Interviews at Standpoint: Monday 22nd July

Application fee: £15.00

Standpoint Futures is an ambitious residency programme for regional UK artists, providing bespoke, high-calibre opportunities for discussion and interaction with the London art world. We support artists who are making a reputation in their region to spend time in London to make a significant impact on their practice and/or career without the need to relocate. We promote a dynamic and interactive network between London and Regional UK art world, working with excellent artist-focused institutions across the UK. Residencies are designed to be flexible and responsive to the project, needs and desired outcomes of individual participants. The residency’s chief aims are to provide high quality, individualized opportunities to develop the artist’s practice and career, and to integrate London and the regional UK art world to promote access and the exchange of ideas.

The residency offer is: 4-6 weeks working at Standpoint in Hoxton, London. Accommodation, studio and all mentoring and advisor visits are included as part of the award. Artists receive a modest per diem & travel allowance. All other expenses are at the expense of the artist.

The 5 residencies will run from October 2013 to April 2014. The panel will select 5 artists – one from Scotland, one from Wales, two from England, and one early career artist, who may be based anywhere in the UK (not Eire).

Selectors will be one representative from each of our partner organisations: G39 & Chapter Arts, Peacock Visual Arts, The Royal Standard, Exeter Phoenix and Standpoint.

Further details and application materials are at www.standpointlondon.co.uk/Futures.html

Traditional and contemporary batik techniques are covered in this creative and experimental workshop. The term ‘batik’ refers to the process of dyeing fabric using a resist technique: covering areas of cloth with a dye-resistant substance to prevent them absorbing colour. Participants use wax resist in this workshop – a combination of beeswax & paraffin wax.

www.nationalprintmuseum.ie

A new series in the IMMA What is _? programme focuses on theoretical perspectives, What is Theory? is being developed in collaboration with MA Art in the Contemporary World (NCAD). The first talk is this new series addresses What is Marxism and Critical Theory? presented by Declan Long and Francis Halsall, both Lecturers of MA, Art in the Contemporay World, NCAD. This introduction talk will be followed by a screening of Intelligence Squared’s debate Karl Marx was Right and a panel discussion to consider the renewed interest in Marxist theory and its manifestations and relevance for contemporary art theory and practice.

If you would like to attend, please rsvp by booking online at http://www.imma.ie/en/subnav_50.htm

It would provide for a more efficient admittance to the event if your booking line confirmation could be presented at this time.

How do we define Performance Art today? Following her two day workshop in Fire Station Artists’ Studios US performance artist Marilyn Arsem will discuss her practice spanning the last thirty years with Lynette Moran (Director Live Collision) as well as reflect on the expanded field of performance today.

Marilyn Arsem has been creating live events since 1975, from solo gallery performances to large-scale, site-specific works. Arsem has presented work at festivals, conferences, alternative spaces, galleries, museums and universities in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. More recently she has focused on creating site-specific performances that engage with the immediate landscape and materiality of a location, its history, and use or politics. Sites have included a former Cold War missile base in the United States, a 15th century Turkish bath in Macedonia, an aluminium factory in Argentina, and the site of the Spanish landing in the Philippines. These works are not planned in advance, but made in response to a location that is selected on arrival. She is a member and founder of Mobius, Inc. a Boston-based collaborative of interdisciplinary artists. As a full-time faculty member at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, she heads the Performance Area and is a Graduate Advisor.www.marilynarsem.net

Lynnette Moran is a creative arts producer, director and performance maker working across and between art forms. In 2009 she established Live Collision International Festival, an annual international festival and residency, generating a significant platform for the creation, articulation and presentation of dynamic contemporary performance in Ireland. Lynnette is research & development producer for Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts. She has a BA Hons Degree in Fine Art Film Making from University Wolverhampton (UK) and in 2004 graduated with an MA in Performance Making from Goldsmiths College, London.www.livecollision.com

No booking required but spaces limited.

For further information Tel: 01 8069010 Email: artadmin@firestation.ie

www.firestation.ie

Creative Exchange Artists Studios, 276 Newtownards Rd., Belfast, BT4 1HE

Creative Exchange Artist Studios are moving to new and bigger premises in the Portview Trade Centre on the Newtownards Road, only 5 minutes from Belfast city centre. We are growing our membership and have a number of available spaces ranging from £50 – £100 per month for artists who work in the field of contemporary visual arts.

In addition to the larger studios we are creating a new Digital Hub that is designed to facilitate artists working in new media including video artists, photographers, artists working in graphics and web-based productions. Spaces at the Digital Hub are available on a short and long-term basis. A placement in the Hub will range from £25 per month for long-term or £35 per month for short-term leases.

To apply, please send an email with the subject header ‘New Studio Members’ to Donna Hunter at creativeexchangeartists@gmail.com together with your contact details, CV and Artist Statement by Friday 14th June 2013. Tel: 028 9045 2299

Creative Exchange has been in existence since 1996 and is a Belfast based visual arts studio collective. We assist the professional practice and career development of artist members through the provision of dedicated studio space, shared marketing resources and the management of an annual arts programme The highlight of this years programme will be Art in the Eastside, which is a high profile public art project that will create 50 art billboards and temporary public art installations, delivered in the East Belfast Arts Festival in August.

Monster Truck Gallery is currently seeking volunteers to join the MTG&S team. Volunteering involves a day of invigilation during gallery opening hours (Wednesday – Saturday, 11 – 6pm), bar work at exhibition openings (5 – 9pm) and occasional assistance with gallery upkeep.

This can be an exciting opportunity for anyone who is interested in the visual arts, arts management or exhibition making. Over the years MTG&S has been lucky enough to work with enthusiastic people who have brought energy and insight to the day to day running of MTG&S. Anyone with some knowledge and interest in contemporary art is eligible to apply.

Please contact Lily Cahill with a letter of interest and a current CV at info@monstertruck.ie

A beautiful studio available to sublet for June, July, August, great light, windows all one wall 10ft high. wifi broadband free. This Incubator studio is a quiet soundproofed studio in RuaRed on the second floor, perfect for most artists except painters as there is no sink. Right beside last Luas stop red line, direct to city centre. Gallery, green room, Mac room with all equipments and coffee shop in the building. Also right beside the Square in Tallaght and the county Library.

For more information, please visit: www.ruared.ie/thevenuethespaces.html

Ahead of the Create/DCC European Learning Symposium on the 29th May, artist Joshua Sofaer will talk about his arts practice at The LAB.

Joshua Sofaer is an artist who is centrally concerned with modes of collaboration and participation. Often with an irreverent use of humour, he plays with established forms of production, appropriating and reconfiguring the chat show, competition, lecture, or museum display. He acts as curator, producer or director of a broad range of projects, including large-scale events, intimate performances, and publications.

Sofaer was a winner of the first Bank of America CREATE Art Award and was the first Artist Fellow on the 2010/11 Clore Leadership Programme.

Works by Joshua currently in production include Mon cœur s’ouvre à ta voix a new commission for Folkoperan Stockholm; Improbability Drive a collaboration with Geheimagentur for the Foreign Affairs Festival in Berlin; and Lot of Noses, a series of 500 photographs of fake noses from Sofaer’s collection for the Wellcome Trust in London.

www.joshuasofaer.com

This space is light and bright, only €25 per week.

If interested, please call 0876644215 or email rayleenclancy@hotmail.com

Kids’ Own and Early Childhood Ireland welcome applications from artists and musicians who are interested in working collaboratively within 3 early childhood care and education settings in the Northwest as part of our new Lullaby Tour in Autumn 2013.

This is a unique opportunity for an artist and a musician to develop a methodology for engaging creatively with babies aged 6-18 months and their parents and ECCE practitioners, through sound, lullaby and sensory stimulation.

Working one day per week for 4 weeks in 3 consecutive locations, between September and December 2013, the artist and musician will create a sensory environment for babies to be engaged through sound, song and visual stimulation.

Images and songs from the project will be brought together into a brand new Kids’ Own/ Early Childhood Ireland lullaby publication and app for iPhone & iPad. The fee for each artist and musician is €2100 (based on a daily fee of €150 per day), plus a travel stipend of €900.

Deadline for applications is Friday 7th June. Interviews will be held on Tuesday 18th June. For the full brief and details of how to apply, visit www.kidsown.ie

This project is delivered by Kids’ Own in partnership with Early Childhood Ireland, and is funded by the Arts Council’s Touring Award 2013, and the Katharine Howard Foundation.

Has completed the Thomastown Pottery Skills Course and is is finishing up BA honors Degree in Ceramic Design from LSAD this month. Full CV available on request.

Willing to commute from Limerick. Please contact ciaranichu@gmail.com

Recognising the range of methodologies used in art practices that draw on educational concepts and forms and the potential of socially engaged art to inform discourses within education, the MA SEA(FACE) is a site for experimental learning and critical debate between socially engaged art practice and arts education. The new course builds on and replaces the GDip in Community/Arts/Education which has been in existence for ten years. The MA SEA(FACE) will attract students from a range of disciplines who want to immerse themselves in a trans-disciplinary enquiry. Applicants should have a Level 8 (BA Hons) degree in art or design or in another discipline altogether but with a personal and demonstrable commitment to the arts in social contexts.

For further information, see post-graduate study at www.ncad.ie

We are currently scheduling autumn events for Clonakilty Community Arts Centre (CCAC).

If you would like to submit a proposal for classes/workshops/community events please do so by Friday 24th May.

For all submissions and more information, please email: ccac2013@gmail.com

Pallas Projects/Studios are seeking a new round of applications for their volunteer internship programme. Now in its 7th year, it offers valuable, practical, real-world experience in a nurturing, supportive and highly active environment that is nationally and internationally recognised. Interns are an important part of the PP/S set-up, and assist in installation, invigilation, administrative and research projects, and special interests within the visual arts can also be pursued.

As part of the programme, participants can avail of the opportunity to collaborate on a group exhibition for the project space at PP/S. This is a unique pedagogical component of the programme, which is supported via workshops with PP/S curators. It enables participants are able to test and develop their particular area, be it as an art-maker, writer, curator or coordinator.

Previous participants have gone on to various roles, both paid and voluntary, in prestigious Irish and international arts organisations such as IMMA, Project Arts Centre, and Chelsea College of Art, and the Guggenheim in New York.

Participants are asked to commit to a minimum of 3 hours per week, which can be flexible around other commitments.

For more information on our activities please see our website. If you are interested in applying please email a short cover letter, your CV, with ‘Intern Programme’ in the subject line to: info@pallasprojects.org

Closing date – 5:30pm, Thursday, 13 June, 2013

The Arts Council announces the Engaging with Architecture Scheme 2013, with the purpose of engaging the public with architecture.

The closing date for applications is Thursday, 13th June, 2013 and projects must take place before 25th April, 2014.

The ‘Engaging with Architecture Scheme’ was developed in response to both the Government Policy on Architecture 2009 – 2015 Towards a Sustainable Future: Delivering Quality within the Built Environment and the Arts Council’s research into Public Engagement with Architecture (2009).

Award guidelines will be available shortly on the ‘available funding’ section of the Arts Council website.

Please note: Applications will only be accepted through the Arts Council’s online services website . Applicants who have not previously used this system must register in advance of making an application. It can take up to five days for registrations to be confirmed so it is very important that you register as early as possible.

www.artscouncil.ie

22nd May | 1pm – 2pm
CIT Crawford College of Art and Design

Dara McGrath: Dara McGrath’s central concern lies in exploring transitional spaces, those in-between places where architecture, landscape and the built environment often intersect, and where a dialogue – of absence rather than presence – is created. His practice is driven by explorations of these charged, shifting entities – buildings that have come to the end of their functionality, the changing functionality of a landscape, human interruptions in the landscape – that exist in urban, rural and suburban contexts. The resultant photoworks are realised both with the gallery space and as site-specific installations and interventions.

The Market Square Project, London 2010, Paper Links Tsinghua Academy of Arts (Beijing) 2010,What Lies Beneath: Nature and Urban Landscape in E.U. Photography FotoWeekDC, Washington 2009, ECO 09 Exeter Contemporary Open, Phoenix Gallery, (U.K.).

www.daramcgrath.com

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Garrett Phelan: Garrett Phelan has exhibited extensively in Ireland and internationally, most recently a major solo exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art and a commission for the 11th Lyon Biennale. His distinctive art practice directly engages with immersive and ambitious site-specific projects such as FM radio broadcasts, sculptural installations, photography and animation. To mark the 30th anniversary, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios are commissioning artist Garrett Phelan to make an iconic art work for Dublin. Launching on May 1st, ‘OUR UNION ONLY IN TRUTH’ will stand tall on the roof of TBG+S, looking over Temple Bar Square. This art work will act as a beacon for the TBG+S building and share an uplifting message as a new landmark for the city and its inhabitants.

www.garrettphelan.com

There will be NO talk on Wednesday 29th May.

Please see www.corkprintmakers.ie for further details about the project.

Trampoline Market is a two days arts and crafts event taking place in beautiful Ranelagh Arts Centre over the Summer.
In a dreamy and friendly atmosphere, 12 designers will have a unique opportunity to expose and sell their work while getting together with other talented creatives and having fun.

This is the first stop of an art and craft event which is going to travel the world and we will do our best to make it a memorable, inspiring and positive experience for everybody involved. 
Join us in the journey!

Whether you are an emerging or more established designer and you are interested in taking part, send a few photographs of your work and a little description of your art practice at: trampolinemarket@gmail.com

Stalls are €40 for one day or €70 for the whole weekend.

160 square foot, good natural light, secure, 24-h access. €120 monthly includes wifi internet, heating and electricity.

If interested in viewing, please call John on 0870666075 or email jroconnell2002@yahoo.co.uk.

“Sound is the vocabulary of nature” – Pierre Schaeffer

An open call for artists, composers and musicians to send a short audio recording that responds in some way to the above. The work can be a sound piece, a recording of a music composition, a field recording, an excerpt from a larger work, or other. The work can be mono or stereo and between 1 and 7 minutes in duration. Selected works will be included in a special listening room during the Hilltown New Music Festival, Saturday 20th to Sunday 21st July 2013.

Submission requirements:

- Accepted file formats are uncompressed .wav or .aiff at 44.1kHz / 24bit

- Files must be submitted via a special upload facility, which will be available on the www.hilltown.ie  website from 1st June 2013 until the deadline 23rd June. Details and short description of the track as well as a short artist biography must be submitted via a word form also available from that date.

Deadline for receipt of works is Sunday 23rd June 2013

For more information you can contact us at: contact@hilltown.ie

This is an advanced level course suitable for participants with some previous experience in hand papermaking processes (traditional or contemporary); it is also designed to suit those who have participated at papermaking/paper art courses previously. The workshop is tailored to the interests and needs of those attending, offering a creative space, time and professional advice for working on individual ideas.

Processes and areas covered (priorities will be given upon request):

• Three dimensional and sculptural works; moulded, shaped, textured paper projects
• Handmade papers for artworks and crafts: intaglio printmaking, calligraphy, painting/drawing/writing/bookmaking etc.
• Ideas and planning for installation projects and large scale works
• Preparation for various projects using pure plant material: preparation of plant pulps without the use of chemicals; combination of pulps and silk fibre papers;
• Paper sizing, strengthening, dyeing, painting;
• Batik on handmade plant and silk papers;
• Hand Papermaking in primary school education and community art projects

The course is designed for a small group so places are limited.

This programme is only available once or twice in a year so please call to book your place as soon as possible!!

For more information, please visit www.tundetothpaperart.blogspot.com, call 087-2543362 or email tundetune@gmail.com

Critical Bastards Magazine is seeking submissions for Issue 10. This issue will depart from previous printed format to be purely audio in form.

We are seeking audio reviews, interviews, and articles about art. What we are looking for is a creative response to this call; we are not looking for reviews which are simply written and then recorded.

What we are looking for are clearly recorded, concise, coherent reviews and responses to work, that emphasise and explore how the spoken word influences the structure of the article. Although the format will be in audio form, we are looking for reviews and articles about all kinds of work, not sound work in particular.

We welcome audio articles of no longer than 15 minutes duration, submitted with an image that relates to the content.

Send submissions to criticalbastards@gmail.com. Recordings will be selected on the fitness of their inclusion in the issue.

http://criticalbastards.wordpress.com/

For more information, and details on how to submit, please visit: www.slideluck.com/submissions

Are you an artist looking to work with a successful Belfast based art collective?

Vent Collective is looking to expand our membership due to several upcoming projects.

Applicants should:
-be based in Belfast
-be practicing artists working in any medium
-be familiar with the Vent Collective’s portfolio of work, available on their website: www.ventcollective.co.uk
-have a desire to work as part of the Vent Collective
-actively support, develop and be available for all Vent Collective projects

Submission guidelines:
Email ask@ventcollective.co.uk with the following information:
- Your name
- Artist’s statement (max 100 words, English only)
- email & website (if applicable)
- Portfolio of no more than 5 images (jpeg) or videos links (youtube links are acceptable) of work completed within the last year.

Submissions that do not fulfill the above criteria will not be considered

Successful applicants will be notified via email on Monday 1st July 2013.

The Print Point is inviting applications for membership to The Print Point studio, Barlow House, Drogheda.

The Print Point aspires to nurture and to further develop printmaking as a contemporary art form in the North- East of Ireland. By providing a professionally equipped print studio, run by artists, it aims to support emerging and established visual artists, to facilitate professional printmakers and to encourage an understanding of print amongst the general public.

The Print Point studio is housed in the artist studios in the yard at Barlow House, Drogheda. The studio facilities include, a large printing press with a bed size of 116 x 180 cm, drying racks, storage areas, some tools and supplies and 24hr access (after a trial period).

Studio membership application forms are available at The Print Point Studio, The Droichead Art Centre and Barlow House.

Applications may also be requested by contacting info@droichead.com

Clancy Festival Art Trail seeks submissions from new and previously unexhibited artists.

The Artists and selected work will be exhibited in a pop-up gallery as part of the Festival taking place this June bank holiday weekend in Carrick on Suir, Co. Tipperary.

Maximum size for work is 20 by 16 inches size includes frame. Entries are limited to one per person and will cost 2 euro each. The artwork does not have to be framed but must be ready to hang.

Entries can be brought to the Nano Nagle Centre, Carrick on Suir, Tipperary only between 10.00am and 5.00pm on 23rd May or images can be sent to clancyfestivalarttrail@gmail.com no later than 20th May.

All entries must include a title and a price

Digital Arts Studios, 38-42 Hill St, Belfast, BT1 2LB

The Digital Arts Studios is looking for an enthusiastic individual to become a part-time intern during the months of July and August. The intern will work solely on the Digital Arts Studios Archive and as such will have the opportunity to view and research a range of work made by local and international artists. This internship should be of interest to those studying or researching areas relating to visual and digital arts and to those who would benefit from experience of working in an arts organisation.

For more information on how to apply visit our website: http://digitalartsstudios.com/news/digital-arts-studios-summer-internship-opportunity

For bookings, please click on the following link to go to the online booking page: http://volunteerprogrammeseminar.eventbrite.ie

Volunteering in the museum sector is on the rise, with organisations increasingly relying on the vital support provided by volunteers. This half-day seminar held by the Irish Museums Association, in association with the National Gallery of Ireland, aims to provide museums and cultural organisations with the tools to create strong relationships with their volunteers. Delegates will hear best-practice presentations from a wide range of speakers, including:

• Dr Yvonne McKenna. CEO, Volunteer Ireland
• Kevin Murphy. Chief Officer, Voluntary Arts Ireland
• Sile Boylan. Visitor Services Officer, National Gallery of Ireland
• Dr Dominique Bouchard. Curator of Education & Outreach, The Hunt Museum
• Justyna Chmielewska. Volunteer Coordinator, Chester Beatty Library
• Sean Corcoran. Chairman, Old Drogheda Society

Topics that will be addressed are:

• Volunteer Policy, Procedures & Agreement Form
• Recruitment and Training Volunteers
• Retaining Volunteers
• Issues that arise in the everyday work & the volunteering organisation
• Identification of volunteer roles within your museum
• Volunteer-led Museums
• The Volunteering in the Arts Toolkit

Please note there is a nominal fee for this Seminar: €5, payable through the event online booking page http://volunteerprogrammeseminar.eventbrite.ie

Should you have any questions or require further information on this event, please contact Gina O’Kelly at the Irish Museums Association on (01) 412 0939 or email office@irishmuseums.org

www.irishmuseums.org

We are a new Arts studio based on the fringe of the Cathedral Quarter in North Street. The inbelfaststudio hosts a number of experienced artists who teach their skills.

We are now offering a series of professionally delivered workshops which give you understanding and insight into making your own art or enhancing your existing skills. Our artists will guide you step by step through each discipline showing you new ways of looking at art and how to make your own.

The Spring program offers the chance to try any of these art forms open to any level of participation. Festival time is here so why not activate your creative side as well.

Contact us via our website where you will also get all the information on the various short courses and safely book via PayPal.

www.inbelfastdesign.com

If you have ANY questions please feel free to contact us at unit1performanceart@gmail.com.

If you would like to guest curate a Unit 1 exhibition, please contact us by May 26th – we look forward to hearing from you.

The Northsiders’ Museum, The Northside Shopping Centre, Coolock, Dublin 17

Artist Lisa Crowne invites you to take part in “the Northside” project. We are looking for images that say “the Northside” to you. Your images Can be from any time, of anything, anyone or any place on the Northside. Images will be edited to create a short video piece which will be Projected during our Citizens’ Exhibition.

You can submit your images via email. Please include your name, title of your piece and it’s story (if possible). You can also drop them into the museum 2pm-5pm, Thurs to sat between 16th and 3oth may. We also accept slides and negatives which can be scanned in the museum or short video clips.

www.facebook.com/northsiders.museum
www.northsidersmuseum.wordpress.com