Title of exhibition
Stillness In The Periphery

Artist
Susan Buttner

Summary
Still In The Periphery is an exhibition of paintings and soft sculpture that references space within the contemporary rural landscape , where the periphery of representation and abstraction is explored. The artist focuses on tension between mutable and inescapable objects, rural outbuildings , troughs, iron gates.

Format of exhibition

Paintings various sizes 30x50cm, 68x 92, small
Sculptures to hang on wall.

Size and space required

Adaptable

Are there technical specs available.

No

Is there a catalogue available.

Yes

Is there a worked out education/outreach programme

No but interested in providing one depending on location.

Artists fees required

Negotiable.

Administration fees required

No

Contact details:

susan_buttner@hotmail.com

www.susanbuttner.com

087 2212449

Title of Show: The Celtic Zoo

Description: This one-man show consists of twenty four mixed media drawings on paper.
The Celtic Zoo takes a satirical look at the absurdities of life in the contemporary world with particular emphasis on Ireland during the “Celtic Tiger” years.
The drawings are all A3 size and measure 46.5 x 56.5 cm framed.

Format of exhibition – An exhibition of drawings

Size of space required – Approximately 25 metres of wall-space in a self-contained space.

Are there technical specs available – No

Is there a catalogue available – No

Is there a worked out education/outreach program me – No, but I will do a talk on the show, if required

Artists’ fees required – Some assistance towards transport and publicity would be appreciated

Administration fees required – No

Contact details – Tom Fitzgerald, Kilmacat, Kildimo, Co Limerick.

Dates that it is available from – Nov. 01, 2012

In keeping with Visual Artists Ireland’s policy we require venues or events to pay artist’s fees for exhibitions.

Semblance” is an exhibition of painting, textile and soft sculpture that explores notions of security in a man-made era; rich with technological advances yet impoverished by disillusion and conflict left in the wake of progress.

Ashley B. Holmes explores the secret desire for control inherent in decorative patterns in her paintings of suburban houses that seem to float in bubbles of Calico or Chintz patterns, as if nature were one big soft furnishing.

London based artist Aileen Kelly articulates the emptiness and grief caused by acts of violence with her stitched, pinstriped, pole structures that teeter on the edge of collapse and textile wall drawings of nameless victims of conflict rendered minimally in a vast white void.

This exhibition reflects the strain put upon the fabric of a world that is changing fast.

The artists are Aileen Kelly and Ashley B. Holmes

Format of the exhibition : small paintings ( 6×8 inches to 2×2.5 ft) to hang on the wall.
7ft sculptures, 8ft wall drawings,

Size of space required: Very adaptable, we use wall space mostly.

Are there technical specs available: no

Is there a catalogue available: Not yet

Is there a worked out education / outreach programme: It’s not worked out but both artists teach art courses so we would love to do something depending on location.

Artists’ Fees required. Negotiable

Administration Fees: It would be great to have the cost of transport covered.

Available now.

Contact: Ashley B. Holmes: Ashley.holmes3@btinternet.com or Aileen Kelly: aileenkelly67@hotmail.com

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Title: The Good Room

Artist: Kate Murphy

Theme: This body of work explores the dual nature of The Home as both a very private stage and a public showcase. The exhibition comprises a found video of a 1950s knife-throwing mother and daughter act, re-worked domestic decorative objects, large-scale paintings and a kinetic sound installation with clock chimes.

Format of the exhibition:

•An unseen clock chime mechanism is activated by viewers as they enter the space.

•Single video piece projected in a circular format onto a pencil-drawn mural of a lace doily (no sound, dimensions variable but approx 1.5 m in diameter)

•An installation of interconnected, kinetic ticking clock mechanisms with small found objects such as swallow feathers and sewing threads (dimensions variable, approx 3m x 2m)

•Two larger oil paintings (110 x 175cm and 100 x 100cm),

•One medium-sized painting (48 x 48cm)

•Eight small paintings /made objects on found frames (max 25cm each).

Space required: Min approx 6 x 6m

Outreach programme: Available

Fees: Transport fees required

Images: http://katemurphyartwork.blogspot.ie/p/the-good-room-2011.html

Contact: kmurphymail@gmail.com

Available from: October 2012

In keeping with Visual Artists Ireland’s policy we require venues or events to pay artist’s fees for exhibitions.

The Citizen Artist project is an online platform that presents PDF publications of artistic interventions and investigative art projects relating to the role of the citizen. Topics of inquiry are organised under two categories: ‘Investigative Arts Practice: within State Systems’ and ‘:at the boundaries’. Specific projects investigate ‘What is a University?’, ‘Protest’, ‘Assembling and Assembly’.

Projects are lead by the artist Daphne Plessner and involve differing members working collectively on specific projects. The site also archives activist art work.

Dans Maen

The geomancers of old were Earth magicians who understood the mysterious currents running under the soil and were able to manipulate this energy to harmonise the land, bringing fertility and well being to the people.
Following in this tradition, award-winning new media artist David Bickley is transporting the form and atmosphere of a stone circle from the remote moors of West Cornwall and digitally rebuilding it with light and sound in Drogheda.

This piece, specially commissioned for the town’s art centre, continues David’s series of immersive installations under the heading An Index of Ritual Space, a series David has been working on since 1990.
Steve Hartgroves, Principal Archaeologist with Cornwall Council has called David in relation to this project, ” a virtual Merlin”.

Dans Maen is Cornish for “Stone Dance” and is the name given to a number of stone circles around the remote West Penwith area that also comprises Lands End in Cornwall. The name supposedly refers to the legend that maidens were turned to stone for dancing on a Sunday, an obvious Christianisation of a prehistoric site and its associated traditions.
In the early part of the last century, archaeologist TC Lethbridge visited one such site – the Merry Maidens. This is a near perfect circle of nineteen quartzite granite stones. He had with him a pendulum which he had learned to use for dowsing; he claims to have gotten the idea from a French nautical character who used it to find mines at sea. This idea to dowse for the energy lines, which the stones either map out or are based on, was probably influenced by the work of Guy Underwood who did much work mapping the underlying currents of many ancient sites and even cathedrals, which are all said to be built on even older significant sites or power spots. When Lethbridge started to dowse the circle he felt a very strong spiralling pull, a kind of magnetic field, he also said that the stones seemed to rock.

When I first saw this ancient circle, I was sitting in a vehicle with composer Steve Bayfield in a small lay-by looking up at their silhouettes on the moonlit hill. We both saw them appear to rock, then spin. Although I am definite that they didn’t physically move I am sure that part of my being perceived their potential to do so, and the prevailing energies that might drive them.

This piece is about that time, though I have moved my focus to a more remote circle a few miles from the Merry Maidens called the Nine Maidens. This small, fragmented circle sits on top of wild moorland overlooking St Michael’s Mount in an area known as Ding Dong…

David would like to acknowledge the generous support of Air South West and the Historic Environment Dept. Cornwall Council in the realisation of this project

Artists Fees required: In keeping with VAI policy, an artist’s fee is required

Artist: Agnes Conway

Project Description: ‘Lost Sailors‘ is a story told through sculpture, poetry and text. The exhibition consists of monuments that tell the stories of (imaginary) sailors, their portraits, and the diary of the monument-maker.

The soundtrack that accompanies the exhibition has been specially written by Neil Hannon and Cathy Davey

Format of exhibition:

19 x Pillars (wood, steel, gold leaf, driftwood)

19 x Prints (giclee, each in edition of 30)

12 x bronzes (each in edition of 9)

1 x book ‘Lost Sailors’

Space required: ca. 10M x 6M floor space + wall space for 19 prints.

Tech specs available: No, just photos and description

Catalogue available: No

Education/Outreach programme: No

Artist’s fees: No

Administration fees: No

Contact details:

Agnes Conway – ph. 01 2300372 mob. 086 403 4799

Available: From September 2012
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The threads of comments below You Tube videos are infamous for being violent, unrelated and ridiculous. ‘Trueprod2k11’ is an experimental verbatim theatre piece of which the script is entirely composed of You Tube comments sourced from below videos related to riots located in East Belfast in 2011. This project experiments with formats of activating dormant space.

Size required: 3m x 3m
Fees Required: Transport costs

Name: Iain Griffin

Email: iaingrif@talktalk.net

Website: http://www.iaingriffin.com
In keeping with Visual Artists Ireland’s policy we require venues or events to pay artist’s fees for exhibitions.

Joe Ryan employs the Latin term ‘Ultra Vires’ as meaning ‘beyond the powers’ of an authority as the premise for his etchings. Drawing on the draughtmanship of 18th Century master Piranesi and others, he probes the structure of power through architectural design. The printmaker likewise adapts Erving Goffman’s concept of the ‘Total Institution’, where entire groups under bureaucratic control are stripped of their identity.

Format: series of 12 etchings
Size:92cms x 73cms
Fees required: transport costs

joeryanartist@gmail.com

http://joeryanartist.com

Making Cents: Life Below the Bottom Rung. Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin

A series of oil paintings examining the daily existence of people in the worst working, living (and dying) conditions in the global economy.
15 oil paintings on canvas various sizes.

A catalogue and education programme can be prepared.

Any fees would be appreciated to offset costs.

Available from now.

Paintings may be seen here:  http://gaelart.net/workerseries.html