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2020 Programme Bill & Denise Whelan john sweeney EJ helen & Vincent terry Ann kings foley sweeney Corcoran Micheal Nee Bus & Coach Hire Providers of Internet access Providers of the Festival to the Festival Shuttle Bus Service ABBEYGLEN CASTLE HOTEL EDWARD AND MARY DOWNE ROSEANNE & PETER O’GRADY WALSH ALCOCK AND BROWN HOTEL FOYLE’S HOTEL PADDY POWERS BOOKMAKERS CLIFDEN BOOKSHOP BOBBY AND TRULY GILMORE SUPERVALU CLIFDEN CLIFDEN GLEN GMT IRELAND PETER AND PAULA VINE CLIFDEN LOTTERY FUND ALAN AND MARY HOBART CATHAL AND JOAN WALSH CLIFDEN STATION HOUSE HOTEL JOE AND JOAN MCBREEN (WALSH’S BAKERY AND COFFEE CONNEMARA CREDIT UNION TERRY AND TONI MCCOY SHOP) MARGUERITE COURTADE KATE AND NOEL NOONAN PEGGY AND TOM MCMANUS 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. Réamhrá Clifden Arts Festival heart of our community 2020 will be different and by doing so we will from other Festivals blaze a trail to bigger over our 43-year history. audiences and a return Regrettable due to to the larger Festivals of the ongoing COVID-19 previous years. pandemic audience VISUAL capacity at venues will 2 Clifden Arts Festival will ARTS be severely reduced. It endeavour to ensure is regrettable that many that as many people as who wish to be present possible can get to enjoy at live events will not events through the Arts- be able to attend this On-Air on Connemara year due to the reduced Community Radio and number of tickets our Digital Events on the available. Festival website. In continuing with a Festival for 2020 Clifden GENERAL Arts Festival is in a sense 12 hoping to keep a glow in PROGRAMME the artistic fire at the Online Tickets Sales Tickets can only be bought online this year. Please go to clifdenartsfestival.ie to pre-book your tickets. Tickets will not be available at the box office or event QUICKFIND venues this year. 35 INDEX Due to COVID-19 restrictions, seating capacity is limited and no patrons will be admitted without a valid ticket. We ask all patrons to wear a facemask when attending each event. Venues and times are subject to change due to COVID-19 Restrictions. Telephone 087 331 5009 Email: [email protected] DIGITAL Full Programme online at clifdenartsfestival.ie 36 EVENTS We ask patrons to be seated at least 10 minutes before scheduled performance times. It may not be possible to admit latecomers at some events. clifden arts festival 2020 1 2 clifden arts festival 2020 VISUAL ARTS PROGRAMME Lydia Brow, Untitled The Visual Arts Programme 2020 In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic restrictions and with concern for the well being and safety of staff, volunteers, artists, performers and the public health in general, it has been decided to cancel exhibitions and scale back the Visual Arts component of this year’s Festival. There will be a scaled-back Art Trail and a few special events programmed adhering to Covid-19 restrictions and guidelines. The Art Trail - 15 Years The Art Trail is celebrating its 15th year this year. To mark this special milestone, the Trail and open shows, in the UK and Ireland. will again feature work of artists with a strong She has received various awards and Connemara Connection - some resident, residencies. Her work is held by a number some visiting, and others simply inspired by of public bodies, as well as by private our place. collectors. In 2008, she received a The listing for The Art Trail will appear on “Lifetime Achievement” Award from Galway www.clifdenartsfestival.ie in September. County Council. In April 2015, she held a retrospective solo exhibition in the Leinster Gallery, South Frederick Street, Dublin. The Studio Trail Her imagery is drawn from observation. THE OPEN STUDIO Much of it refers to the early Christian and prehistoric sites, which abound in the Margaret Irwin West area where she lives. She says, “from my Painter and printmaker figurative images I seek to draw out greater resonances that suggest their cultural and Born in India of Irish parents, Margaret social contexts.” returned to Ireland at the age of nine and grew up in Co Wicklow. She was schooled The Open Studio at home for three years. This enabled her to Margaret Irwin West, Claddaghduff, H71 C578 attend regular drawing lessons with Lilian Contact Details: 086-8374542 Davidson, RHA from whom she received a Opening Hours: 11.30 am – 6 pm thorough classical foundation. After taking Strictly by appointment. her primary degree in languages at the University of Dublin, Trinity College, she VENUE | THE OPEN STUDIO, studied painting at the studio of the cubist CLADDAGHDUFF teacher André L’Hôte, in Paris, as did many other Irish painters of the twentieth century. Margaret has exhibited in many juried 4 clifden arts festival 2020 Interface will combine work made in response to the connections the artists have made during- and post- lockdown, and in response to the Interface environment. Laura McMorrow Leitrim artist Laura McMorrow was the artist in resident at Interface for March 2020, during which period the coronavirus Interface is a studio and residency lockdown started. This work is a response to programme located in a centre of scientific the remote location of the hatchery and the research – formerly a salmon hatchery self-isolation that followed the residency. - in the Inagh Valley, Connemara. Artists Lo-fi filmmaking techniques were used are offered the opportunity to explore to build suspense and heighten the tense intersections between science and art in atmosphere at that time. this extraordinary environment. Laura McMorrow is a visual artist from Three exhibitions under one roof, Leitrim, Ireland. She holds a Masters in booking essential: Fine Art from the University of Ulster, www.interfaceinagh.com Belfast (2012) and a BA in painting from www.byevid.com/interfaceinagh Limerick School of Art and Design (2008). [email protected] She was awarded the Emerging Irish Artist Residency Award (2017). Recent exhibitions include The Lost Acre (2018) Leitrim Connect Sculpture Centre and Cut/Paste (2019) The Source Arts Centre. Her practice Interface presents site-specific performance, incorporates video installation, sculpture, experimental music & exhibition, curated collage, and painting. around themes of connection by artistic director Alannah Robins. Carrying The Songs During COVID19 lockdown, a group of Carrying the Songs project sees a story Interface artists have been meeting weekly travelling from Inis Mór to Istanbul, like online. The meetings were initially set up with Chinese whispers, across Europe passed a view towards overcoming isolation and from person to person via zoom, being towards mutual support and stimulus. translated over twenty times – and including many minority languages - along Artists took it, in turn, to present their work, the way. In parallel with this, a drawing with diverse fields ranging from experimental is passed from artist to artist. Each music in New York to Walking Drawing in Bath, artist’s version contributes towards the medieval egg tempera painting, performance development of a stop motion animated film. and site-specific installation in Tehran. The meetings have grown not only to be a At this exhibition, you can see the drawing stimulating weekly marker for many but a at different stages of its development, listen warm place to share work and to connect. to the story at different stages, and track its It is a natural evolution for the group to engage progress across Europe. in some collaborative making together, exploring ideas of connection. The exhibition VENUE | INTERFACE, INAGH VALLEY clifden arts festival 2020 5 Connemara Creative Gallery Emergence An exhibition of mixed media. We are emerging from an old way of life to a new ‘normal’. This body of work was developed during ‘lockdown’ with optimism that reflects a new vision of the world as it could be. Reflecting the beauty of the natural world enhanced by a spirit of cooperation instead of careless interference. Bernie Dignam Bernie Dignam has lived in Connemara since the 1990s. In this time she has developed a reputation as a professional artist and one the most important art educators in the area. In addition to her work with several third-level institutions, she has engaged with all levels and abilities within her community. She delivers workshops and programmes in printmaking and textiles from her home studio, where she also showcases her work. These workshops are catalysing for many and are essential to the creative pulse of the community. Having completed a degree in design from D.I.T. Bernie completed a further year of study at Limerick School of Art & Design. During this year she was introduced to a variety of media were printmaking and textiles left an indelible mark on her. 6 clifden arts festival 2020 The Lavelle Gallery She has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally for the last two decades and her work is in many private collections worldwide. Drama in nature focuses my attention and offers me a challenge in representing this intensity in my environment. As well as a variety of themes, she likes to explore personal issues through my work. As an interdisciplinary artist, she uses a variety of materials & processes, each medium conveys a different narrative about Lydia Brow my environment & the various themes that At The Lavelle Gallery inspire my work. Lydia Brow was born in Dublin but now lives Connemara Creative Gallery here in Clifden, Connemara. She creates Tooreen, Garraunbaun abstract paintings using acrylics and mixed Contact Details: 087 690 8137 media.
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