Engaging with Glass Work

Participating Artists (cont.) Symposium Mediators Peadar Lamb Dr. Nicola Gordon Bowe is an Peadar Lamb, born in Dublin, studied associate research fellow at National at Dun Laoghaire School of Art and College of Art & Design (NCAD) Design (1984-1985) and the National and former director of the MA College of Art and Design (1985- Course in the History of Design and 1988), Dublin. In 1988 he travelled to the Applied Arts, NCAD. She has Birmingham to further his knowledge held several research fellowships of glass at Brierley Hill Glass Centre. abroad, is an Honorary Fellow of He has since travelled extensively and worked in glass the British Society of Master Glass studios across Europe, returning to Ireland in 1991 to live and Painters, and has written and lectured widely on late 19th and Engaging with Glass work. Now established in Cork, Lamb represented Ireland at 20th century decorative arts. Books include; Harry Clarke – His European Glass Context, Bornholms, Denmark in 2008. He Graphic Art (1983), The Life and Work of Harry Clarke (1989), A has recently completed a commission for the Irish Repertory Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (ed. and co-author) (1988), Art Theatre, NY, USA (2009). and the National Dream; the Search for Vernacular Expression st in Turn-of-the-Century Art, Architecture and Design (ed. and Symposium: 21 June 2011 contributor) (1993), The Arts and Crafts Movements in Dublin Paula Stokes and Edinburgh (with E.S. Cumming) (1998). Nicola is currently th th Paula Stokes is the Exhibition and preparing a book on the stained glass artist Wilhelmina Geddes. Exhibition: 7 June – 17 July 2011 Scholarship Program Manager at the Pratt Fine Arts Centre where she also teaches glass. She was born in Tipperary and grew up in Navan, Co. Ann Mulrooney is Manager and Meath, Ireland. In 1991, she earned a Curator of the National Craft Gallery BDes (Hons) in Glass, at the National in Ireland. She holds a BA in Fine Engaging with Glass forms part of a series of events College of Art and Design, Dublin. Completed one year of Art from the Crawford College of that mark Ireland hosting the World Crafts Council – study at the International Glass Centre in Brierley Hill before Art and Design in Cork, an MA Europe, General Assembly and the Crafts Council of emigrating to Seattle in 1993. Between 2003 and 2005, in sculpture in the Royal College Stokes studied Printmaking at the University of Washington, of Art, London, and received a Ireland designation of Year of Craft 2011. The exhibition USA. She has exhibited internationally. Her work is in the postgraduate research scholarship and symposium will present Irish artists, craftspeople, permanent collection of the National Museum of Ireland. In in the PlaCe Research Centre, University of Western England, June 2011, Paula served as a Co-Chair for the Glass Art Society Bristol (2006/07). She has won numerous awards for her designers, curators and historians engaged with the annual conference, hosted in Seattle and exhibited at the work, including the Iontas Sculpture Prize IRL, 1995, 1999, medium of glass from Ireland and abroad. SHIFT Gallery and the Seattle Art Museum. the Cicilitira Scholarship Prize for Sculpture, RCA, UK, 2002 and the Deutsche Bank Pyramid Award for Fine Art, UK, 2003 Public commissions include a national monument, ‘Memorial Peter Young to Missing Persons’ which is sited in the Castle Park in Kilkenny. Having qualified in Visual Her work is held in numerous collections including Deutsche Communication Design in Dublin Bank UK and Dubai, The Office of Public Works (Ireland), plus Co-ordinators: (1985), Peter Young moved to London private collections in Ireland and the UK. Her work as a curator Deirdre Rogers, Chair of Glass Society of Ireland where he undertook a Post Graduate includes time with Deutsche Bank UK as a curator of emerging Dr. Caroline Madden, Educator/Artist course in Advanced Stained Glass artists in a number of venues in London, including the London Studies at Central Saint Martin’s Institute for the Arts and the National Theatre. In 2005 she Belinda Quirke, Director of Solstice Arts Centre College of Art & Design. He was was co-curator and Artistic Director of Strata, a large-scale awarded the Cecil Collins Memorial Prize for Fine Art and EU funded site-specific exhibition in Ireland and Wales that the Caroline Swash Stained Glass Fellowship in 1989. Since explored issues of cultural identity. returning to Dublin in 1996, Young has explored painting and sculpture and continues to make glass works for exhibition and to commission. Recent projects havebeen largely collaborative engagements with school communities where thematic drawings made by the children were translated into stained glass artworks for their school. Solstice Arts Centre Solstice Sponsors Solstice Arts Centre, Thanks to all of the following for their generous support Railway Street, Glass Society of Ireland Navan, Crafts Council of Ireland Co. Meath, Meath County Council Arts Office Ireland Tel. + 353 (0)46 9092300 spacecreative* Fax. + 353 (0)46 9092305 Scanlon’s, Kilberry [email protected] www.solsticeartscentre.ie Symposium 21st June 2011 Guest Speakers Dr. Brian P. Kennedy (Keynote) a National Endowment for the Arts award to work as artist- Susanne Jøker Johnsen 9.30am Registration, Morning Coffee Dr. Kennedy is President, Director, and in-residence at Pratt Fine Arts Centre in Seattle, Washington. Susanne Jøker Johnsen is an artist and CEO of the Toledo Museum of Art, one of O’Dwyer is internationally renowned and represented in both teacher. She is also a board member and 10.00am Welcome remarks Chair, Belinda Quirke. America’s finest art collections, housed in public and private collections including the Victoria and Albert member of the artistic advisory council Mediator Dr. Nicola Gordon Bowe acclaimed museum buildings on a 36-acre Museum, London; The National Museum of Ireland; The High at Glasmuseet Ebeltoft. She lives in campus. From 2005-2010 he was director Museum, Atlanta; The Ulster Museum, Belfast; The Kamm Copenhagen and has been part of the 10.05am Dr. Brian P. Kennedy, Keynote of Dartmouth College’s Hood Museum of Teapot Foundation, Celestial Seasons, Colorado; The Company of faculty at the Danish Design School Director, Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, USA Art, one of the oldest and largest teaching Goldsmiths, Dublin; The Racine Museum of Art; Nelson Mandela, Glass Bornholm for many years, where Reflections on contemporary art in glass from collections in the United States, totaling more than 65,000 works, King Karl Gustav of Sweden and The Japanese Imperial Family. He she is now a guest teacher. Since 2008 she has been the director Australia and America hosting a lively and diverse schedule of educational and exhibition has represented Ireland in over 40 international exhibitions and of European Glass and Ceramic Context at Bornholm Art Museum programs. As assistant director of the National Gallery of Ireland, has featured in over 200 publications including Ireland’s Treasures, in Denmark. Susanne was trained at the Kosta School and has 10.50am Paula Stokes, Seattle based artist. 1989–1997, Kennedy managed a major building refurbishment 5000 years of Artistic Expression by Dr Peter Harbison. apprenticed with master glass blowers Jan Erik Ritzman in Transjö Working in Glass program and a series of successful international touring exhibitions Hytta in Sweden. She has taught at The Studio in Corning, Haystack in the USA, Japan, and Australia. He had curatorial responsibilities Never thought that annealing would take so long Mountain School of Crafts and Pilchuck Glass School and received 11.10am Kevin O’ Dwyer in Irish painting, Dutch painting, and national portraits. In 1997, The combination of glass with metal has been a component of my a Pilchuck partnership Artist in Residency at The Museum of Glass Never thought that annealing would take so long Kennedy became the third director of the National Gallery of research and development since the late eighties in completing the Tacoma. Her work is in the permanent collection of Glasmuseet Australia in that country’s capital city, Canberra. Through the Eurovision Song contest award (1995). My approach leans towards Ebeltoft, Museum of American Glass and Museum of Glass Tacoma. introduction of free admission, an expansion of the program of the sculptural and my talk will look at collaborations with glass 11.30am Break loans and traveling exhibitions, the development of an extensive artists and my recent residency at Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle. European Glass in Focus. multi-media site, notable purchases and major exhibitions, public The Glass Museum in Ebeltoft is celebrating its 25th anniversary interest was engaged and the gallery received increased public and as the artist’s museum with a unique permanent collection of 11.50am Artists presentations, Chair Deirdre Rogers private funds. The gallery building was completely refurbished and international contemporary glass. The Island of Bornholm is Dr. Audrey Whitty now hosting the biennial event European Glass Context with Peter Young extended to accommodate major temporary exhibitions. In 2003, Collaborative processes the Australian Federal Government awarded Kennedy a Centenary Dr. Audrey Whitty, Ph.D. is Curator of participants from 30 European countries. This talk will focus on the of Federation medal for Service to Australian Society and its Art. He Ceramics, Glass and Asian collections European glass scene seen from a Danish perspective. Catherine Keenan was educated at University College, Dublin, his native city, where he at the National Museum of Ireland – Pursuing a glassblowing career beyond college. received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. Kennedy is a former chair of the Decorative Arts & History, Collins Barracks. Irish Association of Art Historians and of the Council of Australian Art She has curated several exhibitions, most Participating Artists Eamonn Hartley Museum Directors.

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