ARTWORKS 2019: Dearly Beloved at VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art

ARTWORKS 2019: Dearly Beloved

04 June - 01 September

Presented by The Carlow Arts Festival and VISUAL Carlow
Featuring selected works from the Irish Museum of Modern Art Collection

For ARTWORKS 2019 artists were invited to respond to the lyric:

Dearly beloved
We are gathered here today
To get through this thing called LIFE.
Let’s go crazy, Prince. Purple Rain 1984

Selected Artists: Marian Balfe, Colin Crotty, Mark Cullen, Gabhann Dunne, Mary A. Fitzgerald, Jane Fogarty, Helen Hughes, Jo Kimmins, Breda Lynch, Jonathan Mayhew, Paul Mosse, Oisín O’Brien, Tom O’Dea, Laurence O’ Toole, Jane Queally, Joanne Reid, Amanda Rice, Emma Roche, Joan Sugrue, Chanelle Walsh, Linda Conroy, Fiona Reilly, Sinead Ní Mhaonaigh.
Includes work for the IMMA Collection by artists: Pierre Huyghe, Mairead McLean, Mark O’Kelly, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Daphne Wright.

This year’s open call invited artists to submit work that comments on the trials of our post truth world and the potential of collective energy. Time, labour, love, loss, coping mechanisms, and space for imagining for the future, these are some of the themes that are explored in ARTWORKS 2019.
Along with artists selected from open submission, Dearly Beloved also includes a number of important works from the IMMA collection including Pierre Huyghe’s Block Party (2002, film) and Mairead McClean’s No More (2013, film).

This exciting summer exhibition gathers a diverse selection of ideas, work and talent from artists working nationally and internationally. Presenting work in film, sound, performance, painting, sculpture, new media and photography, ARTWORKS celebrates contemporary visual art and its potential to stir ideas and reflect on LIFE. ARTWORKS 2019 was selected by Carlow Arts Festival Director Jo Mangan, VISUAL Curator Emma Lucy O' Brien and artist Dennis McNulty.

In recent years ARTWORKS has established two art prizes, The HOTRON Award for an outstanding piece of work and the Éigse Prize for work by a recent graduate. Both prizes are sponsored by Hotron Ltd.

ARTWORKS 2019 is generously sponsored by Hotron

Right to Host: 6 Characters in Search for a Host, Architectural Association, London 17th May - 30th June 2019

Architectural Association, Bedford Square ‘Right to Host: Six Characters in Search for a Host’ 17/5/2019 - 13/6/2019

Sean Gwee, Alexander Zikanov, Gabrielle Eglan & other members of the AA community invite Mollie Anna King, Amanda Rice, Tiffany Loy…

Right to Host is a performance and installation comprising of a series of hostings by people from within and outside the Architectural Association. These acts of hosting are played out on a reconfigurable stage, facilitating public vignettes of hospitality (acts of hosting), and making visible the normally private act of inducting guests into a host’s domain thus blurring the border between private and public. The performances are an experiment which will inform the design of a formalized public facility for hosting.

Right to Host is designed and developed as part of the Mark Fisher Scholarship, which is awarded to students of exceptional talent and interest in the intersection of architecture, performance, media and engineering. The performance and installation has been designed by Sean Gwee (AA 4th Year Student and 2018/19 recipient of the Mark Fisher Scholarship), and in collaboration with Alexander Zikanov (AA 3rd Year Student), Gabrielle Eglan (AA 3rd Year Student) and other members of the AA Community.

Outpost Open Film selected by Stuart Whipps

OUTPOST Open Film 2019 selected by Stuart Whipps

Saturday 30 March 2019

Cinema City, Norwich

Aimée Neat | Amanda Rice | Anna Flemming | Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh | Daniel Lichtman | Duncan Poulton | Emily Hawes | Fanny Aboulker | Guy Oliver | Izzy McEvoy | Jaf Yusuf | Jason Dungan | Jessica Coleman | Lara Smithson | Maria de Lima | Mark Wilsher | Mathew Parkin | Matthew Humphreys | Oliver Payne | Richie Moment | Sam Venables | Sista Pratesi | Tasha Lizak-Naikauskas

Slade Graduate Degree Show, 07 - 17 June 2018

Slade Graduate Show takes place at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT.

Private view June 6th 2018, 6 - 9pm. Runs from 7th June - 9th June.

For more info visit: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/shows/2018

Panel discussion @ The VAI Get Together, Irish Museum of Modern Art

Get Together 2018 will take place on Monday 21st of MAY at IMMA.

Residencies: Time, Space & New Environments
Applying for and getting the most from Residencies at home and abroad.
Speakers: Amanda Rice, Ingibjörg Gunnlaugsdóttir, Janice Hough, Mark Clare - chaired by Sean O'Reilly.