3X2 Opening 3/11/2011

Kate Howard Displaced

Kate Howard Bauen

Claire Curneen Builders 

Andrew Livingstone Surfeit 621

Andrew Livingstone

Andrew Livingstone

Anne O' Neill

Nuala Ní Fhlathúin

Nuala Ní Fhlathúin

Kate Howard 

Claire Curneen

Claire Curneen

Claire Curneen

Claire Curneen

Claire Curneen

Opening Tomorrow the 3rd November @ 6.30pm, please join us for a glass of vino, 5 out of 6 of the artists will be in attendance

3x2 Catalogue

Eimearjean McCormack - Designer

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3X2 INSTALL

Andrew Livingstone SURFEIT 621 

Kate Howard "bauen"

Nuala Ní Fhlathúin

Anne O' Neill Install

CLARE TWOMEY Install

Rob and Frances

TEMPORARY

The Install!

 Clare Twomey. one up 800 to go!!

Claire Curneen

Kate Howard

Press Release

Conceptual Work in Clay

Galway Celebrates Ireland's Year of Craft 2011

3x2 is an exhibition of Contemporary Clay, showing work of six ceramic artists at The Shed, Middle Pier, Galway City Harbour 3-19 November 2011, opening reception 3^rd November at 6.30pm.

Three of the artists Claire Curneen, Andrew Livingstone and Clare Twomey are established makers living in the UK, the other three artists, Kate Howard, Anne O' Neill and Nuala Ní Fhlathúin are emerging Irish makers whose work in-corporates installation based contemporary practices in clay and mixed media.

The exhibition set in a large industrial space intends to open up ceramic practice to a wider Irish audiance, but also offers an opportunity to see conceptual work in clay by artists who rarely show in Ireland. Claire Curneen orgionally from Kerry and previously represented by the lamented Keane-on-Ceramics makes sensitive sculptural figures encompassing elements of human experiences: love, loss, suffering and compassion. Clare Twomey works with clay in large-scale installations, sculpture and site-specific works. Previous work includes Trophy an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, where 4,000 birds made from Wedgewood Jasper Blue Clay were scattered on the gallery floor and could be taken away by the audience. Andrew Livingstone's research operates within the expanded field of ceramics and investigates the employment of and interface between digital media, film, animation, photography and non-ceramic intervention. Crucial to this arena is the re-definition of an authentic positioning for ceramics, Andrew has been selected for the 2012 Taiwan Ceramics Bienniale.

The exhibition is co-curated and organised by Kate Howard and lecturer in Fine Art Ceramics at GMIT Rob D'Eath. The programme includes a lecture by artists Claire Curnneen and Andrew Livingstone on November 3^rd from 1.30pm, Theatre 903, at GMIT Dublin Rd Campus. This exhibition is kindly supported by the Craft Council of Ireland, Galway City Council, Galway Harbour Company and Irish Ceramics in Education (ICE).

Press Contact: Kate Howard caithoward@hotmail.com 086 8456773

Both Rob and Nuala are on a road trip to Sunderland, Amsterdam and Cardiff to collect our UK artists work!!

Design by Eimearjean McCormack

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.

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

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

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

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.

Specimen

 GSK Contemporary, Earth: Art of a Changing World, The Royal Academy of Arts, London

Trophy

 Cast Courts, Victoria & Albert Museum

Monument

 Zuiderzee Museum, Holland.

 Possibilities and Losses, mima, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

Forever

 The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas, USA

www.claretwomey.com

IRISH ARTS REVIEW AUTUMN EDITION 2011

The Shed

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3x2 Exhibition of Contemporary Clay, exhibiting six ceramic artists: Claire Curneen, Andrew Livingstone, Clare Twomey, Kate Howard, Anne O’Neill and Nuala Ní Fhlathúin 3/11/2011 - 19/11/2011

Set in a large industrial space 3x2 presents work by Claire Curneen, Andrew Livingstone and Clare Twomey three UK based ceramists at the centre of the international 'new wave' of cutting edge ceramic practice. Kate Howard, Anne O’Neill and Nuala Ní Fhlathúin are three emerging Irish ceramists whose work incorporates installation-based contemporary practices in clay and mixed media.


The exhibition aims to challenge conventional thinking behind the practice and exhibition modes of contemporary ceramics. As part of Ireland’s Year of Craft the exhibition will reflect the diversity and excitement of contemporary craft practice and importantly, assist in securing an elevated place for ceramics in the national consciousness. The core objective of this exhibition is to bring contemporary ceramics to a wider audience as well as building on the language of contemporary clay in Ireland.


Kindly supported by The Craft Council of Ireland, Galway City Council, Galway Harbour Company and Irish Ceramics in Education (ICE).