Amharcealaín | Visual Art
BALLINA ARTS CENTRE
Barrett St, Ballina, Co. Mayo.
T: 096 73593
Weighed an exhibition by Mary Foudy O'Halloran
Official opening: Friday 8th August, 8pm
At Ballina Arts Centre
Barrett St., Ballina, Co. Mayo
Exhibition runs until 27th September
Opening hours: Mon - Sat: 10am - 6pm
CUSTOM HOUSE STUDIOS
The Quay, Westport, Mayo
T: 098-28735.
Octagon Quilters Group
Custom House Studios at Westport are pleased to host an exhibition of works by the Octagon Quilters Group, Westport, entitled retrospective and looking forward .. All interested are invited to attend. The exhibition runs every day until August 24th 2014.
The exhibition contains Quilting Works by 17 members of the group; Evelyn Brady / Mary Brady / Wendy Brooker / Vera Buckley / Mauve Cusack / Mari Freeman / Jean Gill / Gemma Hensey / Madeliene Jordan / Mary Madden / Brenda Maloney / Catherine Devine Mc Hale / Maria Mulqueen /Ann Moran / Brid Sammin / Bernie Walsh / Ruth Spiers.
The Octagon Quilters are a prestigious working group of people who have carried on the work of the late Patricia O Dowda who originally started the group with a few local ladies over 20 years ago. Over the years the group has now grown to 22 people
Workshops are held during each year with tutors both from Ireland and UK. Also in house workshops in the group. We work on a Quilt for a charity each year this is along with members own work at weekly meetings, we have advanced with the new techniques and designs that are happening in Patchwork and Quilting around the world. It is no longer just about piecing bits of fabrics and many more people worldwide are making very artistic pieces to exhibit.
Custom House Studios - submissions for use of studio space for 2014 and 2015
The Custom House Studios are now inviting submissions for use of studio space for 2014 and 2015. The Studios complex houses 7 artists studios, a printmaking studio and two exhibition galleries. These facilities are housed in a historic restored Customs House building on the Quay in Westport, on a prominent waterfront street.
The studios are located up stairs overlooking the harbour and Atlantic Ocean. All studios have good daylight and 24hour access.
Applications are invited for; Artists are now invited to submit proposals for year long term and short term use of Studios in the years 2014 and 2015. Selection by peer panel of artists.
Submissions due for studios by the 15th August 2014.
Please send letters of interest, CV, and documentation of work on a CD or photographs to:
Manager
Custom House Studios, The Quay, Westport, Co. Mayo, Ireland.
Custom House Studios are funded by Pobal, Mayo County Council and Westport Town Council.
LINENHALL ARTS CENTRE
Linenhall St, Castlebar, Mayo.
T: 094 9023733
E: linenhall@anu.ie
LORG PRINT EXHIBITION AT LINENHALL ARTS CENTRE, CASTLEBAR
“Oddity”, an exhibition of contemporary fine art print by Lorg Fine Art Printmakers, continues at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar until Saturday 23rd August.
“Oddity” is a members submission exhibition which brings both established and new members of Lorg Fine Art Printmakers to create a contemporary fine art print exhibition.
Each year, Lorg Fine Art Printmakers invites submissions from over 90 members, contributing to a diverse, high standard array of print making techniques visible each year in the Lorg Fine Art Printmakers Members Exhibition. In 2014, artists were asked to respond to the theme of 'Oddities and Marvels within Manmade and Natural Frameworks'. The resulting exhibition, “Oddity”, comprises around 25 pieces of work which will demonstrate various techniques from traditional to modern printmaking techniques, including collagraph, copper plate etching, screenprint and digital. A fascinating and engaging show.
Lorg Printmakers (formerly Connaught Association of Printmakers) is a non-profit organisation that came together in order to create a print workshop and artists' resource organisation in Galway. Established in 1998, Lorg has been involved in many local and national festivals and exhibitions including Galway Arts Festival, Tulca, and Clifden Arts Festival, as well as running education courses and workshops for people of all levels of ability, and a number of very successful outreach projects. In 2009, Lorg became a Limited Company and is now officially Lorg Fine Art Printmakers Ltd.
The Linenhall Gallery is open to the general public Monday-Friday from 10.00am - 5.00pm; Saturday from 11.00am-5.30pm. Admission to exhibitions is free. Further details from the Linenhall. Tel: 094 9023733 Website: www.thelinenhall.com
The Linenhall Arts Centre acknowledges the financial support of the Arts Council in making this exhibition possible.
WARRIOR'S ONE IN THREE AT LINENHALL ARTS CENTRE, CASTLEBAR
Amanda Jane Graham's exhibition "Warrior's One in Three" will open at the Linenhall Arts Centre on Friday 29th August at 7.30pm
It has been substantially documented that cancer will touch one in three of us. Warriors One in Three is a mixed media exhibition that acknowledges the stoic bravery, dignity and resilience of people that have faced serious illness. “Through this exhibition the victim becomes the warrior by addressing perceptions of conflicting cultural projections played out through society. My practice is a trajectory of self-reflection, personnal narrative, and memoirs where the viewer completes the experience. Handmade process is essential to the practice. The traditional mediums of drawing, fine print, collage, embroidery and wool crafts are key to generating the intricate visual representation that penetrates the memory of the observer creating unconscious and organic emotional reactions. The exhibition will have the power touch, engage and connect with the collective experience of the audience because it will be tender, uplifting and compelling.” Amanda completed an MA Fine Art at National College of Art and Design, Dublin in 2011.
Official opening by artist Alice Maher
ÁRAS INIS GLUAIRE
Áisleann Bhéal an Mhuirthead, Belmullet, Mayo
T: 097 81079
KATE BUCKLEY SCHOOLS ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
Exhibition of artwork by kate Buckley & the 5 schools in the Kilcommon Area
Now showing in our gallery
THE BALLINGLEN ARTS FOUNDATION
Main Street, Ballycastle, Mayo
T: 096 43184
E: baf@iol.ie
W: www.ballinglenartsfoundation.org
“Atlantic - Paintings”, an exhibition by Irish artist Donald Teskey RHA, 9th August - 10th October 2014, The Ballinglen Gallery, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Main Street, Ballycastle, Co Mayo, Ireland. Open 10 - 12, 2 - 4 pm Monday - Friday and strictly by appointment at weekends with a reception on 9th August 8:30pm, everyone welcome.
Donald Teskey has arguably become one of the best known landscape painters of his generation. His paintings of the Irish landscape are dramatic works that capture the power of nature and the sheer rugged beauty of the Irish landscape. In particular, he captures the West Coast of Ireland to perfection. He has devoted much focus to observing and painting the relentless and elemental nature of coastline and sea.
Donald was born in Co. Limerick and graduated from Limerick College of Art and Design in 1978. He came to prominence as an artist through his skill as a draughtsman during the 1980s, with several significant solo exhibitions as well as being the recipient of awards in EVA and the Claremorris Open Exhibition. Since 1992 he has crafted out a substantial body of work as a painter of the landscape and more recently the ruggedness of the western seaboard. Sometimes, working on a very large scale, his images reflect his response to the formal elements of composition; shape, form and fall of light. The results are powerful images of instantly recognisable parts of the Irish landscape with large abstract passages and surfaces which articulate the relentless energetic and elemental force of nature.
In 2003 he was elected a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. He is also a member of Áosdana.
His work has been exhibited in the UK, USA, South Africa, Canada, Germany and Finland. In 2005, Limerick City Gallery of Art hosted "Tidal Narratives", an exhibition of large scale paintings and drawings coinciding with the publication of a book on the artist by Gandon Editions. He is represented in major collections including the Arts Council, Irish Museum of Modern Art, AIB, Limerick City Gallery of Art, KPMG, Butler Gallery, The Ulster Bank, OPW and The Ballinglen Arts Foundation. Donald lives and works in Dublin.
Donald is represented by the Oliver Sears Gallery in Dublin, Ireland www.oliversearsgallery.com & the Dolan/Maxwell Gallery, Philadelphia http://www.dolanmaxwell.com
The work of the Foundation (Irish Charity 11019) is supported by The Arts Council, The Ireland Funds, Mayo County Council & private contributors.
For further information please contact Úna Forde, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Main Street, Ballycastle, Co Mayo
Phone / Fax 096 43184, email baf@iol.ie
www.ballinglenartsfoundation.org/
www.facebook.com/BallinglenArtsFoundation
Ballyhaunis Open Exhibition
This year’s Theme for the exhibition is CREATIONS so we invite you to start making your pieces of work, with that theme in mind. Each person can submit 3 entries and all work is subject to the exhibitions selection process. This year the exhibition dates are Saturday 18th October to Monday 27th. Entry forms will be sent to you in September via email if the exhibition team have your address, but if you know of anyone who would like to enter then ask them to email me at moirastratford@gmail.com .
COE 2014
It's that time of year again and activity is stepping up a gear as Preparations get under way for the annual Claremorris Open Exhibition. For over 35 years COE has brought the very best in contemporary art to the West of Ireland in an exhibition that has long established itself as one of the premier events on the Irish visual arts calendar.
The event is highly regarded both at home and abroad and over the years has attracted artists from the thirty two counties, the U.K., Europe and as far afield as the United States, Australia and Asia. The event is also renowned for its commitment to the highest of standards with a list of curators that forms a veritable who's who of Irish and U.K contemporary art. Recent curators have included David Thorpe (Director of The Henry Moore Foundation, London), Tom Morton (UK based curator and contributing editor of Frieze magazine), Lizzie Carey-Thomas (Curator of Contemporary Art at Tate Britain) as well as a host of others, many of whom have served on the selection panels for such prestigious events as the Turner Prize, the Liverpool Biennial and the Venice Biennale.
This year's curator is Michelle Cotton. A graduate of English at King’s College London and the History of Art MA at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, Michelle Cotton has curated over 30 exhibitions and film screenings including projects at Kettles Yard, Cambridge; Tate Britain, Tate Modern, London; Tate St Ives, Whitechapel Gallery, London and Neuer Berliner Kunstverein including solo exhibitions by Michel Auder, Henning Bohl, Wolfgang Breuer, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Paul Sietsema and Stephen Sutcliffe. She has published numerous reviews, essays and articles and is the author of the recently published Design Research Unit 1942 – 72 (Koenig Books, 2011).
Michelle was awarded the Curatorial Bursary at Cubitt, London in 2009. She has been part of the panel for New Acquisitions at LUX (2006–2008) and a Specialist Advisor to the Scottish Arts Council (2006–2010). She is a member of the Acquisitions Committee for the collection at the FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims and a selector for the Contemporary Art Society’s Annual Award for Museum’s 2012.
Michelle recently visited Claremorris to select the works that will form COE 2014. It would be difficult to be envious of Michelle's task, with over 200 artists submitting proposals and a standard of work that was as high if not higher than ever. Nevertheless, it was a case of job done as Michelle boarded her flight home having completed the arduous task of making the final selection.
Below is a list of the artists selected to participate in COE 2014.
The exhibition will open on Sep 13 and will be on show in a number of key locations in the town until Oct 4.
More details will follow shortly. In the meantime keep an eye out for updates on www.coearts.org.
Giddy Biddy – Oughterard, Gabrielle Bishop – Westport, Jenny Brady – Dublin, Jackie Burke – Dunmore, Eleanor Duffin - Dublin, Marie Farrington - Kilcock, Lisa Fingleton – Ballybunion,Michael Gannon - Westport, Robin Jones - Galway, Jo Killalea - Swinford, Miriam McConnon - Lemba, Cyprus, Marielle MacLeman - Galway, Gavin Murphy- Dublin, Padraic O’Hora - Castlebar, Jane Queally – Galway, Bennie Reilly - Dublin, Joe Scullion - Dublin, Ian Wiezcorek - Castlebar.
Exhibition by Achill Artists Group
The Achill Artists Group will host an exhibition on new works at Abha Teangai, Dooagh Achill Island, from August 3rd – to August 17th 2014.
The Achill Artists group is a collective of visual artists who have organized a series of 9 group exhibitions over 19 years - each containing new works in sculpture, painting and printmaking. These exhibitions attract a diverse audience and are of particular interest to visitors to Achill Island, in seeking out the cultural heritage and traditions of the island.
The exhibition to include new selected works from; Ronan Halpin, Mary Lavelle Burke, John Mc Hugh, Amanda Mc Mahon, Margo Mc Nulty, Margaret Morrisson, Frances van Miele, Antic Ham, Willim Van Goor, Imelda Kilbane and Kathlyn O Brien.
Further information; 086 2325516
“THE YEAR OF THE FRENCH”
A DIORAMA OF “THE RACES OF CASTLEBAR” BY COLMAN O RAGHALLAIGH & PAT GLEESON
WITH AN EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHS BY MICHAEL MCLAUGHLIN
IN SWINFORD CULTURAL CENTRE FROM 5TH TO 14TH AUGUST 2014.(during normal library opening hours)
tmelia@mayococo.ie ' 094 9251495
Arts Plan:
Mayo County Council Arts Plan 2018 - 2022
Mayo County Council Arts Office is currently developing a new five-year strategic arts plan for the county, which will be produced early next year.
We are actively seeking the views of those involved and interested in the arts, at all levels, within the county. This includes arts venues, festivals, artists, communities and people who use, or who benefit from our service.
We would welcome your contribution. Please complete our Arts Plan questionnaire, link below. (Alternatively you can write, email or phone the arts office. Or you can request a word document of the questionnaire)
Our current arts plan can be viewed here Mayo County Council Strategic Arts Plan 2011-2016
A profile of the services we deliver is available on the website here
Please send your contribution by Friday 24th of November 2017
Arts Plan Questionnaire
Thank you for your time and interest.
We also have a questionnaire specifically for young people: Young People Questionnaire
Contact Details: Arts Office, Mayo County Council, Áras an Contae, Castlebar, Co Mayo.
Email: mayoarts@mayococo.ie
Phone: 094 90 47558 / 47471
If you would like to receive our Newsletter, please send us your e-mail address.
