January 2010
Elliott Harris have been in discussions with The Model, Sligo who are using the research from Sligo Local to help inform their policies and approaches towards local artists' initiatives.
And from several artists coming together to discuss interesting platforms and forms of self-initiated activity, newly formed S.L.A.M! (Sligo Local Artists Movement), continues to occupy ArtMart studios.
S.L.A.M! is made of up Sligo artists, Sophia Murray, Lisa Cannon, Siabhra O'Brien & Shane Finan. S.L.A.M!
S.L.A.M! is a network established by local artists to help provide and develop an on-going active art scene and create regular events, talks and happenings for artists and other creatives in Sligo and surrounding areas.
www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=118916531869
September 2009
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Culture Night Sligo
We are proud to announce our involvement in Culture Night Sligo on 27th September.
From our extensive conversations with artists, we recognise that there is a consistent desire to meet and work with peers in a way that isn't currently being accommodated.
So we put forward a proposal for Culture Night Sligo* on behalf of local artists to offer a platform for the artists we've met to get together and make some work, develop relationships, and to potentially form collaborations.
We're very happy to announce that a lot of activity has taken place for Culture Night and beyond!
Four local artists, Sophia Murray, Lisa Cannon, Siabhra O'Brien and Shane Finnan have come together to form S.L.A.M. (Sligo Local Artists Movement)to help provide and develop an ongoing active art scene and create regular events, talks and happenings for artists and other creatives in Sligo and surrounding areas.
For Culture Night, S.L.A.M. have have organised an Art Crawl, which includes the participation of approximately 50 local artists and several venues in Sligo town...Full Details can be found at:
Please click to see further details about S.L.A.M., or ArtMart, S.L.A.M's newly formed studios(housed in the former BookMart).
*With thanks for generous support from Sligo Co Co and The Model:: Niland.
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June 2009
In a bid to develop a network around Sligo Local, where news, activity and meetings are discussed, group 'Local' is now on Facebook.
Please feel free to add comments, inspirations or invite friends.
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April 2009
Visual Artists Ireland in association with Galway City Art Office present:
The Role of the Curator in the Artist's Career
Panel Discussion and Artist + Curator Networking Event
Friday 3 April 2009, Galway City Museum, Spanish Arch, Galway
Panel Discussion
Chaired by: Mike Fitzpatrick/ Director Limerick City Gallery
Speakers include: Dobz O’Brien / ArtnotArt; Tara Byrne / Curator and former director NSF; Caoimhín Corrigan / Commissioner for Ireland at the Venice Biennale 2009 and Local Authority Arts Officer Leitrim County Council; Fiona Woods / Artist-Curator; Neva Elliott + Lynn Harris / Artists
This event aims to examine the ways in which curators contribute to visual artists’ artistic and career development. Panellists will discuss their own work as curators or as artists in a variety of contexts (both inside and outside the Gallery), focussing on; national and international professional networks; artists’ mobility and local arts practice within a multi-centred art world.
Following the discussion a networking event will provide artists and curators with the opportunity to meet one-to-one, and discuss current work projects and interests, in a fun 'speed dating' format.
Artist + Curator Networking Event
If you are interested in participating in the Networking event and in meeting one-to-one with artists or curators please include the following information with your email:
- name
- discipline, i.e. artist, curator, artist-curator, other
- short biography
- brief artist / curator's statement
- images: 6-8 jpeg images (screen resolution) of recent curatorial or art work, or a link to a web site showing your work. (This may also be displayed as a slide show at the Networking event at Bar No. 8 in Galway.)
The above information that you provide will be circulated in advance amongst those attending, and you may choose up to 4 artists or curators that you would like to meet with at the Artist + Curators ‘speed dating style’ Networking Event.
Panel Discussion Structure
* 10.30am Coffee / Registration
* 10.45am Commencing Introduction
* 11.00am Presentations by all panelists (20mins max each)
* 1.30pm Lunch
* 2.30pm Reconvene with breakout sessions. Audience and panel will work in groups (approx 6 per group), with each group being assigned a question or topic to discuss and report back on.
* 3.30pm Feedback from a presenter within each group and open floor discussion
* 3.45pm Closing remarks / responses
* 4.30pm Networking event @ Bar No. 8, Dock Road,Galway. Artist and curator one-to-one meeting (4/5 meetings per person)
* 5.45pm Ends
N.B. A more detailed schedule will be distributed in advance of the event to all attending.
Booking
Artists, curators and others interested in attending both the panel discussion and networking event should contact Monica Flynn, Education Officer, at:
T: 01 8722296
E: monica@visualartists.ie
www.visualartists.ie
Chair + Panellists Biogs
Mike Fitzpatrick has been Director/Curator of the Limerick City Gallery of Art since 2000. He was Commissioner for Ireland’s representation at the Venice Biennale in 2007 and has an MA in Fine Art from Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, University of Central England. In 1995 he completed the independent Study Programme at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. He was awarded The Arts Council Studio Fellowship at PS1 Museum, LIC, New York in 1993 and undertook research studios at the University of Liverpool in 1991. In 1982 he was awarded an Italian Government Scholarship to study at the Academia De Brera in Milan, having obtained a diploma in Fine Art from the Limerick School of Art the previous year. <
Tara Byrne is an arts consultant based in Cork and Dublin. She was Director of the National Sculpture Factory (2002-2008) where she developed a new range of artists’ services, international opportunities and commissioned national and international projects, conferences and publications including desIRE; designing houses for contemporary Ireland (2007 conference and publication) and Cork Caucus; on art, possibility and democracy (2005 event and publication).
She has worked with and commissioned many artists and curators, including Inigo Manglano Ovalle, Ciara Moore, Bik van der Pol, Kenji Endo, Sean Lynch, Annie Fletcher, Charles Esche, Sarah Browne, Apolonija Sustersic, Static, Maria Eichhorn, Eoghan McTigue, Shane Cullen, Andrew Stones, Daphne Wright and Johnny Hanrahan, Jordan Baseman, Jennifer Walshe, Sarah Pierce, Art/not art, Surasi Kusolwong, Catherine David, Seamus Nolan, Sorcha O’Brien and Elli Caamano, Paul O’Neill, Sarat Maharaj, Mick O’Shea, Stephen Brandes and Phil Collins. Before her Directorship at NSF, she worked as Artists’ Support Executive at the Arts Council of Ireland, Alternative Entertainments (Tallaght), IMMA and NCAD. She has a BA in History of Art and English Literature from Trinity College, Dublin (1991) and a Higher Diploma in Arts Administration from UCD (1993). She is a former board member of CIRCA and a member of IKT Curators’ Forum. <
Caoimhín Corrigan is arts officer with Leitrim County Council, and Director of The Dock in Carrick-on-Shannon. He was previously arts officer for Carlow (1999 – 2004) where he initiated the acclaimed public art programme Visualise Carlow; as an advance programme to VISUAL – The Centre for Contemporary Art which is due to open later this year. Caoimhín also serves as Chair of NAYD (The National Association for Youth Drama), a member of the Board at IT Sligo and he has recently been appointed as Irish Commissioner for the 2009 Venice Biennale. <
David Dobz O’Brien is an artist, independent curator and Programmes Manager at the National Sculpture Factory. A founding member of interventionist art group Art / not art, set up in 1999, he has a BA from Glasgow School of Art (2000) and an MA from the National College of Art & Design (2007). One of his most significant artworks to date is Radio ON in September 2007: a fully licensed Radio station broadcasting for 5 days in Co.Cork. Devised, produced and curated with Patricia Baker, this project involving up to 60 participants from a diverse range of cross-cultural backgrounds and disciplines. In 2005 he was a curator in Cork Caucus, an event during European Capital City of Culture 2005, with international curators Charles Esche, Annie Fletcher and Art / not art member Dr. Fergal Gaynor. In 2009 he is curatinga series of bi-monthly exhibitions involving 6 international curators, 6 international artists and 6 Irish artists, 6 x 2 x 2, for the Guesthouse Project in Cork City. Art / not art continues to curate exhibitions, host its Clinic and through its Non Academy program, organise lectures, screenings, reading groups and dialogues to expand notions of creativity. www.corkcaucus.org / www.radioON.eu <
Elliott Harris, London based artists Neva Elliott & Lynn Harris, use phenomenology as an approach to developing multi-media projects. They work with existing context, subjects and groups to investigate current cultural discourse, always questioning how relevant art practice is to social progress. They work with text and material, for instance using archiving tactics, interviewing, participation, building structures, creating publications, postcards, posters, pamphlets, t-shirts and other printed ephemera. Elliott Harris are generally interested in developing support systems, concepts or structures for use by groups of people. They have both practiced and shown extensively for the past several years and have been working together since 2008. In 2008 Elliott Harris were commissioned by The Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo.
Neva Elliott is an Irish Artist working in London and an MA graduate of Central Saint Martins College, London. Exhibitions include: 'Singing the Real', South African National Gallery, Capetown (2007) curated by Patrick Murphy, Director of the RHA; 'Archiving', Skibbereen West Cork Arts Centre (2006); 'Fresh: Re-Imagining The Collection', Limerick City Gallery of Art (2006) curated by Pippa Little; and The Taylor Arts Award Retrospective, National Gallery, Dublin (2006). In 2006 Elliott represented Ireland at the International Artists' Residency in Argentina (RIAA). Curatorial projects include: Judi Werthein's 'Brinco', The Dock, Leitrim (2008). Her writings can be seen in The Visual Artists' News Sheet, a-n Magazine and Feedback.
Lynn Harris is an American Artist working in London for the past 8 years, and she is also an MA graduate of Central Saint Martins College, London. She collaborates prolifically and is co-founder of web-based archive project Unrealised Projects, which includes 75 participant artists, periodic launch events, publication development, talks and research strands. She is co-editor of [deletia], an artist-led organisation that purchases advertising space to present, promote and develop artworks. Exhibitions include 'Fresh: Re-imagining the Collection', Limerick City Gallery of Art (2006); 'Idea London', ICA; and 'I am a Curator', Chisenhale Gallery, London. She has contributed to several symposia on her collaborative, research-based approach to making including: 'Print Matters' hosted by the Design Museum, London; 'Fabric & Off-site Programming' hosted by Leicester City Galley; and 'Research Spaces' hosted by the Bartlett School of Architecture/Slade School of Fine Art. In 2003 she was nominated for Beck's Futures and in 2005 for the Jerwood Artist's Platform. www.elliottharris.org <
Fiona Woods is a visual artist whose practice includes curating and writing. For the last number of years her work has focused on aspects of art and public space in non-metropolitan contexts. On behalf of Clare Arts Office she devised and curated the Ground Up programme of public art in rural contexts, and co-devised the partnership projects Shifting Ground and Verge, a new art journal to explore alternatives to the prevailing discourse of centre and margin from Irish and international perspectives. She is currently working on a follow up public art project to Imagining Silvermines; a psychogeography (2007) and is an MA student on the Art in the Contemporary World programme at NCAD. She recently edited Ground Up; reconsidering contemporary art practice in the rural context (Ennis, 2008). http://fionawoodsmusings.blogspot.com/
www.shiftingground.net/Silverminesproject.htm <
For directions to the venues please see:
www.galwaycitymuseum.ie/location/
Bar No.8 is also located close by on the Dock Road
Acknowledgements:
In addtion to support from James Harold / Arts Officer, and Megs Morley / Public Arts Officer, (Galway City Council), VAI wishes to acknowledge the support and assistance of Aideen Barry / VAI Western Representative and Maeve Mulrennan / Curator in developing, devising and planning this event.
