BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/Dublin X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Dublin BEGIN:VEVENT UID:401@visualartists.ie DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20250829T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20251026T180000 DTSTAMP:20251003T090513Z URL:https://visualartists.ie/events/biodh-orm-anocht-group-exhibition-at-o rmston-house SUMMARY:Bíodh Orm Anocht | Group Exhibition at Ormston House DESCRIPTION:\nOrmston House in collaboration with EVA International present s Bíodh Orm Anocht. The exhibition will run from 29 August to 26 October. Bíodh Orm Anocht\, roughly translating to 'be with me tonight'\, is a gro up exhibition featuring new and existing artworks by four artists – Seá n Hannan\, Laura Ní Fhlaibhín\, Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh\, and Kiera O'Too le – presented at Ormston House and off-site locations. While the contri butors work across media and processes\, they are unified by a preoccupati on with customs and practices that can broadly be described as folk knowle dge. These methods and intuitive systems challenge technorational systems of thought.\n\n\n\nThese four artists convey knowledge that transcends lan guage and which is all the more potent because it remains unwritten and un spoken. Each artist is concerned with the metaphorical qualities of materi als. They draw from disciplines outside the visual arts (including mytholo gy\, zoology\, and cartography)\, infusing them with personal meaning. Inh erent in these works is the possibility that atavistic wisdom may be sourc ed from the natural world.\n\n\n\nSeán Hannan's work explores how forgott en voices and rituals can echo into the future\, both through unstable tec hnologies and systems of collaboration. Using archival fragments from auto biographical memories referring to Irish traditions\, Hannan's artworks re flect obsolescence and poetic instability. Received at the Graveyard is a sonic installation revolving around an evolving voice AI (artificial intel ligence). At its core lies a handful of field recordings made in Ireland i n the 1950s that captured the final traces of a near-extinct tradition\, k eening (caoineadh). Another work featured in this exhibition is LUCK (2022 )\, a sculpture in the form of a piseóg (pish-ohg): folk witchcraft. Main ly a phenomenon of rural Ireland\, piseógs were cast as an act of malice\ , often using a chicken egg onto which a curse had been placed.\n\n\n\nIn contrast\, Laura Ní Fhlaibhín employs materials which have traditionally been connected with healing and nourishment. Sifting stories and traces a ssociated with site\, memory\, and the casting of spells\, Ní Fhlaibhín creates complex but delicate sculptural scenarios. She frequently introduc es living beings into white cube environments that are typically purposed for the display of inanimate objects. While previous artworks have involve d earthworms\, leopard slugs\, and willow trees\, the family of sculptural assemblages presented here are made from chunks of mineral salt and ash w ood. The creation of these sculptures has involved the co-authorship of ho rses\, who have licked the salt crystals into biomorphic forms. The ash tr ee is sacred in Irish mythology and is seen as possessing talismanic power .\n\n\n\nThe equine kingdom is also referred to in the cosmological work o f Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh. His Speculative massage tools for a family of Do nkeys (2022) incorporates massage tools for these domesticated creatures. Other works by Ó Dochartaigh presented at Ormston House include a renderi ng in glazed ceramics of the artist's late father's stomach. A stacked edi tion of printed drawings link the ecological decline of fish species with medical modifications of the human body\, Irish history\, and the legacies of British colonialism.\n\n\n\nPreparation for this project has entailed site visits and open-ended fieldwork across graveyards\, the River Shannon \, fish shops\, and city streets. This is best exemplified in the work of Kiera O'Toole\, whose practice involves derivés of everyday public spaces \, in this case Limerick city centre. Through drawing in-situ\, O'Toole re cords the subtle energies of these locations (which she describes as spati alised emotions) and translates her pre-reflective\, sensory encounters in to topographical maps and charts that she describes as 'affective cartogra phies'.\n\n\n\nThe exhibition takes its name from a traditional Irish song first transcribed by the Irish Folklore Commission in 1936. The song is e ssentially a piece of mouth music or lilting in which melody and rhythm ta ke precedence over lyrical content. Before being preserved via the written word\, 'Bíodh Orm Anocht' was conveyed orally down through generations a nd was therefore altered over time. In the few recordings that are availab le (such as Mick Hanly and Micheál O Domhnaill's 1974 album Celtic Folkwe ave)\, the singer's words hover between possibilities of lyrical meaning\, pitch\, and rhythm. In this way\, the song is a vehicle for forms of expr ession that transcend time and language and which are an outcome of commun al rather than individual authorship.\n\n\n\nThis exhibition is accompanie d by a programme of events:\n\n\n\n-On Saturday\, 30 August from 12–1pm\ , Seán Hannan will join us for an artist talk and a wireless broadcast of Received at the Graveyeard. Meet at Ormston House\, followed by a five-mi nute walk to St. Michael's Graveyard. This event will have limited accessi bility due to steps and uneven ground.-On Friday\, 19 September\, we will be joined from 5–6pm by Historian-in-Residence Sharon Slater for a talk and walk about the history of St. Michael's Graveyard. This talk will have limited accessibility due to steps and uneven ground. The exhibition will also remain open until 9pm as part of Culture Night 2025.-On Friday\, 26 September\, 6–8pm\, we will be joined for an artist talk with Laura NíF hlaibhín and tactile workshop with equine therapist Muriel Foxton. Free t ickets can be booked here.-On Saturday\, 27 September from 2–4pm\, artis t Kiera O'Toole will lead a participatory drawing workshop. Through gestur al drawing exercises\, participants will map the energies and atmospheres of Limerick city. Meet at Ormston House\, followed by a walk to city centr e sites. Materials will be provided. Capacity is limited\, so book here to avoid disappointment.\n\n\n\nArtist biographies:\n\n\n\nSeán Hannan live s and works in Amsterdam and graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie A msterdam in 2009. His work has been shown in numerous art venues such as t he RU exhibition space\, New York\; Upstream gallery\, Amsterdam\; and Hot el Maria Kapel in Hoorn. Hannan participated in Unfair16. He has also rece ived numerous project grants from the Amsterdam fund for the arts (AFK).\n \n\n\nLaura Ní Fhlaibhín is an artist from Wexford. She completed her MF A at Goldsmiths\, University of London in 2019 with Distinction and her BA at National College of Art and Design\, Dublin in 2013. She is the recipi ent of the National College of Art and Design\, Dublin Staff Prize Bursary \; the Goldsmiths Graduate Almacantar Bursary 2019\; the Arts Council of I reland Next Generation Award 2020\; the Arts Council England Developing Cr eative Practice Award 2021\; and Arts Council of Ireland Bursaries.\n\n\n\ nCiarán Ó Dochartaigh is an artist\, researcher\, and Gaeilgeoir from De rry\, living and working with chronic illness. His mixed-media practice ex plores complexities inherent within the embodiment of personal loss with t he legacy of political violence and lived experience. He is interested in combining industrial manufacturing processes with the materialities of art isanal craft objects to create a specific language of sculptural works.\n\ n\n\nKiera O'Toole is a research-based visual artist and lecturer at ATU S ligo. Her practice explores drawing as a method of registering the spatial ised emotions of place\, blending phenomenology and atmospheric theory. O' Toole exhibits internationally and publishes widely on contemporary drawin g. She is a professional member of Visual Artists Ireland and the Drawing Research Network (UK)\, and she is a co-founder of Drawing deCentered. She currently lives and works in Sligo\, Ireland.\n\n\n\nThe exhibition is su pported by the Arts Council of Ireland and Limerick Arts Office. The event s programme is funded by Creative Ireland and Limerick City and County Cou ncil through Limerick Creative Communities Small Grants Scheme 2025. Seán Hannan's participation in this exhibition is partly made possible by the Mondriaan Fund\, the public fund for visual art and cultural heritage in t he Netherlands.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://visualartists.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025 /07/listings-exhibition-2-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Munster - Limerick LOCATION:Ormston House\, 9-10 Patrick Street\, Limerick\, Limerick\, V94 V0 89\, Ireland GEO:52.6649317;-8.62515 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=9-10 Patrick Street\, Limer ick\, Limerick\, V94 V089\, Ireland;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Ormston Hou se:geo:52.6649317,-8.62515 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Dublin X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Dublin BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250330T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:IST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251026T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR