ARTIST INFORMATION and CONTACT DETAILS Flax Art
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ARTIST INFORMATION AND CONTACT DETAILS Flax Art Studios was founded in 1989 by a group of recent graduates seeking space to make large-scale sculpture and installation artworks. Flax Art Studios is committed to developing and strengthening the visual arts sector in Belfast, and has provided 25 years of best practice work at the cutting edge of contemporary art. Our mission is “To contribute significantly to the regions visual art practice through studio provision and resources; acting as a hub for professional development, international networking opportunities; and fostering greater understanding through outreach and socially engaged activity.”Flax Art/Orchid studios have now merged as one organisation and provides studios for 28 artists, and also Graduate and International resident artist studios. Flax Art provides space to some of the most exciting artists in Northern Ireland including:- Martin Boyle Boyle (b.1982, Donegal, Ireland) lives and works in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He completed a Masters of Fine Art in 2008 at the University Of Ulster, Belfast, and a BA in Sculpture from the Limerick School of Art and Design. Recent Solo exhibitions include “Snap!”, Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda, Ireland (2016); Human body’ accident, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast (2015); Everyting’s Connected, Art Centre Ongoing, Tokyo, Japan (2014); Genuine Replica, Ulster Museum, Belfast (2013). Recent group exhibitions include ART WORKS, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow, Ireland (2017); Future Artist-Makers, Nerve Visual Gallery, Derry (2017); These Days are Persistent and Changeable, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast (2016); Diagrams, Pallas Projects, Dublin (2015); Out in the Open, Household Collective, Belfast (2015), Existence of flamethrowers in your street, G126, Galway, Ireland (2015); Scope Art Fair, New York (2013); Instances of Agreement, Kao Yuan Arts Centre, Taiwan (2012). www.martinboyle.net Leo Devlin Leo Devlin (b.1983, Omagh) is a visual artist based at Flaxart studios, Belfast. He received a First class (hons) degree in Fine and Applied Arts from the University of Ulster in 2006. Leo has shown his work locally and internationally. Selected Exhibitions include, Golden Thread Gallery’s project space, Belfast; Today I wrote nothing (2016), Salzamt Gallery, Linz, Austria; Eight (2014), BB15 gallery, Linz Austria; Three (2014), Performance Space, London UK; In conversation, durational performance in collaboration with Bean and Benjamin Sebastian (2013), PS2 gallery, Belfast; Rain (2012), Queens University Belfast, Black Market International, curated by Bbeyod; the Art of the Encounter (2012), OUI performance, York UK; Action Art Now (2012), Platt Chapel, Manchester UK; In Remembrance 11/11/11 curated by Made in Art (2011), Site based performance Art tour, Lucerne, Zurich and Basel; Landvermassion (2010), Arts Electronic, Linz, Austria; Soft Bodies (2010), Plymouth Arts center UK; The Pigs of today are the Hams of Tomorrow - the preservation of performance art, curated by the Red Ape (2010), Chapter Arts center, Cardiff, Wales; Experimentica (2009), Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland; Arsenal Performance festival (2009), Gallery Animal, Santiago, Chile; Performance Irelanda (2008), Pannuhalli Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki, Finland; La Bas Dynamical (2008), MAS Gallery, Odzaci, IZBA Gallery, Novi Sad and VIP Art gallery, Student Cultural Center, Belgrade Serbia; International Multimedia Art Festival (2007). His work is in the Collection of the University of Ulster and several private collections. E: [email protected] Barbara Freeman The artist was born in London and studied at St. Martins and Camberwell Colleges of Art, with postgraduate study at the University of Leeds; She has lived and worked in Belfast for the last twenty years. She has had over forty solo exhibitions of paintings, prints and installation works in Ireland, Britain, the United States, Hungary, Germany and former Yugoslavia. She has had residencies in Hungary, Slovenia, Macedonia, Switzerland, Germany, Spain and U.S.A. and was Abbey Fellow at the British School at Rome. She has taken part in numerous group shows. most recently in ‘New Irish Painting’ at the Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast. www.barbarafreeman.co.uk E: [email protected] or [email protected] Helena Hamilton Helena Hamilton (b. 1986, N. Ireland) lives and works in Belfast. She received MA in Sonic Arts from SARC, Queen’s University Belfast (2014) and holds a BA Honours degree in Fine Art from the University of Ulster (2009). Helena is based at Flax Studios Belfast and is represented by The Agency Gallery, London. She has exhibited and performed in both gallery spaces and contemporary music/sound festivals across UK & Ireland as well as Berlin, Rome, Tokyo and New York. Recent solo exhibitions include: Order, Effect, Art Centre Ongoing, Tokyo, Japan (2016); The Weight Of My Soul Keeps Ringing In My Ears ,The Golden Thread Gallery Project Space, Belfast, NI. (2013); Untitled (Hope), Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, Belfast, NI (2013). Recent group exhibitions include: The Headless City, TULCA, Galway, Ireland (2016); The Making, The Agency Gallery, London, England (2015/16); Sonorities festival of Contemporary Music, Goldsmiths University of London, England (2015); Reassemble for Purpose, Platform Arts Gallery, Belfast, NI (2015); reKOLLEKT, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (2012); Celeste Prize Finalist Show, The Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, New York (2010). Recent artist residencies include: Art Centre Ongoing, Tokyo, Japan, 2 months (2016); Goldsmiths University of London within the Embodied Audiovisual Interaction Group, 3 months (2015). helenahamilton.com Tony Hill Tony Hill was born in 1949, Matatiele, Natal, South Africa. He was brought up in Yorkshire, near to Huddersfield, and has worked in Belfast, Northern Ireland since 1975 and lived in Downpatrick since 1984. He was married to the artist and painter Lynne Davies-Jones. He studied at the Manchester College of Art and Design (1968/69), the Maidstone College of Art (Painting 1969/72), the State Academy, Dusseldorf, (the class of Joseph Beuys 1972/73). He received his HDFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London (UCL) in 1975; working primarily with photography and installation. He was appointed as Lecturer in Fine Art in the School of Art and Design at the Ulster Polytechnic in 1975 and then at the University of Ulster at Belfast until retiring in 2012. He has been responsible for teaching Sculpture, Experimental Media in Fine Art. He was Director of the Master of Fine Art Course (MFA) from 1991 to 2003. He has held several one-person exhibitions of installations, sculpture, drawings, photographs and films and his work has been included in numerous group and thematic shows in Ireland and abroad. He was a member of Acme Arts in London, The Artist’s Collective of Northern Ireland and Art and Research Exchange, Belfast and has been a studio member of Flaxart Studios since 2009. He is represented by the Fenderesky Gallery, where has shown regularly since the gallery formed in 1984. He has artworks in various private and public collections. E: [email protected] Yvonne Kennan Yvonne Kennan, was born in Dublin and currently resides in Belfast as a member of Flax Art Studios. In 2009 she was awarded a distinction from the University of Ulster upon completion of the MFA. She studied Fine Art at Limerick School of Art and Design and achieved at BA in 2006. E: [email protected] Johanna Leech Johanna Leech was born in 1985 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She received a BA Hons in Fine and Applied Art at the University of Ulster in 2007. Leech received an Individual Artist Award and Travel Grant from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland in 2011. In 2012 she was awarded a residency in Washington DC with ARCH Development Corporation. She had a residency for The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists (SÍM) in March 2008 in Reykjavík, and for ‘residence SHAC’ in 2009 in Belfast. Leech actively collaborates with New York based artist Matthew Slaats, creating international events such as ‘Transatlantic Diner’. Selection of Exhibitions and Events include: January 2013 Washington Residency Exhibition, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast 21st September 2012 ‘Transatlantic Diner’ live link up in New York & Belfast April – June 2012 LUMEN8 Anacostia festival, Washington DC, USA. February 2012 solo show ‘THEY ARE NOT ALBINOS’ at Mailbox 141 in Melbourne, Australia. www.johannaleech.wordpress.com E: [email protected] Alastair MacLennan In 1997 Alastair MacLennan represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale, with inter-media work commemorating the names of all those who died as a result of the Political Troubles in Northern Ireland, from 1969 to date. During the 1970s and 80s he made (some) long, non- stop durational performances in Britain, America and Canada, of up to 144 hours each. The subject matter dealt with political, social and cultural malfunction. Since 1975 he has been based in Belfast, Northern Ireland and was a founding member of Belfast’s Art and Research Exchange (1978). Since 1975 he has taught at the University of Ulster, Belfast, where for 11 years he ran the Master of Arts Fine Art programme. Currently he travels extensively in Eastern and Western Europe, Asia, North America and Canada presenting Actuations (performance/installations). Since 1989 he has been a member of the internationally regarded performance art entity, Black Market International, which performs globally. He is presently