SHAPING THE VOID

By

Deirdre McLoughlin

A National Craft Gallery Touring Exhibition

31 March – 5 May

”Deirdre’s work has its origins in a fascinating dialogue with classical ceramic forms and functions, but it is as if the dialogue has moved on to a concern with the body as a kind of container, and her instinct for the contained void, for the tensions inherent in shape, is fantastic.”

Aidan Dunne

Deirdre McLoughlin is one of the finest sculptors to emerge from Ireland in the 20th century. Born and educated in Dublin, McLoughlin studied with Rosemary Andrews before moving to Japan to work amongst the Sodeisha artist group in Kyoto, and eventually establishing a studio there. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide, and she received the prestigous Westerwald Prize in 2004 and Cetificate of Honour at he 2007 World Ceramic Biennale in Korea.

McLoughlin’s work is coil-built in clay, and often extensively sanded and polished. Hand-building and firing closed, hollow forms is a very technically challenging process, and shows her mastery of materials and techniques.

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extended until March 17th

Portraits of a Burnt Wood by Chicory Miles

For Irish Examiners coverage of the show : http://www.irishexaminer.com/features/economic-wasteland-now-a-blank-canvas-184610.html

Join us to for a night of music and dancing in

CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery

in aid of The Irish Heart Foundation

All Welcome 8pm – 11pm

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Curated by James L Hayes

                    
                      Spaminacanistan by Malcolm McClay

 CIT Crawford College of Art and Design are proud to present drawnOVERdrawn, an exhibition of drawings by Chicory Miles, Malcolm McClay, Rian Kerrane, Eric Waldemar and curated by James L Hayes.

Opening Friday 10th February @ CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery – 7pm  

Gallery open 10am-6pm Tuesday to Saturday and  2pm-6pm Sunday. Exhibition runs until March 1st

‘There is no way to make a drawing- there is only drawing’ – Richard Serra 

Drawing can be thought of as the ground from which all other arts originate as the origins of ideas are often realized in drawing before being translated into other mediums. For the artists in DRAWN/OVERDRAWN, drawing comes out of a multi disciplinary practice as a tool that aids the thinking process.  The four artists in this show are all resident in the U.S, however the works shown here are made in response to Ireland’s physical and economic landscape.

DRAWN/OVERDRAWN comes at a time when Ireland is severely overdrawn on its accounts, and this exhibition’s title refers to this situation. Kerrane’s work incorporates the actual material iconography of Banc Na hÉíreann within a matrix that brings to mind puzzles and games, combining corporate iconography with objects from the intimate daily life of Ireland’s people. McClay’s work also confronts the fallen condition of the Irish economy in drawings that emerged from his photographs of some of the thousands of abandoned building sites that litter the Irish landscape. While these artists engage with the economic crisis, Louisiana-based Chicory Miles’s watercolors speak of recovery, giving graphic form to Irish landscapes that are growing back from devastating fires.

GAIA PROJECTS in assocaiation with CIT CRAWFORD COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN are proud to present:

POSITIONS

a group exhibition at the CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery running from Friday 6th January – 31st January 2012.

Opening Friday 6th January at 6PM

Why do certain artists choose to follow traditional methods of creating art, while others feel free to make videos, performance and installation? Is there a place for tradition within contemporary practice, or has today’s cutting edge art lost sight of skill and craft? While a love for tradition may hold back certain artists from exploring new syntaxes, does the freedom to create anything in any way mean that contemporary art is being made in a vacuum? Or are both directions simply differing “intensities” of creation?

This exhibition seeks to explore the various artistic positions that artists have taken and why.

DERMOT BROWNE/KELLY RATCHFORD/GAVIN HOGG/ENDA O’DONOGHUE

NEDYALKA PANOVA/TOM CLIMENT/BRIAN DUGGAN/KIWOUN SHIN/

NICHOLAS ROBINSON/ALLYSON KEEHAN/CHRIS DORIS/

EOIN LLEWELLYN/AOIFE DESMOND/TINY LITTLE HORSE/

MIGUEL SOARES/MICHAEL CULLEN

http://http://gaiaprojects.org/

Cork Printmakers Exhibition and Christmas Fair

Saturday 3 Dec to Thursday 22 Dec 2011

Mon – Fri: 10.30am – 6pm; Sat: 11am – 5pm;

Closed Sunday.

Cork Printmakers will host its annual Christmas Exhibition from 3 to 22 December at Wandesford Quay Gallery, Clarke’s Bridge, Cork.

The exhibition will comprise work executed in a range of styles and printmaking techniques from emerging and established contemporary artists working in Ireland today. Artists on show will include Aoife Layton, Lorraine Cooke, Morgan Doyle, Catherine Hehir, Paul La Rocque, Marianne Keating, Jo Kelley, Eileen Kennedy, Donna McNamara, Frieda Meaney, Noelle Noonan, Michael O Donovan, Sylvia Taylor and many more. This rich and varied exhibition is the perfect opportunity to find a unique and lasting gift for someone special this Christmas and at very affordable prices. For those who wish to initiate or expand their art collection Cork Printmakers Exhibition and Christmas Fair offers an excellent resource for contemporary art collectors. Work is available both framed and unframed.

Cork Printmakers’ Christmas Cards will also be available to buy. Choose from six artists’ images, all cards are printed on fine art Somerset paper and hand cut. All proceeds go back into the workshop and its activities.

To get a taste of the work we hold in our print room visit the artists’ gallery page on: www.corkprintmakers.ie

Opens on November 9th at 7:00 pm.

Future Makers 2011

Designing – Crafting – Making in Ireland

(image by Claire Anne O’Brien)

The Crafts Council of Ireland and CIT Crawford College of Art and Design invite you to the opening of

Future Makers 2011 Exhibition

Friday 14th October at 6.30pm

Exhibition to be opened by Karen Hennessy, CEO, Crafts Council of Ireland.

Events

Saturday 29th October: Live Jazz with Michael Buckley (Sax) and Phil Ware (piano) at CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery, 2pm – 4pm

Thursday 3rd November: Future Makers Seminar ‘Life in the Craft Lane’, 10am – 4pm

Exhibition runs until 4th November, 2011

The Crafts Council of Ireland’s ‘Future Makers Awards and Grants’ provide support for the next generation of makers to learn, experience, investigate, develop, create and shape the future of Irish craft. Future Makers fund: research, training, residencies, materials, exhibitions and more.