Archive for category: Past Exhibition

“Plate Finds” is an exhibition by Sligo artist Alison Hunter. These new works are a continuation of Alison’s explorations of found broken tableware. Works are of cultural significance which displays respect for our heritage. Everything is interlaced and related by materials used, form, and/or story. Life has been reinstilled into old broken tableware by creating a new function for the piece as art. Felted wool is used to replace the missing parts. Working with wool felt the pieces are given a softness and contrast well with the coolness and smooth texture of the original plate. The old and new parts are easily distinguishable.

“If something is broken or damaged I don’t think its life is over, maybe its original function can not be used anymore but a new purpose as an art piece to be admired can be achieved. In this way, old memories are preserved and it lives on to create new memories.”

Pattern elements have been taken out of context, exaggerated, and displayed in new ways. Early Delft style tiles featuring Irish fauna have been reimagined in wool felt. Alison has used broken plate fragments/chaneys which she has found in ploughed fields and arranged these in a way in which together is more. The exhibition also explores popular pattern designs and allows us to pause and look while we remember memories and people through plates and ceramics.

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This Exhibition is supported by the Sligo Artist’s Network with funding by Creative Ireland programe (Sligo) 2018-2022

The Hyde Bridge Gallery is delighted to collaborate with Graphic Studio Dublin to celebrate 60 years. The Exhibition opens Friday September 4th at 5.30pm. Social distancing will be in place. Face masks must be worn.

Sixty years ago, in 1960, in response to the lack of Fine-Art-Print making and teaching facilities in Ireland, five visionaries founded Graphic Studio Dublin.

At this point of The Studio’s Diamond Jubilee, it’s time to celebrate!

Back in 1960, the artists Elizabeth Rivers, Anne Yeats, Pat Hickey and Leslie McWeeney and the Fine Art Editions publisher and founder of Dolmen Press Liam Miller, could not have foreseen the long-term effect their endeavours would have on the Irish Art scene. With an artist-led ethos since its inception, Graphic Studio Dublin has protected the traditional skills of etching, stone lithography, wood and linocutting and now embraces contemporary techniques of photo-intaglio and screenprinting.

Hundreds of artists have passed through the doors of the Studio, from the first basement premises in Lower Mount Street, through its long and productive sojourn in Green Street East in Dublin’s Docklands to its present home in a spacious four storey former brewery on the North Circular Road. Many of its artists have gone on to spread the skills of printmaking by founding new studios, in a manner which would have pleased the original five founders.

Graphic Studio Dublin is delighted to present the work of its current membership in an exhibition showcasing a broad selection of the best of Irish Fine Art Printmaking with something to please everyone as the Studio forges ahead into the coming decades. Runs Friday September 4th- Tuesday 29th.

“The State of Us” Exhibition opens March 13th featuring work by Áine Doherty, Matthew Singleton, Laney Mannion, Lorna Murphy, Michelle Hoey and Marc Craddock.

Curated by Áine Doherty and Marc Craddock.

Áine Doherty

The Digital age, has brought with it an increasingly accelerated pace of life. Some inventions that were intended to make life easier, have instead, robbed us of our free time. Social media, has brought about a revolution in the way in which we disclose personal information about ourselves. Only some decades ago, diaries which harboured our inner thoughts, dreams and reflections on life were things to be cherished; kept secret. As ‘free time’ becomes ever more of a rarity, I wonder is there still space for children to wonder, plan and dream.
Using images from online selling site Facebook Market place as a starting point for painting, my current project our relationship with social media and highlights a lost sense of virtue in the digital age.

Matthew Singleton

With anxiety and depression, overthinking is like a crushing wave of hands pulling and pushing you down.
Your head gets pulled into such a negative frame of mind that refuses to see clearly. The hand that pushes your chest puts emotional strain on the one thing that lets you feel every second of self-doubt, causing a struggle to breath.
All the hands that grip, the hands, the legs, the thighs pull you down to have a lack of motivation to do anything about it, which makes you feel like you can’t get over it as you cannot pull yourself out.

 

Laney Mannion is a multidisciplinary artist based in Connemara.
Completing her Masters, in Social Practice and the Creative Environment in Limerick College of Art and Design in 2019.
Her creative practice considers both public and private narratives focusing predominantly on social injustice.
Research to date delves into sociolinguistics of contemporary political debates in the Irish landscape.
In her finished pieces she circumnavigates the weighted subject matter with absurdist humour. Considering the cosmic as consolation in order to deal with subjects too difficult to deal with head on.

Lorna Murphy is a Ceramic Sculptor and Alt photographer living in Galway City.
Lorna completed her Honours Degree in Fine Art at the Centre of Creative Arts and Media at GMIT, where she specialized in Ceramics.
Murphy’s work explores hybrids of Organic Forms and the Human Psyche. Often dealing with the themes of Ritual, Desire and Decay.
Since graduating her work “ The Heart of the Matter” has been included in the Gyeonngi International in South Korea.

Michelle Hoey is a Photographer and Printmaker from the Gaeltacht of Donegal.
Since graduating with her Bachelors in Contemporary Art in Galway, she now spends most of her time perfecting her latte art in a quaint coffee shop in the heart of the city.
She is inspired by issues that surround us in everyday life, such as homelessness and political issues.
Her work here delves into the problem of dereliction and homelessness in Ireland, with hundreds of houses, hotels and other buildings laying empty throughout our State.

 

Marc Craddock

Queer art has had a profound effect upon me after writing my thesis and I bring this element into my practice. This evolution series is a reflection my own evolution into becoming an artist that deals with queer sensibilities.
Inspired by some of my favourite artists, René Magritte and Gilbert and George, I also use my image as the study of my work. My art is an examination of the male figure with undertones of modern masculinity, sexuality and celebration of getting older.
The Theatre of the absurd is a way of seeing my work due to the use of fun, colour and celebrating life with humour.