 27 June | Opening Thursday 10 May 2012 at 6pm | Exhibition will be opened by Martin Clark, Artistic Director, Tate St Ives | Curated by Rachel Thomas, Senior Curator : Head of Exhibitions, Irish Museum of Modern Art | The Crawford Art Gallery is pleased to present, for the first time in Ireland, the British/Japanese artist Simon Fujiwara. In collaboration with Tate St Ives, the exhibition will showcase an ongoing installation, ‘The Museum of Incest’. This piece is considered one of Fujiwara’s most crucial works as it marks the beginning of his career. The Museum of Incest is Fujiwara’s fictive recreation of the story of mankind’s evolution, and the objects are archived and displayed in a museum-like setting | www.crawfordartgallery.ie

LOVESTACK Electroacoustic Installation at Basement Project Space

admin — Tue, 01 May 2012 15:53:56 +0000

LOVESTACK is an electro-acoustic performance and audio-visual installation for one night at BPS. When: Tuesday 8th May at 6pm. Lovestack’s performance at the Basement Project Space, Camden Quay, Cork will involve the activation of audio instruments constructed using a variety of assemblage, common materials and everyday objects. These bespoke mechanisms will be used in conjunction with software instrumentation. Visual accompaniment will include the instruments themselves and projected imagery.
http://lovestack.net | http://basementprojectspace.wordpress.com/

Jiri Sliva at Cork Vision Centre, Cork

Laoise — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:48:39 +0000

4 – 25 May 2012 | St. Peters, North Main St | ‘Happy Hour’ | Award-winning Cartoonist, illustrator and Artist Jiri Sliva’s artworks have been published in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and Stern. We will also have a public performance on Friday 4th May at 4pm by the Primorska Academic Choir Vinko Vodopivec, Slovenia | www.corkvisioncentre.com [1] [1] http://www.corkvisioncentre.com

Mill Cove Awards Exhibition at Mill Cove Gallery, Cork

Laoise — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:58:16 +0000

7 – 29 April | Mill Cove House, Castletownbere | Open submission selected exhibition including painting, print and sculpture | www.millcovegallery.com

Photographic Collective Sputnik at Sirius Arts Centre, Cork

Laoise — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:33:47 +0000

27 April – 27 May | Opening Friday 27 April 7:00pm | Sirius Arts Centre Cobh County Cork in partnership with The Embassy of the Republic of Poland and Cork County Council presents ‘IS(not)’: Works by the Photographic Collective Sputnik. Featuring photographs by Agnieszka Rayss, Rafał Milach, Michał Łuczak, Jan Brykczyński, Adam Pańczuk. For more information please contact Sirius Arts Centre T: 021 481 3790 | E: cobharts@iol.ie | For more information on Sputnik: www.sputnikphotos.com

Bernard Canavan at Boole Library Gallery, University College Cork

Laoise — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:15:08 +0000

19 April – 31 May 2012 | Opening Thursday 19 April at 5.30pm | ‘Exile World’ an exhibition of paintings on Irish life by London-based Irish artist Bernard Canavan will be opened by Piaras MacEinri | Contact E: bcanavan@hotmail.com | www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvgnASfM42g

Group Exhibition at West Cork Arts Centre

Laoise — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:57:23 +0000

21 April – 26 May | North Street, Skibbereen, Co Cork | ‘Difference Engine’ is an evolving touring exhibition by artists Mark Cullen, Wendy Judge, Gillian Lawler and Jessica Foley, featuring Gordon Cheung and, at WCAC, Paul Green. Difference Engine is based upon a kind of ‘jamming’, between the artists. At each manifestation, the artists, through their works, must rearticulate themselves or risk stasis. Difference Engine is a mutable and shifting entity of moving and fluctuating parts; the artists and their works will riff off each other and the space of exhibition, evolving a language of contingency, yet maintaining a fidelity to the individual perspectives and expressions of each artist | www.westcorkartscentre.com

John Burke & Simon Norfolk at Crawford Gallery, Cork

Laoise — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:31:30 +0000

April 20 – June 30, 2012 | Opening Thurs 19 April, 2012 6:15pm – 8pm with guest speaker Peggy Sue Amison, Artistic Director, Sirius Arts Centre | Simon Norfolk will discuss the exhibition and his practice on Thursday 19 April, 5:30 pm. Crawford Art Gallery is delighted to present Burke + Norfolk: photographs from the war in Afghanistan by John Burke and Simon Norfolk. In October 2010, Simon Norfolk began a series of new photographs in Afghanistan which takes its cue from the work of nineteenth-century Irish photographer John Burke. In partnership with Sirius Arts Centre, Crawford Art Gallery present a four-day Masterclass with Simon Norfolk from June 28 – July 1, 2012 (inclusive). This program is a unique four-day intensive, practice-oriented photography workshop under the guidance of Simon Norfolk. Limited to no more than 15 participants, successful candidates will have the opportunity to participate in a comprehensive advanced photographic program, involving technical instruction, group critiques, daily reviews and monitoring/guidance with Norfolk. For further information: www.crawfordartgallery.ie/events.html

Angelo Garoglio at Triskel Christchurch, Cork

Laoise — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:23:01 +0000

Exhibition runs until 3 June 2012 | Rifrazioni : from an initial form, through the action of light: the modification, the construction by means of correspondence during the harmonious transition of geometries. This exhibition of sculpture and drawing was commissioned for Christchurch to celebrate our 1st anniversary, and continues the approach begun with Vivienne Roche last year, whereby an artist responds to the architecture, atmosphere and artistic possibilities of Triskel Christchurch. | www.triskelartscentre.ie/visualarts.htm

Glucksman Presents The Sacred Modernist: Josef Albers as a Catholic Artist

admin — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:19:34 +0000

The Sacred Modernist: Josef Albers as a Catholic Artist at 6pm on Thursday 5th April at Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork. The exhibition runs until 8 July and is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue with contributions from Nicholas Fox Weber, Julie Agoos, Oliver Barker, Leland de la Durantaye, Mark Patrick Hederman, Fiona Kearney and Colm Tóibín. The exhibition is presented with the generous support of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. www.glucksman.org

Deirdre McLoughlin at CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork

Damien — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:01:30 +0000

Sat 31 March – Sat 5 May | Opening Friday 31 March 7pm | ‘Shaping the Void’ | Solo exhibition by Deirdre McLoughlin , a seminal Irish sculptor based in the Netherlands. The outcome of 3 years work for an artist whose unique world-class ceramic sculptures have gained her international renown | www.ccad-research.org/gallery/

Maree O’Sullivan at Hosfords Garden Centre, Cork

admin — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:08:20 +0000

” A Mixed Palette” by silk painting & mixed media artist – Maree O’Sullivan, at Hosfords Garden Centre, Enniskeane, Co. Cork from 1st – 30th April. Come meet the artist herself on Sunday 1 April for a free painting demonstration. Check out www.hosfordsgardencentre.ie

Jack Hickey at 2020 Gallery, Cork

Laoise — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:46:53 +0000

29 March – 26 April 2012 | Opening Thursday 29th March at 7pm | 2020 Art Gallery, Cork presents the first solo show by artist Jack Hickey, one of the most exciting rising stars in the art world today. ‘Another Tuesday’ is a new body of work that is a deeper exploration of these themes and issues which he first addressed in his degree show in June 2011. The canvases display a high level of skill and technique, coupled with a central concept and range of ideas that allows for interpretation and interaction to be central to the viewer’s experience. In these intensely atmospheric works the artist invites the public to experience and extrapolate their own meaning from his world of precise painting coupled with ambiguous narrative structure | www.2020artgallery.com/exhibitions__events/another_tuesday

Photography Exhibition at Ionad Cultúrtha, Cork

Laoise — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:17:06 +0000

10 March – 30 April | The ‘Rianta’ (traces) exhibition features three photographers, who are also relatives. Máire Uí Léime, her daughter Fíona Ní Léime and a cousin of theirs, Ted O’ Connell all come from the Múscraí Gaeltacht, from Ballingeary and from Kilnamartyra respectively. The three of them have been exploring places & spaces with their cameras – in search of traces. The resulting body of work will be shown at this exhibition | T: 026.45733 | www.ionadculturtha.ie

Images of Emigration at Sirius Arts Centre, Cork

Laoise — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:51:04 +0000

8 March – 22nd April | ‘Leaving Home’ : Images of Emigration Circa 1920’s Cobh from the Mount Brandon Hotel Collection| As part of the RMS Titanic Centenary Commemoration, Sirius Arts Centre is honoured to exhibit photographs from the Mount Brandon Hotel Collection (Courtesy of Mrs. Iris Toner). Taken in a local photography Studio, these images capture travellers prior to embarking on journeys that would change their lives forever. For more info contact Sirius Arts Centre at T: 021 481 3790 | E: cobharts@iol.ie | www.siriusartscentre.ie

Backwater Artists Group and Cork Printmakers: Open 11

admin — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:44:21 +0000

Wednesday 16 – Wednesday 23 November
Backwater Artists’ Group & Cork Printmakers, Wandesford Quay, Clarke’s Bridge, Cork City

Backwater Artists Group and Cork Printmakers will open their doors to welcome visitors in to the artists’ studios and fine art printmaking workshop, offering guided tours, artists’ talks, printmaking demonstrations, print workshops and exhibitions, in the Wandesford Quay Complex.

On Saturday 19 November, 9 artists from the Backwater Artist Group will give short talks about their work throughout the day. The artists’ studios will be open to the public from 12 noon – 5pm on 19 and 20 November. There will be an exhibition of work by Fionnuala Kelly, entitled SOMETHING’S BEEN PUZZLING ME, on the first floor corridor gallery. PLACE SPACE, an exhibition initiated by Backwater Artists Group, and curated by Julia Jansen and Tony O’Connor, will be on show in the Wandesford Quay Gallery until 26 November.

Cork Printmakers will host 24hrs: Print Project, a collaborative project involving 13 artists from 4 different printmaking studios. From noon on Saturday 19 November, the artists will have 24hrs to create a body of work based on the theme National Interest, at Cork Printmakers’ fine art print workshop. This project is taking place as part of ArtTrail 11 and OPEN week. On Saturday 19 November, participating artists will give ‘on the spot’ talks as they work. Cork Printmakers will also present an exhibition of artists’ work in the second floor showroom.

Group tours of both organisations’ are available on weekdays.
Booking is essential for all tours and talks.
All activities are free to the public.
Both Backwater Artists Group and Cork Printmakers are taking part in the Art Trail 11 project, Art Work Embassy at The Elysian from 18 November to 4 December.