AUGUST 2007
IRISH ARTS NEWS
SUMMER AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF
IRELAND
DO NOT MISS THE JB.YEATS EXHIBITION - THE MOST BRILLIANT AND
EXCITING MEMORIAL TO THE PAINTER, THAT IDENTIFIES THE
HISTORY OF HIS STRANGE DEVELOPMENTS AS AN ARTIST RELATING
TO THE ESSENTIAL SOLITUDE AND EXHILARATION OF ARTISTIC
WORK, AND REVEALS THE ESSENTIAL ACCURACY AND BEAUTY OF
HIS DRAWINGS AND EMOTION IN THEIR TRUE CONTEXT.jb,EDITOR
'MASQUERADE AND SPECTACLE. THE CIRCUS AND TRAVELLING FAIR
IN THE WORK OF JACK B YEATS'
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the artist's death,
this exhibition of some 20 paintings, focuses on a
subject that was crucial to Yeats' artistic development.
The display will include a number of items from the Yeats
Archive and paintings that have rarely been seen in
public before.
(18 July until 11 November, Yeats Museum, admission free)
We will be having Lunchtime talks and Daily tours right
through the Summer. Tours commence at 3pm daily, with
three afternoon tours on Sundays. Lunchtime talks take
place on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1pm. All events are
free.
(Tá Leagan Gaeilge thios)
The gallery's Audioguide service is now available in
Irish. Please enquire at the information desks.
ONGOING:
'TREASURES FROM THE NORTH: IRISH PAINTINGS FROM THE
ULSTER MUSEUM'
Perhaps the most impressive show of Irish art ever
presented in one location, as we display along with our
own collection an exhibition of 60 masterpieces from the
Ulster Museum.
(Until 16 September, Millennium Wing, admission free)
'THE FANTASTIC IN IRISH ART: IMAGES OF THE SUPERNATURAL
AND THE UNCANNY'
This exhibition looks at the role of the fantastic in the
work of Irish artists of the late 19th and early 20th
centuries. Preferring the inner world of the imagination
to the current emphasis on rationalism these artists
created evocative and fascinating works of art intended
to delight or unsettle their audience.
( Until 12 August, Print Gallery, admission free )
Additional information is available at http://www.nationalgallery.ie/html/exhibitions.html
For Families
Every Sunday at 3pm during July and August, the gallery
hosts a Kids Art Workshop, giving children a chance to
explore the collection, followed by a practical workshop.
(Free event)
And don't forget, the family packs and Drawing Kits
available at the gallery. These include quality drawing
materials, sketch pads and instruction booklet. They may
be borrowed free of charge for use within the gallery.
(Available at Millennium Wing information desk)
For further information on all forthcoming events check
out our website www.nationalgallery.ie
Kind Regards
Visitor Services Officer
National Gallery of Ireland
Merrion Square West, Dublin 2.
Phone - 6615133 ext 3813
Fax - 6615372
dgalligan@ngi.ie
How to Find Us:
National Gallery of Ireland
Merrion Square West & Clare Street, Dublin 2.
Admission is free to the permanent collection.
Telephone (01) 661 5133
Email: info@ngi.ie
www.nationalgallery.ie
Gallery Opening Hours:
Monday-Saturday 9.30am-5.30pm
Thursday 9.30am-8.30pm
Sunday 12.00pm-5.30pm
Closed 24-26 December & Good Friday.
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SAMHRADH i nGAILEARAÍ NÁISÍUNTA NA hÉIREANN
Beidh Cainteanna am Lóin agus Turais Laethúil i rith an
tSamhraidh ar fad againn anseo ag an Ghailearaí.
Tosnaíonn na turais ag 3in gach lá, agus tá trí
turais againn ar thráthnóna dé Domhnaigh. Bionn na
cainteanna ar siul gach Máirt agus Déardaoin ag 1in.
Tá saorchead isteach chuig na himeachtaí go léir.
NUA
TÁ AN CHLOSTREOIR LE FÁIL ANOIS i nGAEILGE. DÉAN
FIOSRÚ AG AN DEASC EOLAIS.
'Bréagriocht agus Taispeántas: an Sorcas agus an
tAonach Taistil i Shaothar Jack B Yeats'
Taispeántas speisialta chun an t-ealaíontóir a
chomóradh caoga bliain i ndiaidh a bháis. Díríonn na
pictiúir sa taispeántas ar ábhar a bhí lárnach i
bhforbairt Yeats mar ealaíontóir. Beidh roinnt saothar
ó Chartlann Yeats le feiceáil agus pictiúir nár
cuireadh os comhair an phobail mórán riamh cheana.
(18 Iúil go dtí 11 Samhna, Músaem Yeats, saorchead
isteach)
AR LEAN
'An Fhantaisíocht in Ealaín na Éireann:
Íomhánna den Osnádúr agus den Diamhair'
Léiríonn an taispeántas seo ról na fantaisíochta i
saothar ealaíontoirí Éireannacha ag deireadh an 19ú
haois agus tús an 20ú haois. Agus iad ag díriú ar
shaol inmheánach na samhlaíochta seachas ar spéis na
ré sin sa réasúnachas, chruthaigh na healaíontóirí
seo saothair spreagúla, inspéise a tharraing aird an
lucht féachana nó a rinne míshuaimhneach iad. Tá
saothair le Richard Doyle, George Russell, Jack Yeats,
Oliver Sheppard, Harry Clarke, Art O'Murnaghan agus
daoine eile le feiceáil sa taispeántas. ( Go dtí 12
Lúnasa, An Gailearaí Priontaí, saorchead isteach )
Seoda ón Tuaisceart: Pictiúir Éireannacha ó Mhúsaem
Uladh
B'fhéidir an seó is fearr d'ealaín na hÉireann a
cuireadh ar siúl ar aon láthair riamh á chur ar
taispeáint, nuair a léireoimid 60 sárshaothar ó
Mhúsaem Uladh in éineacht lenár mbailiúchán féin.
Tá catalog lándaite ar fáil (Praghas €9.95).
Tá bileog oibre saor in aisce ag gabháil leis an
taispeántas.
(Go dtí 16 Méan Fómhair, Sciathán na Mílaoise,
Saorchead isteach)
'As a visual record of Irish life it is
unequalled…(Metrolife) It is a joyful experience
from beginning to end…(Irish Iindependent)
Tuilleadh eolais ar fáil ó http://www.nationalgallery.ie/html/exhibitions.html
Imeachtaí Teaghlaigh Gach Domhnach ag 3in le linn mhí
Iúil agus mhí Lúnasa, cuireann an Gailearaí Ceardlann
Ealaíne do Pháistí ar bun, a thugann deis do pháistí
an bailiúchán a scrúdú agus páirt a ghlacadh i
gceardlann phraiticiuil. (Saorchead isteach)
fáil sa ghailearaí. San áireamh, tá trealamh
líníochta d'ardchaighdean, bloic sceitseála, agus
treoirleabhair. Is féidir iad a fháil ar iasacht gan
táille ón Deasc Eolais, Sciathán na Mílaoise.
Tá tuilleadh eolais ar fáil ón Rannóg Oideachais 01
6615133.
Tuilleadh eolais ar ár imeachtaí ar fad le fáil ón
suíomh gréasáin www.nationalgallery.ie
Le meas,
Oifigeach Seirbhisí Cuairteora
Gailearaí Náisiúnta na hÉireann
Cearnóg Mhuirfean Thiar
Baile Átha Cliath 2
Teil - 6615133 ext 3813 Faics - 6615372
dgalligan@ngi.ie
Conas teacht orainn:
Gailearaí Náisiúnta na hÉireann
Cearnóg Mhuirfean Thiar agus Sráid Chliara Baile Átha
Cliath 2
Teil - 6615133
Tá Saorchead Isteach sa Taispeántas Buan
R-phost: info@ngi.ie www.nationalgallery.ie
Uaireanta Oscailte
Luan go Satharn 9.30rn-5.30in
Déardaoin 9.30rn-8.30in
Domhnach 12.00 meán lae -5.30in
Dúnta 24-26 Mí na Nollag & Aoine an Chéasta.
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garter lane
centre, waterford
Away with the Fairies
2nd July –31st August 2007
Garter Lane Arts Centre is delighted to present Away with the Fairies. This is a unique colorful exhibition for children to interact with, featuring works by Oisin Byrne, Phillip Cullen, Kathleen Delaney, Michael Fortune/Aileen Lambert and Kathleen Hurley. The main focus of this exhibition is fun. The artists were selected from an open call submission for their interpretation of the above theme having created work especially with children in mind, to visually stimulate as well as bring an element of fun to their art experience.
Guaranteed to put a smile on your face, this exhibition has something for all the family.
The exhibition will be officially opened by Mr. Big Colourdee Creative Stuff, Ben Michael Hennessy on Monday 30th July at 4pm at Garter Lane Gallery, 5 O’Connell Street, (Besides Delaney’s Florists), Waterford
Exhibition continues until 31st August 2007 at 2pm
Opening hours Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 5.30pm, admission is free
Free Away with the Fairies workshops every Wednesday in August,11am-12noon, PRE BOOKING ESSENTIAL on 051 855038
Artists:
Born in Dublin, Oisin Byrne received a First Class Honours (Highly Commended) BA in Fine Art Painting and the History of Art: NCAD, NUI. He was awarded an Arts Council Award for a two-month Artist's Residency and Exhibition in India, August - Sept 2006.He was also awarded for Highest Marking Thesis in Fine Art Faculty, National College of Art and Design, 2006.
Advocating ‘an art which is the product of play’, Oisín’s ‘chilled, blissed-out vision’ (Aidan Dunne, Irish Times, June 06) is tempered with humor and lightness, and takes influence from varied eastern perspectives and cultural traditions.
Amelia Blossom Haven shown in this exhibition and the friendly energy being are pseudonyms, friends, and helpful spirits who pervade the most recent work. The friendly energy being is currently in incarnation as the main character in a series of some 100 drawings and amelia appears both in the form of paintings, and in flocks of up to 1000 coloured origami pieces*.
*The tradition of making 1000 origami pieces (as in Oisin’s amelia blossom haven) is Japanese, practiced by children and adults as a manifest expression of a wish, marking occasions of great joy or sorrow. The origami pieces, or amelias, are friendly spirits, floating wishes, or good moods, made collective wish or dream as famelia.
Philip Cullen trained in the Crawford College of Art and Design graduating in Fine Art (Sculpture). He has a studio in rural Kilkenny. He has exhibited in major festivals in Ireland, and brought shows to Luxembourg and Belgium.
The Ink Men series started out in 2005 when Philip had the desire to draw 12 images of stylised faces. However, as with many things in life and art, what you start out wanting is not necessarily what you end up with. Over 200 of these images now exist. Philip completed them in cafes and restaurants; traffic jams, at home listening to television, on Ferries and aeroplanes and even in the doctor’s surgery.
His theme developed and grew, as Philip explains: “They became a visual diary of my day-to-day life and are very precious to me. They are funny and sad and provided relief and fun in a very hectic year. In 2005 I had trouble to maintain my artistic life and teaching life. That year I had a lot of work as an art tutor and creative facilitator. I had very little time to work creatively due to the crazy schedule - so worked in the only way I could, which was with small, mobile, quick–drying and possible pieces.
In the Garter Lane show I have made a cutout life-size Ink Boy with magnetic features, so an endless variety of expressions can be made. Our own faces are artworks in emotion and convey so much about what we think and feel (unless you have a good poker face), that I wished to capture that idea. I had tremendous craic making them.”
Kathleen Delaney is a Wexford based artist. She graduated from The National College of Art, Dublin (NCAD) in 1988 with a BA honours degree. Prior to this she studied at The Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), where she received an NCEA honours Diploma in Fine Art.
Her work has been seen in London, Wales, The Scottish Higlands, Krakow, Slovenia and New Orleans. In addition her work can be found in the art collections of The Bank of Ireland, Wexford Co. Council, Whites Hotel Wexford, Wexford Hospital Healing Arts Trust and Waterford Hospital Healing Arts Trust.
Since 2000 Kathleen Delaney has been working in textiles. Using sumptuous velvets and mainly natural fabrics – silks, linen, cotton backed satin and cotton. She designs, prints and dyes her own fabrics. Each piece of fabric is unique to a specific work. She has created paintings,wall hangings, Artist’s books and a shoe collection based on the Dancing Princesses. In this series of sculptural works, Kathleen combines textile, wood,steel,found objects and ephemera to create pieces which reference the world of fairy tale. The work shown in Away with the Fairies exhibition is a development of her art practice.
Aileen Lambert is a County Wexford-based artist whose practise spans video, performance and sound work as well as participatory public art projects.
Having graduated from LSAD, Limerick, in 1997, Aileen became involved with the Real Art Project (RAP), a Limerick based artists-run initiative dedicated to providing opportunities for emerging and established artists. In her role as administrator, Aileen was involved with the co-ordination of many events and exhibitions such as The Greatest Sound Art Album in the World...Ever! and Infusion - National Review of Live Art, and was a founder member of the Real Art Projects Contact Studios. Aileen completed an MA in Visual Arts Practices in Dun Laoghaire IADT in January 2007.
Aileen’s video, sound and performance practice is concerned with the relationship which the body has with it's environment, and represents a claiming of space. Using simple actions, gestures, processes, and interventions, she traces her body's presence on the landscape, expressing and documenting a particular place and time. Many works are concerned with a vain attempt to preserve, mark or measure a certain material, activity or process.
Michael Fortune studied Fine Art, specialising in video and performance at the Limerick School of Art, where he graduated with a First Class Honours Degree. In 2004 he completed an MA in Screenwriting from Dun Laoghaire School of Film.
Michael is an experienced Arts Manager and has previously worked as Project Co-ordinator with Limerick based artist-run initiative, the Real Art Project. During this time he was involved in co-ordinating shows such as ‘Eject, Video Art Shorts III’, ‘In-transit’, ‘RAW’, ‘Infusion-Millennium Review of Live Art’ and ‘The Greatest Sound Art Album in the World…Ever’. In 2000 he co-founded Real ArtSpace, a project and exhibition space for the Real Art Project and in 2005 was joint Project Manager for young ev+a 2005.
He is currently working on a public art commission for Wexford County Council and has work in upcoming shows in China, Canada, London, Cork, Galway, Dublin and Wexford.
The Banshee Lives in the Handball Alley featuring in Away with the Fairies exhibition is an archival collection of local stories told by pupils from three Limerick City Schools with artist Aileen Lambert and artist/filmmaker Michael Fortune.
This project builds and develops upon a DVD, produced by Michael and Aileen as part of the Cuisle Poetry Festival and young ev+a 2005, which is an archival collection of local stories, sayings and superstitions as told by the fourth and fifth classes of three Limerick City Schools.
This project uncovered stories, which revealed a remarkable knowledge and wealth of folklore, ancient and contemporary, which were completed in the boundless imaginations of the storytellers themselves.
Kathleen Featherstone Hurley was born in Notttingham to a family of Irish catholic emigrants.She studied painting and printing in Canterbury before moving to Co Kerry 9 years ago. Since then she has exhibited frequently and works to commissions. She teaches art in community context and also as an art teacher for Adult Education, Tralee.
Her work is inspired by seemingly contradictory themes, from her mother’s eccentricities to a catholic upbringing, which she uses to explore the contrary nature of life. Within her work there is a certain amount of ambiguity that allows the audience a participatory role in the story.
The Wishing Tree installation was inspired by her love of Fairy tales and a recent rag dolls
Comission.
As Kathleen states: I wanted to create a piece which the children can interact with, something beautiful, simple and joyful amidst our modern world”
Exhibition continues until 31st August 2007 at 2pm
Opening hours Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 5.30pm, admission is free
Free Away with the Fairies workshops every Wednesday in August,11am-12noon-the gallery hosts a Kids Art Workshop, giving children a chance to explore the exhibition, followed by a practical workshop.
PRE BOOKING ESSENTIAL on 051 855038
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Washi Moku
PAPERMAKING & WOODBLOCK PRINTING WORKSHOPS
Washi Moku are offering specialist workshops in Papermaking and Japanese Woodblock Printing for a maximum of 8 people each:
Two x 2 day workshops; Two x 1 day workshops
CASTLECOMER
Paperworks Studio, Castlecomer Estate Yard
September 15th & 16th 10 - 4 pm
September 21st 10 – 4 pm
THOMASTOWN
Grennan Mill Craft College
September 29th & 30th 10 – 4 pm
October 4th 10 – 4 pm
PRICE
2 day course €160; 1 day course €80
Includes use of traditional tools and all materials.
APPLICATION:------
I would like to attend the Washi Moku Papermaking and Woodblock Printmaking Workshop
At……………………………………………………..on …………………………………
Name ………………………………………………
Address…………………………………………………………………………………
Telephone…………………………………………..e-mail ………………...........................
Please send to
Debra Bowden, Tinteann, Ladywell, Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny.
enclosing 50% deposit. Washi Moku - PAPERMAKING & WOODBLOCK PRINTING WORKSHOPS
The Spoken Word
Curated by Valerie Walshe.
Call for submission’s for a show titled The Spoken Word which will be exhibited at the Electric Picnic Festival 31st August 2007.
Illustrators are asked to take a famous Speech either Irish or International and illustrate it. A famous quotation could also be used.
Some text must be included in the illustration.
If you are interested the dead line for submissions is Friday the 17th of August. There will be collection points at various places around the country for the work.
All work must be unframed and on 1cm MDF.
Each submission must be 50cm by 30cm.
For more information please call Valerie Walshe 0877843015 or email vwcurator@gmail.comThe Spoken Work Call for Submissions
Niamh FinnArts AdministratorKilkenny County Council Arts Office
County HallJohn StreetKilkenny
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