126 PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Dear 126 members,

 

126 invite you to the launch of '126 PRODUCTSERVICES'

 

126 PRODUCTSSERVICES
 

Zu & Nu

Russell Hart

Lisa Sweeney

Laura Brennan

Simon Fleming

Ben Geoghegan

Marielle McLeman

Sarah Jameson-Coady

Official Launch: Wednesday 25th July from 7pm

This aspect of the current exhibition comes from the thought/reality that many of our members are multi-skilled practitioners and so have a lot to offer in terms of products and services, along side their career orientated fine art practice. 126 product services is a gesture to highlight these skills and possibly strip out some of the stigma of a singular and strictly fine art practice.

 

The 126 committee are releasing a new badge range at €2 and limited edition high quality 100% cotton bag for life at €6.00 each.

 

Zu & Nu has a range of accessories for both formal and informal wear at various prices.

 

Economic Thought Projects has five 6 inch records in an edition of 250 for sale at €10 each.

 

Lisa Sweeney has produced a range of products using Tayto bags at various prices.

 

Laura Brennan has produced an A1 drawing to promote/celebrate her Architectural Practice.

 

Simon Fleming has produced a poster illustrating his skills as an illustration designer.

 

Sarah Jameson-Coady has produced a skyscape cake of Galway to celebrate/promote her business Top Shelf Cakes.

 

Marielle McLeman and Ben Geoghegan have collaborated to produce a table.

 

Ben Geoghegan has a number of items for sale including a refurnished bicycle, 2nd hand books, drawings and has also collaboration with his Grandmother, which has produced bobble hats.

We would be delighted if you can join us for the official launch this Wednesday 25th July from 7pm in 126.

Best wishes,

126 Board

Offsite - Eve Vaughan & Mitch Conlon

OFFSITE PERFORMANCE | EVE VAUGHAN & MITCH CONLON | 126 ARTIST-RUN GALLERY | GALWAY ARTS FESTIVAL | 16 - 29 JULY 2012

126 in association with the Galway Arts Festival present: Offsite Performance Eve Vaughan Mitch Conlon 16th - 29th July 2012 Check our website for performance times and locations throughout the festival, or visit the gallery and 'we will point you in the right direction'. Eve Vaughan Julie Fiala and Eve Vaughan embarked on a series of collaborations at the beginning of 2011. The Video piece “Lay of the Land; Dublin” took place in March. The idea for the action came about from conversations on the nature of “Divide and Conquer”. A strategy employed by political and military interests in order to gain and maintain power by breaking up larger concentrations of power into smaller parts. The thinking being that people would be too busy arguing amongst themselves to have the solidarity needed to fend off enemies.  The north and south of Dublin have traditionally been seen as separate in terms of sociological and economic mindsets, and although in a state of perpetual motion the division still remains in the psyche of the city. This piece takes place on O’Connell Bridge, the inner meeting point of the north and south of the city.   Eve Vaughan (Galway) is a contemporary theatre and live art practitioner who specialises in making performances and installations in public spaces. Alongside working independently of theatre and art spaces, she has presented as part of festivals and with the support of art galleries in Galway, Belfast, Dublin, Glasgow, Amsterdam, New York and London. In conjunction with her arts practice she uses drama as a developmental and exploratory tool for working with young people.   Julie Fiala (Queìbec City) recently returned to Canada after more than seven years living in Britain, then the north of Ireland. A performance artist and cultural activist, she has presented her artistic and academic work in Ontario, the Czech Republic, Russia, Belfast, Dublin, London, Yorkshire, Scotland and New York. She has been the Programme Director of Modern Fuel Artist- Run Centre (Kingston, Canada, 2002-04) and has received artistic and academic awards, including a Commonwealth Scholarship for studies in England.  Image: 'DELIVER US JIM, DELIVER US! BE NOT AFRAID, I GO BEFORE YOU ALWAYS' 2012  Mitch Conlon 'DELIVER US JIM, DELIVER US! BE NOT AFRAID, I GO BEFORE YOU ALWAYS' 'Naw man sure im telling ya its the volvo ocean drinking race. Boer, she’s middlin that one. Here c’mere jim man we head down the kebab house and we get the deed on. Dogs dinner, cert. Kebab house, not proud of it, not ashamed of it either. Throw us it all on there fiend, don’t be afraid of it, with chips. Your wan’s trying to skip the queue there on the sly hey. Here jim man, relax there to fack will ya. Yer wan’s a thundering bitch skipping. I wouldnt ride ya into a battle ya bitch. Here jim man relax, ahh here lads There was no neeed to be rucking there jim. Whatdaya on about man, sure ya got her into a headlock in the middle of the kebab house. She was about 45 ya dick. Ring 50 shades of Dan there an tell him we’ll head down the Roisheen an get a bottle outta the wine-ese. Boer tides Fackin wine-ese, right we’ll head up the No.10 shop for the snear and get a bottle a bucky, throw it in the jacket jim. Yeah sure yer man owes a ball of tax, he’ll throw ya out a bottle no bother hey. Sure we’ll kip back in the van, certified qualitay. Faack, how are we gonna make it through the arts festivel'. facebook photo albums here: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

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The Bureau

THE BUREAU OF 'WE WILL POINT YOU IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION | 126 ARTIST-RUN GALLERY | GALWAY ARTS FESTIVAL |  16 - 29 JULY 2012

126 in association with the Galway Arts Festival present: THE BUREAU OF 'WE WILL POINT YOU IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION'>126 Gallery: ICONOCLAST | Ben Geoghegan | Products & Services >>The Shed: Brian Loughran & Kate Howard >>>Offsite: Eve Vaughan & Mitch Conlon 16th - 29th July 2012 here      here        here      here       & here

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Iconoclast - Ben Geoghegan

ICONOCLAST | BEN GEOGHEGAN | 126 ARTIST-RUN GALLERY | GALWAY ARTS FESTIVAL | 16 - 29 JULY 2012

126 in association with the Galway Arts Festival present: ICONOCLAST Ben Geoghegan 16th - 29th July 2012 Opening reception: Wed 18th July, 7pm Image: LT Self Portrait aged 33, 2010. RT Bobble Hat collaboration with Granma Geoghegan, 2011/12 The intensions for ‘Iconoclast‘ are to accommodate and privilege disparities and complexities within idenity and collectives; using photography as an expression of curiosity and participation in broader fields of everyday life, and as a means of looking widely into the world.  Offering an opportunity to meditate upon the grandeur of history and as an analogy for the particularity and sameness of our experience, especially in an age of increasing homogeneity; when the sustainability of our existence is everyone’s concern. The exhibition concerns itself with the history of Art and ‘exhibition’ and is not alone among contemporary discourse in this respect, but intends to maintain a level of playfulness and humour that can be accessible, and engaged with popular culture, whether it’s the history and discourse of photography or painting, etc. Using a variant of Brechtian “alienation” technique, nudgingly reminding us that we are looking at a construct, a staged contrivance, the exhibits articulate diverse ideas and means in order to formulate a poetics of vision confronted with the gaps between reality and representation. Through ‘Iconoclast ‘ it is intended that there materialises a specfic condition of exposure that is essential to Art and offers a critical commentry on the ways in which presentation bestows value and addresses constituencies. Through combining production modes of making and presenting (at once creative, analytic, interpretive) and by inhabiting the roles of photographer, curator, designer, critic, fabricator and historian (all under the rubric of Visual Practitioner), the works presented in this show celebrate a challenge to cherished beliefs, be those, of Church, State, and the institution of Art itself ? Bonkers. -- ‘It’s all one song.’ – Neil Young replied to a fans request for a song. www.126.ie www.bengeoghegan.blogspot.com

follow on twitter | follow on facebook | forward to a friend   126 is supported by the Arts Council, the Galway City Council and our membership.     126 is supported in kind by Eight Bar & Restaurant and the Traditional Cheese Co. Our mailing address: 126, Artist-run Gallery Queen St Galway Ireland contact@126.ie www.126.ie Opening hours: 1pm - 6pm (16th - 29th July)

The Shed: Brian Loughran & Kate Howard

BRIAN LOUGHRAN & KATE HOWARD | THE SHED | 126 GALLERY | GALWAY ARTS FESTIVAL | 16 - 29 JULY 2012

126 in association with the Galway Arts Festival present: Brian Loughran Kate Howard 16th - 29th July 2012 Opening reception: Friday 20th July, 7pm 'Guillotine', 2012 Brian Loughran Brian Loughran is a Galway based visual artist, graduating from LCAD in 1995. Loughran explores notions of memory and identity in his work, often using the mediums of object installation and performance art. Brian has received grants from the Arts Council of Ireland, and has performed and exhibited in Unit 1, Dublin, Platform Arts, Belfast, 2009, ‘Weather permitting’, Galway, Driocht, Dublin, and RAP, Limerick. For 'The Shed' exhibition, Loughran presents two new works, 'Prey' and 'Guillotine'. Both works play on the viewer's sense of anticipation and expectation. 'Guillotine' alludes to the seduction of dangerous close encounters and the notion of being close to the edge of a perilous situation. 'Prey' evokes a sense of frustration and endless empathy as the work is futile in its nature. 'Bauen', 2011 Kate Howard Kate Howard aims to examine the various spatial and architectural features of the exhibition space. By the means of nominal site-specific intervention, seizing an existing situation and exposing the essence of the materials employed. Howard is primarily concerned with instability and alterability, with construction and decay. She hopes to create new environments that reveal the essence and unpredictability of the materials themselves. Through employing and manipulating functional everyday materials and re-configuring their potential. Interventions produced on site, objects become spatial structures. Kate Howard is a contemporary visual artist and arts organizer based in Galway. In 2010 she completed her MA in Arts Policy and Practice through the Huston School of Film and Digital Media at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She holds degrees in Fine Art from Sligo IT (2000) and GMIT (2009). Image: Eimearjean McCormack The Shed, Middle Pier, The Docks, Galway Facilitated by the generous support of the Galway Harbour Company and the Galway City Arts Office, The Shed is a large 4,000 square foot warehouse space located on the middle pier of the Galway Docks. The space will be used for the duration of 2012 and into 2013 for a wide variety of projects and exhibitions, all instigated by local artists affiliated with Adapt Galway's organisations. Adapt hopes that by doing so, it will provide a unique platform for local artists to showcase their talents at a local and national level. Adapt also hopes to highlight the great potential of such vacant spaces around the city and how they could be used in the future. http://g.co/maps/czyv4

follow on twitter | follow on facebook | forward to a friend   126 is supported by the Arts Council, the Galway City Council and our membership.     126 is supported in kind by Adapt Galway, Galway Harbour Company and the Harbour Hotel. Our mailing address: 126, Artist-run Gallery Queen St Galway Ireland contact@126.ie www.126.ie Opening hours: 1pm - 6pm (16th - 29th July)