26 May 2014
ARTFarm residencies 2014 | OPEN CALL
126 are pleased to announce:
OPEN CALL
ARTFarm RESIDENCY, Co. Galway
21st July - 4th August & 11th - 25th August 2014
Closing Date for Submissions by email, 4pm, 27th June 2014
OPEN CALL
ARTFarm RESIDENCY, Co. Galway
21st July - 4th August & 11th - 25th August 2014
Closing Date for Submissions by email, 4pm, 27th June 2014
As
part of our continued commitment to support our members, 126 is
delighted to announce an open call out for the 2nd annual ARTFarm
Residency Award. This residency will take place in a very rural and
secluded setting in Cloonkeen, Newbridge, Ballinasloe, Co.Galway. The
ARTFarm is owned and operated by Sheila Flanagan and comprises of a
small self-catering farmhouse with access to a studio space comprising a
large open barn, indoor library/studio and an indoor shed/workshop
space. The ARTFarm is ideally suited to independent, self-sufficient
artists who would relish quiet, unplugged time to develop their practice
or new work. Please note that own transport is necessary for travel to
this residency. The residency is aimed at providing an artist with the
experience of a residency and subsequent joint exhibition. Photos and more information can be found at http://126gallery.blogspot.ie/
126 invites its members to submit proposals for the residencies that will take place at the ARTFarm this summer. The first residency will be for up to two artists, from any discipline, from the 21st July - 4th August 2014, working towards the ARTFarm exhibition in 126 Artist run Gallery in 2015 (Dates TBC). The second residency for up to two artists will run from 11th - 25th August 2014. In your application, please state if you are applying for the July or August residency. Individual and joint collaborative applications are welcome from artists working in any medium. The July residency offers an option for artists interested in community/socially engaged art practice to gain experience working with the local community through various workshops organised collaboratively between The ARTFarm and Aonad Family Resource Center based in nearby Ballygar.
Artists and recent graduates are invited to apply for the ARTFarm residency with a proposal of how time would be spent at the ARTFarm, images of recent work, an artist statement and CV. Please note that there is no fee involved in taking part in this residency, but all associated costs (i.e. travel, food, etc.) must be covered by the artists.
This OPEN CALL is available to 126 members.
Submissions are by email only to contact@126.ie.
Please title the email "ARTFarm Residency Proposal"
The deadline for applications is 4pm, 27th June 2014.
Recipients will be informed by email no later than Friday 4th July.
126 invites its members to submit proposals for the residencies that will take place at the ARTFarm this summer. The first residency will be for up to two artists, from any discipline, from the 21st July - 4th August 2014, working towards the ARTFarm exhibition in 126 Artist run Gallery in 2015 (Dates TBC). The second residency for up to two artists will run from 11th - 25th August 2014. In your application, please state if you are applying for the July or August residency. Individual and joint collaborative applications are welcome from artists working in any medium. The July residency offers an option for artists interested in community/socially engaged art practice to gain experience working with the local community through various workshops organised collaboratively between The ARTFarm and Aonad Family Resource Center based in nearby Ballygar.
Artists and recent graduates are invited to apply for the ARTFarm residency with a proposal of how time would be spent at the ARTFarm, images of recent work, an artist statement and CV. Please note that there is no fee involved in taking part in this residency, but all associated costs (i.e. travel, food, etc.) must be covered by the artists.
This OPEN CALL is available to 126 members.
Submissions are by email only to contact@126.ie.
Please title the email "ARTFarm Residency Proposal"
The deadline for applications is 4pm, 27th June 2014.
Recipients will be informed by email no later than Friday 4th July.
Submissions for this open call are invited from 126 members. Membership details are available at http://www.126.ie/member.htm
The financial contribution of our membership is invaluable. It helps support our strong programme of unconventional and international art exhibitions. One year's membership costs €10 to students/unwaged or €20 to those with a wage. You can also support us further by becoming a 'Friend of 126' for €50 or 'Patron of 126 for €250. Just drop in to the gallery to join up or you can use paypal through our website www.126.ie. Membership is open to anyone over the age of 18 that supports our aims.
Members are encouraged to make exhibition proposals throughout the year. In addition to this, 126 members will have access to discounted rates on a number of events throughout the year including, workshops, seminars and screenings. Invitations and opportunities to take part in 126 projects and collaborations throughout the programme year are offered to current 126 members only. Members can also avail of listing a link to their website from the 126 website.
The financial contribution of our membership is invaluable. It helps support our strong programme of unconventional and international art exhibitions. One year's membership costs €10 to students/unwaged or €20 to those with a wage. You can also support us further by becoming a 'Friend of 126' for €50 or 'Patron of 126 for €250. Just drop in to the gallery to join up or you can use paypal through our website www.126.ie. Membership is open to anyone over the age of 18 that supports our aims.
Members are encouraged to make exhibition proposals throughout the year. In addition to this, 126 members will have access to discounted rates on a number of events throughout the year including, workshops, seminars and screenings. Invitations and opportunities to take part in 126 projects and collaborations throughout the programme year are offered to current 126 members only. Members can also avail of listing a link to their website from the 126 website.
23 May 2014
Developing Proposals for Individual Artists & Artist-Led Groups (2013)
November 2013
126 present
in partnership with Visual Artists Ireland,
and generously hosted by the Community Knowledge Initiative at NUI Galway:
Developing Proposals for Individual Artists & Artist-Led Groups Wednesday 6th November 2013 | 10.30am - 4.30pm
ROOM SC 200B, The Concourse, NUI, Galway.
€20 for 126 & VAI members / €40 for non-members
Places: 20
126 would like to invite our members to attend the next in our series of professional development workshops in partnership with Visual Artists Ireland. This session is called Developing Proposals for Individual Artists & Artist-led groups and will involve 2 talks followed by one-to-one clinics to review a specific proposal and an open discussion with artist-led groups. You can register for this event by clicking here.
The session will start at 10.30am and run until 4.30pm. The cost is €20 for 126 and VAI members, and €40 for non-members. Places are limited, so please register in advance to guarantee a spot.
www.126.ie www.126gallery.blogspot.ie Visual Artists Ireland
for Visual Artists in Northern Ireland
Twitter Account #VisArtsIreland
Facebook Page "Visual Artists Ireland”
Facebook Page "Visual Artists Ireland - Professional Development”
Facebook Page "for Visual Artists in Northern Ireland”
The Common Room Social Network for Visual Artists
126 present
in partnership with Visual Artists Ireland,
and generously hosted by the Community Knowledge Initiative at NUI Galway:
Developing Proposals for Individual Artists & Artist-Led Groups Wednesday 6th November 2013 | 10.30am - 4.30pm
ROOM SC 200B, The Concourse, NUI, Galway.
€20 for 126 & VAI members / €40 for non-members
Places: 20
126 would like to invite our members to attend the next in our series of professional development workshops in partnership with Visual Artists Ireland. This session is called Developing Proposals for Individual Artists & Artist-led groups and will involve 2 talks followed by one-to-one clinics to review a specific proposal and an open discussion with artist-led groups. You can register for this event by clicking here.
The session will start at 10.30am and run until 4.30pm. The cost is €20 for 126 and VAI members, and €40 for non-members. Places are limited, so please register in advance to guarantee a spot.
Morning - this session will involve 2 talks
Talk 1 will be from Marianne O'Kane-Boal (Curator & Writer) and focuses on individual artists proposals taking an overview on how to put together proposals for a variety of contexts.
Talk 2 will be from Rosie Lynch (Curator) and will look at how artist-led / curatorial groups might devise proposals / projects in response to site but also look at long-term development and embedded-ness in a local.
This session will look at how to target opportunities relevant to your practice either individual or collective and outline issues that you may need consider when approaching different opportunities such as Arts Council / Local Authority bursaries or Public Gallery calls for submissions. The session will briefly discuss: Dos and Don'ts; writing style; formatting; imaging and presentation and provide examples of good and bad proposals.
Afternoon - this session will give the opportunity for 6 individual artists to avail of one-to-one clinics with Marianne, and/or participate in discussions with Rosie about issues affecting artist-led groups.
Following the morning talks individual artists will have the opportunity to have short one-to-one clinics with Marianne O'Kane-Boal looking at a previous proposal or a proposal that you are developing. Participants should bring along any material relating to the proposals they wish to discuss including: images; proposal documents; statement about a project. If possible bring the material printed, on memory stick or on your laptop.
Running in parallel Rosie will lead an open discussion with artist-led groups on issues of sustainability and longterm development strategies.
Please note that clinic places are limited so you should indicate in the registration form (What you want to gain from this session?) if you wish to avail of a clinic. There will be a maximum of 6 clinic slots for individual artists. Clinics will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
Contributors:
Marianne O’Kane Boal bring her curatorial experience to bear when discussing the expectations that public venues and funding organisations have in relation to artists seeking their supports.
Rosie Lynch will bring her experience of working as part of The Commonage Callan and other collaborative curatorial projects such as Unbuilding (Mermaid Arts Centre, 2011) and Dig Where you Stand (Sth Tipperary, 2012).
Talk 1 will be from Marianne O'Kane-Boal (Curator & Writer) and focuses on individual artists proposals taking an overview on how to put together proposals for a variety of contexts.
Talk 2 will be from Rosie Lynch (Curator) and will look at how artist-led / curatorial groups might devise proposals / projects in response to site but also look at long-term development and embedded-ness in a local.
This session will look at how to target opportunities relevant to your practice either individual or collective and outline issues that you may need consider when approaching different opportunities such as Arts Council / Local Authority bursaries or Public Gallery calls for submissions. The session will briefly discuss: Dos and Don'ts; writing style; formatting; imaging and presentation and provide examples of good and bad proposals.
Afternoon - this session will give the opportunity for 6 individual artists to avail of one-to-one clinics with Marianne, and/or participate in discussions with Rosie about issues affecting artist-led groups.
Following the morning talks individual artists will have the opportunity to have short one-to-one clinics with Marianne O'Kane-Boal looking at a previous proposal or a proposal that you are developing. Participants should bring along any material relating to the proposals they wish to discuss including: images; proposal documents; statement about a project. If possible bring the material printed, on memory stick or on your laptop.
Running in parallel Rosie will lead an open discussion with artist-led groups on issues of sustainability and longterm development strategies.
Please note that clinic places are limited so you should indicate in the registration form (What you want to gain from this session?) if you wish to avail of a clinic. There will be a maximum of 6 clinic slots for individual artists. Clinics will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
Contributors:
Marianne O’Kane Boal bring her curatorial experience to bear when discussing the expectations that public venues and funding organisations have in relation to artists seeking their supports.
Rosie Lynch will bring her experience of working as part of The Commonage Callan and other collaborative curatorial projects such as Unbuilding (Mermaid Arts Centre, 2011) and Dig Where you Stand (Sth Tipperary, 2012).
www.126.ie www.126gallery.blogspot.ie Visual Artists Ireland
for Visual Artists in Northern Ireland
Twitter Account #VisArtsIreland
Facebook Page "Visual Artists Ireland”
Facebook Page "Visual Artists Ireland - Professional Development”
Facebook Page "for Visual Artists in Northern Ireland”
The Common Room Social Network for Visual Artists
Facilitation Skills for Artists with Marie Brett (2013)
OCTOBER 2013
126 present
in partnership with Visual Artists Ireland and CREATE,
and generously hosted by the Community Knowledge Initiative at NUI Galway:
Facilitation Skills with Marie Brett
Wednesday 16 October 2013 | 10.30am - 4.30pm
ROOM SC 200B, The Concourse, NUI, Galway.
€35 for 126, VAI & CREATE members / €70 for non-members
This event aims to facilitate the participation of artists who have an interest and commitment to the development of their creativity and group skills.
This session will explore the theory and practice of facilitation skills, which can be applied to both group and individual activities and collaborations in social and community contexts.
It will provide an introduction to differing styles of facilitation and offer an insight into thinking strategically about why and how you can lead a session, as well as give some practical skills and helpful tools for delivery.
Topics covered include managing communication skills and group dynamics alongside issues of ethics, equality and personal triggers.
The artist Marie Brett has extensive experience in this area and has used group work facilitation as part of her practice as a tool for research, project development, public art commissions and producing artwork in various contexts, both in Ireland and overseas, in a range of both formal and non-formal settings.
Marie Brett
I’m a visual artist based in County Cork, Ireland.
Photography, video and sculptural installation form the basis of my work and my practice explores the paradox of absence and presence in relation to issues of loss and seeks to reposition the accepted or unquestioned.
Marie Brett: My parents emigrated from Ireland and I was raised in the UK and studied visual art at Goldsmith’s College, London University, receiving an MA plus a 1st class BA. The British Council, The Arts Council of England, Southern Regional Arts Board and several Local Authority Arts Offices supported my practice in the UK, prior to me relocating back to Ireland in 1998 where I currently work freelance.
Positioned as a socially engaged practitioner, my conceptual interests frequently lead me to collaborate with participants with direct experience of ambiguous loss and this has led me to new modes of collaboration with individuals and groups of people, who influence the production of new work. My arts practice in this field has developed through various opportunities including support from The Arts Council, Create, Culture Ireland and several local authorities, and I’ve presented at a number of seminars and conferences, am an artist’s mentor for various organisations and have begun to publish critical texts.
Currently I am producing a new body of artwork exploring the idea of an amulet as an object signifier of pregnancy and infant loss, working collaboratively with bereaved parents in partnership with three Irish hospitals with exhibitions of artwork during 2013. This work is informed by Amulet specialists and the Pitt River Museum collection, at Oxford University.
126 present
in partnership with Visual Artists Ireland and CREATE,
and generously hosted by the Community Knowledge Initiative at NUI Galway:
Facilitation Skills with Marie Brett
Wednesday 16 October 2013 | 10.30am - 4.30pm
ROOM SC 200B, The Concourse, NUI, Galway.
€35 for 126, VAI & CREATE members / €70 for non-members
This event aims to facilitate the participation of artists who have an interest and commitment to the development of their creativity and group skills.
This session will explore the theory and practice of facilitation skills, which can be applied to both group and individual activities and collaborations in social and community contexts.
It will provide an introduction to differing styles of facilitation and offer an insight into thinking strategically about why and how you can lead a session, as well as give some practical skills and helpful tools for delivery.
Topics covered include managing communication skills and group dynamics alongside issues of ethics, equality and personal triggers.
The artist Marie Brett has extensive experience in this area and has used group work facilitation as part of her practice as a tool for research, project development, public art commissions and producing artwork in various contexts, both in Ireland and overseas, in a range of both formal and non-formal settings.
Marie Brett
I’m a visual artist based in County Cork, Ireland.
Photography, video and sculptural installation form the basis of my work and my practice explores the paradox of absence and presence in relation to issues of loss and seeks to reposition the accepted or unquestioned.
Marie Brett: My parents emigrated from Ireland and I was raised in the UK and studied visual art at Goldsmith’s College, London University, receiving an MA plus a 1st class BA. The British Council, The Arts Council of England, Southern Regional Arts Board and several Local Authority Arts Offices supported my practice in the UK, prior to me relocating back to Ireland in 1998 where I currently work freelance.
Positioned as a socially engaged practitioner, my conceptual interests frequently lead me to collaborate with participants with direct experience of ambiguous loss and this has led me to new modes of collaboration with individuals and groups of people, who influence the production of new work. My arts practice in this field has developed through various opportunities including support from The Arts Council, Create, Culture Ireland and several local authorities, and I’ve presented at a number of seminars and conferences, am an artist’s mentor for various organisations and have begun to publish critical texts.
Currently I am producing a new body of artwork exploring the idea of an amulet as an object signifier of pregnancy and infant loss, working collaboratively with bereaved parents in partnership with three Irish hospitals with exhibitions of artwork during 2013. This work is informed by Amulet specialists and the Pitt River Museum collection, at Oxford University.
18 May 2014
ARTFarm Residency Images
Co.Galway. The ARTFarm is owned and operated by Sheila Flanagan and comprises of a small
self-catering farmhouse with access to a studio space comprising a large open barn, indoor library/studio
and an indoor shed/workshop space. The ARTFarm is ideally suited to independent, self-sufficient
artists who would relish quiet, unplugged time to develop their practice or new work.
Studio workspace
BURREN COLLEGE OF ART@126 | MFA GRADUATES SHOW
BURREN COLLEGE OF ART@126 | MFA GRADUATES SHOW
May 16th - June 1st 2014
126 is delighted to present work by Collette Egan and Mollie Douthit, Burren College of Art MFA Graduates 2014.
Egan’s practice is founded on the act of drawing, in its instinctive and immediate nature, which serves to capture the essence of being-in-the-world. She investigates how this process might act to facilitate a search for a sense of belonging, and reveal connections between time, place and memory.
Through a process of experimental drawing she endeavours to trace journeys through life, paying particular attention to the material encountered along the way. The dynamics of specific environments become the drawing material, for example, the chalk from the sea bed describes the wave movement of the sea; a seagull feather found on specific wanderings, becomes a tool for drawing; wind, rain and frost leave their mark on paper stretched and loaded with ink. Traces of journey’s are witnessed through the use of archival footage, which enables an otherwise absent connection with family history and memory. The impermanence of the journey is reflected through the use of these transient materials which is employed in immersive installations and then erased, so that the viewer is only able to experience the work for a limited time. All of these experiments offering a very specific insight on the otherwise invisible traces of being-in-the-world.
Douthit’s practice is grounded in an exploration of objects, which exist in physical reality, engaging in the genre of still life painting. The subject of each painting floats in a field of non-representational space, remaining in a state of tension that questions its gravitational ground. This use of space alludes to the emotional resonance that certain objects hold. The images are initially sparse, and the subjects are simple, yet maintain an arresting position, requesting closer investigation of their surfaces. The paintings become complex, as subtle layers of application are revealed.
Traditional still life objects such as food and vernacular items become her subjects. Painting permits her to remove any practical utility they provide and explore their forms, creating a new aesthetic within a painting, while transcending paint itself. The paintings become offerings of contemplation once an object of their own.
Egan received her MFA from Burren College of Art in 2014 and her BFA in Painting from Wimbledon School of Art in 2008. She was recently selected for inclusion in the RHA Annual Exhibition and ‘Something Recalled' at Glór, Ennis, curated by Helen Carey, Director of Limerick City Gallery.
Douthit received her BFA from the University of North Dakota in 2009, and a Post Bac Certificate from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2011. Her work has been featured in the 2013 MFA edition of New American Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Medal Award Auction, Royal Dublin Society Student Art Awards, and the Saatchi Gallery in London. Douthit exhibited in the 2013 Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition and received the Hennessy Craig Award. In 2014 Douthit was long listed for the John Moores Painting Prize.
Burren College of Art is an internationally recognised not-for-profit independent college specialising in undergraduate and graduate fine art education. It offers artists and art students from around the world time, space and inspiration within the unique environment of the Burren. Their graduate PhG, MFA, MA and PG Diploma programmes are accredited by the National University of Ireland , Galway and are operated in association with the Royal College of Art, London and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. To date, the core of the Burren experience has been the education of artists, with ecology, law, archaeology, business, leadership and other subjects as background elements.
www.burrencollege.ie
May 16th - June 1st 2014
Images: Collette Egan – “Poll Salach” , Mollie Douthit – “Fail Me”
126 is delighted to present work by Collette Egan and Mollie Douthit, Burren College of Art MFA Graduates 2014.
Egan’s practice is founded on the act of drawing, in its instinctive and immediate nature, which serves to capture the essence of being-in-the-world. She investigates how this process might act to facilitate a search for a sense of belonging, and reveal connections between time, place and memory.
Through a process of experimental drawing she endeavours to trace journeys through life, paying particular attention to the material encountered along the way. The dynamics of specific environments become the drawing material, for example, the chalk from the sea bed describes the wave movement of the sea; a seagull feather found on specific wanderings, becomes a tool for drawing; wind, rain and frost leave their mark on paper stretched and loaded with ink. Traces of journey’s are witnessed through the use of archival footage, which enables an otherwise absent connection with family history and memory. The impermanence of the journey is reflected through the use of these transient materials which is employed in immersive installations and then erased, so that the viewer is only able to experience the work for a limited time. All of these experiments offering a very specific insight on the otherwise invisible traces of being-in-the-world.
Douthit’s practice is grounded in an exploration of objects, which exist in physical reality, engaging in the genre of still life painting. The subject of each painting floats in a field of non-representational space, remaining in a state of tension that questions its gravitational ground. This use of space alludes to the emotional resonance that certain objects hold. The images are initially sparse, and the subjects are simple, yet maintain an arresting position, requesting closer investigation of their surfaces. The paintings become complex, as subtle layers of application are revealed.
Traditional still life objects such as food and vernacular items become her subjects. Painting permits her to remove any practical utility they provide and explore their forms, creating a new aesthetic within a painting, while transcending paint itself. The paintings become offerings of contemplation once an object of their own.
Egan received her MFA from Burren College of Art in 2014 and her BFA in Painting from Wimbledon School of Art in 2008. She was recently selected for inclusion in the RHA Annual Exhibition and ‘Something Recalled' at Glór, Ennis, curated by Helen Carey, Director of Limerick City Gallery.
Douthit received her BFA from the University of North Dakota in 2009, and a Post Bac Certificate from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2011. Her work has been featured in the 2013 MFA edition of New American Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Medal Award Auction, Royal Dublin Society Student Art Awards, and the Saatchi Gallery in London. Douthit exhibited in the 2013 Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition and received the Hennessy Craig Award. In 2014 Douthit was long listed for the John Moores Painting Prize.
Burren College of Art is an internationally recognised not-for-profit independent college specialising in undergraduate and graduate fine art education. It offers artists and art students from around the world time, space and inspiration within the unique environment of the Burren. Their graduate PhG, MFA, MA and PG Diploma programmes are accredited by the National University of Ireland , Galway and are operated in association with the Royal College of Art, London and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. To date, the core of the Burren experience has been the education of artists, with ecology, law, archaeology, business, leadership and other subjects as background elements.
www.burrencollege.ie
OPEN CALL | 7th Annual Members Show
OPEN CALL
7th ANNUAL 126 MEMBERS' SHOW
CURATED BY Paul McAree
Closing Date for Submissions by email, June 6th, 2014 at 4pm
As part of our continued commitment to support our membership, 126 is delighted to announce a call out for its 7th Annual Members’ Show. 126 is grateful for the financial and moral support of its members and each year offers this special opportunity to exhibit their work. The members shows are usually selected by the board and have taken place at various times over the years. This year, with generous support from the Galway Arts Festival, we would like to present the work of our members to the international audience that visit the festival from 14th - 27th of July.
To develop this exhibition, we are delighted to announce Paul McAree as curator. McAree is founder of FLOOD, Dublin, a contemporary art project in Dublin city. FLOOD has hosted several group exhibitions including artists Michelle Browne, Alan Butler, Martin Healy, Nevan Lahart, Beatriz Olabarrieta, and Suzanne Treister, a commissioned publication by artist Kevin Atherton, and printed projects with Theresa Nanigian, Terry Atkinson, and Flávia Müller Medeiros. McAree is also Exhibitions and Events Co-ordinator at Lismore Castle Arts in Waterford. Previously McAree worked at Breaking Ground, Tate Modern and Ikon Gallery Birmingham.
While the call for entries is wide open, McAree is particularly interested in work which is conscious of the process of an artwork's journey from studio to gallery, and the questioning and contesting of an artwork's autonomy. This could be work which is concerned with the physicality of its own construction, to work which is overtly about exhibition and display, looking and meaning.126 invites members to submit work in any medium. Submissions are by email only to contact@126.ie. The deadline for submissions is June 6that 4pm. Please title the email “7TH ANNUAL MEMBERS SHOW” and include a description of proposed work (Max 500 words), images of proposed work, an artists statement and CV in PDF FORMAT ONLY.
The financial contribution of our membership is invaluable. It helps support our strong programme of unconventional and international art exhibitions. One year's membership costs €10 to students/unwaged or €20 to those with a wage. You can also support us further by becoming a 'Friend of 126' for €50 or 'Patron of 126 for €250. Just drop in to the gallery to join up or you can use paypal through our website www.126.ie/member. Membership is open to anyone over the age of 18 that supports our aims.
The Annual Members’ Show is a vital part of 126. It is open to all members and is a great opportunity for emerging artists. We also encourage members to make exhibition proposals throughout the year. In addition to this, 126 members will have access to discounted rates on a number of events throughout the year including, workshops, seminars and screenings. Invitations and opportunities to take part in 126 projects and collaborations throughout the programme year are offered to current 126 members only. Members can also avail of listing a link to their website from the 126 website.
www.126.ie
www.126gallery.blogspot.ie
http://www.paulmcaree.com/
http://www.flooddublin.com/
7th ANNUAL 126 MEMBERS' SHOW
CURATED BY Paul McAree
Closing Date for Submissions by email, June 6th, 2014 at 4pm
As part of our continued commitment to support our membership, 126 is delighted to announce a call out for its 7th Annual Members’ Show. 126 is grateful for the financial and moral support of its members and each year offers this special opportunity to exhibit their work. The members shows are usually selected by the board and have taken place at various times over the years. This year, with generous support from the Galway Arts Festival, we would like to present the work of our members to the international audience that visit the festival from 14th - 27th of July.
To develop this exhibition, we are delighted to announce Paul McAree as curator. McAree is founder of FLOOD, Dublin, a contemporary art project in Dublin city. FLOOD has hosted several group exhibitions including artists Michelle Browne, Alan Butler, Martin Healy, Nevan Lahart, Beatriz Olabarrieta, and Suzanne Treister, a commissioned publication by artist Kevin Atherton, and printed projects with Theresa Nanigian, Terry Atkinson, and Flávia Müller Medeiros. McAree is also Exhibitions and Events Co-ordinator at Lismore Castle Arts in Waterford. Previously McAree worked at Breaking Ground, Tate Modern and Ikon Gallery Birmingham.
While the call for entries is wide open, McAree is particularly interested in work which is conscious of the process of an artwork's journey from studio to gallery, and the questioning and contesting of an artwork's autonomy. This could be work which is concerned with the physicality of its own construction, to work which is overtly about exhibition and display, looking and meaning.126 invites members to submit work in any medium. Submissions are by email only to contact@126.ie. The deadline for submissions is June 6that 4pm. Please title the email “7TH ANNUAL MEMBERS SHOW” and include a description of proposed work (Max 500 words), images of proposed work, an artists statement and CV in PDF FORMAT ONLY.
The financial contribution of our membership is invaluable. It helps support our strong programme of unconventional and international art exhibitions. One year's membership costs €10 to students/unwaged or €20 to those with a wage. You can also support us further by becoming a 'Friend of 126' for €50 or 'Patron of 126 for €250. Just drop in to the gallery to join up or you can use paypal through our website www.126.ie/member. Membership is open to anyone over the age of 18 that supports our aims.
The Annual Members’ Show is a vital part of 126. It is open to all members and is a great opportunity for emerging artists. We also encourage members to make exhibition proposals throughout the year. In addition to this, 126 members will have access to discounted rates on a number of events throughout the year including, workshops, seminars and screenings. Invitations and opportunities to take part in 126 projects and collaborations throughout the programme year are offered to current 126 members only. Members can also avail of listing a link to their website from the 126 website.
www.126.ie
www.126gallery.blogspot.ie
http://www.paulmcaree.com/
http://www.flooddublin.com/
14 May 2014
Ceara Conway | Making Visible | Vigil Series
Images taken from Ceara Conway's "Making Visible" Vigil series in April 2014.
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12 May 2014
Too Many Dinner Parties
Too Many Dinner Parties
An Engage Studios Project Presents
a live sound performance by
Sven Anderson and Russell Hart
Sunday the 11th of May at 6PM in 126 Artist-Run Gallery, Flood Street, Galway.
Engage Studios are proud to present the final event taking place as part of Too Many Dinner Parties project at 126 Artist-Run Gallery by Russell Hart and Sven Anderson.
Too Many Dinner Parties has been a series of exhibitions and events involving three curatorial projects by PS² (Belfast), Russell Hart (formerly Economic Thought Projects, Galway) and Paul Hallahan (formerly SOMA Contemporary, Waterford). These events and exhibitions have taken place in The Shed and 126 and the final event returns to Galway's only artist run gallery.
On the 11th of May at 6PM Sven Anderson and Russell Hart will be using field recordings taken during the exhibition run as a starting point for a live sound work in 126. Through performing in 126 Anderson and Hart will be returning many of the recorded sounds to their original point of origin. These recordings will be heavily processed by Anderson's custom made software and augmented by a combination of Hart's homemade and electronic instruments.
All work produced in the Too Many Dinner Parties exhibition series focused specifically on participatory art and collaborative engagements. Engage studio members, national artists, disparate groups and people from different cities and communities were invited to respond to one-of-a-kind curatorial programme. Too Many Dinner Parties is an Engage Studios Project that has been generously funded by The Arts Council of Ireland through the Visual Art Project Award and is coordinated by Engage Studios members Shelly McDonnell, Carol Anne Connolly and Vicky Smith.
8 May 2014
PURE | a live performance by Noel Arrigan
126 proudly present
PURE
by Noel Arrigan
Friday 09 May 2014
1st Performance 6.30pm
2nd Performance 7.45pm
126 are proud to present PURE, a performance by Noel Arrigan. We would like to invite you to join us on Friday 9th May, there will be a performance at 6.30pm, and a second performance at 7.45pm
Noel Arrigan is a multi - media artist working out of Galway. His sculpture based practice includes live performance, installation, photography and manipulating found objects. His recent work investigates the continuous veneration and identity of wells through Irish history. He explores elements such as distillation and transubstantiation of water and belief.
“Through distilling I noticed that the evaporating steam can be absorbed into the body by inhalation and the pores of the skin. By interacting with this steam I am questioning the healing powers of the spiritual wells of Ireland,”
Noel is the current chairperson of Forge Clay Studio, Galway and a recent board member of 126 Gallery Galway. He has completed public art commissions including ‘Things to live by’ a collaborative contemporary art project between Croi na Gaillimhe – St. Vincent de Paul and Forge Clay Studios, 2013. Tulca visual arts festival 2013, also a Project Administrator on “Inis Bearachain”, part of the Tulca Festival of Visual Arts, Galway, 2012.
6 May 2014
126 Dialogues | Representations | Tom O'Dea & Austin D.H. Ivers
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Tom O'Dea & Austin D. H. Ivers
1st May | 5pm
126 Gallery | Flood Street
Artists Tom O'Dea and Austin D. H. Ivers will discuss the exhibition Representations.
They will also discuss Tom O'Dea's PhD research that is focussed on investigating the impact of the networked society on concepts of the self and on the systems of post-industrial capitalism that underpin the global political economy.
Representations is an exhibition about data, categorisation and the self. By exposing the available data that exists around himself, Tom O'Dea attempts to expose the gaps that exist between representations and the things they attempt to describe. The exhibition encourages the examination of both the data structures that exist around our daily lives and our motivations for their use.
In Representations the gallery is split into two parts. The first of which includes the various collections of the artists data including the institutional, social and biological. In the second room the artist is present for the duration of the exhibition where he continues his daily work.
Tom O'Dea is an artist and doctoral researcher at the Arts Technology Research Lab of Trinity College Dublin. He is undertaking a Visual Arts practice based PhD investigating the impact of emergent technologies on the philosophical concept of the self. Tom is a graduate of UCD and NUIG, he is originally from Sligo and is currently based in Dublin.
Austin D. H. Ivers is an artist and lecturer in Digital Media in CCAM (GMIT). Austin, along with Ben Geoghegan, co-founded 126, Artist-run Gallery in 2005.
Representations runs until Sunday the 4th of May.
Tom O'Dea | Representations
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126 proudly present
REPRESENTATIONSTOM O'DEA
26 April - 04 May 2014
Preview | Friday 25 April | 8pm
Representations is an exhibition about data, categorisation and the self. By exposing the available data that exists around himself, Tom O'Dea will attempt to expose the gaps that exist between representations and the things they attempt to describe. The exhibition will encourage the examination of both the data structures that exist around our daily lives and our motivations for their use.
The exhibition, which will run for eight days, will see the gallery split into two parts the first which will include the various collections of the artists data including the institutional, social and biological. In the second room the artist will be present during the exhibition where he will continue his daily work.
There will be a 126 Dialogues event in the gallery on Thursday the 1st of May at 5pm with artist Tom O'Dea and invited speakers. They will discuss the exhibition Representations and O'Dea's PhD work that is focussed on investigating the impact of the networked society on concepts of the self and on the systems of post-industrial capitalism that underpin the global political economy.
Tom O'Dea is an artist and doctoral researcher at the Arts Technology Research Lab of Trinity College Dublin. He is undertaking a Visual Arts practice based PhD investigating the impact of emergent technologies on the philosophical concept of the self. Tom is a graduate of UCD and NUIG, he is originally from Sligo and is currently based in Dublin.
Ceara Conway | Making Visible Vigil Series
As part of the current Making Visible exhibition by artist Ceara Conway, 126 are delighted to present Vigil - a series of vigils and discussions held in light of those currently living within the Direct Provision system, from Monday 7th – Friday 11th of April, 6pm- 7pm at 126 Gallery.
Monday 7th: Senator, Trevor O Clochartaigh.
Tuesday 8th: Representing Testimony in contempoary art.
Wednesday 9th: Singing workshop with Veronika Ncube
- Maintaining the soul, songs and singing in times of upheaval.
Thursday 10th: Dr Jenny Dagg
- The fragility of migrants living within Direct Provision centres in Ireland.
Friday 11th: Adedotun Adekeye
- Life after papers and the difficulties of accessing education for asyum seekers.
FREE and OPEN to the public: Your participation is most welcome!
Making Visible - showcases a series of performances that have been created through a process of engagement, during 2013, between artist Ceara Conway and 'Able Women', a group of women who are currently seeking asylum in Ireland and residing in Galway City.
This commission is supported by the Arts Council’s Artist in the Community Scheme and managed by CREATE.
www.126.ie
www.cearaconway.com
Image credit : Ceara Conway
Ceara Conway is an artist and singer from the Connemara Gaeltacht in the west of Ireland.Since 2001 she has been commissioned to create an extensive number of large scale public art commissions nationally and internationally including ''Vicissitudes" (2013) commissioned by 'Difference Exchange' and the Derry City of Culture and her most recent work ''Making Visible" (2013- 14) supported by the Irish Arts Council managed by CREATE.
Ceara's practice utilises a wide range of materials and approaches including sculpture, photography, performance and song to produce multi disciplinary, site and issue specific works.
She has received several Awards and Bursaries from the Arts Council, Ealain na Gaeltachta and County/City Arts Offices. In 2012 she received a Paul Brady Scholarship from the World Academy of Music University of Limerick.
Her most recent 2014 works include.
A residency with Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum/Atlas Arts Commissioned by Broad Reach: An ATLAS Arts ; Solo Performance for the National Gallery of Ireland for their 150th Anniversary.
www.cearaconway.com
Ceara Conway | Making Visible @126
126 presents Making Visible I & II and Vigil by Ceara Conway
28th March - 12th April 2014
Making Visible is a series of performances that have been created through a process of engagement between Ceara Conway and 'Able Women', a group of women who are currently seeking asylum in Ireland.
During 2013 the artist met with various members of the group in Galway with the intent to create a series of song and voice performances that were both artistic and political at their root.
Drawing upon the Irish tradition of Caoineadh, 'keening' where a bean caoineadh would lament on behalf of an individual or community, the artist asked 'Able Women' members to choose a lament that was meaningful to them and to choose a site in Galway City for it to be sung. A site that was pertinent to an aspect of their experience living within the Direct Provision system. Excerpts from interviews that took place between the artist and the group were also incorporated into the work. Collaborating on these performances were singers and musicians Noirin Ni Rian, Veronika Ncube, Juliana Erkkonen and Moises MasGracia.
Vigil
As part of this exhibition the artist will hold vigiI at 126 from the 7th -11th of April, 6pm- 7pm.
For each Vigil individuals involved with the Direct Provision system will be invited to hold the space with the artist and to explore the current issues of Direct Provision through conversation and song. These vigils are open to the public.
This commission is supported by the Arts Council and managed by CREATE.
28th March - 12th April 2014
Making Visible is a series of performances that have been created through a process of engagement between Ceara Conway and 'Able Women', a group of women who are currently seeking asylum in Ireland.
During 2013 the artist met with various members of the group in Galway with the intent to create a series of song and voice performances that were both artistic and political at their root.
Drawing upon the Irish tradition of Caoineadh, 'keening' where a bean caoineadh would lament on behalf of an individual or community, the artist asked 'Able Women' members to choose a lament that was meaningful to them and to choose a site in Galway City for it to be sung. A site that was pertinent to an aspect of their experience living within the Direct Provision system. Excerpts from interviews that took place between the artist and the group were also incorporated into the work. Collaborating on these performances were singers and musicians Noirin Ni Rian, Veronika Ncube, Juliana Erkkonen and Moises MasGracia.
Vigil
As part of this exhibition the artist will hold vigiI at 126 from the 7th -11th of April, 6pm- 7pm.
For each Vigil individuals involved with the Direct Provision system will be invited to hold the space with the artist and to explore the current issues of Direct Provision through conversation and song. These vigils are open to the public.
This commission is supported by the Arts Council and managed by CREATE.
Image credit : Ceara Conway
Ceara Conway is an artist and singer from the Connemara Gaeltacht in the west of Ireland.Since 2001 she has been commissioned to create an extensive number of large scale public art commissions nationally and internationally including ''Vicissitudes" (2013) commissioned by 'Difference Exchange' and the Derry City of Culture and her most recent work ''Making Visible" (2013- 14) supported by the Irish Arts Council managed by CREATE.
Ceara's practice utilises a wide range of materials and approaches including sculpture, photography, performance and song to produce multidisciplinary, site and issue specific works.
She has received several Awards and Bursaries from the Arts Council, Ealain na Gaeltachta and County/City Arts Offices. In 2012 she received a Paul Brady Scholarship from the World Academy of Music University of Limerick.
2014 works to date include:
A residency with Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum/Atlas Arts Commissioned by Broad Reach; Solo Performance for the National Gallery of Ireland for their 150th Anniversary.
3 Mar 2014
ARTIST TALK | Ciara Healy, Karl Musson & Siobhan McGibbon
ARTIST TALK 10 | Ciara Healy, Karl Musson & Siobhan McGibbon
Sunday 23 February 2014 | 2pm
126 are delighted to announce that, as part of
the ARTFarm Residency Exhibition, artists Ciara Healy, Karl Musson and
Siobhan McGibbon will talk about their art practices and the work
that has been made for this exhibition. The talks will begin at 2pm on Sunday 23rd February at 126 gallery. This is a free event, and all are welcome.
This will be the 10th in a series of Artist Talks that were initiated by 126 in 2012. It is a great opportunity to hear from the artists, first hand, about their respective arts practices, and will be of interest to anyone with an interest in contemporary art. Refreshments and hot beverages will be served!
This will be the 10th in a series of Artist Talks that were initiated by 126 in 2012. It is a great opportunity to hear from the artists, first hand, about their respective arts practices, and will be of interest to anyone with an interest in contemporary art. Refreshments and hot beverages will be served!
Images: Helen Caird - preparations for talk
19 Jan 2014
Fiona Kelly
FIONA KELLY | MISSING SOMETHING WHICH NO LONGER EXISTS
18 JANUARY - 03 FEBRUARY 2014
PREVIEW | FRIDAY 17th JANUARY 2014 | 7PM
Missing Something Which No Longer Exists, a multi-disciplinary solo exhibition by Fiona Kelly addresses isolation and the interim. Kelly's observations of the manmade landscape, topographic movement, stagnation and metamorphosing debris are representations, characters for her contemporary fables; a legacy of longing, disposability and escape.
In uniting objects, reclaimed materials and text she endeavours to generate happenings. Through visual combinations the viewer is invited to join in a fundamental dialogue intrinsic to Kelly’s work which quietly speaks of urban sprawl, throwaway culture, and the absurdities found in unremarkable environments.
This work was created on The European Pépinières pour Jeunes Artistes Mobility Residency 2013 at the Ratamo Centre for Printmaking, Jyväskylä, Finland. The six month Residency culminated in a Solo Show There are Thousands of Taps Dripping at Galleria Ratamo.
Born in Westmeath 1985, Fiona Kelly holds a B.A in Fine Art, Sculpture, received from Cluain Mhuire, Galway (2005) and a B.A (Honours) in Fine Art, Printmaking, from the Crawford College of Art, Cork (2008).Recent exhibitions include There are Thousands of Taps Dripping (Solo), Ratamo Centre for Printmaking, Jyväskylä; POST-IT, Boarders and Crossings, IMPACT8, Dundee, Scotland 2013; The Mythical and Mundane, Siamse Tire, Kerry, Ireland and Drawn to Print, Spike Print, Spike Island, Bristol, U.K 2013. Kelly’s work can be seen in the public collections of The Jyväskylä Museum of Art, Finland; The Art Students League of New York, U.S.A; and at Crawford College of Art, Eli Lilly, and the Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland.
www.126.ie
www.fionakelly.co
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