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Visual Artists Ireland

Five Northern Ireland groups need your vote… <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–visualartists.ie/news/five-northern-ireland-groups-need-your-vote/>

Five Northern Ireland groups need your vote as they are about to go head to head with other National Lottery-funded projects from across the UK in the semi-finals of The National Lottery Awards 2011. The Awards recognise the difference that Lottery-funded projects – both big and small – make to local communities.

The semi-finalists have been shortlisted for the big difference they have made with Lottery money, and people in Northern Ireland are being urged to cast a vote, from Tuesday 31 May, to help them make it through to the final.

Details on The Arts Council Northern Ireland website <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–www.artscouncil-ni.org/news/2011/new27052011.html>

Royal College of Art Seeks Dean of School of Fine Art <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–visualartists.ie/jobs-ops/jobvac/royal-college-of-art-seeks-dean-of-school-of-fine-art/>

The Royal College of Art is the only entirely postgraduate institution of university status devoted to teaching, learning, research and practice in art, design and communication. The College has a long history of achievement in art and design education, numerous eminent graduates and a remarkable record of graduate employment.

From Autumn 2012, all four Programmes of the Fine Art School of the Royal College of Art will be housed in new, purpose-built facilities at the Battersea campus. The RCA is now seeking to appoint to the position of Dean of Fine Art, to head the School and provide academic leadership, vision and direction.

The RCA is keen to consider applications from practising artists with a strong record of exhibiting with leading art schools, museums and galleries internationally; experienced curators in the field of Fine Art as well as academic managers and researchers. Whatever their practice, fundamental will be their ability to define and ‘seed’ a new culture of Fine Art in Battersea underpinned by practice based research. The role of Dean requires a minimum commitment of 3 days a week.

For further information and an application form please contact Liz Amos of Liz Amos Associates:

T: +44(0)20 7884 9202

E: liz.amos@lizamosassociates.com <mailto:liz.amos@lizamosassociates.com>

Information is also available at www.rca.ac.uk <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–www.rca.ac.uk/> or www.lizamosassociates.com <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–www.lizamosassociates.com/> .

Closing date for applications: Thursday 30 June 2011

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award at Belfast Exposed <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–visualartists.ie/jobs-ops/funding-awards/ahrc-collaborative-doctoral-award-at-belfast-exposed/>

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award

Photography, Community and Memory in the Belfast Exposed Collection

Birmingham City University and Belfast Exposed are pleased to announce the availability of an AHRC funded Collaborative Doctoral Award for an October 2011 start. Based on the community photography archive established at Belfast Exposed in the early 1980s, this project has the following aims: to understand how the collection has developed in a changing social, cultural and political context, to explore the contemporary cultural value of the collection for communities and audiences in Belfast and beyond; to situate the work in the context of changing understandings and uses of photography, specifically in its relation to community memory and history; and to inform the partner organisation’s strategies for the presentation and display of images from the historical collection for contemporary audiences. The project will be jointly supervised by Darren Newbury, Professor of Photography at Birmingham City University, and Pauline Hadaway, Director of Belfa! st Exposed.

Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates with a background in photography, visual and/or community arts, visual anthropology/sociology, cultural studies or a related area.

Details on eligibility and applications can found at: www.biad.bcu.ac.uk/research/site/belfastexposed.php <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–www.biad.bcu.ac.uk/research/site/belfastexposed.php> .

Deadline: 4pm, 15 June 2011

Call for Entries: Salon Art Prize 2011 <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–visualartists.ie/jobs-ops/funding-awards/call-for-entries-salon-art-prize-2011/>

Salon Art Prize 2011- Call for entries

Exhibition dates: 7 – 29 October, 2011

The Salon Art Prize 2011 is the fifth annual open submission exhibition produced by Matt Roberts Arts at our gallery on Vyner St in East London. We will exhibit up to 100 artists and to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Salon Art Prize we will be offering a separate prize of GBP1000 for each exhibition category: Painting, Sculpture and Installation (including sound) and 2-D Media.

This years’ Selectors are:

Patricia Bickers (Editor, Art Monthly)

Pippa Hale (Director, Project Space Leeds)

Robert Leckie (Exhibitions Curator, Gasworks)

Matt Roberts Arts is a dynamic not-for-profit organisation founded in 2006 to create opportunities for artists in new locations and contexts. Matt Roberts Arts offers support to creative practitioners by providing a range of professional development programmes and national and international touring exhibitions.

In order to apply you will need to send three images of works you would like to submit to sap2011@mattroberts.org.uk <mailto:sap2011@mattroberts.org.uk> and pay an associate membership fee of GBP10 via our website www.salonartprize.com <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–www.salonartprize.com/> .

The deadline for applications and payments is: 5pm (GMT), Saturday 13 August 2011.

To apply please see www.salonartprize.com <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–www.salonartprize.com/> .

Public Art Commissions: M7 Road Projects <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–visualartists.ie/jobs-ops/commissions/public-art-commissions-m7-road-projects/>

Laois County Council in partnership with North Tipperary County Council and Offaly County Council wish to invite submissions for the following two-stage competitions: under the Per Cent for Art Scheme.

Project A

M7/M8 Portlaoise to Castletown/Cullahill PPP Motorway Scheme – Budget Available E55,000

This project has been funded by the Irish Government under the National Development Plan and Transport 21 and by the European Union from the Trans-European (TEN-T) Networks Budget.

Project B

M7 Castletown – Nenagh –Budget Available E55,000

This project has been funded by the Irish Government under the National Development Plan and Transport 21 and by the European Union from the European Regional Development Fund

These commissions have arisen under the Per Cent for Art Scheme in association with the above road development projects led by Laois County Council in partnership with North Tipperary County Council and Offaly County Council. Our vision is to commission artworks that reflect contemporary art practice and respond to the locale.

The Projects to be completed by the end of 2011 or early 2012.

Closing date for receipt of applications is Thursday 14 July 2011.

Application forms and brief for both projects are available from:

The Arts Office, Laois County Council, Áras an Chontae, Portlaoise, Co Laois.

T: 057 8674342/44

E: artsoff@laoiscoco.ie <mailto:artsoff@laoiscoco.ie>

www.laois.ie <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–www.laois.ie/>

<http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–www.addtoany.com/share_save#url–E-http%3A%2F%2Fvisualartists.ie%2Flistings-for-review%2Febulletin-test%2F–A-title–E-eBulletin%20Test–A-description–E-VAI%20News%20News%20Job%20Vacancies%20Funding%2FAwards%20Commissions%20Competitions%20Opportunities%20Residencies%20Studios%20%2F%20Space%20Conferences%20%2F%20Lectures%20%2F%20Talks%20Courses%20%2F%20Workshops%E2%80%A6> Combihne Art Commission at Causeway Hospital, Coleraine <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–visualartists.ie/jobs-ops/commissions/combihne-art-commission-at-causeway-hospital-coleraine/>

The Combihne project was developed over ten years ago. It brought together four hospitals, three councils and two communities. Together they lobbied for the development of a new hospital. As part of the new hospitals tenth anniversary a commissioned artwork is planned.

Combihne is working with Arts Care, a leading arts and health charity, to commission a visual artist to create and develop an artwork. The work will be informed by ‘togetherness’ and in particular the nine organisations and communities that came together over ten years ago within the Combihne project. The involved groups were Coleraine Hospital, Dalriada Hospital, Robinson Hospital and the Route Hospital, Coleraine District Council, Ballymoney District Council, Moyle District Council, and perhaps most importantly this extensive project brought the whole of the wider community together. Combihne objectives were finally fulfilled when the new Causeway Hospital was opened in 2001.

The project not only achieved a new hospital for the causeway area, but also national recognition. Therefore it is felt that an appropriate artwork should be commissioned and be sited in the Causeway Hospital to celebrate the projects success. The artwork must be able to engage patients, visitors and staff therefore it is important that the work is suitable for a hospital setting.

The commissioned artist will be experienced in delivering projects and can demonstrate their ability to facilitate high quality outcomes working with a specific professional brief and within the deadline. We are looking for proposals from visual artists that meet the aims of the project.

Tender process closes on 30 June 2011, 5pm

Shortlist and interview process completed by 6 July 2011

Work to be delivered by the 31 November 2011

The total budget for the project is GBP2850. This includes the costs of materials. Artist’s fees, artist’s research and design development, artist’s insurance, all fabrication costs, supply and installation, travel, and other costs incurred in the production of the artwork. The artist will be responsible for meeting all of these costs out of the total budget allocated.

For additional information please contact kathryn.nelson@northerntrust.hscni.net <mailto:kathryn.nelson@northerntrust.hscni.net> .

MadArt Gallery: Call for Submissions <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–visualartists.ie/jobs-ops/opportunities-ireland/madart-gallery-call-for-submissions/>

The MadArt Gallery is looking for professional artists and enthusiasts for a photography group show ‘Four Floors’. The exhibition will be held from 19 – 31 July as a part of PhotoIreland Festival 2011.

The final date for sending photographs is 1 July 2011. The MadArt gallery will contact chosen artist after that. There is no entrance fee. For artists chosen for exhibition there will hanging fee of E30.

Please send five images you would like to exhibit and short information about you and your work to sofia@madartstudio.com <mailto:sofia@madartstudio.com> .

To get more information please visit: www.madartstudio.com <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–www.madartstudio.com/index.php/%E2%80%9Cfoor-floors%E2%80%9D-photography-group-exhibition-photoireland-2011-call-for-submission/> .

Call for Submissions: Ballina Arts Centre <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–visualartists.ie/jobs-ops/opportunities-ireland/call-for-submissions-ballina-arts-centre/>

Applications are invited for the 2012 visual arts exhibition programme at the redeveloped Ballina Arts Centre in Co. Mayo. Ballina Arts Centre is fast becoming one of the ‘must-visit’ gallery spaces in the west and north-west region, with recent exhibitions including ‘Hughie O’Donoghue: North Mayo Retrospect’, Altered Images, ‘Jack B Yeats & the West of Ireland’, as well as numerous Irish artists such as Maria McKinney, Niall Kerrigan, Susan Tiger and many more.

Applicants should provide the following:

• Up to 10 visual examples of their work *(photographs, slides, digital images on CD will all be accepted)

• Current Curriculum Vitae and Artist’s Statement

• Any other supporting material

Individual & group submissions, across all media are welcome. An external, independent panel will assess applications.

Applications to arrive by 4pm, Friday 29 July 2011 to:

Visual Art 2012, Ballina Arts Centre, Barrett Street, Ballina, Co Mayo

(Please enclose stamped, self-addressed envelope for the return of visuals.)

For further information, please contact Ballina Arts Centre,

T: +353 (0)96 73593

E: ballinaartscentre@eircom.net <mailto:ballinaartscentre@eircom.net>

www.ballinaartscentre.com <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–www.ballinaartscentre.com/>

Submissions will not be accepted by email.

Limerick Printmakers: Call for Artists <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–visualartists.ie/jobs-ops/opportunities-ireland/limerick-printmakers-call-for-artists/>

Limerick Printmakers Open Submission Print Show will be held on 14 July 2011.

We are calling all artists who make original prints..etching, litho, collograph, monoprint, silkscreen, woodblock, digital print and photography as well as installations and non traditional print. Work can include other media, as long as there is an element of printmaking within the work.

Deadline for submissions is Friday 1 and Saturday 2 July 2011, 11am to 4pm for hand delivered applications, and Saturday 2 July, 4pm for postal applications. Exhibition opens 14 July and runs for 3 weeks.

Full information and application forms are now online at www.limerickprintmakers.com/open_submission_2011.html <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–www.limerickprintmakers.com/open_submission_2011.html> .

Hilltown New Music Festival 2011 – Call for Audio Works <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–visualartists.ie/jobs-ops/opportunities-ireland/hilltown-new-music-festival-2011-call-for-audio-works/>

‘Close to the sound – Behind the melody – Near the Inaudible’

An open call for artists, composers and musicians to send a short audio work that responds in some way to the above title. The work can be a sound piece, a music composition, a field recording, an excerpt from a larger work etc. The work can be from 2 to 8 channels and between 1 and 7 minutes in duration. Selected works will be included in a concert programme or as part of a listening post during the Hilltown New Music Festival in July 2011.

Submission requirements:

- Accepted file formats are .wav or .aiff, preferably in high resolution (i.e. 48kHz / 24bit)

- Please send your files via Dropbox, YouSendIt, or other filesharing site to below email.

- Alternatively you can post the sound files on a data CD-R to the following address: Hilltown Call for Works, 98 Granitefield, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland.

- Please also include with your submission:

1) Short description of the track (max. 100 words), duration, medium, year of creation.

2) A short artist biography (max. 100 words)

Please note all tracks must be received by Friday 24 June 2011.

Email address for digital submissions: callforaudioworks@hilltown.ie <mailto:callforaudioworks@hilltown.ie> .

www.hilltown.ie <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–www.hilltown.ie/>

Call for Submissions: Half & Half Exhibition – Opposites <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–visualartists.ie/jobs-ops/opportunities-ireland/call-for-submissions-half-half-exhibition-opposites/>

Half and Half Exhibition – Opposites. Calling all Creatives.

‘Half and Half’ is a series of exhibitions set up by Lily Reilly and Kevin Corcoran, past Design Communication students at Cork Institiute of Technology. The first exhibition, a collaborative event full of unique and colourful work, took place in Cork City in October 2010. The second exhibition titled ‘OPPOSITES’ will take place in Cork City this summer.

Each exhibition has a different brief. They are non-profit exhibitions, and therefore no commission is taken from the work. There is a one off fee of between E10 and E20 (depending on scale of piece) for each piece which will help cover all costs. The exhibition encourages creativity and so the brief is open. The only requirement is that the work combines two opposites- be it colour, theme, discipline etc. Everything is left up to the artists, who can communicate with each other and with the public through the ‘Half and Half’ Exhibition Facebook page.

T: 085 7559242

E: halfandhalfexhibitions@gmail.com <mailto:halfandhalfexhibitions@gmail.com>

halfandhalfexhibition.blogspot.com <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–halfandhalfexhibition.blogspot.com/>

Deadline: Thursday 30 June 2011

Mont Blanc 25 Open Art Submission <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–visualartists.ie/jobs-ops/opportunities-ireland/mont-blanc-25-open-art-submission/>

MB25 2011_Art Event for Charity (Open Submission) takes place in August 2011 to help raise funds for the 25th Anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster and Chernobyl Children International. Participate as an ARTIST for this worthy cause, sell your work at your price with a portion donated to the Chernobyl Children International.

* All submissions must reflect the theme “ICEBREAKER”.

* Artworks may be priced starting from E25 upwards.

* All pieces must be within the confines of venue.

* Any number of participants/collectives are welcome.

* Pieces must be 25 inches square.

* Artwork in all disciplines will be considered but artwork within the set criteria will be viewed in priority.

* Prices must take into account the percentage donated to MB25 at final sale of artwork.

To submit your work or project, please send submissions:

1) CV

2) Artists Biography (if applicable)

3) Exhibition/artwork statement of intent/brief explanation within theme

4) 5/6 (jpegs, PDFs, etc.) good quality images/examples.

With group proposals please submit an adequate number of images to represent the work of each individual artist.

Send the information by email with the title ‘ICEBREAKER Submissions’ to: karenfordeinfo@gmail.com <mailto:karenfordeinfo@gmail.com> .

Deadline: Saturday 2 July 2011, 5pm

www.facebook.com/pages/MB25-2011-ART/214132261952141 <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–www.facebook.com/pages/MB25-2011-ART/214132261952141>

Call for Submissions: Irish Wave 3, Beijing & Shanghai <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–visualartists.ie/jobs-ops/opportunities-international/call-for-submissions-irish-wave-3-beijing-shanghai/>

Irish Wave 3, Beijing & Shanghai

1 – 31 March 2012

A series of visual arts events in Beijing & Shanghai to celebrate Ireland’s presence in China.

Irish Wave aims to enable Beijingers to gain insight into contemporary Irish Culture, to portray the diversity and global aspect of ‘Irishness’, to inspire them to visit Ireland and to investigate our heritage. In order to achieve this we aim to hold a series of exhibitions & installations across a broad spectrum of themes at venues which are accessible to the widest and most diverse possible section of the Beijing & Shanghai communities. In particular we are focussing on artists who are women in 2012 to highlight the inequality of opportunity which exists for them in China and to raise the profile of female practitioners generally.

Deadline for applications: 28 June 2011

For further information & application forms please contact Fion Gunn (curator):

E: fiongunn@live.co.uk <mailto:fiongunn@live.co.uk>

T: 00 44 (0) 20 87691437

www.bigsmallartists.com <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–www.bigsmallartists.com/> / www.fiongunn.com <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–www.fiongunn.com/>

Call for Curator in Residence: PS Squared, Belfast <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–visualartists.ie/jobs-ops/residencies-jobs-ops/call-for-curator-in-residence-ps-squared-belfast/>

PS”, Belfast: ‘curator in residence’

13 June – 2 July 2011

Open call for artists/ curators/ cultural practitioners to research new projects.

Phase 1 (13 June – 2 July): Up to 8 curators or curatorial teams will each work and develop proposals in PS”. The space will be converted during this time into an open research office.

Phase 2: Two proposals will be selected and realized in January and March 2012, organized by the chosen curators.

To take part in ‘curator in residence’, please email pssquared@btconnect.com <mailto:pssquared@btconnect.com> stating your interest for this project, your motivation for curating and your professional background. At this stage, no project proposals are required. Please note that ‘curator in residence’ does not include proposals for ‘own’ work.

Deadline: 9 June 2011.

For more information see: www.pssquared.org/curatorinresidence.php <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–www.pssquared.org/curatorinresidence.php>

<http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–www.addtoany.com/share_save#url–E-http%3A%2F%2Fvisualartists.ie%2Flistings-for-review%2Febulletin-test%2F–A-title–E-eBulletin%20Test–A-description–E-VAI%20News%20News%20Job%20Vacancies%20Funding%2FAwards%20Commissions%20Competitions%20Opportunities%20Residencies%20Studios%20%2F%20Space%20Conferences%20%2F%20Lectures%20%2F%20Talks%20Courses%20%2F%20Workshops%E2%80%A6> Call for Residencies: Cló Ceardlann, Donegal <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–visualartists.ie/jobs-ops/residencies-jobs-ops/call-for-residencies-clo-ceardlann-donegal/>

Cló are now accepting residency applications on an ongoing basis. Applications should be made to Cló residency programme and should include an up to date CV, a detailed proposal and images of work in jpg format. We would like to get applications from people who are interested in contemporary art and culture, and who are interested in the unique landscape and language of the Gaeltacht.

Our Artist in Residence Programme offers accommodation in Cló Ceardlann’s artist-in-residence house and access to the workshop based in scenic North West Donegal. This is offered on a self-funded basis and offered residencies. On our part we request that you donate a piece of work made during your residency for the house and one print from each edition for the workshop archive.

The cost per week for a residency is E200.

For further information or an application form, please contact Cló.

T: 074 9162800

E: cloceardlann@eircom.net <mailto:cloceardlann@eircom.net>

Graphic Studio Dublin Call for New Members <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–visualartists.ie/jobs-ops/studios/graphic-studio-dublin-call-for-new-members-2/>

Graphic Studio Dublin Calls for New Members

Deadline: 16 June 2011

Following the completion of refurbishment of state of the art printmaking studios, in Dublin 1, with additional space, new equipment through ACCESS ll and the VAI Minor Capital scheme, GSD seeks new member printmaking artists.

All details for submission of portfolios is at: www.graphicstudiodublin.com/gsd/member/membership.html <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–www.graphicstudiodublin.com/gsd/member/membership.html>

Multifunctional Gallery Space for Hire, Dublin <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–visualartists.ie/jobs-ops/studios/multifunctional-gallery-space-for-hire-dublin/>

Large, bright gallery space available for hire in the heart of Smithfield Square. Rates extremely reasonable. Area is suitable for: exhibitions, installations or smaller performance pieces and functions. Space can change in character from a bright, open gallery space, to a place for meetings or rehearsals, or an intimate performance space with a full black out facility.

The Complex, 18 – 21 Unit, Block C, Smithfield Square, Dublin 7.

T: 01 5446922

E: thecomplexgallery@hotmail.com <mailto:thecomplexgallery@hotmail.com>

www.thecomplex.ie <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–www.thecomplex.ie/>

Deadline: ongoing

Studios to Rent, Dublin <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–visualartists.ie/jobs-ops/studios/studios-to-rent-dublin-2/>

Various studios to rent near Ormond Quay, Dublin City Centre.

For further information and viewing, please Contact Colm on: 087 250 6144

Public Reading & Interview with Edmund de Waal, City Hall, Dublin <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–visualartists.ie/jobs-ops/talks-lectures/public-reading-interview-with-edmund-de-waal-city-hall-dublin/>

Public reading and interview with bestselling author Edmund de Waal at City Hall, Dublin

Wednesday 8 June 2011, 6:30pm.

Join us to hear world-renowned potter and author Edmund de Waal read from his prize-winning book ‘The Hare With Amber Eyes’, followed by an interview with him chaired by Eileen Battersby, literary correspondent for The Irish Times. The event commences with a wine reception at 6.30pm and forms part of the celebrations for Year of Craft 2011.

Tickets E10.

Bookings via: www.craftinireland.com/events/details/public-talk-with-edmund-de-waal <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–www.craftinireland.com/events/details/public-talk-with-edmund-de-waal/>

Architecture & Public Art Development Day at The LAB <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–visualartists.ie/jobs-ops/talks-lectures/architecture-public-art-development-day-at-the-lab/>

Architecture & Public Art: A development afternoon for architects exploring the potential for architecture as a public art practice.

Wednesday 8 June 2011, 12:30am – 4pm

Invited Participants:

Elizabeth Hatz; Dominic Stevens; Kevin Donovan; Declan Long; Valerie Connor; Rosie Lynch; Cultrustruction; Michelle Browne; Nathalie Weadick; Ruairí Ó Cuív.

The development day for architecture is a collaborative initiative between the Dublin City Council and the Irish Architecture Foundation in association with the Architectural Association of Ireland. It is being organised in the context of Dublin City Council’s recently launched public art programme, which aims to offer artists across all artform disciplines the opportunity to make new artwork that engages with the city in different ways. This day is designed to focus on the artform of architecture and the potential for architects to create public art works. It has been conceived as part of a series to support practitioners from the different artform sectors to engage with the Dublin City Public Art Programme and support those interested in making proposals.

The session is organised around three presentations. Each presentation will be followed by a commentary response by architects and artists, aimed to generate discussion and support questions and answers. Ruairí Ó Cuiv, (Dublin City Council Public Art Manager) and Nathalie Weadick (Director, Irish Architecture Foundation) will be present to introduce the public art programme and answer questions throughout the day.

Reserve a place by e-mailing info@architecturefoundation.ie <mailto:info@architecturefoundation.ie>

Please note that as places are limited it is essential to book.

Les Levine & Christina Kennedy in Conversation at IMMA <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–visualartists.ie/jobs-ops/talks-lectures/les-levine-christina-kennedy-in-conversation-at-imma/>

Les Levine + Christina Kennedy ‘A Conversation with Images’

Thursday 9 June 2011, 5pm, the Chapel, IMMA

In conjunction with the current exhibition Mindful Media: Works from the 1970s in the Landing galleries, IMMA; the internationally renowned artist and founding of media artist Les Levine will present images of his art dating back to 1960. This presentation will cover the full range of the artist’s development with media and is followed by a dialogue with Christina Kennedy, Head of Collections, IMMA.

Regarded as the founder of Media Art, New York based Irish artist Les Levine has donated to IMMA three series of etching and photographic works made in the 1970s. In the works, he mixes text and image to reinforce his belief that social and political problems are valid concerns for art.

Les Levine was born in Dublin in 1935. He studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, London, before moving to Toronto in 1958, where he continued his studies at the New School of Art. Levine’s artistic practice has been explored through various means including painting, sculpture, installation, performance work, mail art and artists’ books.

Please book online at www.imma.ie/en/subnav_50.htm <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–www.imma.ie/en/subnav_50.htm> as places are limited.

Painting & Drawing Workshop with Denise Hogan <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–visualartists.ie/jobs-ops/courses/painting-drawing-workshop-with-denise-hogan/>

The Russell Gallery’s weekend workshop to learn painting & drawing technique with artist Denise Hogan.

18 & 19 June 2011, 10am – 5:30pm

Cost: E160 (Deposit E60)

We are fully equipped to hold class either outdoors or indoors in our studio. Whether you are a complete beginner or an experienced painter this workshop will cater to your individual needs, guiding you, step by step to creating beautiful and accomplished works of art. The artist will introduce you or refresh your knowledge of materials, give demonstrations and show you how to achieve good results even as a novice. Learn the pleasure of painting & drawing with professional artist and teacher Denise Hogan in the heart of the Burren. From planning, preparation, drawing & painting to the finished piece, with everything in between. All levels welcome. There will be no shortage of inspiration and atmosphere in the stunning setting of New Quay.

For info and booking:

T: 065 7078185

www.russellgallery.net <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–www.russellgallery.net/>

Six Day Life Painting Workshop, Dublin <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–visualartists.ie/jobs-ops/courses/six-day-life-painting-workshop-dublin/>

After a very successful workshop in Dublin last year, academic painter William Nathans returns from 11 – 18 July 2011, 10:30am – 5:30pm. Workshop takes place in Dublin city area. Workshop limited to 6 persons only. Suitable for students and experienced artists in life drawing/painting techniques.

Contact Donal Murray at 087 411 3618 or email dmurrayart@hotmail.com <mailto:dmurrayart@hotmail.com> .

Upcoming Courses at Cló Ceardlann, Donegal <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–visualartists.ie/jobs-ops/courses/upcoming-courses-at-clo-ceardlann-donegal/>

Cló Ceardlann in Letterkenny have a range of courses available over the summer months. For full details on courses, including prices, and to book a place, see contact details below.

9 & 10 July 2011 – Photo-Etching with Aoife Mc Garrigle

11 – 15 July 2011 – Children’s Summer School with John Doohan

16 & 17 July 2011 – Stone Lithography with Aoife Mc Garrigle

23 & 24 July 2011 – Landscape Painting with Heidi Nguyen

1 – 5 August 2011 – Children’s Art Workshop with Fotini Kariotaki

5 – 7 August 2011 – Photo Workshop with Ingo Dunnebier

5 – 7 August 2011 – In and Outdoor Art with Fotini Kariotaki

13 & 14 August 2011 - Art with Fotini Kariotaki & Photography with Ingo Dunnebier

T: +353 (0) 74 91 62800

E: cloceardlann@eircom.net <mailto:cloceardlann@eircom.net>

www.clo.ie <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–www.clo.ie/>

Training Courses at Belfast Exposed <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–visualartists.ie/jobs-ops/courses/training-courses-at-belfast-exposed/>

Training Opportunites in June

Adobe Photoshop

Saturday 4 June 2011, 1pm – 3:30pm

Introduction to the world of Photoshop where you can enhance, manipulate and transform images.

Cost: GBP50

Digital Photography

Saturday 11 June 2011, 1pm – 3:30pm

Learn the basics in aperture, shutter speeds, ISO’s, white balance, and exposure compensation.

Cost: GBP50

1 Day Studio Photography

Saturday 18 June 2011, 10am – 4pm

Learn how to handle the equipment and set up popular lighting configurations.

Cost: GBP100

www.belfastexposed.org <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–www.belfastexposed.org/>

Pottery Course at Kinsale Pottery & Arts Centre <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–visualartists.ie/jobs-ops/courses/pottery-course-at-kinsale-pottery-arts-centre/>

Pottery for Art Teachers and those wishing to start a business

24 – 27 June 2011, 10am – 5pm.

Teachers: For those either studying for the H Dip in Art, or already working in primary or secondary education, but without practical ceramics experience, the requirements of this work with children can be daunting. In many schools, the kiln lies idle because the teachers don’t feel comfortable with ceramics teaching. This 4-day weekend course aims to provide appropriate skills and confidence for the teaching of ceramics to Leaving Cert level.

Ceramics business development: If you’ve been a studio potter or committed hobbyist and you’re looking to develop your practice as a commercial business, this course will help you get to grips with the economics of running a pottery business, and with the commercial decisions you need to make.

E280 per person (group discounts apply)

T: 021 477 7758 / 087 9696901

E: adrianwistreich@gmail.com <mailto:adrianwistreich@gmail.com>

www.kinsaleceramics.com <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–www.kinsaleceramics.com/>

Arts Participation & Development Course, CIT <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–visualartists.ie/jobs-ops/courses/arts-participation-development-course-cit/>

Arts Participation and Development: Creative Approaches to Global Education is a CIT approved Special Purpose Award at Level 8 (10 credits) certificate supported by Irish Aid. CIT Crawford College is the course provider. This course is designed for artists, community artists, youth workers, community workers, activists, teachers, educators, volunteers who are interested in developing a creative and global perspective to their practice.

Course Content:

-Development, development education and the role of arts participation.

-Development topics such as environment, human rights and equality.

-Arts as a tool for advocacy and action

-Creative methodologies for the use of arts in development and development education eg.

-Theatre of the Oppressed, street art and music.

-Group facilitation and project planning

There will be a requirement of assignments and projects that will require approximately the same amount of time to be invested in the course in your own time as the time in workshops over the 8 weekends. Participants will be required to deliver a project as part of the course work.

Duration: 8 weekends, October – May, including three 3-day weekends (Fri – Sun)

Cost: E680 (This is the cost after subsidy from Irish Aid.)

See website for application form.

Deadline: Sunday 17 July 2011

(Late applications may be accepted subject to availability of places. For enquiries please email)

E: globalarteduc@cit.ie <mailto:globalarteduc@cit.ie>

artsparticipationanddevelopment.com <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–artsparticipationanddevelopment.com/>

Electro Urban Gardening (Auto Water) Workshop at Hello Operator <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–visualartists.ie/jobs-ops/courses/electro-urban-gardening-auto-water-workshop-at-hello-operator/>

Sunday 3 July 2011, 1pm.

Although geared towards green fingered inventors, this three part workshop is perfect for anyone looking for an unusual and interesting introduction to electronics and physical computing. Learn about electronics basics in a 1-day, 3-part workshop. We’ll use an Arduino micro-controller to sense soil moisture level and automatically water your plants – using recycled parts where possible. Taught by Jack (http://secretspaces.org/ <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–secretspaces.org/> ) We’ve all done it – plant some stuff in Spring, promise ourselves to keep it watered and minded, then we go and get all distracted by life in the city and the plants go belly up. But by completing all three parts of our Electro Ur! ban Gardening (Auto Water) workshop, you can solve the problem once and for all. This smart automatic watering system will work from an outdoor tap or rain water barrel.

In order to make the workshop accessible to a range of budgets, we’ve broken it into 3 parts, which can be booked individually or together. Workshop does not include components, these can optionally be purchased for an additional amount.

Part 1: Construct a soil moisture sensor, intro to Arduino micro-controllers, build a simple circuit and take moisture readings.

Part 2: Intro to solenoid valves and Arduino, how to use Arduino to control a valve, build a simple circuit and turn water on and off.

Part 3: Learn about DC electricity, battery and solar power, and how to power multiple components with different needs. Learn how to power your Auto Water device or another Arduino project with battery/solar power!

Bookings: hellooperator.org <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–hellooperator.org/> or email: erin@hellooperator.org <mailto:erin@hellooperator.org> .

+Billion- Online Art Journal: Text Call-Out <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–visualartists.ie/jobs-ops/other/billion-online-art-journal-text-call-out/>

Between June and October 2011, +BILLION- online art journal wants to publish texts by you! +BILLION- believes that there are lots of ‘art writers’ out there, and wants to use its online presence to prove this. Depending on the amount of texts submitted and quality of writing, +BILLION- is hoping that it can publish on a weekly basis between June and September. The texts will be ‘curated’ into themes which will be defined during the process of collating submissions.

+BILLION- is gradually defining a remit which can be read below. But this unstable remit is not set in stone, and will be expanded if a text by YOU provokes +BILLION- to alter the remit or just add to it. So, for the time being, +BILLION- is keeping the terms ‘criticism’ and ‘art writing’ in the same ‘pen’. The only parameter that +BILLION- has defined is the structure of the texts. For example: The ‘review’ is not subject to a word limit, but +BILLION- would rather the focus is on one artist, one show, rather than ‘double reviews’, or tangental reviews.

The ‘article’ is open and can be of any length. But +BILLION- does like the writer to stake a ‘position’, or argue positions against one another. +BILLION- is not anti-philosophy, as philosophy forms the backbone of the articles/reviews so far. In saying that, +BILLION- would rather that the art object is not just a stepping stone to a ‘Library’ of Philosophical focus and quotation. In the future, the archive of +BILLION- texts will become a hard copy. +BILLION- is a non-profit art project, so cannot pay for your texts. So as always, this is all for the ‘Love of Art’.

All submissions should be sent in Word format, with images and titles to: billionartjournal@ymail.com <mailto:billionartjournal@ymail.com> .

billionjournal.blogspot.com <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–billionjournal.blogspot.com/>

Dan Shipsides & Echo Echo Project Blog <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–visualartists.ie/jobs-ops/other/dan-shipsides-echo-echo-project-blog/>

‘Vertical. Nature. Base’ – Dan Shipsides and Echo Echo.

Funded by the Legacy Trust UK Connections programme which has been set up to help build a cultural and sporting legacy from the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

V.N.B is a residential exploratory and experimental climbing / art / dance /sport project by Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company and Dan Shipsides. During September 2011 the project will be based at a coastal climbing location in Donegal and a city base in Derry-Londonderry.

This blog is an insight into the ongoing creative process and project development: verticalnaturebase.blogspot.com <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–verticalnaturebase.blogspot.com/> .

Call for Papers: The Academy Project <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–visualartists.ie/jobs-ops/other/call-for-papers-the-academy-project/>

The Academy Project is looking for papers on artist’s writing v. art statements. Forms, content, intentions, purpose, limitations and aims. The aim of this project is to assist the development and reflect the diversity of artistic practice.

Please contact Liubov on lkadyrova@gmail.com <mailto:lkadyrova@gmail.com> for more information.

Artist Seeks Unwanted Watches & Clocks for Project <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–visualartists.ie/jobs-ops/other/artist-seeks-unwanted-watches-clocks-for-project/>

Anois Art seeks unwanted watches and clocks for an art project. Any condition accepted.

Contact anoisart@gmail.com <mailto:anoisart@gmail.com> .

Mark McGreevy at Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–visualartists.ie/listings/exhib-lein/dublin/mark-mcgreevy-at-kevin-kavanagh-gallery-dublin/>

‘Bundle View’ Mark McGreevy

2 – 25 June 2011

Reception: Thursday 2 June 2011, 6pm – 8pm.

Mark McGreevy’s paintings are built in such a way that there is no clear approach to how they are constructed, drawings are made from several initial sources which are then developed through repeated addition and erasure, this continues until they have met a certain narrative that has previously been set out for them, this then is used as the primary material for his paintings. McGreevy constructs the paintings within a similar framework until the initial image collapses leaving a surviving residue or armature of the image/idea, this making and semi destruction helps to create a fractured absurdist narrative that opens itself to randomness, fragmentary consciousness and dissociative disruptions, mimetic with the fragmentary process of building a painting through it’s parts.

The paintings presented in ‘Bundle View’ are rooted in fact as much as in fiction, in the painting “Horrorscope” an approximation of a castle dwelling appears, taken from a real 17th century ruin that was grafted with centuries old Dry wall and relatively modern concrete onto the side of McGreevy’s local video store in the early 80’s. “On and On and On” contains a Rhombohedron similar in form to “Durer’s Solid” but could easily reference the physical manifestation of Proteus IV a nihilistic self aware super computer in Donald Cammell’s “Demon Seed” 1977. “Aim, Toggle, Sleep” has the shallow dusty space of a terrace mantle piece laden with collected bric-a-brac, traces of an individual’s taste or needs in physical form.

All these works contain the threads of the experiential, low/high cultural references and ideas of the personal subjugating the collective and vice versa, hopefully creating a subsidence of authority through absurdity, casting doubt on the paintings value system and validating the chance to rethink and change one’s mind.

kevinkavanaghgallery.ie <http://lists.visualartists.ie/lt/t_go.php?i=494&e=NTAxOQ==&l=-http–kevinkavanaghgallery.ie/>

Group Show at Castle Yard Gallery, Kilkenny

‘Converging Elements’

4 – 12 June 2011

Castle Yard Gallery 1, beside the National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny

The exhibition title refers to the coming together of seven established professional tapestry weavers who collectively explore common themes concerning natuure, land and water, the passage of time, surface texture, contour and colour. The artists exhibiting are Terry Dunne, Mary Cuthbert, Lorna Donlon, Lisbeth Mulcahy, Anne Harte, Frances Crowe and Muriel Beckett. The majority of the work on show will be two dimensional tapestries, varying in size from intimate miniature framed work to large scale corporate hangings, utilising both traditional age old methods of construction and new experimental techniques.

Summer Sale at Ranelagh Arts Centre, Dublin

4 & 5 June 2011, 11am – 5pm.

The Ranelagh Arts Centre will be holding a Summer Sale of paintings, prints, books, sporting memorablia, and vinyl.

Jennie Guy & Claire Behan at St. Anne’s Park, Dublin

‘I don’t want to eat alone (I want to eat in Utopia with you and you and you…)’

Saturday 11 June 2011, 2pm

Jennie Guy and Claire Behan invite you to a picnic in St. Anne’s Park, Raheny, Saturday 11th June. Bring along a meal indicative of what you think Utopia represents. Possible examples are a perfect communal summers dish, a skyscraper cake set to fall, or perhaps an empty plate. What you cook is open to every interpretation. You will be able to name and describe your dish. The time spent preparing your dish can be long or short, and dishes can be frugal or lavish but enough to share. Bring whatever beverage you wish to drink. Plates and glasses will be provided.

Please inform us if you are preparing a starter, main or dessert. The picnic will start at 2pm, signposts will lead you there. RSVP essential to utopiapicnic@gmail.com , so that we can devise the size and scope of our utopian picnic blanket.

This event is part of ’What Alice Found There’, 6 – 19 June 2011 and is curated by Deirdre Morrissey. This exhibition is made possible by The Arts Council of Ireland, Dublin City Council, The Red Stables Artists Studios and Open Spaces.

Jacqueline Nicholson at MadArt Gallery, Dublin

‘Thus the shadow of the object fell upon the ego’

2 – 9 June 2011

Opening reception: Friday 3 June 2011, 6pm – 9pm

‘Thus the shadow of the object fell upon the ego’ is Jacqueline Nicholson’s first solo exhibition since graduating from IADT in 2010 with a BA (Hons) Degree in Visual Arts Practice. This exhibition is a continuation of her graduation piece ‘Templates’ along with new paintings and drawings.

Jacqueline’s work explores the theories of psychoanalytical concepts. For this exhibition she has studied Freud’s theory of mourning and melancholia and how this concept affects, shapes and impinges on our lives. This new work is Jacqueline’s understanding of mourning and melancholia.

www.madartstudio.com

Group Show at KCAT, Kilkenny

‘End of Year Exhibition’

3 – 12 June 2011

Opening: Friday 3 June 2011, 7:30pm.

Come and savour the visual feast that is the annual showcase of selected work by KCAT students. Following the intense year of study, it is now time for the students to show off their creative output, and with over 100 pieces of work on show there will undoubtedly be something for everyone. The work has been selected by students from the range of courses on offer at KCAT including the full time FETAC level 5 course, part time course and one day courses. The visit to the Arts Centre in Callan will be well worth it as with examples of work ranging from carvings to charcoal, realism to abstraction, the variety and quality are breathtaking.

www.kcat.ie

Group Show at Block T, Dublin

‘redundant’, this is yellow

Opening Reception: Thursday 2 June 2011, 6pm – 9pm

This Is Yellow, a recently formed group of visual arts graduates, take the theme of redundancy as a departure point for their first show together. Artists Jessica Conway, Deirdre Glenfield, Cally Higgins, Julianne Knowles and Joanne Reid draw on their individual practices to explore notions of excess, folly and superfluity. Working through the mediums of sculpture, text, digital projection, publication and sound, Block T provides a space for these diverse explorations to play out together.

www.blockt.ie

Group Show at The Paul Kane Gallery, Dublin

‘The Summer Gallery Show’

3 June – 16 July 2011

A group show of works by gallery artists including – amongst others – Roisin Mc Guigan, Marc Reilly, Ita Freeney, Eoin MacLochlainn, Tom Hammick, Megan Eustace, Wesley Triggs, Philippa Sutherland, Michelle Rogers and Veronica Bolay R.H.A..

www.thepaulkanegallery.com

Yvonne Woods & Susan Montgomery at The Joinery, Dublin

Yvonne Woods & Susan Montgomery

8 – 14 June 2011

Opening reception Wednesday 8 June 2011, 6pm – 8pm.

Susan Montgomery and Yvonne Woods have created work inspired by the prose of the Canadian writer Anne Michaels. Their inspiration is drawn directly from Michaels’ 1996 novel ‘Fugitive Pieces,’ a profound meditation on loss and love, the dead and the living, and the indestructibility of the human spirit.

Taking Michaels’ themes of archaeology, memory, loss and the body as central concerns, the artists articulate these ideas through their individual work processes. “The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing. It steers us like magnetism, a spirit torque. This is how one becomes undone by a smell, a word, a place…..like love that closes its mouth before calling a name.”

Montgomery is interested in the manipulation of found paper centred on the behaviour of chance marks and stains. The results are images that describe a dialogue between the carefully chosen tools, media and surfaces she uses that express the above concerns. Woods has used silver gelatin glass plate prints on hand-made fibre based photosensitive paper. Using an outmoded printing technique and one hundred year old photographic plates taken by a friend’s uncle ‘Leo Hayes.’ She revisits an unknown past, expressing the loss of history through deterioration of object and memory.

www.thejoinery.org

Calligraphy & Letter Arts Exhibition at Wood Quay Venue, Dublin

‘Write Now!’ – Irish and International Calligraphy and Letter Arts Exhibition.

7 – 15 June 2011

Participants: Irish and international calligraphers (Ireland, Britain, Belgium, USA, Austria, Japan, Norway and France). Calligraphy Demonstrations by Peannairi: Irish Calligraphers every day in the venue. Information on joining Peannairi and learning calligraphy available at the venue. Sponsored by the Crafts Council of Ireland and Peannairi.

Group Show at St. Anne’s Park, Dublin

‘What Alice Found There’

6 – 19 June 2011

Opening: Monday 6 June 2011, 1pm

The Red Stables, brought to you by Dublin City Council, is delighted to present ‘What Alice Found There’, a site specific exhibition of temporary artworks devised and planned by invited curator, Deirdre Morrissey for the Emerging Curator Programme at The Red Stables.

‘What Alice found There’ is a temporary outdoor exhibition inspired by the nonsensical elements of the Lewis Carroll’s book ‘Alice, Through the Looking Glass’. Eleven artists have been chosen to create work that is engaged with notions of impossibility, the uncanny and the imaginary to create a labyrinth of site specific installations and live art. Participating artists are Catherine Barragry, Francis Fay & Mary B Keane, Michael Fortune, Carl Giffney, Jennie Guy & Claire Behan, Joan Healy, Maria Makrai, Niamh Murphy and Méabh Redmond.

The live art performances will take place on 6, 11, 12, 18 and 19 June. The other artwork can be found throughout the park and at The Red Stables exhibition space which opens from 2pm – 5pm everyday.

More information on the specific events and performances can be found at whatalicefound.wordpress.com .

First Thursdays Dublin

Thursday 2 June 2011, 6pm – 8pm.

Late night art and culture continues on First Thursdays Dublin, 2 June 2011, 6pm – 8pm. This Thursday, 14 galleries and creative spaces offer a gallery hopping experience throughout Dublin city. Participating in June are: BLOCK T, Clyne Gallery, Centre for Creative Practices, Debbie Paul Studio and Gallery, Dublin Civic Trust, Fish-Bowl Gallery – Exchange Dublin, Gallery of Photography, Graphic Studio Gallery, Mad Art Gallery & Studio, Monster Truck Gallery & Studios, Ngg – No Grants Gallery, Project Arts Centre, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios and The Green on Red Gallery.

For more information: templebar.ie/Event/First_Thursdays_Dublin .

Want to get involved? Contact Eimear Chaomhánach on echaomhanach@templebar.ie .

Danilo Quo Vadis at Clyne Gallery, Dublin

‘Anomalya II’

4 – 18 June 2011

Opening Reception: Saturday 4 June 2011, 2pm – 4pm

Italian born painter Danilo Quo Vadis has been interested in the underground creative scene since his teens. He paints on any material, depicting characters that ‘are left out of society’. He has instinctively developed his work on walls in abandoned and forgotten places, cinemas, clubs and squats from Krakow, Sarajevo, Lisbon and Berlin, preferring places where he has control over colours, music and space. He is a compulsive painter and has chosen to settle in Dublin,’ a place in which his characters, animals and views seem to find their colours, sustenance and smiles.

‘Anomalya’ is a momentary vision of estranged concepts, vivid sensations and soliloquy painted thoughts. This is atypical in the ‘street art scene’, devoid of icons and pop-up characters. It is a return to classical painting with an underground feeling.

The series of portraits painted on bread boards, are complex, severe and commanding and are the core of the show. The faces, proud of the wall surface, stare out into the show with an arrogance or fear. The images continue beyond the boundary of the board and wander freely over the walls. The paintings are segments of the greater whole; a small part of the bigger picture. Other works show Danilo Quo Vadis’ paint on found objects.

www.clynegallery.com

Group Show at Greenacres Art Galleries, Wexford

An exhibition to celebrate 10 years selling art at Greenacres Art Galleries.

4 June – 23 July 2011

Opening: Saturday 4 June 2011, 11:30am

This year Greenacres Art Galleries celebrates 10 years selling fine art in Wexford. To celebrate this special occasion an exhibition featuring three of our most distinguished artists will be on show. Since the gallery’s inception in 2001, Eamon Colman has exhibited consistently and was a great support to a completely unknown exhibition space at the back of a fine food and wine shop. A selection of work spanning 10 years will be on show along with more recent pieces. Eamon is also running a week long workshop in July for amateur and more experienced artists.

Gearoid Hayes, at only 31, has achieved a lot for his young years, having played underage rugby for Ireland and completing a Business and Law Degree at UCD. Following this, he went to Florence to do a summer art course. Gearoid has been exhibiting with Greenacres since his student days in Florence and in this show will be showing recent work along with unseen work painted since his return to Ireland. Gearoid’s workshop starts on 4 July and is aimed at experienced artists.

Eamonn O’Doherty is a sculptor, painter, photographer and an architect by trade having studied at UCD. He is probably best known for his public sculpture in Ireland, namely ‘Tree of Gold’ which proudly stands outside the Central Bank and the Anna Livia (known on the streets of Dublin as the Floozie in the Jacuzzi) which until 2001 sat snugly in the centre of O’Connell Street and now resides at the Croppy Acre Memorial Park near Hueston Station. Greenacres are thrilled to be exhibiting both sculpture and paintings by the artist. Some works are inspired by the great James Joyce and the exhibition coincides with Blooms Day and Eamonn’s birthday in mid-June.

www.greenacres.ie

Craft Exhibition at Gallery Zozimus, Dublin

‘Interchanges’

2 – 23 June 2011

Opening: Thursday 2 June 2011, 6pm – 8pm.

Colleen Dube (Exec. Dir. Fulbright Commission) is our special guest.

This exhibition, in conjunction with Ireland’s hosting of The International year of Craft, includes works by number of artists from the NCAD Masters program, The Craft Council of Ireland membership, NCAD Lecturer Caroline Madden, and in particular, US Fulbright Scholar Mary Bayard-White. Works on display are from a range of artistic disciplines including Glass, Ceramic, Textiles and Metals.

www.galleryzozimus.ie

Malwina Ostrowska at Exchange Dublin

‘Example: New Ways of Making and Presenting Visual Art’

Publication Launch and Exhibit by Malwina Ostrowska

Thursday 2 June 2011, 6pm

How could a gallery space be used to emphasise engagement over consumption? Instead of showing work that was indifferent to its surroundings, like objects in a shop window, Exchange Gallery (EG) functioned as a site of project development. EG provided the conditions for over 30 artists, theorists and musicians to develop, experiment, materialise and disseminate their work.

This exhibition is a presentation of this work and marks the launch of the new publication “E.G: Exchange Gallery; New Ways of Showing and Making Visual Art.” Assembled and designed by Malwina Ostrowska.

www.exchangedublin.ie

Ruth Hickey at Meubles, Kilkenny

3 – 30 June 2011

Opening: Friday 3 June 2011, 6:30pm.

An exhibition of paintings by Ruth Hickey in the cafe in Meubles furniture shop in Kilkenny Retail Park.

www.meublesfurniture.com

Lucy McKenna at Carnegie Arts Centre, Kenmare

Lucy McKenna ‘The Darker Wood’

4 – 28 June 2011

Exhibition launch & Q&A session with the artist: Saturday 4 June 2011, 1pm

This is a multi media exhibition incorporating drawing, photography, installation & video. Lucy McKenna undertook a residency on Toronto Island in Canada during 2010. The work she created there was in response to the island itself, its history, architectural elements and landscape. Many of the trees that inhabited the island were quite old and had survived through a time of extreme trauma in the 1960′s when, due to a political decision, the island had been intentionally burned and wiped of almost all manmade and natural life. The injury and past lives of the trees affected her work heavily, as did exploring the darker side of the human psyche and the cross referencing of fairy tales. This body of work encapsulates the sense of foreboding, loss and desire contained in fairytales, emotions that are still as frequent and relevant in the modern world.

www.carnegieartskenmare.ie

Group Show at Mill Cove Gallery, Cork

Irish Contemporary Ceramic Awards Exhibition

5 – 26 June 2011

Opening: Sunday 5 June 2011, 2pm.

The fourth annual Irish Contemporary Ceramic exhibition is a selected exhibition of the best of Irish ceramic sculpture including the work of over 40 ceramic artists. The awards will be presented at 4pm on Sunday 5 June.

www.millcovegallery.com

Joanna Kempen & Sue Money at Allihies Copper Mine Museum, Cork

Joanna Kempen ‘Paintings’ / Sue Money ‘Photographs’

4 June – 2 July 2011

Private view: Friday 3 June 2011, 7pm

Following on last year’s Art Allihies, the very successful series of two-person exhibitions showcasing twelve Allihies-based artists, Allihies Copper Mine Museum is pleased to present another such two-person exhibition. Joanna Kempen will show a selection of paintings inspired by and celebrating her spectacular surroundings, while photographer Sue Money will exhibit a new series of large photographic prints of beautifully poised formal flower studies.

www.acmm.ie

Group Show at The Lavit Gallery, Cork

Graphic Studio Dublin at The Lavit Gallery

2 – 25 June 2011

Official opening by Dr. Sabine Kriebel, lecturer in History of Art at UCC: Thursday 2 June 2011, 8pm

The works in this exhibition are a selection of fine art prints from Graphic Studio Dublin’s Visiting Artists Programme. Since 1980, artists have been involved with this programme, which has seen International and Irish artists being invited to the studio to work with master printmakers developing a body of prints that expands the boundaries of their usual practices to include fine art prints. This creative collaboration manifests itself in special and often unexpected ways.

This exhibition includes a selection of some of Ireland’s most established painters, who have through this programme worked with the medium of printmaking. Work by Elizabeth Blackadder, Diana Copperwhite, William Crozier, Michael Cullen, Felim Egan, Martin Gale, Tim Goulding, Mary Lohan, Hughie O’ Donoghue, Gwen O’ Dowd, Jane O’ Malley, Tony O’ Malley, Geraldine O’ Neill, Barbara Rae and Donald Teskey will all be on display. The different printing techniques such as etching, lithography, screenprint and carborundum chosen by the artists to employ instead of painting often draws something new and surprising from them.

We are delighted to also announce that – Robert Russell – artist and studio director, will give a free print demonstration at the Lavit Gallery on Saturday 11 June at 12 noon. All are welcome but prior booking with the Lavit is advised, as places are limited.

www.lavitgallery.com

Group Show at Aras Inis Gluaire, Belmullet

‘Hearth’

25 May – 24 June 2011

‘Hearth’ is a new and exciting art programme for older people and is underway in Mayo. It is an initiative which has grown out of previous work that has been ongoing with older people in care settings throughout the county for the past ten years. The success of this work has led to the idea of bringing art to older people in their own homes – people who are isolated geographically or are restricted for other reasons. The programme targets rural isolation through the medium of creativity. The programme has taken form with the backing of artists Deirdre Walsh, Breda Mayock and Bernie Garvey O’Mara, and the Ballina Arts Centre.

‘Hearth’ aims to enable older people to find their creativity in a safe and non–judgemental environment. Each week an experienced artist travels to the home of the older person and facilitates one-to-one workshop there. The artist ensures monitoring of the work and encouragement on an ongoing basis, and cultivates a relationship of trust with the participant over time. This process is different to an art class or art therapy format. From the beginning, freedom from expectation is paramount. Preconceived ideas of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ are left behind so that, with time, the individual comes in contact with the artist in themselves in a natural and organic manner. ‘Hearth’ enables the discovery of their creativity in the safety of their own home.

‘Hearth’ is supported by Atlantic Philanthropies and Southwest Mayo Leader.

www.arasinisgluaire.ie

Jane O’Malley at Hamilton Gallery, Sligo

‘New Works’: Jane O’Malley

2 June – 2 July 2011

Opening: Thursday 2 June 2011, 8pm

John F. Deane, author & poet, will perform the opening ceremony.

Hamilton Gallery is delighted to host an exhibition of new works by Jane O’Malley. O’Malley was born in Montreal. In 1973 she married artist Tony O’Malley and lived in St. Ives, Cornwall, until 1990, when they then moved permanently to Ireland. On working holidays they travelled to the Isles of Scilly, the Bahamas, and the Canary Islands. Inspiration for her work comes from these landscapes, and the objects she has collected on her travels: native jugs and vases, a carved spoon, fruit from the garden. These are then distilled and arranged, giving them a simple presence and the weight of accumulated memory.

www.hamiltongallery.ie

Jim Ricks Touring Public Artwork, Galway

‘The Poulnabrone Bouncy Dolmen’ A touring public artwork by Jim Ricks

7 – 21 June 2011

The Aughty regions of County Galway

Official launch: 7 June 2011, 9am at The Huntsman Inn, Galway

“The best public art piece… ever.” – Alice Maher, Artist

“The artist has combined an icon of ancient Ireland with an icon of contemporary Ireland, playfully re-presenting elements of Irish culture, often over-used commercially to attract tourism, in an accessible, witty, and visually arresting way.” – Kernan Andrews, Galway Advertiser

The Poulnabrone Bouncy Dolmen by Jim Ricks is a monumental inflatable sculpture designed for members of the public, of all ages, to interact with. The artwork will be touring venues around the Aughty Region of County Galway during June of 2011. The Poulnabrone Bouncy Dolmen is a replica, at twice the scale, of the famous 6,000 year old megalithic portal tomb of the same name, which is located in the Burren, Co. Clare. Jim Ricks created the interactive soft sculpture with the intention of bringing a portal dolmen to Aughty, a region which has no dolmens, only wedge tombs.

The official launch of The Poulnabrone Bouncy Dolmen will be on 7 June 2011 in front of the Huntsman Inn in Galway. The piece will be set up first thing in the morning (weather permitting) followed by a small reception at 9am. It will be touring the Slieve Aughty region of Galway for 2 weeks. The tour will close with an afternoon appearance adjacent to the real Poulnabrone Dolmen in the Burren, on the 21 June solstice.

www.jimricks.info

New Shows at Galway Arts Centre

Opening: Friday 3 June 2011, 6pm.

‘Post-Fordlandia’ by Megs Morley and Tom Flanagan

A filmic exploration of the mythologies surrounding Fordlandia , Henry ford’s empty ghost town in the Brazilian rainforest.

‘The Peoples’ History of Galway’

a month long of events in Galway Arts Centre, Town Hall Theatre and Galway City Museum including Galway Arts Centre’s exhibition featuring new work by Ceara Conway, Roisin Coyle and Simon Fleming.

www.galwayartscentre.ie

Paul Musgrove at Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar

Paul Musgrove – ‘Way Out West’

3 – 25 June 2011

Opening: Friday 3 June 2011, 7:30pm

An exhibition of unique woodblock prints by printmaker Paul Musgrove inspired by a sea trip around Scotland’s Small Isles, the West coast of Skye and the Outer Hebrides, and the thick fog that accompanied, and inspired, the artist on much of the journey. Musgrove commenced his artistic career in the 80s working in glass, and turned to printmaking in 2009. He has exhibited widely in the UK, and also in Japan. Also on show as part of the exhibition will be a selection of Musgrove’s recent etchings, drypoint and woodblock prints.

www.thelinenhall.com

Roslyn Kee at The Workhouse, Dunfanaghy, Donegal

Roslyn Kee exhibition in The Workhouse, Figart, Dunfanaghy, Co Donegal.

Wednesday 1 June – Tuesday 5 July 2011

The Workhouse is open every day including Sunday 9.30am to 5.00pm.

For further information please phone 00 353 7491 36540.

Claire Coté & Anna Keleher at Marble Arch Caves, Fermanagh

‘Dreaming Places’ A project powered by dreams

3 June – 12 July 2011

Contemporary Artists Claire Coté and Anna Keleher are to spend 40 days and 40 nights of action research and experiment above and below ground at Marble Arch Caves Geopark this summer. They will be meeting the people, places and things of these ancestral homelands between 3 June – 12 July 2011. Supported by Marble Arch Caves Geopark and funded by National Lottery through Arts Council England this project seeks to enrich relationships with natural, social and cultural ecologies.

Anna and Claire’s successful international collaborative partnership began at Dartington College of Art in 2007 when they both enrolled on the innovative M.A. Arts and Ecology course at Dartington College of Arts. When Claire finished her studies and had to return home to her native New Mexico they vowed they would meet up again, but this time in Ireland where they would further research prehistoric ecologies. Together these innovative artists will explore the natural and cultural heritage of Marble Arch Caves Geopark investigating Dúlra – ecosystem, Dúchas – heritage and Aisling- dream. “We are devising a special tool-kit of adventurous processes, novel techniques and gentle interactions to gather data from the borders of the unknown” says Anna Keleher about their upcoming residency.

Anna and Claire make audio journeys, radio broadcasts, drawings, sculptural installations and performative events. The outcomes from the ‘Dreaming Place’ Marble Arch Caves Geopark residency will be shared with diverse communities, both local and international through their blog, live events and exhibitions.

To learn more about the project or to participate, visit ‘Dreaming Place’ project blog and leave contact details: www.dreamingplace.eu

MFA Graduate Show at University of Ulster, Belfast

Master of Fine Art Exhibition

3 – 11 June 2011

Opening: Friday 3 June, 6pm – 9pm

This years Master of Fine Art exhibition at the University of Ulster in Belfast will open to the public on Friday the 3rd of June as part of the University of Ulster’s Festival of Art and Design. The exhibition will feature work by artists Paola Bernardelli, Cherith Brown, Lesley Cherry, Alice Clark, Rebecca Coffey, Lynn Cromie, Alastair Freeburn, Martin Kinlough, Alissa Kleist, Ruaidhri Lennon, Julie Lovett, Cathal McGinley, Tim Millen, Laura O’Connor and Nadine Stewart. In a unique move, the MFA show will also be exhibited at The Void Gallery, Derry (www.derryvoid.com ) in July 2011.

www.mfabelfast.com

Jennifer Brown at Group Space, Ulster Hall, Belfast

‘Adornment’

1 June – 2 July 2011

Preview: 31 May 2011, 6.30pm – 8pm

For this exhibition Jennifer creates hand and machine embroidered textile art based on Indian jewellery. Her influences are drawn from their colours, textures and patterns.

www.belfastcity.gov.uk/ulsterhall/index.aspx

Melita Denaro at John Martin Gallery, London

‘The Tenderness of Attention’ by Melita Denaro

3 – 25 June 2011

‘The Tenderness of Attention’ is an exhibition in two parts by Melita Denaro taking place at the John Martin Gallery from 3 – 25 June in London and then at Taylor Galleries in Dublin from 10 June – 2 July 2011.

The exhibition features a series of new paintings on board and canvas that explore the artist’s connection with the dramatic landscape of the Isle of Doagh in Clonmany, Co. Donegal. The intimate and personal sense of place that Melita captures in her work is paralleled in the detailed descriptions that she uses to title her paintings, which Charles Tyrrell describes in the accompanying catalogue as ‘real, robust, straight from the hip, straight from the heart… Dramatic, quick, bold and brave.’

www.jmlondon.com

Corban Walker at the Irish Pavillion, 54th Venice Biennale

4 June – 27 November 2011

Corban Walker will represent Ireland at the 54th Venice Biennale. His exhibition in the Irish pavillion will feature three works, Modular, Transparent Wall and Please Adjust (all 2011). The curator for the Irish pavillion is Eamonn Maxwell and the commissioner is Emily-Jane Kirwan.

Walker is known for his sculptures and installations relating to architectural scale and spatial perception and utilizing industrial materials like steel, aluminum, and glass. Standing only four feet tall, Walker explores minimalism from his unique point of view. The installations respond to rule-based, mathematical principles that derive from Walker’s own height and correlate to the experience of navigating a world that has been designed for others. The works at the Pietà interact with the historic architecture of the Pavilion and are all, in some way, transparent. It intrigued Walker that the Pavilion is open at both ends, with each end offering a different destination, the canal or a garden. There is no front or back, and no beginning or end. In the past, Walker has used transparent materials like glass and Plexiglas to create sculptures; this time, the installation itself will be transparent though the actual materials — metal and v! inyl — are opaque.

www.irelandvenice.ie

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