Exhibitions of the work of various artists and evening classes and workshops for young and old.
At the Heart of Chance
Orla Whelan
Ground Floor Gallery
Until 17 January 2009
For 'At the Heart of Chance' Orla Whelan will present a body of new paintings which she began making during her period as Artist in Residence at Draíocht, January to June 2008. Through the development of series of related paintings Whelan’s practice functions as an intuitive investigation into themes of memory, perception and the gap between experience and representation. The limits of our capacity, and the extent of our attempts collectively and individually to reconcile what we experience with what we recall and perceive, is central to Whelan’s practice.
The naked body and moments of physical intimacy feature prominently in her new work, which investigates physical and sensory subjectivity. The artist uses the subject of sex and love as a device to explore the incongruity, which occurs when we try to represent in visual terms, the experience of intense and private sensation or emotion. The ‘blindness’ of these recollected moments is infiltrated with the vast store of accumulated imagery of physical intimacy that has been presented to us through various media. This combination serves to create the memory of such experiences that is simultaneously personal and removed, individual and generic.
Born in Dublin 1975, Orla Whelan is an Irish artist who lives and works in Dublin. Recent Exhibitions include There, Not There at Crawford Art Gallery (2008) and Trapezium at the LAB (2008). Previous solo exhibitions include We live to see each other at thisisnotashop (2007), Outside at The Return, Goethe Instituit (2007), Overtime at Archeus Fine Art London (2002) and New Work at Christopher Hull Gallery London (1997). She holds BA Fine Art from NCAD, MA European Fine Art from Winchester School of Art, Barcelona and an MA in Visual Arts Practices from IADT.
Inhabit
Blackchurch Print Studio Members:
Caroline Byrne, Janine Davidson, Aoife Dwyer, Mary A. Fitzgerald, Mary Frazer, Jane Garland, Catriona Leahy, Colin Martin, David McGinn, Piia Rossi, Daryl Slein.
First Floor Gallery
Until 17 January 2009
Draíocht and Blackchurch Print Studio have invited the studio’s members to submit work for an exhibition under the title of ‘Inhabit’. The exhibition title refers to the notion of home, family and belonging, and is of particular significance for this show which will take place during the Christmas period, a time when families and friends come together and spend time in ritual and celebration. The exhibition will comprise a wide range of media, which will showcase the diverse technical vocabulary of printed matter. Black Church Print Studio is one of the leading fine art print studios in Ireland, located in Dublin’s city centre. It was established in 1982 as a non-profit organisation and is grant-aided by the Arts Council of Ireland and Dublin City Council.
Ronan McCrea
New Town Centre Project (Extract #1)
Ground Floor Gallery
30 January – 4 April 2009
New Town Centre Project (Extract #1) is a new work developed by Ronan McCrea and produced by Draíocht, in response to the very particular geography of the Blanchardstown Town Centre. Comprising of an installation of photographic slide projections and audio soundtracks the work explores the Blanchardstown Town Centre as both an enigma and an emblematic form: a form over determined by some of the most significant social and political forces of recent Irish history. A range of ideas are touched on in this work, including retail theory and practice; early photography and the capture of movement; the privatisation of public space; tartan patterns in architecture and photographs; urban planning; pre-worn jeans and globalisation; interiors and exteriors, crime, street photography; Walter Benjamin’s ‘Arcades Project’; model making and the meaning of ruins. These topics, among others, cross mingle between voice-over monologue and projected photographic images made in and around the Blanchardstown Town Centre over a number of months in 2008. The artist has also made an architectural intervention in the gallery which resonates with the built environment surrounding Draíocht. The artist uses the existing geometry of the building as a guide, building a temporary wall that bisects the gallery creating two spaces. On one side of the wall is a darkened environment for the slide projections, cut off from the usual views from the gallery windows to the world outside. On the other side of the wall an inaccessible empty space is created in the gallery, only visible through the windows from outside the building.
Ronan McCrea is a mid-career Irish artist of high regard who has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally in addition representing Ireland at the Venice Biennale. Previous solo exhibitions are the Context Gallery 1998, Project Arts Centre 2003, Galway Arts Centre 2004 and the Goethe Institute 2007. McCrea graduated with a Batchelor Degree in Fine Art from the National College of Art and Design in 1991 and is currently researching a PHD at the University of Ulster, Belfast.
Ross McDonnell
the new brilliant
First Floor Gallery
30 January – 4 April 2009
the new brilliant is an exhibition of new paintings by Ross McDonnell. The title for this exhibition came from the name of a Chinese restaurant that the artist noticed while working in India earlier this year. Executed in the very traditional medium of oil on canvas, these paintings present somewhat obscured representations, partially legible through a layering of large cubist-like expanses of colour. McDonnell works in a forward and back motion by overpainting and erasing, creating works that seem to have several ghost-like layers of imagery, each one interrupting the next. McDonnell would like the viewer to read through these layers and develop a more complex and less decisive response to his work.
Mc Donnell Graduated with a Batchelor Degree in Fine Art from the National College of Art and Design in 2002. This is McDonnell's third solo show in Dublin. He has previously exhibited at the Cross Gallery, the Goethe Institute, the Ashford Gallery and the Royal Hibernian Academy. His work is part of numerous private and public collections, including the OPW and AXA Insurance collection.
Artist in Residence January – June 2009
Mark Clare
Mark Clare is an artist whose practice endeavours to register a world that is in constant flux. Mark pays attention to the things we accept as symbols of how we live and the times that we live in. Mixing elements of historical tradition and social trends, such as the world enthusiasm for ping pong in the 1970’s, monumental public sculpture in former communist states, and the contemporary prevalence of surveillance of public space through CCTV, Clare draws on such phenomena creating works which attempt to define the diversity that forms the human condition. It is about possibilities, the importance of freedom, moments of optimism, personal liberty and the necessity and failure of idealism without being didactic in its manifestation. Mark Clare graduated with a Batchelor of Fine Art Sculpture from St Martins College of Art and Design, London 1992 and a Master of Fine Art from the University of Ulster 2004. Previous solo exhibitions include the Lab, Dublin, the Gallery of Photography, the Royal Hibernian Academy and the Context Gallery, Derry as well as exhibitions in Finland, Japan and Germany.
Spring Evening Classes for Adults at Draiocht, Blanchardstown, D15
Acrylic Painting (Intermediate)
Mondays, 7.30-9.30pm, Draíocht Workshop Room, Course Fee €110, Conc €90.
10 weeks starting on 2 February until 6 April.
This course is designed for people who have participated in a beginners painting course before or who have some experience in painting and who wish to enhance and develop their painting proficiency using practical exercises which encourage individual skills and talents. The course will further explore the versatile nature of acrylic paint and students will be encouraged to work on canvas, work large scale and develop their own style using personal subject matter such as objects or photographical sources. Further support and instruction will be given on composition, tone, light, shade and colour theory. This course is taught by Gabhann Dunne.
Creative Craft/Textile Art
Tuesdays, 7.30-9.30pm, Draíocht Workshop Room, Course Fee €130, Conc €110.
10 weeks starting on 3 February until 14 April (no class March 17th).
This is a fun course suitable for those who would like to experiment with a range of popular creative craft skills to make beautiful objects and items for the home. It is suitable for complete beginners who have an interest in craft/textile art and who would like to explore their own ideas creatively. You will work with a variety of materials such as fabrics, threads, ribbons, flowers, beads - incorporating techniques such as patchwork, sewing, dyeing and felting. It could be an opportunity to re-use and re-invent old embroidery, clothing and personal objects. This course is taught by a number of specialists in different textile media. Participants will have to provide their own materials, at an approximate cost of €50.
Portrait Drawing
Wednesdays, 7.30-9.30pm, Draíocht Workshop Room, Course Fee, €120, Conc €90.
8 weeks starting 4 February until 25 March.
For the first time Draíocht is offering a course in portrait drawing, starting with and using as a base the self-portrait, moving on to drawing from a model, working in different media, mainly charcoal, ink, pencil and some painting. This course will also include how to build up a drawing around a portrait, in devising and setting backdrops using cloth, furniture and objects. This course will be taught by Alan Daly.
Family Days
Family Day: Love is in the air
Saturday 14th February 2009, Draíocht Galleries, 12-3pm
Our artists are standing by to help you draw and colour all of your favourite things … maybe it’s your mammy or daddy ... or your pet ... or where you live. You tell us and we’ll help you to draw it.
Family Day: Collage
Saturday 21st March 2009, Draíocht Galleries 12- 3pm
Using Ross McDonnell’s exhibition as a starting point, our artists will help you create all kinds of collages, using colour to create pictures.
Family Day Notes: No booking or fee necessary / Please wear old clothes/ These activities have been designed for children from 5-10 years, though younger and older siblings will be welcome to try their hand too / All children must be accompanied by an adult ... and all adults must be accompanied by a child.
School Workshops
A facilitated visit to Ross McDonnell’s exhibition, ‘the new brilliant’ and accompanying workshop looking at colour through painting.
Primary School Workshops:
Age Range: 1st – 3rd class
Dates: Mon 2nd – Thurs 5th March
Times: 10.15am-11.45am or 12.30pm-2pm
Visual Arts At Draiocht
Thu 01 Jan 2009 until Thu 30 Apr 2009
Exhibitions of the work of various artists and evening classes and workshops for young and old.
At the Heart of Chance
Orla Whelan
Ground Floor Gallery
Until 17 January 2009
For 'At the Heart of Chance' Orla Whelan will present a body of new paintings which she began making during her period as Artist in Residence at Draíocht, January to June 2008. Through the development of series of related paintings Whelan’s practice functions as an intuitive investigation into themes of memory, perception and the gap between experience and representation. The limits of our capacity, and the extent of our attempts collectively and individually to reconcile what we experience with what we recall and perceive, is central to Whelan’s practice.
The naked body and moments of physical intimacy feature prominently in her new work, which investigates physical and sensory subjectivity. The artist uses the subject of sex and love as a device to explore the incongruity, which occurs when we try to represent in visual terms, the experience of intense and private sensation or emotion. The ‘blindness’ of these recollected moments is infiltrated with the vast store of accumulated imagery of physical intimacy that has been presented to us through various media. This combination serves to create the memory of such experiences that is simultaneously personal and removed, individual and generic.
Born in Dublin 1975, Orla Whelan is an Irish artist who lives and works in Dublin. Recent Exhibitions include There, Not There at Crawford Art Gallery (2008) and Trapezium at the LAB (2008). Previous solo exhibitions include We live to see each other at thisisnotashop (2007), Outside at The Return, Goethe Instituit (2007), Overtime at Archeus Fine Art London (2002) and New Work at Christopher Hull Gallery London (1997). She holds BA Fine Art from NCAD, MA European Fine Art from Winchester School of Art, Barcelona and an MA in Visual Arts Practices from IADT.
Inhabit
Blackchurch Print Studio Members:
Caroline Byrne, Janine Davidson, Aoife Dwyer, Mary A. Fitzgerald, Mary Frazer, Jane Garland, Catriona Leahy, Colin Martin, David McGinn, Piia Rossi, Daryl Slein.
First Floor Gallery
Until 17 January 2009
Draíocht and Blackchurch Print Studio have invited the studio’s members to submit work for an exhibition under the title of ‘Inhabit’. The exhibition title refers to the notion of home, family and belonging, and is of particular significance for this show which will take place during the Christmas period, a time when families and friends come together and spend time in ritual and celebration. The exhibition will comprise a wide range of media, which will showcase the diverse technical vocabulary of printed matter. Black Church Print Studio is one of the leading fine art print studios in Ireland, located in Dublin’s city centre. It was established in 1982 as a non-profit organisation and is grant-aided by the Arts Council of Ireland and Dublin City Council.
Ronan McCrea
New Town Centre Project (Extract #1)
Ground Floor Gallery
30 January – 4 April 2009
New Town Centre Project (Extract #1) is a new work developed by Ronan McCrea and produced by Draíocht, in response to the very particular geography of the Blanchardstown Town Centre. Comprising of an installation of photographic slide projections and audio soundtracks the work explores the Blanchardstown Town Centre as both an enigma and an emblematic form: a form over determined by some of the most significant social and political forces of recent Irish history. A range of ideas are touched on in this work, including retail theory and practice; early photography and the capture of movement; the privatisation of public space; tartan patterns in architecture and photographs; urban planning; pre-worn jeans and globalisation; interiors and exteriors, crime, street photography; Walter Benjamin’s ‘Arcades Project’; model making and the meaning of ruins. These topics, among others, cross mingle between voice-over monologue and projected photographic images made in and around the Blanchardstown Town Centre over a number of months in 2008. The artist has also made an architectural intervention in the gallery which resonates with the built environment surrounding Draíocht. The artist uses the existing geometry of the building as a guide, building a temporary wall that bisects the gallery creating two spaces. On one side of the wall is a darkened environment for the slide projections, cut off from the usual views from the gallery windows to the world outside. On the other side of the wall an inaccessible empty space is created in the gallery, only visible through the windows from outside the building.
Ronan McCrea is a mid-career Irish artist of high regard who has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally in addition representing Ireland at the Venice Biennale. Previous solo exhibitions are the Context Gallery 1998, Project Arts Centre 2003, Galway Arts Centre 2004 and the Goethe Institute 2007. McCrea graduated with a Batchelor Degree in Fine Art from the National College of Art and Design in 1991 and is currently researching a PHD at the University of Ulster, Belfast.
Ross McDonnell
the new brilliant
First Floor Gallery
30 January – 4 April 2009
the new brilliant is an exhibition of new paintings by Ross McDonnell. The title for this exhibition came from the name of a Chinese restaurant that the artist noticed while working in India earlier this year. Executed in the very traditional medium of oil on canvas, these paintings present somewhat obscured representations, partially legible through a layering of large cubist-like expanses of colour. McDonnell works in a forward and back motion by overpainting and erasing, creating works that seem to have several ghost-like layers of imagery, each one interrupting the next. McDonnell would like the viewer to read through these layers and develop a more complex and less decisive response to his work.
Mc Donnell Graduated with a Batchelor Degree in Fine Art from the National College of Art and Design in 2002. This is McDonnell's third solo show in Dublin. He has previously exhibited at the Cross Gallery, the Goethe Institute, the Ashford Gallery and the Royal Hibernian Academy. His work is part of numerous private and public collections, including the OPW and AXA Insurance collection.
Artist in Residence January – June 2009
Mark Clare
Mark Clare is an artist whose practice endeavours to register a world that is in constant flux. Mark pays attention to the things we accept as symbols of how we live and the times that we live in. Mixing elements of historical tradition and social trends, such as the world enthusiasm for ping pong in the 1970’s, monumental public sculpture in former communist states, and the contemporary prevalence of surveillance of public space through CCTV, Clare draws on such phenomena creating works which attempt to define the diversity that forms the human condition. It is about possibilities, the importance of freedom, moments of optimism, personal liberty and the necessity and failure of idealism without being didactic in its manifestation. Mark Clare graduated with a Batchelor of Fine Art Sculpture from St Martins College of Art and Design, London 1992 and a Master of Fine Art from the University of Ulster 2004. Previous solo exhibitions include the Lab, Dublin, the Gallery of Photography, the Royal Hibernian Academy and the Context Gallery, Derry as well as exhibitions in Finland, Japan and Germany.
Spring Evening Classes for Adults at Draiocht, Blanchardstown, D15
Acrylic Painting (Intermediate)
Mondays, 7.30-9.30pm, Draíocht Workshop Room, Course Fee €110, Conc €90.
10 weeks starting on 2 February until 6 April.
This course is designed for people who have participated in a beginners painting course before or who have some experience in painting and who wish to enhance and develop their painting proficiency using practical exercises which encourage individual skills and talents. The course will further explore the versatile nature of acrylic paint and students will be encouraged to work on canvas, work large scale and develop their own style using personal subject matter such as objects or photographical sources. Further support and instruction will be given on composition, tone, light, shade and colour theory. This course is taught by Gabhann Dunne.
Creative Craft/Textile Art
Tuesdays, 7.30-9.30pm, Draíocht Workshop Room, Course Fee €130, Conc €110.
10 weeks starting on 3 February until 14 April (no class March 17th).
This is a fun course suitable for those who would like to experiment with a range of popular creative craft skills to make beautiful objects and items for the home. It is suitable for complete beginners who have an interest in craft/textile art and who would like to explore their own ideas creatively. You will work with a variety of materials such as fabrics, threads, ribbons, flowers, beads - incorporating techniques such as patchwork, sewing, dyeing and felting. It could be an opportunity to re-use and re-invent old embroidery, clothing and personal objects. This course is taught by a number of specialists in different textile media. Participants will have to provide their own materials, at an approximate cost of €50.
Portrait Drawing
Wednesdays, 7.30-9.30pm, Draíocht Workshop Room, Course Fee, €120, Conc €90.
8 weeks starting 4 February until 25 March.
For the first time Draíocht is offering a course in portrait drawing, starting with and using as a base the self-portrait, moving on to drawing from a model, working in different media, mainly charcoal, ink, pencil and some painting. This course will also include how to build up a drawing around a portrait, in devising and setting backdrops using cloth, furniture and objects. This course will be taught by Alan Daly.
Family Days
Family Day: Love is in the air
Saturday 14th February 2009, Draíocht Galleries, 12-3pm
Our artists are standing by to help you draw and colour all of your favourite things … maybe it’s your mammy or daddy ... or your pet ... or where you live. You tell us and we’ll help you to draw it.
Family Day: Collage
Saturday 21st March 2009, Draíocht Galleries 12- 3pm
Using Ross McDonnell’s exhibition as a starting point, our artists will help you create all kinds of collages, using colour to create pictures.
Family Day Notes: No booking or fee necessary / Please wear old clothes/ These activities have been designed for children from 5-10 years, though younger and older siblings will be welcome to try their hand too / All children must be accompanied by an adult ... and all adults must be accompanied by a child.
School Workshops
A facilitated visit to Ross McDonnell’s exhibition, ‘the new brilliant’ and accompanying workshop looking at colour through painting.
Primary School Workshops:
Age Range: 1st – 3rd class
Dates: Mon 2nd – Thurs 5th March
Times: 10.15am-11.45am or 12.30pm-2pm
Venue Information: Draiocht
More Information: http://eventful.com/dublin/events/visual-arts-draiocht-/E0-001-018504791-6
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