Conversations on Practicalities Through Practice

Date:    Friday 26 March 2010
Venue:  Stack Theatre : Cork School of Music, Union Quay, Cork
Time:    2:30 pm - 6.00 pm

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Getting on With Art is a collaboration between three of Cork’s visual Arts Organisations; the Crawford Art Gallery; the Crawford College of Art & Design and the National Sculpture Factory.

This event is free and open to all. Booking is on a first come, first served basis. Advance booking for more than 5 people is recommended via gettingonwithart@hotmail.com

This artist-led seminar provides an opportunity to discuss the experiences and insights of professional artists. Through a series of presentations and conversations, participants will look at the fundamentals, benefits and pitfalls in establishing a career as a visual artist in Ireland. The seminar aims to address the practicalities of art practice, offering a straightforward and pragmatic approach to the production and exhibition of contemporary art.

Getting on With Art: Conversations on Practicalities Through Practice has invited a broad range of artists to speak about their realities of making art as professionals. Guest speakers will address a number of pertinent issues and opportunities for emerging artists, including their experiences of artist residencies, commercial galleries and artist-run exhibition spaces alongside the practicalities of sustaining an art practice in these difficult times.

These artists will offer insights into how their own research influences their approach to sustainability and how this affects their final outcomes, their artworks.

Presentations will be followed by an open-forum Q & A session, where the urgent issues of the day can be advanced head-on and where we hope the pertinent issues of practitioners today can be explored in a pragmatic manner.

Speakers

Alan Phelan (Chair)
Alan Phelan's practice involves the production of objects, participatory
projects, curating and writing. These all inform and contribute to an
interest in the narrative potential surrounding an artwork. This can be
exploited or explored from actual and historical events, ideas, things and
places as well as their fictional counterparts.

Alan Phelan studied at DCU, Dublin, 1989 and RIT, New York, 1994. Previous
solo exhibitions include: Irish Museum of Modern Art and Chapter, Cardiff,
2009; mother’s tankstation, Dublin, 2007; The Lab, Dublin, MCAC, Portadown,
2006. Recent group exhibitions include EV+A, Limerick, 2009; Concourse
Offsite, Blackrock, Dublin, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, 2008; Feinkost,
Berlin, 2007; SKUC, Ljubljana; SKC, Belgrade, LCGA, Limerick, 2006; and the
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2004. He was editor/curator for
Printed Project, issue five, launched at the 51st Venice Biennale, and has
curated exhibitions at the RHA, Dublin, Project, Dublin and Rochester, New
York.  He has received numerous awards from The Arts Council, Ireland as
well as a Fulbright Scholarship and a John F Kennedy Fund Graduate
Scholarship.  Phelan has written essays on several artists, including Tom
Molloy, Abigail O’Brien and Vanessa O’Reilly. He has also had texts
published in Circa, Contexts, Kunst.ee, Source and had a column in VAI VAN
from 2003-06.
Phelan was short-listed for the AIB Art Prize in 2007.

Sean Lynch
Sean Lynch (born 1978, Kerry) was educated in fine art at the Stadelschule, Frankfurt, and had solo exhibitions at the Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Context Gallery, Derry, Heaven’s Full, London, Galway Arts Centre, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ritter & Staiff, Frankfurt, and completed a commission with the National Sculpture Factory, Cork. He has featured in group exhibitions at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, and Office Baroque, Antwerp. His work currently features in the touring Arts Council exhibition Noughties but Nice: 21st Century Irish Art. He is also author, editor and publisher of several books and pamphlets that focus on Irish art and architecture.
He is represented by the Kevin Kavangh Gallery in Dublin

Maud Cotter
Maud Cotter's practice "interrogates and interrupts the traditional boundaries of sculpture, both through incorporation of common and domestic objects, and also through relationships with the broader contexts of gallery architecture.." "Her one-person shows in 2010 will include "Rumpus Room" at The Third Space, Belfast.(May 6th) 'All stuff is farce" at the Centre Culturel Irlandais.(Sept 16th) and 'Stuff' at Point B Project Space , New York.(Nov.date to be confirmed). In 2009 she has 2 solo exhibitions ‘Rumpus Room’ at Point B in Williamsburg, New York and ‘More than one way out’ at the Rubicon Gallery in Dublin, while also part of exhibitions at IMMA in Dublin and at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery in Cork.

Clodagh Emoe
Clodagh Emoe (b. Dublin) is an artist based in Dublin. Her practice involves drawing, video and most recently staging to articulate a desire to approach the unknown and the esoteric. In 2004 she completed a MA (Hons. Distinction) in Fine Art at Chelsea College, London and received a BA (Hons.) in Fine Art Sculpture from NCAD. Recent projects/events include, Metaphysical Longings, National Gallery of Ireland, Mystical Anarchism in collaboration with Simon Critchley, An Exhibition in Five Chapters, CAC, Vilnius, Come Together, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Somewhere Here, NSCAD, Canada, and Losing Ourselves, a star gazing session in conjunction with I Am Here Somewhere, solo-show at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin. Clodagh has undertaken awarded residencies at the Banff Centre, Canada, VCCA, USA, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Draiocht Art Centre and IMMA
Clodagh is a research scholar at GradCAM. Indeterminacy in Contemporary Art Practice is the working title for her PhD thesis.

Edel O’Reilly
Laois born artist Edel O’ Reilly began studying at the Crawford College of Art & Design in 2004 graduating with a B.A. (Hons) Fine Art specialising in printmaking and photography. Her work originates from sociological and architectural themes and often explores the city/nature duality and the ephemeral qualities of urbanism.

In addition to her visual art practice she has worked in a curatorial context and a number of collaborative projects which have been concerned with interventions with space, transforming disused or temporarily available sites in urban areas, such as The Eviction Show in April ’09 and Paperback Project in July ’09 in Laois.

O’ Reilly is also co-founder and member of arts collective Cork Contemporary Projects who aim to provide a platform for young emerging artists as well as forum for creatives to collaborate, network and exhibit. She currently holds position of director with CCP’s new artist-led gallery The Space.

For further details you may contact us at : gettingonwithart@hotmail.com

Explore the installation Critical Assembly by Jim Sanborn
& assemble your own specially protected chamber.

This construction workshop will allow young people to respond to Jim Sanborn’s artwork:
a precise reconstruction of a nuclear laboratory.

Artist Julie Forrester will lead these workshops in the gallery.

Places are free of charge but booking is essential.

For further information and booking:
emmaklemencic@crawfordartgallery.ie
021 – 4907862

Leaving Cert Study Day 2010

We are pleased to announce that over 250 teachers and students attended our Leaving Cert Study Day sessions, which were held in collaboration with the National Gallery.
We are delighted that so many of you are engaging with the gallery as an
educational resource.

These events were free of charge and took place on Saturday 16, Friday 22 and Saturday 23 January 2010.

The format consisted of a series of thirty-minute visual presentations in the Gallery lecture theatre, with a free tour of the current exhibition Terror and the Sublime: Art in an Age of Anxiety offered as an optional extra.