Réamhrá Anne Bill & Denise Tá an-ríméad orm fáilte a Mo bhuíochas mór Ueltschi Whelan chur romhaibh uile – idir freisin do mhuintir an cheoltóirí, aisteoirí, filí, Chlocháin agus Conamara ealaíontóirí, scríbhneoirí, a chuireann fáilte teolaí VISUAL rinceoirí agus cuairteoirí mór roimh na daoine john – chuig Féile Ealaíne an a thagann le páirt a ARTS3 Chlocháin a bunaíodh 42 ghlacadh sa bhFéile agus sweeney bliain fhada ó shin i 1977. a fhreastalaíonn air mar lucht éisteachta. Agus, ar Ba mhaith liom buíochas deireadh, focal speisialta agus ómós faoi leith a don lucht éisteachta: seol EJ helen & Vincent terry Ann thabhairt do na daoine scéala faoin bhFéile chuig kings foley sweeney Corcoran agus do na h-eagraíochtaí na daoine sa bhaile, chuig a thugann tacaíocht bhur cairde agus chuig SCHOOLS fhlaithiúil dúinn, bliain i an domhain mhór go PROGRAMME20 ndiaidh bliana. Ní féidir ró- ginearálta. 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It may not be possible to admit late comers at some events. Táimid buíoch de na daoine seo a leanas a thug cabhair dúinn agus an Fhéile Ealaíon á eagrú. We would like to thank the Arts Council and other key funders, sponsors and friends for their continued and vital support. We would also like to thank you, the audience and look forward to seeing you in Clifden in September. clifden arts festival 2019 1 VISUAL ARTS Margaret Irwin West, Coliemore Harbour, c 1970, private collection. 2 clifden arts festival 2019 installations to communicate her concepts John Coll and begin dialogues with a variety of audiences around the world. Metamaraphosis Eileen’s installations and collaborations have been presented at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in Tel Aviv, Cultivamos Cultura and Montras in Portugal, the Kanna Arts Festival in Japan, Rossi and Rossi Gallery in London, Meulensteen Gallery in New York, The State House and The University of Massachusetts in Boston. Most recently, she presented her work at Lisbon Bernie Dignam University as part of “Raizes”; a group show curated by Manuela Maria Lopes and Marta de Menezes. She was artist in residence at John Coll is one of Ireland’s most prominent MÓIN Interface in September 2018. figurative sculptors. He has sculped many Margaret Irwin West This body of work is a response to the works of national importance including In ‘Everything is Connected’, Eileen explores tension created by the introduction of EU From Cubism to monuments to the poet Patrick Kavanagh, the connection between location and culture, environmental regulations to curb turf Brendan Behan, Luke Kelly and Countess and compares it to the nature vs. nurture cutting while local people assert a historic Claddaghduff: Markievicz amongst others. He was the conversation; stating that physical location right to cut turf on their land. Using a variety official sculptor of the bust of President and landscape begin as a pure form with self- A Retrospective of media, it documents marks and patterns Michael D Higgins. sustaining blueprints of its own. Nurture is what left in the landscape due to turf cutting. Curated by Dr Éimear O’Connor we do with it as a community. In her installation John has also been amazed and intrigued ‘A Conversation Piece’ , Eileen asks the viewers VENUE | FESTIVAL GALLERY, HRHA. by the natural world, its structures, textures directly about questions of ethics, personal STATION HOUSE HOTEL and relationships. Having studied Zoology experience and opinion in an effort to create Born in India 1926, visual artist Margaret at NUI Galway, this seemed like a natural connections between one another and also be Irwin West is well known to Irish audiences progression. the ones to continue to aid in the development in general, and to visitors to the Clifden Eileen Ryan / Interface of our own evolving belief systems.In her Arts Festival in particular. From Cubism to In Metamaraphosis, Coll continues his atlas installation ‘Geological Fingerprints’, she Claddaghduff: A Retrospective is a celebration exploration of the maritime world, where draws connections between material and of Margaret’s recent election to Aosdána. Everything is Connected he explores the materials with which we landscape, to ritual and spirituality; stating The exhibition will feature paintings from the interact with the maritime environment. Curated by Alannah Robins that in earlier times we used what was around 1950s onwards; several of which demonstrate us to inform and practice our spiritual beliefs. the influence of Parisian modernism and her Exhibition Opening Wednesday 18th Each location’s soil and fauna is different, training with André Lhote. There will also be September at 6pm pigments take on meaning in the form of color a selection of her etchings from across the in paintings and outward expression through decades of her outstanding career. VENUE | THE COURTHOUSE GALLERY clothing and makeup. Holy and royal vessels GALWAY RD., CLIFDEN are made from different metals or gems and Margaret Irwin in public conversation with Dr take on another meaning that can still be Éimear O’Connor, curator of From Cubism to found evolving in the present day. In her show Claddaghduff: A Retrospective, will take place Eileen Ryan is an interdisciplinary artist ‘Everything is Connected’, the dialogue is open on Friday 27 September, 2019, in The Omey from Massachusetts, USA. Eileen uses her to the public and becomes a part of the present Room, Station House Hotel, Clifden, at 11am. background in science to create investigative experience and thoughts to come. Opening Tuesday 17 September, 2019 by John works about existential stability, spirituality, Behan RHA at 6pm. phenomenology, time and connection. Using VENUE | GALLERY BESIDE HEDZ a process of exploration and observation, HAIRDRESSERS, STATION VENUE | FESTIVAL GALLERY, Eileen creates performative works and HOUSE HOTEL, CLIFDEN STATION HOUSE HOTEL 4 clifden arts festival 2019 clifden arts festival 2019 5 Centre. This is going from strength to Caroline Canning strength. It provides a sociable balance Cyril Ó Flaithearta to the solitary activity of making art. She exhibits widely both alone and in group Into the Desert/Isteach san fhásach shows. Her work is currently available from Ib Jorgensen in Dublin and Blaithin de Sachy Clifden Community Arts in Clifden. For the last seven years, she has Festival, in line with our kept daily drawing notebooks; chronicling policy of supporting local life in all its weirdness and wonderfulness. and Gaeltacht based She often posts these drawings on artists, proudly presents an Facebook, which leads to all kinds of exciting exhibition of new works by commissions….and bizarre diversions... Cyril O’Flaithearta. Personally I love Caroline’s zest for life. Ó Flaithearta is a native of I love the tonal qualities in her work. Inis Mór, Árainn, where he She draws me right in to where I feel a lives with his family. He is connection with the artist and the sheer joy a co-founder of the Oileán of an amazing woman. Project. Into the Desert, or Isteach sa Dísert, is a Caroline also curated the exhibition collection of works inspired ‘Family, Friends and Lovers - a celebration Joe Boske by a concept which was practiced by our of contemporary Irish portraiture’, which Buying Yak Milk in Gurtymadden early Christian monks or Desert Fathers; as opened in Ranelagh Arts last year. She is they are sometimes referred to in history. Caroline Canning is a full time painter trying to figure out how many times a week Joe is one of Ireland’s most recognisable based in Ranelagh, Dublinand Connemara. she can fit in a life drawing session without visual artists. He has created an enviable A desert can be many different places Caroline has been drawing and painting letting the rest of her life slide into complete library of images through his paintings, like Caher Island, out on the ocean and, I forever (she is 55), but only decided to go chaos. posters, album covers and book suppose, anywhere you find solace. To go to Art School in 2000. The plan was to do a illustrations. into the desert is to be completely alone Fine Art degree in IADT at night. She packed Caroline has had several solo exhibitions with oneself, to face yourself and to open it in after two years as it wasn’t anything and two-person shows, and has been This exhibition coincides with the launch the third eye.