The students undertook multidisciplinary projects, in the environs of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, using the studio residency as a base. This is an example of a spatial stacking stop motion study. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGGdlvdjE4I&feature=related
The first years had a remarkable show, speculative, creative, curious and critical. You can see examples at http://1styrvapiadt.wetpaint.com/
http://amuse-bouche-10.blogspot.com/
In this clip, 4th Year Visual Arts Practice students take over the rotating vending machine in the canteen, filling it full of small multiples,and selling them to passersby.
The School of Creative Arts can trace its origins back to 1970 where it was based in the centre of Dun Laoghaire town, Co. Dublin. In 1997 it was incorporated into the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology (IADT) a new autonomous higher education institution within the Institutes of Technology sector. In the last ten years the college has grown from 450 students to over 1,650 full-time students with 800 part-time students.
The Visual Arts Practice BA counts many successful artist graduates, such as Fergus Martin, Mark Garry, Nina Canell, Eithne Jordan, Gavin Murphy, and Fergus Feehily. The Visual Art Practices BA is made up of practising artists who help to keep the programme vibrant and in touch with the art world as it is.
The programme is interdisciplinary and flexible, it pushes the various artistic practices together, which reflects the art world. There is an informality between students and tutors, with a genuine and informed discourse around students own developing practice,rather than an institutional agenda.
The programme is also offered on a flexible basis by the same staff, in the evenings, over 4 years, through the ACCS (Accumulation of Credits and Certification of Subjects) system to facilitate non-traditional learners, mature students and has a part-time study option.
The creative pathways provided embrace drawing, painting, video, sculpture, printmaking, photography, sound, installation, performance, electronic art and other related techniques. This integrated and multidisciplinary programme encourages students to develop a comprehensive body of work, which can be tested against the “real world” situations of contemporary art practice.
The programme links critical theory and studio practice with a strong history of visiting lecturers that cross over the diciplines of philosophy, science, criticality and practising artists. Recent developments include “The Electric Fireside” a weekly discursive gathering, there is also a series of rolling 4th year exhibitions, students hang a professional show in two days, concluding in a group crit. Third year students have the opportunity to go on Erasmus excahnges in Europe, work with social groups in the community, do an Inter college placement programme with DIT, NCAD, Tisch School NYU, or study physical computing.
Students can continue their art education on the MA in Visual Arts Practice, MAVIS (mavis.ie) as it has become known as. It encompasses pathways in art-making, criticism and curating. IADT is also part of GradCAM ( Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media) a new 4th level collaborative initiative of national and all-island institutions including the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), the National College of Art & Design (NCAD), the University of Ulster (UU), and the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire (IADT).
While the developing campus of IADT is near Dun Laoghaire town the students have worked on many projects in the Borough for example curating works from the collection at IMMA in various locations. Students have teamed up with the writer in residence projects and exhibited regularly in the Town Hall gallery “The concourse”.
Art School is about creating an ambience, a fertile environment where students want to be, and meet students from other courses, form collectives, create work, put on events. These college relationships cost nothing and last a lifetime. An increasing number of IADT graduates have set up artists collectives such as Moxie (moxiedublin.com), Sodium (sodium.ie) FAF (fafartists.com) Mongrel (mongrelfoundation.com) Ormond Studios, and The Market Studios (themarketstudios.wordpress.com).
Many of our graduates are represented in Dublin by the Kerlin, Mothers Tank Station,Rubicon and The Green on Red Galleries, they have also represented Ireland at the Venice Bienalle.
Dear Mark,
Delighted to get your email, I was just today missing all at IADT and the little ways things are done there, that I am used to and understand. I have been meaning to write to you and fill you in, but I have been busy coping, with everything. Very sorry for not being in touch sooner.
I am still delighted and blown away to be here with this great opportunity to be in a different culture and a different Art College, very like IADT in some ways,eg structures people’s jobs, friendly competition between departments for resources(!)
Pedro Campos Rosado, Head of Fine Art having looked at my little film with the budgie having a bath and my son playing guitar, put me in with the third years. There are a good sprinkling of mature students here in portugal as the government is encouraging a higher standard of education all round. I think there are grants. So I have one or two friends among the mature students and a few allies in the Erasmus students, and then there are the girls in the residence. Young energetic and friendly The residence is lovely and quiet at weekends as most of them go home to their parents..
They are just starting a module this year, called Artist’s Book,which is being taught by the print teacher Ana Joao Romana, (she has a piece in a group show”Going South” in CAMB Centro de Arte Manuel de Brito) It follows on neatly from the work I was doing with books and bookbinding before christmas. I think she was not too delighted to have an incomer, when she has had the same group for three years,and they all know each other well but I am very keen to continue with this area, so I am trying to do good work and not be too much of a nuisance. She is really very nice and studied at the Chelsea (?) school of art in London and so has excellent english. She is interested in pop up books and old things.
The Year tutor Pedro Cabral Santo, is going to be in an exhibition of Portuguese Art in New York this year, can’t remember the name. He is very kind and nice, as is Caterina the other third year tutor, who is only in on Tuesdays.
(Portugal is the only courtry I know of which give the days of the week numbers Domenigo is sunday, but monday is secundo feria, and tuesday is third day and so friday is sixth day and then there is sabato.) One of the many bewildering cultural differences which are becoming apparent to me.
They do a main project and then other elective options, like home, but Erasmus students are allowed do subjects from other disciplines, so I am doing (I hope) a theatre module, which will be a show of rebellious portuguese songs, which were banned under the Salazhar regime. I have also sat in on an Industrial design class and an Event management session.
I went with the college to an exhibition promoting education at which IPL had many stands, like RDS or something . The college will also take us to Porto to go to an Art exhibition, 4 hours on a bus, soon, proper gallery outing and opportunity to see Porto, 10 euro refundable deposit!
The first month was a sort of desperate stuggle to survive, even though everyone was very kind and helpful, finding one’s way around town, buying nessessities in shops, organizing a means of transport between the Residencia and the College, it is a 20-25 min walk, 10 minute cycle. There is a town bicycle sharing scheme, int he tourist office, getting off the ground and the organiser Jorge is allowing me to have one of their bikes and keep it in the residencia.( But that was after difficulties, with another rented bike. I am still not full strength after my car ker-ding in September and i still have whiplash and can’t lift heavy weights so need means of carrying books and equipment.
There has been a lot of heavy rain (chuva) interspersed with hot sunshine. Don’t know what to wear.
The college has a good canteen, which serves a whole lunch made from natural foods from the large daily farmers market in Caldas da Rainha, for E2.20 if you pay the day before, or 2.80 if you pay on the day! Natural, traditional food, Soup, main course, and sweet, i like it very much but the students complain. The rent in the Residencia is 145 per month and I have a lovely view of the sunset up here on the third floor.
There is a very good small gallery in the Public park, Museo Maloha, who was a great artist who came from Caldas but lived in Lisboa and other places, and was later reclaimed by the town. It has lovely paintings, sculpture and ceramics in it and is free on Sunday mornings. I try to go every week.
Other things are different, there is a black and white printer in the library, and a photocopy office, and shop which has a lady, who prints for you and sells pens paper etc, Marcia, 25c per colour 4c B/W, and then there is a digital printing area for good quality printing, you have to get a form signed by the tutor and bring your own paper, they will print bigger than A3 for 5 euros. There is a lot of getting forms signed and waiting. I have spent much time wandering up and down corridors, trying to find the right room or person, as you do in a new place.
But it is all wonderful, really, I feel alive, and my experiences are much the same as the other Erasmus students, some from Brazil and some from other countries, Finland, Poland, Turkey, we have portuguese class once a week on the fifth day (Thurs) Of course the Brazillians don’t need portuguese classes.
The language is certainly a challenge, and it would be easier for someone who has studied Portuguese, but a lot of people at the college have some english, some have lots, many people in the town do not have english especially the older ones. People in the fruit and veg market are good communicators.
My nine years in convent boarding school, are proving to be a useful personal resource, from being emotionally independent to not being surprised to see girls wandering round in their dressing gowns and slippers, I would not be surprised to see a nun in her dressing gown making a special allowance for the astronauts return to earth, as happened in 1969, you know the astronbauts landed safely because the nuns in their flowery dressing gowns and simple cotton headcovers prayed so hard, and let us girls stay up late and watch it on telly!
I wouldn’t venture to define the Portuguese, but they are different, and they seem to quite like that being acknowledged and have a strong sense of identity and culture through language, they are a funny mixture of very polite and couldn’t be bothered.
Was very homesick before I went home for easter, and a lot of them told me the word Saudade, which is unique to the portuguese language, it is about longing and nostalgia, and is used to describe all sorts of things, even as a compliment. Think Fado music.
I get 18 European Credit Transfer marks for the main project, 6 for the artists book, and 6 for the theatre module(Ithink) and then there are 4more ECT’s for the portuguese classes, or so Sandra Taurino Ferria the development international coordinator tells me. I think I am keeping up with the continuous assessment in the main project.
So thank you very much for enabling me to come, it has been Wonderful and terrifying, and confusing (like being in love I think) so intense I have had to resort to reading poetry to soothe my soul. Fernando Pessoa, from public library.
ESAD.CR Higher School of Art and Design, Caldas da Rainha, only gives three grants for erasmus students to go abroad, others have to pay all their own expenses.
I have been putting up photos on my facebook page, and am friends with lots of the student in our third year, that I have managed to connect with.
Apart from writing sooner, is there anything I should be doing, or that you would like to know. If anyone was able to visit, I think they could be accomodated in the residencia for E5 per night, and could eat in the canteen. Any tutors or administrators or even possibly students fancy coming to visit and strenghten connections?
So in summary overall wonderfull, a little lonely but lots nice people, language difficult but films shown in english with portuguese subtitles, and lots of TV too. Library has lots of Art books in English.
Thanks very much, very grateful for marvelous experience, feel alive and European, and think I am keeping up with the work OK. Meaning to send cards,but the weeks whizzing by, You all must be nearly finished. Will make Caldas photos on my facebook page available to all, if anyone has time to look.
All best wishes, many thanks
Kathy N
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Visual Arts News Spring 2010
Laurence Riddell and Lynda Devenney’s proposal has been accepted for the symposium 5. “Emergent Social Media and New Educational Initiatives” during the 11th ELIA Biennial Conference Nantes, 2010.
External Examiner Anne Tallentire retrospective opened at IMMA in February.
Susan Kelly of Goldsmiths College has been appointed as the new studio extern 2011-2014
3rd year VAP students to exhibit in Temple Bar gallery as part of the Inter-college placement programme with the DIT/NYU/NCAD in April.
Staff Research
Cecily Brennan has a solo show at Taylor Galleries in April, and has been Commissioned to make piece of work celebrating the Trinity College Dublin School of Medicine Tercentenary, to be shown at RHA in Nov 2011, she has been published in Boulevard Magenta 2, Irish Museum of Modern Art , and the Terror and the Sublime catalogue to accompany show at Crawford Art Gallery, and in Breaking Ground 2001-2009 published by BG2.
Cora Cummins had a solo show “Retreat” in the Dunamaise Art Centre in Jan, published “The Fold” Issue No. 5 “Middle Class Heroes” in Feb as part of Re; Public . She will be giving a paper “Which Pathway? An overview of Studio Research Methodology” at CTLAD conference in Berlin in April.
Clodagh Emoe was awarded a Public Art commission, for the Memorial Housing Trust, Inchicore, she exhibited at the National Gallery as part of the “Invisible” show, , gave a seminar talk in Re;Public conference”The experimental”, she is in “The academy strikes back, in Brussels in May, her exhibition at Project hosted a vibrant night of talks “The Long Dark Night” in Jan, and she took part in “Indeterminancy in contemporary practice” Publics and purposes at GRADCAM in Feb. Paul Gregg won a Public art Commission at St. Kevins National School in Dunlavin in Jan. Is in the Arts Council collection show at Red Rua in Tallaght, and has been invited to show in the RHA Annual. Maeve Connolly Published ‘Celtic Revivals: Jim Fitzpatrick and the Celtic Imaginary in Irish and International Popular Culture’ in Linda King and Elaine Sisson (ed.s), Made in Ireland: The Visual Culture of Irish Modernity, 1922-1992, forthcoming from Cork University Press (2010). ‘A Question Like A Loop’, If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution Edition III Masquerade, Magazine 5: Sarah Pierce, Amsterdam: If I Can’t Dance, 2010: 5-13; Fergus Feehily, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Artforum, January Conference Presentations: Co-convenor of Session on ‘The Discursive Space of Artists’ Film’, AAH Annual Conference, University of Glasgow, April ‘Neighbours, Narrators and Phantom Public Spheres in Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s Consolation Service’, Symposium, Considering the Work of Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Parasol Unit, London, March (Chair), ‘Researching Animation: Methods, Approaches, Outlooks’ Arts Research: Publics and Purposes, Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media, Dublin, February ‘‘Visualizing the Viewing Public: Kutlug Ataman, Thomas Hirschhorn and the Return of the Television Audience’, College Art Association, Chicago, February Public Talks Event-Site: Presentation and Screenings on The Place of Artists’ Cinema. Picture This, 40 Sydney Row, Bristol March 2010. Public interview with Kenneth Anger, Kenneth Anger Retrospective, Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, Irish Film Institute, Dublin, February The Public Role of the Critic, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, February ‘What is (New) Media Art? Through the Lens of the IMMA Collection’, Irish Museum of Modern Art, January . ‘Evolutions in Cinematic Space: From Multi-Screen Projections to Cine-material Installations’, Exploring Cinematic Space, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, December 16, 2009. ‘The Place of Cinema in Art Practice’ (panelist), Void Gallery, Derry, November 28, 2009.Awards: Received Culture Ireland funding for ‘Event-Site: The Place of Artists’ Cinema’ screening event, Picture This, Bristol, March 2010
Shane Cullen participated in”RE:PUBLIC” at Temple bar Gallery curated by Daniel Jewesbury, and was in conversation with Mick Wilson in “THE DEAD PUBLIC”,about FRAGMENS SUR LES INSTITUTIONS REPUBLICAINES. Shanes work is on the cover of “Verge” an new irish art magazine. Saoirse Higgins presented a report, Creative Clash, on a collaborative art project with Basque company EUVE(European virtual engineering company) and the Museum of Fine Art, Bilbao. December Published peer reviewed paper on The Grafting Parlour artist group for Leonardo Translations publication. January Published proceedings on The Grafting Parlour for ISEA. Proceedings out March 2010.Wrote report on Creative Clash for Visual Artist Ireland-March/April edition. Siggraph, art project reviewer. Submitted for Laboral,’ process is paradigm’ workshop and exhibition, April Collaborative residency in Schoppingen, Germany. July Mark Joyce is curator of “The Nature of Things/14 Irish Artists” at Le Petit Port, in Leiden in May, funded by a Culture Ireland award. He has exhibited at La Catedral as part of the “Invisible” show, he will be giving talk on the American composer Morton Feldman at IMMA in May, as part of Vertical Thoughts: Morton Feldman and the Visual Arts and has been awarded a Heinrich Boll residency in July.
Laurence Riddell/Lynda Devenney will present a paper at the CETLD conference under the Theme: Museums and university partnerships, Victoria and Albert Museum, and a paper at ELIA Nantes 2010 called New Learning Spaces. Kathleen Moroney was awarded a residency at the Institute of Ceramic Studies, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan. and will be in a PhD review event- Ceramics and Glass Department, The University of Sunderland, UK in June. Ciarán O’Keeffe presented performance pieces at Sligo Arts Festival; Electric Picnic;Queer Notions Festival at the Project Arts Centre; Dublin Co-Council Amphitheatre as part of Dublin Pride; AML Limerick; Sideshow at Twisted Pepper and both the Furry Glen and Pantishow at Pantibar. He brings this period of performance to a close with a final performance on March 14th at the Olympia Theatre. He is ‘the front cover’ of, and profiled in, the March issue of Gay CommunityNews. Therry Rudin Published The Living Landscape book with the West Cork Arts Centre in March. She is on the editorial panel for “Verge” a new art in rural context publication in Feb.
Student Activity
IMMA first year project defied the weather to finish on a high, with an exhibition in the IMMA studios in January
The Master Thief’s Secret Lair in South William st. Dublin is a new venue set up by Sean O Sullivan (2009)
Damien Flood (2005) had his first Solo show at the Green on Red Gallery in Jan
Adrian Duncan has exhibited at The Master thief’s secret lair and has published article in Someblindalleys.com.
‘Elderly Expressions’. a collaborative project happened with arts management students in Dec, involving an active retirement group in Dalkey.
Browniebox a photography collective has been founded by Aoife O Sullivan (2009)
Invisible a curated show across several venues in Dublin included Sofie Loscher(2009) at the Temple Bar gallery, Hannah Breslin (2007) at IMMA, Clodagh Emoe at the National Gallery and Mark Joyce at La Catedral.
Nina Canell(2005) is opening Performative Attitudes, Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland and Das Wesen im Ding, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany in April
Ballymun Regional Youth Resource (BRYR)will be taking on a number of current students to work on their programmes this year.
Intercollege Placement Programme is into its 3rd year, students are working with REHAB, and other groups in the community
Dagda Dance company has offered 3rd year Christopher Mahon a year’s placement.
“Paperwork” in Pallas Contemporary projects involved Helen Horgan (2009) and Gary Coyle
Ormond Studio Group recent programme launch by founders Jennette Donnelly, Jane Stewart, Nikki Teegan, Eithne Griffin, Jackie Gray, Sinead Reilly(2009), they will be delivering a seminar to 4th years in March
Plane/Site Galleries at IMOCA first show was devised by Meabh Redmond and Niamh Murphy(2009)
Visual Arts Practice Graduates 2009
Olwen Coughlan was in a group show at the Open Gallery, London in October
Nicola Teegan has a forthcoming solo show in FOUR, Dublin, and was in ‘No Fixed Abode’ Phoenix Arts Festival, Tullamore,July, ‘Scribble Box’ Bombhouse,Dublin, June,‘Is this Considered Poetry?’IADT April and forthcoming group shows include ’16-4-1′ in Imoca Gallery, ‘Bouvard et Pecuchet’ in The Lighthouse Cinema, and Filmbase., She was selected for LAUNCH 2009.She worked on the Percent for Arts Scheme, working in collaboration with artists Fiona Coffey and Liz Mc Mahon in M.E.T.N.S (Monkstown Educate Together National School).
Angela McAndrew exhibited in Inside-Out, The Market Studios, Dublin.Dec,Chance, CHQ Building, IFSC, Docklands, Dublin 1, Work Selected by Curator Jenny Haughton, Nicola won the VAI Prize at Graduation.
Jennette Donnelly exhibited in Canavas Galleries, Belfast. December, Curated by Paul Evans.
La cat salon night mamuska exhibition, La Catedral Studios/The Back Loft, Dublin, Ormond Studios opening exhibition, Dublin. November. She is Co-Founder, Chairperson and Studio Manager of Ormond Studios established July.
Vivienne Byrne is in “Straying Closer to the Truth’, The Friary, Multyfarnham, Mullingar, Co Westmeath November , “Here’s Something I Made Later’ The Market Studios, August Co-ordinaor and FETAC Level 3 Arts and Craft Facilitator, Drogheda Youth Development, West Gate, Narrow West Street, Drogheda, Co Louth
Aoife O’Sullivan was in PRESENCE Market Studios, Dublin December , HALLOWEVENING, The Back Loft, Dublin October Sarah Walker Gallery, Cork, August . Internship at La Catedral Studios approximately and Certificate course in Art Therapy in CIT
Sofie Loscher is studying Art Therapy, (Foundation Course), British Association of Art Therapists, London. She exhibited in Pinhole Photography,‘The Light Exchange’, ” Internship at Pallas Contemporary Projects. Leopardstown Park Hospital, Coordinating an art group comprised of older/active retired people. Acquired Brain Injury Ireland, teaching art to people with brain and physical disabilities. ARTISIT? Selected as a part of their 2009 group of graduating students from art colleges across the world. July, She worked on a Percent for Arts Scheme, in collaboration with artists Fiona Coffey and Liz Mc Mahon in M.E.T.N.S (Monkstown Educate Together National School). The project was realised through a large-scale ceramic tile mural on the school grounds that involved the participation of each student. Ceramic Teacher, Pine Forest Art Center, Glencullen, Kilteernan, Dublin 18,
Saskia Vermeulen had a solo show Fictitious Interludes,at Signal Arts Centre, she exhibited at Claremorris Open Exhibition, Claremorris Rua Red, South Dublin Arts Centre, Tallaght, Co. Dublin Small Works Big Picture, Mockingbird Arts Centre, Dublin Altar Simple Exhibition and Studio Space, Skerries, Co. Dublin Helen Horgan was in Neu! Monstertruck Gallery and Studios, Monster Truck selected show of recent graduates, The Elephant in The Room, Plane/Site, Moxie Studio Artists group show, . I Made This For You, Market Studios, Straying Closer to The Truth, Multyfarnham Friary, Collaboration with writer and artist Daniel M Ferrari (NY). Funded by The Arts Council of Ireland. Paper Work, Pallas Contemporary Projects, Invited group show. Brave New World, Limerick City Gallery, (Curator Mary Conlon)2010 Multyfarnham Friary, Westmeath, Residency. Currently working from a studio space in Market Studios, Dublin Ella Burke was in Cracking the Combination” Turn-Berlin Gallery. Berlin “The Elephant in the Room.” Moxie Group Show. Place/Site Gallery, Lad Lane, Dublin 2 “Project Brand New.” Deysed Performance at Project Arts Centre “Deysed.” Market Studios, D1 “Scribble Box” Bombhouse Studios. D 1 has an Internship at Urban Retreat Gallery, Hanover Quay Currently undertaking MFA in Sculpture at NCAD Meadhbh O’ Connor exhibited in the Dublin Art Fair, RDS Main Hall, Ballsbridge, November and the RDS Student Art Awards Travelling Exhibition, Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, Donegal. Rua Red, Tallaght, she was in “Sculpture at the Hallward”, Hallward Gallery, Dublin and was Winner of the Tyrone Guthrie Residency Bursary Seán O Sullivan was in BOXiD: Round II, Original Print Gallery, Temple Bar, Dublin,
Summer Edition ’09, Filmbase, Temple Bar, Dublin, Selected for the Black Church Print Studio Extended Access Programme.Winner of Black Church Print Studio Graduate Award.
Work purchased and permanently archived at the National Irish Visual Arts Library (NIVAL). Visual Artists Ireland, Publications Assistant (For Printed Project & The Visual Artists’ News Sheet), Oct–Present he is the Black Church Print Studio, Technical Intern and has won the VAI Prize 2009.
Louise Farrelly was in Graduate Award Winners, Graphic Studio Gallery, Temple Bar,Dublin June 2010, Absolut Fringe: Oh, Francis! The Bernard Shaw, Dublin , Oct Summer Show, Rua Red – South Dublin Arts Centre, Tallaght, Co. Dublin July Annual Open Submission, Limerick Printmakers, June She won the Graduate Award for Printmaking – Graphic Studio Dublin The Pictureworks Student Photography Awards – Runner-up She is in the Collection of the Limerick City Gallery of Art Currently working The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin 2 – Gallery Assistant IMOCA, Lad Lane, Baggot St. Dublin2 – Gallery Assistant Original Print Gallery, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 – Gallery Assistant (Exhibition Openings and Events) Ballsbridge College of Further Education, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 – Night class Teacher (Dublin VEC) Niamh Heery was in ‘Projected Weekends’, Digital Hub, Dublin, 2-14 October ‘Toronto Urban Film Festival’, Toronto 11-20 September 2009 ‘I Made This For You’, Market Studio Gallery, Dublin, 13-17 August 2009 http://themarketstudios.wordpress.com/Member of MART, the Media Art collective of Ireland http://mart.ie/Founder Curator of AMP, a series of cross- arts interaction evenings that ran in May 2008 http://myspace.com/ampbycmc. Aine Belton was in 2009 Mamuska Dublin, Back Loft, September 25th (as part of Culture night), group show.2009 Knockanstockan Festival, Wicklow, 24th-26th July, group show. Curated by Mia Doyle.2009 Scribblebox, Bombhouse, Dublin, July 2nd, group show. Curated by Bombhouse.2009 Elephino, Back Loft, June 13th, Dublin, group show. Curated by Mia Doyle.Internship program in The Back Loft and La Catedral Studios. The duties include administration, graphic design, audio-visual technician and general jobs.
Recent Staff Research
Therry Rudin is the cuator of the book ‘Living Landscape’ forthcoming in December 2009.
She has written and edited an essay ‘Video Art in Ireland, Today’ for the publication byInstitute Cervantes, Madrid, Spain project LOOP in Barcelona.
Paul Gregg won a commission for a Wicklow School, St. Kevin’s College , exhibited at “Vital Signs” Arts & Health in Context, Exhibition & Conference, October Arts Council Initiative curated by Michelle Browne – and is Short-listed for the Life Sciences Building, U.C.D. Commission(good luck)
Mark Joyce was in “Object”at the Crafts Council Kilkenny in July, selected by Brian Kennedy, and “Invisible” forthcoming at the Original Print Gallery in Feb selected by Oliver Dowling and John Graham. He is curating a show called The way things are/10 Irish artists for Sydney Non Objective in December/January, and has just completed a 3 month studio residency at the RHA. Shane Cullen is showing at the Triskel, “The Institute of Traces” The exhibition is of new and selected works and the venue is the E.S.B. Sub-Station in Caroline Street, Cork, also working on a permanently sited sculptural commission for the Institute for Ireland in Europe. The Institute is located at the Irish College in Louvaine – Belgium. Saoirse Higgins -Peer reviewed paper publication.’The Grafting Parlour collaborative art practice’, written by Saoirse Higgins. http://www.leonardo.info/transactions.htmlLeonardo journal, MIT press, December. Project presentation of The Grafting Parlour art works.Roundabout gallery, Katowice, Poland.http://blog.coalexpo.eu/?p=119 OctoberThe Lab gallery, Force Majeure show, part of the ISEA Dublin hub events, Vera Klute, Aideen Barry, Benjamin Gaulon, Bea mcMahon, Saoirse-the grafting parlour. Curated by Sheena Barrett and Saoirse Higgins, Dublin City Council funded.SeptemberISEA (international symposium of electronic art) 09,Organiser of Dublin hub 3-day events.Presentation and Debate Art-Science Open Labs, AugustE-mobileart lab + MediaLab Prado, Madrid @ Science Gallery, Trinity CollegeChair ‘citizenship and contested spaces’ ISEA panel. http://www.isea2009.org/wordpress/?page_id=36 Exhibited at Thessaloniki Biennale http://www.thessalonikibiennale.gr/ June Cora Cummins curated “What Hiver” at studio 8 Temple Bar Gallery and Studio in April , she co-published The Fold Issue4 “Devotion”, and was selected for the Art &Architecture Journal “Building Material” issue in November. She has a Solo Exhibition, “Retreat” at the Dunamaise Gallery Portlaoise in December, is giving the Blackchurch Annual Artist Lecture and was awarded a 2nd Project Studio award Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin Cecily Brennan has a Solo Show at Taylor Galleries Dublin in 2010, she exhibited VOICES a Breaking Ground Commission Axis Arts Centre Ballymun in October. Currently in Terror and the Sublime. Art in an age of Anxiety. Crawford Gallery Cork curated by Peter Murray 2010, Recent Publications include:Boulevard Magenta 2 Irish Museum of Modern Art, Terror and the Sublime catalogue to accompany show at Crawford Art Gallery Breaking Ground 2001-2009 published by BG2 Maeve Connolly Publications include(Essay) ‘Art and (New) Media, Through the Lens of the IMMA Collection’, Irish Museum of Modern Art (Forthcoming January 2010). (Thematic Essay on Time-based Art), Art and Architecture of Ireland, Volume Three: Sculptors and Sculpture 1600-2000, ed. Paula Murphy, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy (Forthcoming 2010). (Book Chapter) ‘Celtic Revivals: Jim Fitzpatrick and the Celtic Imaginary in Irish and International Popular Culture’ in Linda King and Elaine Sisson (ed.s), Made in Ireland: The Visual Culture of Irish Modernity, 1922-1992, forthcoming from Cork University Press (Forthcoming 2010).The Place of Artists’ Cinema: Space, Site and Screen (Bristol and Chicago: Intellect Books and University of Chicago Press: 2009). Art Writing includes (Exhibition Review) Garrett Phelan, Mother’s Tankstation, Artforum, September 2009, 304-305. (Exhibition Review), James Coleman, Artforum, Summer 2009, 349. (Exhibition Review) Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan, Project Arts Centre, Artforum March 2009: (Column) ‘Writing After the Exhibition: Tactically Yours’, The Visual Artists News Sheet November/December Column) ‘Writing After the Exhibition: In Absentia’, The Visual Artists News Sheet July/August 2009: (Article) Dublin City Report, Frieze, June 2009: 182-183. (Column) ‘Writing After the Exhibition’, The Visual Artists News Sheet, March/April 2009: 4. Catalogue Essays include (Essay)‘An Alternative Archive: Vivienne Dick and the Future of Irish Cinema’, Between Truth and Fiction: The Films of Vivienne Dick, ed. Treasa O’Brien, London: LUX and The Crawford Art Gallery, 2009: 70-77.(Dialogue) ‘The Material, The Immaterial, The Shining: Maeve Connolly and Anita Di Bianco in Conversation at the Irish Museum of Modern Art’, in Anita Di Bianco, Ghostwriter, Braunchsweig: Kunstverein Braunchsweig, 2009, 30-35. (Essay) ‘Death-Defying Acts’ in Gary Coyle, At Sea: The Daily Practice of Swimming, Dublin: Kevin Kavanagh Gallery and Project Arts Centre, 2009: 66 -71. Conference Papers Include ‘Visualizing the Viewing Public: Kutlug Ataman, Thomas Hirschhorn and the Return of the Television Audience’, College Art Association, Chicago, February 10-13, 2010.Co-convenor of Session on ‘The Discursive Space of Artists’ Film’, AAH Annual Conference, University of Glasgow, April 15-17, 2010.‘Urban Landmarks and “Regenerated” Cityscapes in Helen (Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor/desperate optimists, 2008)’, Framing Film: Cinema and the Visual Arts, University of Winchester, 2009. Public Talks/Interviews include interview with Prof. John Canemaker, An Evening with John Canemaker, Irish Film Institute, Dublin, November 12, 2009. Lecture, ‘Art Criticism and Visual Culture’, Critical Perspectives series, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, October 29, 2009. Conversation with Daphne Wright about Prayer Project, QUAD Gallery, Derby, June 26, 2009. Clodagh Emoe Conference Participation
The Sublime Affect, coordinated by Peter De Bolla, Tate Modern, London
Triptych, University of Norwich, UK
Knowing Not to Know, Project Arts Centre, Dublin Guest Lecture
Disclosing the In-Between Encountering Liminality in Contemporary Art: A Study in Aesthetics and Art Practice MA Programme, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London Publications
The Map as Art, Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography, Kitty Harmon (ed.), 2009 Princeton Architectural Press, USA
The Fold, Cora Cummins, Alison Pilkington (eds.), The Lab, Dublin City Council, April 2009 Solo Exhibition
The Approach, Mart House Gallery, Amsterdam Cult of Engagement -newly commissioned solo-show, Project Arts Centre, Dublin Site Specific Projects/Events
Mystical Anarchism, Glendalough, collaborative project with Prof. Simon Critchley, Head of Philosophy, The New School, New York.
Mystical Anarchism is an experimental project to explore an alternative model to engage with theoretical enquiry using a trans-disciplinary approach. Rather than coordinating a lecture in an academic context, Mystical Anarchism seeks create a more open discourse. This took place using a more informal approach; 100 participants were brought to a secret location by the upper lake in Glendalough and gathering together at midnight under the night sky on a 17 metre x 7 metre, hand made quilt.
Invisible, Black Church Print Studios, Dublin
Creating the Common – newly commissioned Per Cent for Art Project, Dublin City Council
Group Exhibitions
Small Moments of Fantastic Things, Antje Wachs, Berlin
The Infinite, The Intimate and The Impossible, Magacin, Belgrade, Serbia
Under Construction I, Mart House Gallery, Amsterdam
Here is the Place, IMOCA, Dublin
Awards
Step Beyond Award – networking opportunity with City and Arts Project/Mimar University and Platform Garanti, Istanbul, Turkey Boards
IMMA Advisory Panel
VEC and South Dublin County Council Per cent for Art Panel – Adams Town Primary School Commission
External Examiner, BA Fine Art Sculpture, GMIT, Galway
Cult of Engagement -newly commissioned solo-show, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, December ‘09-
Kathleen Moroney June 2009, Residency at the International Ceramic Research Centre, Denmark -the Irish Arts Council. September 2009, Acceptance onto PhD University of Sunderland, Ceramics and Glass Department. June 2010, Residency at Ceramic Cultural Centre, Japan. Laurence Riddell/Lynda Devenney are using online mapping tools for reflection and critique; and the creation of a visual dynamic archive of project work completed off campus. This site-specific project is now a Proposal for ELIA 2010-New Learning Spaces
Visual Arts Practice News Spring 2009
• Incoming students in September 2009 will be based in IMMA producing and exhibiting work on-site, as part of the studio residency. There will be a programme of lectures, talks and artist(s) in residence participation.
• Gary Coyle Lecturer on ACCS was elected to AOSDANA on May 7th.
• The Science Gallery, Trinity College will host the 1st year Kinetic Sculpture project and has offered to facilitate the students with working studio space, a selection of students work will be exhibited and a series of collaborative workshops will be developed that will be open to secondary school participation.
• Roisin Kennedy and Aine Kelly held an exhibition of paintings and light installations at the Goethe Institute in March.
• The “Autonomous Republic of Creative Practitioners”, was declared on O’Connell Bridge, as part of ACCS seminar series at the Lab, it made page 5 of the Irish Times.
• Lynda Reynolds, Mariolene Wouters and Jonathan Curran have been accepted into Eigse Carlow09.
• “Exit Pursued by a Bear”, was the title of the 3rd year exhibition at Broadstone Studios.
• Aaron Lowry and Kevin Doran were included in “What Hiver” curated by Cora Cummings, at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios.
• Aisling Glynn was in “Town & Country”, at Monster Truck.
• All 3rd year students made research presentations at Film Base in January.
• Heather Gray was in the “Grass Roots” exhibition at CHQ Building, Dublin Docklands
• Jamie Crosby, Bridget Lucy, Susan Walsh, were in the CREATE exhibition at The Lab.
• Ella Burke 4th Year and recent graduate Meabh Redmond won the “Cannonball competition” for a short film made over 24 hrs.
• The book project ‘Narrative Exploration” between Photography and Visual Arts was an innovative collaborative event, in which long term creative partnerships were formed.
• ‘ Barely legal’ was the title of the 2nd year show at the Art Mill Studios, Newmarket.
• Karen Buckley 2nd Year won an award at the Limerick Performance Art Festival in January.
• Kevin Breen 2nd Year is curator of art events at city centre venue ‘Twisted Pepper’.
• Craig Cox 2nd Year had a solo exhibition ‘Service’ at the Globe in March.
• John Fitzgerald and Aine Belton 4th year exhibited as part of ‘art is good for you’ public art project in November as part of the ISEA pre-symposium event week, supported by Dublin city council.
• Richard Hansard 2nd Year had a solo exhibition ‘Spanner in the Works’ at the Twisted Pepper.
• Lynda Reynolds 4th Year won the Blackchurch Print Studio “Curiosity Cabinet” award.
• Two graduates 2009 will be selected to go forward to the NEU graduate showcase exhibition at ELIA Vilnius.
• The arts management students of IADT selected Claire Bonnie for the exhibition “Green Shoots”.
• DLR coco will offer one graduate a community artist award, which involves a free studio space and community involvement for a year at the Granary Artspace, Cabinteely
• A number of Visual Arts students will work at the Irish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, and as interns at the Kilkenny Arts Festival.
• Cally Higgins 3rd year ACCS just had twins last month…. and is submitting for assessment!!
• Students visited the Frieze Art Fair, London, Limerick Performance Art Festival, and EV+A Limerick and joined the Design student trip to Amsterdam.
• Cecily Brennan has a solo show next year in the Taylor Galleries, Dublin, and is in the exhibition “Voices”, at the Civic Centre Ballymun, which tours National venues. She is also in “Terror and the sublime; Art and politics in an age of anxiety” at the Crawford.
• Clodagh Emoe will take part in “Triptych” in Norwich, and “Liminality in art” at Chelsea College of art, London.
• Kathleen Moroney will be resident Artist at the International Ceramic Research Center, Guldagergaard, Denmark later this year, and at Shigaraki Institute of Ceramic Studies, Japan in 2010.
• Lynda Devenney was selected for “EV+A-Reading the city” in Limerick. She will be presenting a paper at Edtech 2009, New Learning Spaces at the National College of Ireland in May.
• Geoffrey Perrin was involved in recording “Agitated Radio Pilot-World Winding Down”, and “Hippy Hippy Witch” with Alison O Donnell.
• Laurence Riddell will be presenting a paper to Edtech 2009, “New Learning Spaces” at the National College of Ireland in May.
• Maeve Connolly is publishing a book “The Place of Artists’ Cinema: Space, Site and Screen”, with Intellect/University of Chicago press.
• Anna Colford is the editor of “Access all areas” an IMMA publication, and reported on Museum 21 for the Visual Artists Ireland Newsletter.
• Saoirse Higgins is the Dublin coordinator of the ISEA09 conference in August, and is exhibiting in the Roundabout gallery, Katowice, Poland in October, the Thessalonica Biennale – May-June. She has recently exhibited in “Light wave” at the Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, and the Museum of Science, Jerusalem, MIT, and University of Ulster.
• Cora Cummins Attended the Artist books conference in New York. She curated ‘What Hiver’ at the project studio Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, took part in “Timbuktu” at Pallas Contemporary, and “Winter Salon” at Temple Bar Gallery. She is co editor of “The Fold”, whose spring issue was called Devotion.
• Mark Joyce had a solo show “The Newtonians” at the Green on Red Gallery Dublin in January, reviewed by CIRCA and Flash Art. “The Fraunhofer Lines” was broadcast on RTE Sunday Miscellany in January; He received a Thomas Dammann award in March, and will be artist in residence at the Optisches Museum in Jena in July.
• Shane Cullen was offered a major commission in Louvain, Belgium in April.
• Therry Rudin had an exhibition at the Galaria Safia, Barcelona, and is supervising the publication of “Living Landscape”, with a documentary DVD with coverage of 16 artists from Ireland, Spain, Germany and Mexico. She has also exhibited in the West Cork Arts Centre in December 2008
• Ciaran O’ Keeffe won “Alternative Miss Ireland”, in the Olympia theatre in March.
• Sinead Hogan chaired the “Ranciere and representation” seminar at the Project Arts Centre in April
What is Visual Arts Practice? Visual Artists look critically at the changing world. They observe aspects of the natural, man made, and digital environment. They provide new ways of seeing, and new responses by continually challenging ideas and practices, This is critical to encouraging debate and change in contemporary society.
This programme is designed to provide you with the opportunity to develop a Visual art practice which is relevant to the many opportunities which exist for artists and to understand the challenges of working in the visually and critically sophisticated landscape of contemporary art.
The creative pathways provided embrace drawing, painting, video, sculpture, printmaking, photography, sound, installation, performance and other related areas.
We aim to educate artists through an integrated and multidisciplinary experience that provides you with an opportunity to make a comprehensive portfolio of work tested against “real world” situations.
There are visiting lecturers, specialist workshops and themed seminars. You will have the opportunity to take part in placements, international exchanges, develop art events in groups, and exhibit independently.
This programme is also offered in a flexible access mode. Contact the Admissions Office in IADT for information on this programme.
What will I be able to do when I graduate?
Careers may arise in the creative industries as artists, art teachers, arts administrators, art directors, community arts coordinators, arts mediators, art critics, arts officers, content developers, image researchers, film makers, art historians, and gallerists.
Postgraduate opportunities include our MA in Visual Arts Practices.
What modules will I study?
Year 1
Visual Research Methods, Introduction to Visual Arts, which will be based in The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Studios, Introduction to History and Critical Theory, Introduction to Self Direction, Workshops.
Year 2
Studio Research Methodology, Critical Analysis & Critical Practice, Site Specific Environmental Practice, Workshops, Intermediate History & Critical Theory, Self Direction
In addition, you will be able to choose one module from the School of Creative Arts’ bank of electives. Please refer to page XX.
Year 3
Interdisciplinary Practice, Research, Workshops, Issues in Contemporary Practice, Self Direction, Thesis Preparation, Professional Practice
Year 4
Studio, Workshops, Seminars, Thesis
Are there any costs for materials and/or field trips?
Approx. €500 to €1,000 per year
Graduate Exhibition cost in year 4
What are the Entry Requirements?
Please refer to page XX.
What should my portfolio include?
Make sure you include:
An edited selection of images made in a variety of media (paintings, drawings, photographs, collages, video, animations,photographs of 3D work)
Work using media such as pencils, charcoal, water colours, oils, acrylics, crayons, pastels, coloured papers, photographs, video, construction in plaster, wood, metal, wax, found objects/materials, etc
All these media and forms need not be present but some variety in media and format is essential
Project work dealing with a theme of interest to you. Project work is work which demonstrates the development of an idea through a series of distinct stages from initial idea/theme, through experiment and research, to final outcome and conclusion. It may be presented in the form of project notebooks, sketches/test pieces and final outcomes, and it can be in any medium
Contact:
Ms Celine Blacow, School Administrator
T: (01) 239 4664
E: celine.blacow@iadt.ie
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