Centre for Creative Arts & Media Newsletter March 2014 Photo: Arlene Mc Padden Photo: CONTENTS

1 About CCAM

2 News

3 Events

4 Residencies

5 Students

6 Faculty

7 Alumni news

8 Opportunities for students

Dear Friends,

I am delighted to highlight news and achievements of our community of learning here at GMIT's Centre for the Creative Arts & Media (formally Cluain Mhuire). Since our formation as the Centre for Creative Arts and Media, eighteen months ago, we have been working to envision and consolidate our role as a specialist campus in the heart of . This, our first newsletter, highlights our unique position in the Irish educational landscape, offering undergraduate studies in Film & Documentary, Art & Design, Fine Art, and Textiles in such a vibrant and lively community of learning and exchange.

The highly collaborative, positive and friendly atmosphere makes CCAM an exceptional place to study. Our learners, lecturers and graduates have won many accolades for their achievements and are leaders throughout the worlds of film, television and arts. Our smaller workshop style classes are delivered by expert staff, passionate about their profession and research.

We are always delighted to welcome visitors and groups to visit us. Please contact [email protected] to make an appointment. We are really keen to reach out to our graduates, please join our pages on Facebook, LinkedIn and follow us on Twitter.

Sarah Searson, Head of Centre for Creative Arts and Media, GMIT, CCAM, Monivea Road, Galway.

About CCAM RESIDENCIES

Over the past year the Centre for Creative Arts and Media (CCAM) has established a number of new residencies and partnerships, forming an important mechanism for our students to engage within the wider region. The Tulca Festival Office is now residing in CCAM. This is Galway’s leading visual arts festival which takes place over three weeks in November. Other new residencies include photographer/artist Ruby Wallis. The Arts Council have also supported a new curatorial residency for Galway City which was awarded to artist Megs Morley, who will be based out of the Centre in 2014. Other project partners include and The Galway Arts Centre.

RTÉ PARTNERSHIP

CCAM’s new partnership with RTÉ continues to develop thanks to tremendous support from the National Broadcaster. The first event to mark GMIT's Partnership with RTE was a public lecture last October delivered by Kevin Bakhurst, MD of RTÉ News and Current Affairs. Further master classes for Film and Documentary students have been taking place this spring. These sessions commenced with a lecture from Bríd Dooley, Head of RTÉ Archives and Claire McLoughlin, Assistant Archivist with forthcoming lectures from Mairéad Ní Nuadháin, Head of External Relations and Laura Fitzgerald, Communications Manager News & Current Affairs with RTÉ.

VISITORS

The Film and Documentary programme board has organised a number of visits from Ireland’s leading producers, directors and actors, including a surprise visit from award winning Love/Hate Director, David Caffrey and Irish Times Theatre Awards Best Actor 2014 Tom Vaughan-Lawlor.

International designer and milliner Philip Treacy (former GMIT student) made a courtesy visit to the end-of-year textile exhibition. He was given a guided tour by textile staff and was very gracious, spending time with students, commenting on their work and encouraging them in their future careers. He made reference to their unique perspective as designers/artists having the west of Ireland as their starting point.

AWARDS

Two former graduates of Film and Documentary were nominated for IFTA’s – Irish Film and Television Awards, both in the sound category. A large number of graduates from Film and Documentary are working on the Irish drama Corp agus Anam and others are working with Beochan as Production Managers, camera operators and post production. Other new initiatives include a student led professional practice presentation in November.

News at CCAM UNSECO CITY OF FILM

Galway City Council and Galway County Council announced the bid for Galway to join UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network as a City of Film. The bid was officially unveiled by Mayor of Galway City, Cllr. Pádraig Conneely and Mayor of Galway County, Cllr. Liam Carroll, along with Bill O’Herlihy, the newly-appointed Chairman of the Irish Film Board. Led by the two Councils, the bid is being facilitated by Galway Film Centre and also encompasses over 50 key partners from across the West of Ireland including, Bord Scannán na hÉireann / The Irish Film Board, Galway Picture Palace, Galway Film Fleadh, Údarás na Gaeltachta, Abú Media, Studio Solas, GMIT CCAM, Huston School of Film and Digital Media, Media Antenna, Cinemobile, Teach Solais and EO Teilifís.

ADAPT GALWAY “ART IN THE INTERIM”

INTERIM The Vacant Spaces Pilot Initiative is a project that has grown from meetings with Adapt Galway and the amount of unused retail and commercial spaces. Adapt Galway is a coalition of visual arts organisations working together to support and campaign for the use of appropriate vacant spaces in the city centre for creative purposes. The coalition comprises of representatives from Engage Art Studios, 126 Artist-Run Gallery, The Loft, Lorg Printmakers, Artspace Studios, The Forge Clay Studios, Kitchen Table Collective, Expanded Draught, Angry Hammers and TULCA festival of visual art, many of which are past students of GMIT's CCAM. Over the past two years, Adapt Galway hosted and presented 20 various events, exhibitions, talks, performances which were attended by over 15,000 people.

Through the INTERIM initiative, Adapt Galway will continue to seek to provide open, accessible and versatile exhibition spaces. Adapt Galway has been campaigning since 2009 to have vacant spaces in the city used for creative purposes. It is hoped the scheme will see occupancy rates of vacant commercial units or premises increase, as well as providing much-needed space for the arts in the city.

Adapt Galway’s two-year residency at The Shed on the Centre Pier of Galway Harbour, which was facilitated with the very kind support of Galway Harbour Company, has just come to an end. The Harbour Master Brian Sheridan’s generosity and support over the past two years has been greatly valued and appreciated. Artists interested in the scheme can contact [email protected]. Galway City Council is currently setting up a register of interested property owners. For further details see www.galwaycity.ie or email [email protected].

News at CCAM Brian loughran & Kate Howard. Expanded Draught, If you cut through the present the future 126 Galway Arts Festival 2012 leaks out. March 2013

Image credit: Allison Regan. Image Credit: Brendan Goode.( Rhs first 3) Image credit: Allison Regan.(Rhs bottom) News at CCAM Images: Adapt exhibitions held over the last 2 years in the Shed.

News at CCAM 23rd February – 9th March 2014 GMIT Graduate Siobhan McGibbon 126 Gallery Galway

126, Galway's artist run gallery are delighted to present an exhibition of new work by GMIT CCAM graduate Siobhan McGibbon, with Ciara Healy and Karl Musson (Wales). This exhibition will show work produced during their participation in 126's residency programme ARTFarm in July & August 2013. The exhibition will run from 23 February – 09 March 2014 with preview on Saturday 22 February at 7pm. This exhibition will also be shown in Wales later in 2014. For more information please visit www.126. ie

28th of Feb to 29th March, GMIT Graduate Selma Makela Galway Arts Centre.

‘Magnetic North’, a solo exhibition by GMIT CCAM graduate Selma Makela will run from 28th of February to 29th March 2014. Using painting and video and referring to geological and meteorological phenomena as a visual language. She evokes the complexities of migration, memory and our changing environment. This group of paintings and video draw from a continued engagement with the arctic, a fascination with the element hydrogen and the scientific studies around magnetic and radioactive frequencies. For more information please visit http://www. galwayartscentre.ie/ and http://www.selmamakela.com/

25th March at 6:30pm Galway City Curator in Residence, Megs Morley in conversation with Bassam El Baroni at the Taibhdhearc Theatre, Galway.

Based in Alexandria, Egypt, Bassam El Baroni is a curator and art critic. He is the selected Curator of the 36th edition of EVA International in 2014. In 2005 he co-founded the non-profit art space Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF), and was the Director until December 2012. In 2010, he was co-curator of Manifesta 8 in Murcia, Spain, and is currently a PhD researcher in the Curatorial/Knowledge program at Goldsmiths, University of London. http://www.eva.ie/ For further information please visit https://www.facebook.com/parainstitution Email: [email protected]

Events Para Institution: Megs Morley Curator in Residence.

Megs Morley was awarded an Arts Council Curator in Residence award 2014. Working in partnership with Galway City Council, GMIT CCAM, Galway Arts Centre and NUIG Huston School of Film & Digital Media, she will be developing a body of independent curatorial research investigating the concept of the Para Institution, which will explores the parameters and potentials of institution, and co-operation, inter-linking key organisations and practitioners. A programme of events will unfold over 2014.The first event on the 25th March at 6:30pm is a presentation and discussion with the Egyptian curator Bassam El Baroni at the Taibhdhearc Theatre, Galway. For further details and updates of Megs Morley's, Curator in Residence please follow https://www.facebook.com/parainstitution Email: [email protected]

Megs Morley is an artist and independent curator whose extensive national and international practice is primarily concerned with how social and political situations are represented in art, cinema and visual culture. Her work takes the form of film, archival project, artist projects, curatorial practices and writing. The core aim of her practice is to expand criticality on the relationship between image, history, knowledge and power. www.parainstitution.ie a website promoting her work as Galway City Curator in Residence and will be launched in early March.

Residencies at CCAM Ruby Wallis Artist in Residence.

Ruby Wallis is a Fine Art graduate of GMIT who is Galway based. She is a lens-based artist and PhD researcher at NCAD who has formed a series of experimental and philosophical attempts to represent place through film, photography and drawing. In2013 , Ruby Wallis was selected for joint first prize at Claremorris Open Exhibition by Andrew Wilson, Curator of Contemporary Art at Tate Britain.

She was nominated for the Prix Pictet award by Trish Lambe at The Gallery of Photography. She currently lecturers in Griffith College Dublin as well as visiting at The BCA, LIT and CCAM. Recent academic publications include ‘Unfixed Landscape’ The Journal of Artistic Research (JAR) Issue 2 and ‘Autowalks’ Selected Essays from the On Walking Conference (University of Sunderland). During Ruby’s residency at CCAM she is working intensively to bring a current phase in her practice to a resolution in advance of a series of exhibitions over 2014 and 2015. For further details please visit http://www.rubywallis.com/

Residencies at CCAM Allison Regan Arts Mediator.

About Allison Regan

Allison Regan is a Contemporary visual artist, curator, and teacher currently living in Galway City. She received her Masters in Fine arts from Louisiana State University through a 3 year scholarship she was awarded in 2008. She graduated in 2011 with a masters in studio art, sculpture and pedagogy. Allison is now making work in Galway. From 2011 to 2012 she was on the board of directors of 126, an Artist run gallery, and on the board for TULCA Festival of visual art. She is currently on the board for ADAPT. She has exhibited her work, both nationally and internationally, showing as an individual artist and collaboratively as part of Expanded Draught; a multidisciplinary artist collective she Co-founded in 2006. She received the Michael Doherty Award (LSU) in 2009. Recent exhibitions include ‘Houses Move houses speak’, Baton Rouge Louisiana, in 2011,’Everything’ 2010, in the Good Children Gallery in New Orleans LA, Hyperopia 2012, Clifden, Co. Galway for The Clifden Arts festival, Gumbo a collection of paper and people St Louis Missouri, USA, Taking Note or The Curious Eye NUI, Galway Gallery. Future shows include Large scale collaborative exhibitions in Lexington Kentucky, MAP in Baltimore Maryland, The Appalachian centre for art and craft in Tennessee, and Pulaski Tech in Little rock Arkansas.

Role of the mediator: To research subjects and compile information pertaining to the pitching/proposing of new ideas relative to the improvement of C_CAM.

Allison is a Fine Art graduate of GMIT and Galway based contemporary visual artist, curator, and teacher. The role of the mediator is to support CCAM students and lecturers in reaching a wider audience for their various works within the Region. Allison received her MA in Fine Art from Louisiana State University in 2011. She has served on the boards of a number of key Galway arts organisations including 126 Gallery Galway, TULCA Festival of visual art and ADAPT Galway. She has exhibited her work, both nationally and internationally, showing as an individual artist and collaboratively as part of Expanded Draught, a multidisciplinary artist collective she co-founded in 2006. Contact Details: Recent exhibitions include ‘The Curious Eye’ NUI, Galway Gallery, ‘If you cut through the present the future leaks out’ The Shed, Galway, ‘Hyperopia’ at The Clifden Arts Festival, ‘Houses Move houses speak’, Baton Rouge Louisiana, ’Everything’, in the Good Children Gallery in New Orleans, ‘Gumbo’ in Website:St Louis alregan.com Missouri, USA. Future shows include large scale collaborative exhibitions in Lexington Kentucky, MAP in Baltimore Maryland, The Appalachian Centre for Art and Craft in Tennessee, and Pulaski Tech gallery in Little Rock Arkansas. For further information please visit http://alregan.com/ or for the Collective’s website: http://expandeddraught.com/test/

Contact Details: E-mail: [email protected] Please send any information, exhibition listings etc to the above address for the CCAM Archive.

Residencies at CCAM Augmented

an exhibition of sound in contemporary art

Augmented The tenth Mid-Winter Festival in Galway was programmed by world renowned An Exhibition of Sound in Contemporary art musician Finghin Collins, incoming Artistic Director of Music for Galway. The programme titled The Birth of Modern Music marked important landmarks in the period 1894 to 1913 and included important works such as Debuss's Prélude opening of Exhibition: Fri 17th 6pm à l'après-midi d'un faune, Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire (a Galway premiere) and Fri 17th - Sun 19th January, Town Hall Theatre, Galway. Stravinsky's piano duet arrangement of The Rite of Spring. Finghin presented his intentions with regard to the programming direction of the Festival to students at In conjunction with the launch of the Music for Galway Festival Mid- Winter Festival, students at the Centre of Creative Arts and Media, CCAM in early Autumn 2013, and CCAM students created work in response to the GMIT have curated an exhibition encompassing the theme of sound in programme. contemporary art. The exhibition showcases a small group of cross discipline artists studying in GMIT. The artists reflect the theme of the exhibition using audio media, technology and visual artworks. Augmented was an exhibition of student work which was the result of this new partnership. The students explored the relationship between modernism music and contemporary art. The students work responded to the Festival theme and reflected on sound in contemporary art.

The exhibition showcased a small group of cross discipline artists studying at GMIT. The artists reflected the theme of the Festival using audio media technology and visual artworks. This project was developed by lecturers Gavin Murphy, Claire McLoughlin and Cyril Briscoe, two of whom sit on the Board of Music for Galway and was made possible with the kind support of the Town Hall Theatre, Finghin Collins and Anna Lardi from Music for Galway. Students involved were Suzanne Coombs, Victoria Furey, Tara Gleeson, Lisa Griffin, Senan Lynch and Edel McMahon.

For more information please visit http://www.musicforgalway.ie/

Students at CCAM Image Credit: Suzie Coombs

Augmented Students at CCAM Beyond the Surface

An exhibition by First Year Art & Design students

In collaboration with the National Museum of Ireland, Country Life, Turlough House, Castlebar.

Tony Candon, Manager and Keeper, of the National Museum of Ireland - Country Life and Mr Paul Gosling, lecturer in Heritage Studies at GMIT launched an exhibition of work by First Year Art & Design students. This work showcased the students’ response to the collection of the National Museum of Ireland - Country Life, Turlough House, Castlebar. Beyond the Surface challenged students to investigate, explore and create artworks that reflected their contemporary take on the Museums’ rich and evocative collection of intriguing objects- from the familiar to the now obscure, from domestic to agricultural and from hand-made textiles to ancient sliotars made from horse hair. The Collection inspired an imaginative response in a diverse range of media, scale and styles.

For more information and more documentation of the work created please visit http://www.ouririshheritage.org/

Students at CCAM Beyond the Surface Students at CCAM Android APP

GMIT students from Software Development and Fine Art, have designed and developed an exciting new android App aimed at enhancing visitors’ experience of Galway City Museum. 85 Fine Art students wrote detailed information about the objects under the guidance and expertise of Brendan McGowan, Galway City Museum Education & Outreach Officer and Marion McEnroy-Higgins, Art History Lecturer in GMIT’s Centre for the Creative Arts and Media.

This inter-disciplinary project was initiated in September 2012 by GMIT lecturer Marion McEnroy-Higgins. The aim of this collaborative project is to promote active education, innovation in digital design and civic engagement in partnership with Galway’s cultural tourism sector.

The App offers people with smartphones access to in-depth information about a range of interesting artefacts in the Museum collection. It also provides access to Galway City Museum’s programme of events.

Software Development students Enzo Lieghio and Barry Lennon designed and developed the App under the tuition of Damien Costello, lecturer in GMIT’s Department of Mathematics & Computing. The app is available through Google store and Android phones. http://www.galwaycitymuseum.ie/

Students at CCAM Shrine & Vitrine

A project by 2nd year Sculpture Students

The shrine and vitrine project was one in which 2nd year sculpture students were to consider the meaning and cultural significance of a shrine.

They were asked to respond to a brief and to design and fabricate their own shrine. This could be made with any material; man-made or found and could be of any size. Students were asked to consider the rituals surrounding these curious objects and the history and contents associated with the term.

Throughout the construction of the shrine students researched various examples of shrines from all over the world and naturally their findings influence their design and content within the shrines.

Photo: Gianna Tasha Tomasso

Students at CCAM PROXIMITY Spaces In-between

Proximity is an exhibition run by a group of second year CCAM students and is in its' seventh year of operation. It takes place in the Café foyer on the GMIT Dublin Road Campus. The exhibition plays an important role in the strengthening connections between students at CCAM and the main GMIT Campus. This year's theme is ‘Spaces In Between’. Works by all students throughout GMIT are selected for the exhibition. Proximity is an Art Exhibition, which offers a platform for all students studying at GMIT to come together in the creation, installation and realisation of a professional Art exhibition. Proximity opens on Monday the 24th of March In the GMIT Campus Cafe foyer at 7:30pm. [email protected]

Photo Proximity 2013: Aishling Donne, Opening Night, Katie Moore

Image Credit: Lisa Griffin

Students at CCAM Top left: Flin Keane, Middle (lhs): Lisa Griffin, & Bottom (lhs): view David Gannon Timmy Mullin Victoria Furey(left to right)

Top Right: Noel Arrigan, Middle (rhs): Rachel O' Dwyer & Bottom (rhs): Timmothy Mullin.

Image Credit: Lisa Griffin

Proximity 2013 Students at CCAM Top left: Suzie Coombs, Bottom Left: Arlene Mc Padden (Image credit Arlene Mc Padden) Top Right: Kaye Maahs. left, Fiona Cawley right Bottom Right: Peter Sherry Image credit:Lisa Griffin

Proximity 2013 Students at CCAM Lisa Griffin: Vogue

Student Lisa Griffin's photographs were published in Italian Vogue and she was awarded bronze medal in the Open Category for the Irish Times Amateur Photographer of the Year Awards 2013.

Lisa was given her first SLR camera at the age of thirteen but her passion for Photography did not develop until she was nineteen, in her second year of college at GMIT's CCAM. This image is part of a series inspired by fairy tales and the elements, in this case, a piece of the sea.

Suzanne Dolan, makeup artist created a headpiece from shells. Lisa has begun to immerse herself into the art of portraiture photography, based on sketches and ideas that develop while researching photographers such as Brooke Shaden and Kirsty Mitchell or being influenced by watching her favourite movies. Her work can be viewed at www.lisagriffinphotography.com.

Title: A Piece of the Sea, Model: Janice Snowden, Makeup and headpiece: Suzanne Dolan

Anne Marie Mc Kee Ormston House Limerick

Essays for the House of Memory at Ormston House, Spring Members’ Exhibition was curated by Haizea Barcenilla. This exhibition presented eleven artists whose work related to the curatorial theme House of Memory, since they refer to the domestic, the personal and the experiential. Anne-Marie McKee's work plays with form between meanings and materials. She creates incommunicable installations and objects that exist far from a single definition, linking colour, form and sensations. Anne Marie McKee is former chair person of 126 Gallery and Regional Collector National Irish Visual Archive Library, housed in The National College of Art and Design, Ireland. http://annemariemckee.blogspot.ie/

Students at CCAM Textile students participate in an international creative expo.

Textile students from GMIT’s Centre for the Creative Arts and Media (CCAM) recently completed internships at Showcase, Ireland’s International Creative Expo in Dublin. All are final year students on BA (Hons) in Design in Textiles in GMIT's CCAM. The annual event is the country’s largest international trade show and is attended by more than 5,000 retail buyers from around the world, generating sales orders of up to 20 millon euro. Seven GMIT students were selected to take part in an education placement scheme which was organised by CCAM’s Textile programme and the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland.

Pictured are five of the GMIT students L to R, Kiera Murphy from Ballycotton, Co Cork; Amy Brannigan, Kilcolgan, Co Galway; Rebecca Connell, Castlepollard, Co Westmeath; Baska Szostak, Galway City; and Laura Keating, Callan, Co Kilkenny.

Film & Documentary Students Travel to International Berlin Film festival.

In February, Jenny Farrell lecturer in Languages organised for twenty- six Film and Documentary students and three language lecturers to travel to her native Berlin. The trip coincided with the International Berlin Film festival with sight-seeing, film watching, celebrity spotting and bunker exploring. Tours included the locations of well-known Hollywood blockbusters as well as Art house cinema and taking in panoramic views of the City from the glass dome of the Reichstag .

Students at CCAM AMY BRANNIGAN

Amy Brannigan is a final year textiles design student at the CCAM. She was shortlisted with her brother David Brannigan, also a student at GMIT (studying Administration and Information Systems) for the GMIT Student Innovation Awards. Together they brought their unique qualities and skills to develop MarKier Design a bespoke and ready to wear leather accessory range. Amy’s studio practice is based from her interest in the symbiotic nature of lichen and how it acts as an appendage in the natural environment. The concept that drives her ideas is fusing art with fashion and mixing old leatherworking techniques with laser cut-work. In 2013 Amy was a winner at the Kenmare Lace Competition and her work is coming to the attention of leading fashion stylists, recently featuring on the cover of Expose magazine.

MONA SWEENEY

In April 2013, Mona Sweeney, a textile student at CCAM won the overall Vodafone Student Design Award at the Vodafone DIT Fashion show, which was selected from an impressive shortlist of ten designs. Mona’s design, entitled “Morphic Opulence”, was centred on the dual theme of vulnerability, protection and fashion as armor.

Pictured is student model Alannah Beirne wearing the winning design created by GMIT Textiles Design student Mona Sweeney.

Image:Alannah Beirne & winning GMIT textiles student Mona Sweeney.

Students at CCAM Student Spirit Award

The ‘Film and Documentary Student Spirit Award’ is designed to acknowledge a person who stands out as being a contributor. It will be awarded to a person who is a great asset to the culture and community of the Film and Documentary Programme and to the Centre for Creative Arts and Media.

At GMIT we prioritise creative excellence and academic progression. However, we are also acutely aware of the personal challenges a student can face during the course of their learning experiences. It is often the kind word, the helping hand, and a positive energy, that will carry us through the hardships of life.

The Student Spirit award will be commended to the recipient for reasons such as being humble, being non-judgmental or for being a decent and empathic person. This award has been created for someone who is remarkable to fellow students or staff. We want to acknowledge a person who has a generous inclusive energy, or who inspires others in a creative way, with an infectious enthusiasm and having a resilience that is inspirational. The awards were launched by Cait Noone, Head of the College of Tourism and Arts in January 2014. The award winner will be announced in March 2014. Joshua St. John, a student of the BA in Film and Documentary designed the logo and documented the events.

Students at CCAM Lunchtime Talks Sessions in partnership with Galway Visual Arts Organisations Every Wednesday from 26th of Feb – 2nd of April from 1:15 pm The White Room CCAM, GMIT.

Special thanks to: Allison Regan, Megs Morely and student organisers Suzi Coombs and Ruth Millar.

Weds 26th February, 126 Gallery 126 was established in 2006 by local artists as a response to the urgent need for more non-commercial gallery spaces in Galway. 126 plays an important role as the only permanent space in Galway that allows artists to experiment and take risks with their practice. 126 is Galway's and the West of Ireland’s first artist-led exhibition space. Because 126 is a not-for-profit, publicly funded gallery space, it is able to make decisions on an artistic, rather than economic basis. As such, 126 has gained recognition and support as a place of cultural innovation in Ireland and is an integral part of Galway’s cultural fabric.

Weds 12th March, Expanded Draught Allison Regan & Joanne Dolan (CCAM Alumni) Expanded Draught. Expanded Draught is an international artist collective. It was founded in Galway city in 2006. From Galway it has expanded to Dublin, England, Canada, Korea, America - Maryland, Texas, Kentucky, Arkansas, Missouri, Louisiana, Ohio, New York, Colorado, Tennessee, Oregon and Georgia. They have exhibited collaboratively in both America and Ireland. Expanded Draught aspire to create a platform for diverse artists to showcase their work and form relationships with artists from various countries around the world, creating large scale individual /collaborative works, interactive and inclusive projects using both unconventional and conventional spaces. Expanded Draught currently has 23 members. Each member offers a wide range of knowledge in terms of material fabrication and perspectives on concept. One of their primary aims is to create partnerships between 3rd level educational institutions and the Expanded Draught art collective to develop a program of lectures, tutorials and workshops to interact and share knowledge with young artists and students, creating a comfortable environment for both art students and the public to share skill sets and information. www.expandeddraught.com

Weds 19th March, Artspace Studios Presentation by visual artist and board member Louise Manifold. Artspace Studios is an artist-led organisation which provides studio space and support for professional visual artists. Artspace is dedicated to providing and maintaining a dynamic and quality studio environment for both emerging and established artists. Supporting them on many levels, Artspace also offers regular opportunities to exhibit at local, national and international level. Since 1986, Artspace has been a constant part of the Galway art scene, inspiring and engaging arts education, providing the community with an opportunity to interact with working artists, experiencing first-hand the creative process and providing a place where both children and adults can participate in hands-on workshops, talks and open days. www.artspacegalway.com

Dates TBC: Engage Art Studios, Grace Mitchell Engage Art Studios is an artist-run studio space in Galway city centre. Founded in 2004, Engage supports contemporary artists in a professional environment. Engage Art Studios provides an atmosphere of creativity, production, inspiration and opportunity for working artists in the Galway area. The unique studio space is on the top floors of the old Cathedral Building on the corner of Middle and Abbeygate Streets. There are 13 private studios and a fully equipped office and digital suite. Engage is not a residential studio space. Engage is a member of the Artist Studio Network of Ireland and Adapt Galway. Engage Art Studios is supported by the Arts Council and the Galway City Council. www.engageartstudios.com

Weds 26th March, Kate Howard, Interim & Tulca April 2nd Maeve Mulrennan, Galway Arts Centre Further details at http://ccamprofessionalpractice.blogspot.ie/ Students at CCAM The annual end of year Art Exhibition opens at 2pm on Saturday the 31st of May 2014

The Film and Documentary Show will take place in the Eye cinema on Friday the 6th of June 2014 GAVIN MURPHY

Gavin Murphy is publishing in the spring 2014 edition of Source Magazine, in which he is regular contributor. He has a short poem in the next issue of ‘The Caterpillar’, stories, poems and art for kids with illustrations by GMIT colleague artist Eimear Jean McCormack. Faculty

AUSTIN IVERS

CCAM Lecturer Austin Ivers is currently working towards a new body of work to be exhibited in the Galway Arts Centre in June 2014. The exhibition is entitled The End of the World News. For further details www.galwayartscentre.ie.

Austin has also been collaborating with the New York based artist Gregory Sholette. Sholette invited participants from Galway, New Zealand, Europe and the United States to produce this “what if” collection of archival materials addressing topics from forgotten Irish inventors and fantastic nation-branding campaigns, to uncharted offshore islands and mysterious pirate radio broadcasts. The travelling show has been exhibited at 126 Gallery Galway, Graz Austria, & IA Kyiv, Ukraine. The Imaginary Archive consists of under-represented, unknown, invisible or merely hoped-for historical materials that point to multiple ways of interpreting the past, the present and the future. For more info please visit: www.gregorysholette.com www.darkmatterarchives.net

EIMEAR-JEAN MC CORMACK

Eimear Jean has been selected to exhibit at Sunbury House London this March as part of the On Landscape 1# exhibition & Bottleneck Gallery New York in April as part of the FTLO NY project (www.weareftlo.com). Recent publications include 'Tracing my Echo' in collaboration with Collaborative Art London exhibited at Tettix Gallery, Salonika Greece and Zweigstelle Gallery Berlin. Her work is also represented at this year’s SGC International Printmaking Conference, Bridges: Spanning Tradition, Innovation, and Activism in San Francisco. (www. sgcisanfrancisco.org). For further information visit www.eimearjeanmccormack.com.

BRIAN LOUGHRAN

Brian Loughran is a Galway based visual artist. Throughout his work, Loughran explores notions of contradictory/ conflicting identities with the intent of developing acceptance, healing and intuition, often using the mediums of object installation and performance art. Loughran has received grants from the Arts Council of Ireland and has performed and exhibited in Unit 1, Dublin, Platform Arts, Belfast, 2009, ‘Weather permitting’, Galway, Draíocht, Dublin, and RAP, Limerick. Loughran is currently the artist in residence at 126 gallery and is working towards creating a body of work for his upcoming exhibition at Performance Space in London, which will open on the 26th April 2014.

Faculty at CCAM

SIOBHAN MCGIBBON

Siobhan recently received a scholarship from the Limerick City of Culture to undertake a practice based research masters, entitled ‘The modern Prometheus: otherness and the body’. Starting in March, Siobhan will be undertaking a self- directed residency in Galway university hospital. There she will be working in the pathology, oncology, radiology and histology laboratories. This year she will also have solo exhibitions in the Talbot Gallery Dublin and The Linenhall Gallery, Castlebar.

Websites: http://www.siobhanmcgibbon.com/

ARLENE MC PADDEN

Since she graduated in 2013, and has gone to show in may prestigious venues. She is an RDS Student Art Awards Prize Winner where she won the Model Niland Residency Award. She was also selected for a graduate exhibition at the Sarah Walker Gallery in Castletownbere and was a prize winner at the Claremorris Open Exhibition in a process, McPadden calls ‘Hybridization’. She makes hybrid animals by combining torsos and legs from various animals. The resulting sculptures are both surreal and humorous. All the animals she uses are ethically sourced. http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=7839f4d401-4114-3b-abc-8a6a92953dc5c

FIONA KELLY

Fiona Kelly graduated from GMIT in 2005. Kelly is an active member, co-curator and collaborator of the Artist Collective CCP (Cork Contemporary Projects). Kelly’s observations are of the manmade landscape, topographic movement; she uses characters to compose contemporary fables. She is a recipient of a European Pépinières pour Jeunes Artistes Mobility Residency 2013 at the Ratamo Centre for Printmaking, Jyväskylä, Finland. The six month Residency culminated in a Solo Show ‘There are Thousands of Taps Dripping’ at Galleria Ratamo. Kelly’s work is in the public collections of The Jyväskylä Museum of Art, Finland; The Art Students League of New York, U.S.A; and at Crawford College of Art and Eli Lilly.

For more information please visit Fiona’s website http://fionakelly.co/

CCAM Alumni

WILL O KANE

Will O’Kane graduated from GMIT in 2003. He will be showing new work at the Custom House Studios Gallery, The Quay, Westport this Spring. Will has exhibited around Ireland in solo, two person, and group shows such as the Claremorris Open Exhibition, Glór Ennis, Members Exhibitions in Ormston House Limerick, RHA, 126 Members Show, Ennistymon Courthouse Gallery, and Ballina Arts Centre. His current work deploys different processes of painting including photography and observation. In counterpoint to his paintings, he includes a series of objects, drawings and photocopies. http://www.willokane.ie/

EIMEAR GILLESPE

Emer Gillespie graduated from CCAM (textiles) in 2005. She is currently living in Brighton in the UK. Gillespie’s work is personal in nature, examining issues around motherhood, alternative family structures and the role that the subject and photographer play in creative collaborations. Gillespie has recently had extensive coverage of her work entitled Picture You, Picture Me including recent feature articles in The Irish Times, Lens Scratch Fine Art Photography Daily, Today.com, Photographist, and Feature Shoot. For more information on Eimear Gillespie’s work please visit her website: http://www.emergillespie.com/

CCAM Alumni The ARTFarmThe Residency ARTFarm Residency

The ARTFarm Residency is an exciting collaboration between 126 and Sheila Flanagan (owner of The ARTFarm & CCAM Alumni). In 2013 three artists were awarded the opportunity to spend two weeks in a cottage and studio/work space in rural County Galway. They were artists Siobhan McGibbon (Ireland) and the collaborative duo Ciara Healy and Karl Musson (Wales) The work cumulates with an exhibition of new work in 126 gallery in Galway City. During the show the artists will give public talks about their art practices and current work.

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Opportunities The ARTFarm Residency

RDS CALL FOR ENTRIES 2014

The Royal Dublin Society (RDS) is now calling for entries, for its 2014 RDS National Craft Awards (formerly RDS Crafts Competition) and it’s RDS Student Art Awards. Regarded as one of the largest competitive platforms for craft in Europe, the RDS brings an international panel of judges to Ireland to adjudicate its 20 category RDS National Craft Awards. The competition has a prize fund of 24,000 euro and sets the standard for craft on the island of Ireland to the highest possible level of skill and design excellence. The RDS Student Art Awards has a prize fund in excess of 17,600 euro and includes the 5,000 euro Taylor Art Award. For more information visit www.rds.ie/arts. Enter online from March 3rd

126 MEMBERSHIP 2014

By becoming a member of 126 you will get reduced rates for all workshops held in 126.

Being a 126 member supports the gallery and allows you to be able to submit an application for annual Membership shows. This year’s membership show will be held during the Galway Arts Festival which takes place over the busiest 2 weeks of the year for art audiences. For more information please visit www.126.ie or call in to the gallery and speak with one of the current board members.

CLAREMORRIS OPEN EXHIBITION

21st September to 12th October.

The 2014 Curator is Michelle Cotton. She is currently also the senior curator at Firstsite in Colchester.Entry forms will be available to download from March 10th. For more information please visit: http://coearts.org/

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