The Shed Galway

Monday, 10 October 2011

ANNE O' NEILL GALWAY BASED ARTIST

Anne recently graduated from GMIT with a first class honours degree in
fine art ceramics. Her work explores connections; clay’s journey of
transformation in the earth; our existence on and from the earth and
the innate connection that is inherent in all of us. She is interested
in what connects and disconnects us one from the other,that, that is
not always obvious; what lies above and below the surface, the surface
of the earth and the surface of our skin, both internal and external
landscapes.

 Some of the exhibitions Annes' work has been selected for over the
past few years include; Ceramics at the Hallward, the Irish
Contemporary Ceramic Awards; Insight Outsight, Contemporary Sculpture
Exhibition, St Brigit’s gardens, Slow Burn, Craft & design collective,
Belfast and The Claremorris Open. She carried out her first
collaborative performance at the Flatlake festival in June of this
year. Anne will be traveling to Finland for a two month residency in
early 2012.

Clay Dig Connection

Lake

Harvest

Delivery

Sunday, 9 October 2011

Tuesday, 4 October 2011

Public Lecture by Artists Claire Curneen and Andrew Livingstone

On Thursday the 3rd of November from 1.30pm the public are invited to attend a lecture by artists Claire Cureen and Andrew Livingstone at GMIT Dublin Road, theatre 903. This lecture is kindly supported by Irish Ceramics in Education (ICE).

Claire Curneen

Andrew Livingstone

GMIT Dublin Road

Contact:

+353 (0) 86 8456773

CLAIRE CURNEEN IRISH ARTIST

Claire Curneen born in Kerry and studied at the Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork, University of Ulster, Belfast and University of Wales Institute Cardiff where she gained a Masters Degree in Ceramics. She is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Ceramic Studies, UWIC, Cardiff.

Curneens figurative ceramics command a quite yet charged presence. The figurative pieces often refer to images of Christian Iconography, quoting narratives of sacrifice and devotion. Her figures encompass elements of human experiences: love, loss, suffering and compassion. Although the work often provokes an awkward silence, they always embody hope. The translucent, delicate and the ethereal nature of porcelain lends itself to the understanding of her work. The textural finish is central to their making with dripping dribbles of glaze and gold accentuating the rich quality of the porcelain.

Claire Curneen has exhibited her work internationally including being selected for the 3rd World Ceramic Biennale at the Korea International Competition 2005 and the Taiwan International Ceramics Biennale in 2008. Her recent solo exhibitions include ‘Claire Curneen’in the Ruthin Gallery,Wales 2008, ‘Otherworldly Messages’ Galerie Marianne Heller, Germany 2009 and ‘Lost Certainty’ with Alice Kettle at Contemporary and Applied Arts, London 2011.

Urchin

Builders

Stick Figure

www.clairecurneen.com

Saturday, 1 October 2011

ANDREW LIVINGSTONE BRITISH ARTIST

Dr Andrew Livingstone works as an artist and a Senior Lecturer and Subject Leader for Ceramics at the University of Sunderland.

Andrews work uses a range of media which acknowledges the interface between both traditional practice and new media. Recent exploration aims to challenge and expand contemporary locations in respect of the traditional positioning of ceramics. The integration of digital media and new technologies has become central to his practice where new media is often positioned and juxtaposed with more traditional elements.

Investigation focuses on interpretation and reaction to situations both as a result of direct and indirect experience. The challenge to material structures and familiarity are positioned centrally as is the search for innovative outcomes that explore both process and visual significance. This often includes elements and situations that represent both micro and macro visual perspectives which in turn explore frameworks within both local and global culture.

The notion of visual complacency is a recurring event where the reading of the ‘familiar’ presents strategies for investigation. Using installation and new media, familiarity with material, artistic process, and the hand of the maker, are continually exposed and reconstructed to offer new interpretations.

Britannia

2010

Postmodern Animal

2010

Surfeit 621

2011

www.andrewlivingstone.com

Tuesday, 27 September 2011

CLARE TWOMEY BRITISH ARTIST

Clare Twomey is a British artist, who works with clay in large-scale installations,
Sculpture and site-specific works. Over the past 10 years she has exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tate, Crafts Council, Museum of Modern Art Kyoto Japan, the Eden Project and the Royal Academy of Arts. Within these works Twomey has maintained her concerns with materials, craft practice and historic and social context.

At the Brighton Pavilion this summer she housed thousands of black butterflies that became a veil of mourning in amongst the wonderful yet menacing rooms of the Pavilion creating a discussion about the indulgence and excess of the building and its creation.

At the Royal Academy earlier in the year she worked with the traditional flower makers in stoke on Trent to make hundreds of exotic flowers in a work titled Specimen that examined the protection of objects and the destruction of objects as the flowers were not fired and exposed to the publics touch through the exhibition. This vulnerability relates to the losing of craft skills in Stoke on Trent.

Clare Twomey is actively involved in critical research in the area of the applied arts, including writing, curating and making. She has developed work, which expands the fields’ knowledge of larger scale installation works.