Brian O Doherty

New York Times coverage of ‘The Burial of Patrick Ireland’

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Cliona Harmey

As part of the article on 126, Cliona Harmey’s exhibition ‘Timeline’ was pictured.

Timeline was an audio visual installation and one of the first solo shows at G126. Cliona Harmey is a multi media artist who works with installation, web based work who also lectures at NCAD in Fine Art Media. She has exhibited and curated extensively in Ireland and abroad. She is also a founder of Blackletter.ie

Aideen Barry

Aideen contributed her ‘Stitch Sketch’ to this issue.

Aideen Barry is a Visual Artist, working in the mediums of performance, film, musical composition, drawings and animation. She recently was awarded funding from the Arts Council of Ireland’s Projects: New Work Award  2008-2009.
Head of Exhibitions, Sean Kissane of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, recently selected Barry, to represent Ireland at FRA GIL in Barcelona, Spain in May 2008. She recently showed in Elevator Gallery, and the Louise T. Bloudin Institute in London. In 2009 she will show in  Wexner Center for the Arts in Ohio (USA), The Butler Gallery (IRE),The Redhouse Arts Center(USA)and Bonnat Museum,(FRA).
Barry has received countless awards for her practice including: The New Work Award from the Arts Council of Ireland, Tyrone Guthrie award for 2007, the Travel and Mobility Award from the Arts Council of Ireland and received the Experimental Film Award at the Silent Light Super 8 film festival in Cork in October 2006. Her work has since been shown in Paris, Lorient (FRA), The United Kingdom, Thailand, Canada and Shanghai, China.
In 2004 she received the top prize at The Claremorris Open. In 2005 Barry represented Irish Contemporary Performance as she was invited to partake in Cork 2005, The European Capital of Culture. Barry was the Irish Artist in Residence at the Banff Centre in Canada in 2007. She also undertook a residency for Convoy, in Seydisfjourder, in Iceland, which was funded by The Skaftfell Centre, Iceland and Culture Ireland.
In 2007 Barry Co-Curated TULCA: City of Strangers (Galway) and Terms & Conditions in the Mermaid Arts Centre Bray. She also curated Subversion and the Domestic: House Projects, which has recently been published into a book on the 7-curated projects in Ireland, New York and London a project that was supported under the Arts Council of Ireland.

Barry has recently completed a residency at Kennedy Space Centre, NASA where she underwent astronaut training through parabolic flights to create her new zero gravity film works, animations and performative objects. Her new work created from this experience will be shown in The Butler Gallery in late 2009-2010.

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John Brady

John Brady is a painter based in Galway and member of Artspace studios, Galway. He is also lectures at Cluain Mhuire, GMIT

In the summer of 2008 he completed the SIM residency, in Iceland. His sketch of Akranes, is included in this issue.

For more information visit the artist here.

Cecilia Danell

Cecilia Danell is a painter based in Galway. Originally from Sweden she graduated from Cluain Mhuire, GMIT in 2008. Fro observing modernist architecture her works explore feelings of detachment and question ideas of utopia.

For recent works and updates visit her website here.

In 2008 she has exhibited at the Claremorris Open Exhibition, Crow Street Gallery in Dublin and was shortlisted for the inaugural IMOCA student award.

Lucy Cotter

“Art, politics and the cultural dating game” was written by Lucy Cotter for this issue of Brochure. 

The article reflects on Relational Aesthetics, internal politics and asks the question whether critical thinking has any significant bearing on the current direction of contemporary art practice.

Lucy Cotter is an Irish writer and art critic based in Amsterdam. She was the editor of the Irish issue of Third Text, Routledge Press. She was the recipient of the Critical Voices Award 2003 and the Critical Reflection Award 2004 by the Arts Council of Ireland. She took part in “Here As The Centre Of The World” a trans national artistic research project for young artists from Beirut (Lebanon), Damascus (Syria), Diyarbakir (Turkey), Enschede (The Netherlands), Khartoum (Sudan) and Taipei (Taiwan).

The Irish Artist Led Archive

 

The Irish Artist Led Archive is a travelling and interactive archive documenting artist led initiatives in Ireland. So far, it has been shown in Galway, during TULCA 2007, at Catalyst in Belfast and the LAB in Dublin. The project is an enquiry into the conditions of artist led initiatives in the country, over the last 30 years and up to the present day.

The archive continues to grow, and is accompanied at each exhibition by a lectures and discussions with a range of speakers. Past speakers have included Julie Ault (Group Material), Brian Kennedy (ARE), Julie Crawshaw Midwest), Julie Bacon, Sean Lynch, UKK (Denmark), G126, Kevin Flanagan, Mick Fortune, Aileen Lambert and Daniel Jewsbury.

‘The Irish Artist Led Archive – Sustainable Activism and The Embrace Of Flux’ is curated by Megs Morley.

For more information visit the website.

7 Steps to Transform The Visual Arts in Galway

Gregory Sholette’s article which was referenced in Brochure was originally published in 2001. Through the ‘Critical Voices’ initiative commissioned by the Arts Council. Following a visit in the summer of 2001 he returned to present the paper later that year. 

His 7 basic proposals for encouraging a sustainable visual arts culture in Galway are interesting for two reasons. Firstly, they are very attainable.  Secondly, in some cases the proposals have been realised. 

 

They are included in this issue to make clear some of the progress that has been made, and to highlight that concerted effort in the future could easily build upon this.

Gregory Sholette is a New York-based artist, writer, and founding member of the artists’ collectives Political Art Documentation/Distribution and REPOhistory, as well as co-editor of The Interventionists: A Users Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life (MassMoCA/MIT Press, 2004, 2006) with Nato Thompson, and of Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945 with Blake Stimson, (University of Minnesota, 2007). He frequently collaborates with the artist Janet Koenig and is currently working on a book about the political economy of the art world and his concept of creative dark matter for Pluto Press. He is Assistant Professor of Sculpture in the Department of Art and Art History at Queens College.

Laura Plageman

Laura Plageman produced the cover image ‘N Scale’ for Brochure. She is a San Francisco based artist. 

She exhibited at G126 in April-May 2008 as part of the group show ‘Sacred and Profane’.