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Painting Dungarvan brighter

Michelle Clancy — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:00:26 +0000

Dungarvan Youthreach are continuing their artistic campaign to brighten up the town’s streets, having have just completed their third mural on O’Connell Street.

The students, under the direction of their art teacher Maria Conroy, have been planning out ideas, using home made stencils and spray paint techniques to deliver different themed murals all around Dungarvan.

Beautiful Future

The Munster Express — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:39:09 +0000

This December 8th Hive Gallery on Bank Lane is set to launch its next show with a group exhibition of top emerging artists, music and studio tours. Spanning a diverse range of practises the show, entitled ‘Beautiful Future’, features work by up and coming artists Noilin O’Kelly, Aisling Conroy and Gillian Fitzpatrick as well as local artists John Costello, Chris O’Brien Shanahan, and John Cullinan.

Noilin’s practice examines the relationship between the human body, the uncanny, decaying objects, buildings and their portrayal within contemporary art,. Conroy’s work is multi-disciplinary using drawing,print,sculpture, sound ,video and installation.

Review: Between Waterford Land and Sky

Liam Murphy — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:36:07 +0000

Compass Writers are a diverse group of writers who have gathered in Waterford since 2007 to write, support and perfect their craft. Facilitated by PJMcAuliffe and with community support and funding from the City Arts Office they have brought out a fine publication featuring ten writers in their anthology Between Water Land and Sky.

The cover photo by Terry Murphy sets the tone for a good Christmas gift from Waterford. McAuliffe contributed a fine story about greed, manipulation and mistrust in one of the many prose pieces available.

First solo show

The Munster Express — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:49:50 +0000

The stag.

An Alternative History of Stone Age Man, according to Jack Foskin, is a new exhibition by Waterford-born artist Jack Foskin at the city’s Library in Lady Lane.

Jack Foskin is a native of Butlerstown and has pursued and developed his passion for art and creativity since he left school in 2003 . After studying at Grennan Mill Craft School, he furthered his learning in KCAT Art and Study Centre in Callan where he studied fine art on the full time art courses and developed his painting skills. In 2007 Jack

‘Manifold charms’ of Clancy Gallery

The Munster Express — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:47:51 +0000

ANDREA JAMESON (c) The Cooples River Blackwater (detail) (Oil on canvas 40x80cm).

The current issue of Irish Arts Review says “The Joan Clancy Gallery’s relatively remote location in the Waterford Gaeltacht is just one of its manifold charms”.

Féile na bPictiúr the Christmas Show which opened in Joan Clancy Gallery last weekend is attracting much positive interest. Caoimhghin O Croidheain’s vibrant collection of cityscapes worked in oil on canvas depicting cafes and outdoor markets in Dublin today, evokes a resonance with the viewer and shows the artist at his best.

The Sweet & Lowdown: Fred O’Mahony

The Munster Express — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:39:01 +0000

Fred O’Mahony started teaching himself how to wood turn about 20 years ago, following a lifelong interest in carpentry. He now produces a captivating range of lamps, clocks, bowls and other items which are currently exhibiting at the National Craft and Design Fair at Dublin’s RDS. His work is also available from this weekend at the annual Waterford Homecrafts Christmas Craft Fair at Garter Lane.

“I was always interested in working with timber and would have loved to train as a carpenter when I was young, like my uncle and grandfather, but my parents wanted me to finish school. But, the more I read about wood turning,

Within andWithout

The Munster Express — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:56:15 +0000

Mixed media artwork ‘Potential’ by Kevin Connolly.

Within and Without is an exhibition of recent work by eight local artists at the Coast Guard Station Arts Centre in Tramore. It will run from Sunday 13th to 29th of November.

The contributing artists are: Pat Carri, Kevin Connolly, Róisín Kinsella, Darragh Lyons, Pat McArdle, Chris O’Brien Shanahan, Conor Rush and Milia Tsaoussis-Maddock.

“Within and Without” is a common theme linking the artwork, and explores the reality of an inner and outer realm.

Review: Connections – Verbindungen

Liam Murphy — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:40:12 +0000

I love the serendipity of the world and the way seemingly unconnected things can open up a whole era of memory and appreciation. That was my feeling when I came upon an art book from the prestigious publishers Chambridge Scholars featuring the etchings of Waterford born Gerhardt Gallagher and his grandmother Margaret the Gerhardt, who grew up in the Eastern bloc of Germany.

Connections- Verbindungen written by Gallagher, Gisela Holfter and Micheal O’hAodha traces not just Irish German connections and a shared history but presents the etchings of Margarethe brought to Parnell St by her daughter, Lisa, mother of Gerhardt Gallagher. Lisa married a dentist Roland Gallagher, a man feared for his profession rather than anything else. Both Roland and Lisa were very involved in the music, art and cultural life of this city. I remember Lisa as a campaigning voice in the Waterford Arts Advisory Committee before the City Council merged it into the sort of Arts Service we have in the Waterford Arts Plan.

Review: Thomas McCarthy/Grace Wells

Liam Murphy — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:02:13 +0000

As part of the literature strand of the Imagine Festival, the County Waterford poet Thomas McCarthy was joined by Grace Wells for a Sunday poetry reading at Greyfriars Gallery. The setting among an exhibition of naked bodies was a treat and you could hardly ask for better. Unless it was naked poets as well. Behind the poets was a nude study of a woman on a patterned fabric chair with her knees tucked up for modesty.

McCarthy paid tribute to the hinterland of Seán Dunne and Dunne’s contribution to Waterford and Irish writing. I found it sad that in a City Council Gallery to listen to such praise for Seán Dunne and to remember the insult the City Council gave to his memory this year.

Difference Engine: Manifestation V

The Munster Express — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:10:14 +0000

Difference Engine is an evolving touring exhibition, a model of autonomous artist curation, by artists Mark Cullen, Wendy Judge, Gillian Lawler & Jessica Foley, and featuring Gordon Cheung.

The intention of this project is to elaborate upon the dual meaning of the term jamming – in one sense ‘jamming’ signifies stasis, shock, or rupture, and in another, opposite sense, it signifies a kind of fluid and changing improvisation between players. With this in mind, the artists and their works attempt to riff off each other and the site/space of exhibition, evolving an expression of contingency, hopefully developing a meaningful correspondence and communication with each other and the visitor.