Wednesday, 12 October 2011
Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Monday, 10 October 2011
Nuala Ní Fhlathúin Galway Based Artist
Nuala Ní Fhlathúin is from the Gaeltacht area in the West of Ireland. She received a BFA in Ceramics from the GMIT School of Art in 2008 and an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Washington in Seattle in 2011.
Her art practice has been an investigation of material processes and procedures, a craft-led enterprise embarked upon to explore the mysterious divide between material reality and the disembodied world of abstract sequenced thought. In her practice she works directly and experimentally with materials, constructing open-ended arrangements of order and entropy, conservation and decay. She works with soil, string, fragments of paper and other cast-offs, paying attention to their distinct physical properties – their weight, their balance, their particular way of occupying space, how they impinge on each other. In exploring these dynamics her art consistently operates on the plane of the personal, the particular and the intimate - the world of cataclysmic, hairsbreadth differences, irrational attachments and temporary stop-gap measures.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, in Ireland, the USA and Georgia.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, in Ireland, the USA and Georgia.
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
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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.
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
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