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The Courthouse Arts Centre's visual arts programme aims to provide a
space for art in virtually all media, by both emerging and established
artists from Ireland and abroad.
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To download a printable version of our April-August 2010 Calendar of Events, click here! |
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| CURRENT and UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS and EVENTS | |||||
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Cliona Fox:
Admission free My work is a reflection on particular histories that revolve around community and its effects on the environment and behaviour. The images prompt contemplation on the socially and culturally changing situation in Ireland, our sense of place, immigration and exile, and heritage in a climate of increasing globalisation. The narrative contained in the attached images deals with our long standing fishing tradition and all it entails, both in-shore and off-shore. However, instead of illustrating the obvious: 'fish', rather for the majority of these works, it is in the gaps, by what remains of the industry and by what has replaced it, that the story is told. For today this is a fragile business with the numbers working, and the tonnage of fish landed, being greatly reduced as stocks are depleted and many of the trawlers being sent away for wreckage. Ironically, since the commencement of this body of work (in Co. Kerry) the lone trawler 'The Last Trip for the Wave Crest' has been decommissioned and the hulk sent to Holland for wrecking, leaving only a memory and the gleaming speed-boats to fill the gap. In these works I am endeavouring to recollect an island's fishing industry. Moreover in so doing I am conscientious of the challenges faced by so many other industries and their attempts to sustain and adapt in our current climate. By illustrating them I am keen to enhance the profile while encouraging a closer scrutiny of the impact global forces have on us all. Click here for Cliona Fox's WebsiteTOP | |||||
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Curious Tale Theatre Company
"ALTERATION" Admission free Experimental theatre company meets envelope-pushing performance and visual artists! A collaborative artists' residency project to include special events for the public, and workshops. www.curioustail.comTELEPHONE ENQUIRIES: 0402-38529 or e-mail us at bookings@tinahely-courthouse.ie For the month of August 2010, the Courthouse Arts Centre in Tinahely will be devoted to a collaborative artists’ residency bringing together fresh talent from the worlds of theatre, performance art, visual art and music in the South Wicklow area. This is an artist-led project initiated by Curious Tail Theatre Company, a group formed in 2008 by Wicklow-based theatre-maker Maggie Gallagher, with support from Wicklow County Arts Office. The company emphasises group creativity, and seeks to explore and break down the boundaries between artist, performer and audience. Dominic Thorpe is a performance artist based in Dublin. In 2009 he was awarded an artist’s residency by Wicklow County Council, during which he lived on a farm in South Wicklow and spent time with the agricultural community in this region. The Courthouse hosted a performance art piece, Hands Were In The Life Area, in December 2009 which brought together the themes of rural isolation, the loss of agricultural traditions and the pressures faced by the farming industry, in a piece that contained visceral and shocking actions and haunting multimedia imagery and sound. Niamh Jackman, a visual artist based in Arklow and Dublin, has also participated in our visual arts strand, with a 2006 installation entitled Hanging Books which incorporated a large-scale textile sculpture that dominated the space in a new and exciting way. Niamh explores the relationship between random and deliberate mark-making, and her work makes a visual connection between drawing and sculpture. Jonathon Dickson’s practice is divided between visual arts and music. His work as a guitarist and as a painter is occupied with the space between conscious effort and the sense of being lost in the creative process. Emma Hill is a knitwear designer and craftsperson based in Aughrim, Co. Wicklow, and she has worked on many projects in collaboration with community and theatre groups, exploring mixed media with an emphasis on the process and the value that emerges when the artist and non-artist converge. For this project, Curious Tail and the collaborating artists will work also with members of the public to exploit the Courthouse as a creative space with deep roots in the community, and to create an experience that is visually, aurally and texturally engaging and challenging. The Courthouse Arts Centre has given the venue over to the project for the entire month. Special events and workshop to be announced. Visitors welcome at all times during opening hours. The Courthouse Arts Centre is committed to supporting artists and audiences in this region, and we seek to provide assistance to practitioners in all disciplines to develop their skills and reach new audiences. We feel this residency is a good embodiment of our role as a cultural resource organisation for this region, providing a mechanism of connection for artists who can become isolated and whose artistic processes can become disjointed given the current funding scenario which primarily provides for one-off, short-term projects. We take seriously our ability to help make connections and provide strong infrastructure and frameworks for cultural practitioners in our catchment area of South Wicklow and parts of Wexford, Carlow, Kildare and Dublin. We also welcome the opportunity to provide new cultural experiences for an underserved, rural population. |
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PAST EXHIBITIONS: Workhouse Studios: Diverse Talents
Stephen McKee: Blues from a Plane
Greg Tierney: A Walk in the Woods
Mairead O'Neill Laher: What Lies Beneath
Maree Hensey and Mark Ryan: Source & Surroundings
Dominic Thorpe: Life Area
Book Launch: Fr Browne at Home
Boz Mugabe:The Encroachment Codex
Dorothy Smith: Hidden Histories
Charlotte Kelly: A Quite Light
Ben Readman: Still Standing
Seighean O'Draoi and Brian J Byrne: In contemplation of the frailties of life and its joys
Terry Corcoran: Horizon 2
Doreen Kennedy: Findings
Tony Gunning: Scenes from the Monoculture
Eoin MacLochlainn: Caoineadh / Elegies
Carrie Creamer: The Seat of my Soul
Enagh Farrell and Deirdre Byrne: Drawings
Miranda Driscoll: Still Standing
Cóilíin Rush: Bobby Softrock
Gethyn Gibson: Of a Feather
Stuart Simpson: Formaggio con
Queso
Paul Joyce: Hilbert Curves
Peter White and Bernie Toner: An Asian
Odyssey
Liam Holden: Waterway
Lucy McKenna: Luminosity
Mary Noonan
Joe Ryan: In Camera
Leonard Sheil: The Blackbird and Other
Tales
Mixed Threads: Textured Surfaces
Fiona Whitty and Charlotte Murray:
Journeys
Katarzyna Gajewska: In The Name of the
Feelings
Carl X. Hayden
Roisin McGuigan
Mary Lloyd Jones
Kate Minnock and Deirdre Byrne
Peter Wallstrom: Pictorial
Lies
Swedish artist Peter Wallström works with emotions both in paintings and photographs. Majella Clancy: Small Spaces
Lisa Sweeney: Crows for Company
David Hurn: A Welsh Life
As part of the Courthouse Arts Centre's tenth anniversary celebrations,
we are delighted to host an exhibition of photographs by internationally
renowned magnum photographer, David Hurn, who has a long-standing,
international reputation as one of Britain's leading reportage
photographers. Niamh Jackman: Hanging Threads
Martina Galvin
* We are pleased that the Arts Office of Wicklow County Council purchased three of Martina's works at the exhibition, for permanent display in the new Tinahely branch library in the Market Square Building across the street from the Courthouse. Denise Hussey: Fragments 2
Thomas Delohery: In a Place like Auschwitz
Mary Grehan: From Life
Ross Stewart
Austin Corcoran: Reprise
Stepping Outside
James Hayes and Lorraine Whelan: For
Elise
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VISUAL ARTISTS! The exhibition space consists of 175 running feet of wall space, distributed between the main, ground floor, the first floor balcony, and a smaller, separate room downstairs. Large windows provide excellent natural light, which is augmented by halogen track and spot lighting. Dado rails, radiators, and panelling restrict the vertical size of wall art; these details can be provided upon inquiry. Sketch plans of the gallery are available for download as PDFs by clicking on the links below. For consideration, send up to 20 slides (with SAE for return), a CD, CD-Rom or memory stick, or other photographic documentation of your work, with a curriculum vitae, to Shelley Hayes at the Courthouse Arts Centre. E-mail submissions accepted, to info@tinahely-courthouse.ie but please limit size of messages to 1MB. Visit the contact page for details. NEXT DEADLINE (FOR 2011 EXHIBITIONS): JULY 16th 2010 Downstairs (main space) gallery wall plan - click here Downstairs (main space) gallery WALL A - click here Downstairs (main space) gallery WALL B - click here Downstairs (main space) gallery WALL D - click here Upstairs (balcony space) gallery wall plan - click here Upstairs (balcony space) gallery WALL A - click here Upstairs (balcony space) gallery WALL B - click here | |||||
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