Dublin City Council invites applications from professional visual artists interested in a medium term letting of a day studio at The Red Stables, St. Anne’s Park, Dublin 3.

The Carriage House Studio is situated on the ground level of The Red Stables, in an attractive courtyard set in 270 acres of parkland. The studio is available to rent for €70 + VAT per week inclusive of broadband, electricity, heating, rates, water and refuge charges. A maximum license of three years will apply, renewable on a yearly basis. The studio dimensions are 14.5 x 18 feet.

 Artists are asked to submit the following:

• A covering letter outlining a description of art practice, proposed studio for use, and reasons why occupancy of a studio in The Red Stables is important to career development.
• A current CV.
• Documentation of work.
• Any special requirements, for example in terms of Access.

 Applicants should have a degree or diploma from a recognised third level art college and have participated in an exhibition/visual art event.

 Applications should be submitted not later than 5pm on Monday  30^th January 2012 -  marked APPLICATION FOR DAY STUDIOS: THE RED STABLES – Dublin City Council Arts Office, THE LAB, Foley Street, Dublin 1. 

 For further information or to arrange a viewing of the studio please contact Victoria Kearney: 01 222 7843  victoria.kearney@dublincity.ie

The Christmas Art Programme at The Red Stables will include Family Drop in Workshops with artists Fionnuala Hanahoe and Mary Noonan on 3^rd /4th and 10^th December.  The artists will work with participants to create Christmas tree decorations for The Red Stables Christmas tree and their own Christmas tree. On Sunday 11^th and Saturday 17^th December, Artist Martina Galvin will facilitate a Family Drop in Workshop making Christmas angels, decorations, stars and writing Santa letters. Artist Sharon Lynch and dramatist Fiona McDonagh will provide two fun filled Christmas themed drama/art workshop; Christmas Butterfly Picnic is for children aged  5 – 8 and Jingle Bell Jumping and Drawing is for children aged 8 – 11.  

Both worshops take place on Sunday 11^th December.  Booking essential.

Contact Victoria: T. 01 222 7843E. victoria.kearney@dublincity.ie 

Artist, Maeve Clancy will create a festive wonderland in the exhibition space with delicate handmade paper cut outs, great for children and adults to explore, join Maeve on Saturday 10^th December for a paper cut out demonstration and the chance to make your own.

Join Cllr Jane Horgan-Jones for the Christmas tree lighting ceremony which will take place at 3.30 on Saturday10^th December.  The Councillor will also unveil a model of the house which was originally part of the Ardilaun Estate in St. Anne’s park, owned by the Guinness family from 1835. The replica  model was made and donated to the park by  local resident, Michael Mahon. Singers from ‘The Third Day Chorale’ will provide festive music and Christmas Carols. This will be followed by Conor Lamberts Custard Pie Puppet Company’s colourful children’s Christmas puppet  show, which embodies the Christmas mood and generates lots of belly laughs and little giggles from the audience. The puppet show is live, interactive and will feature the ever popular Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, ‘Cackeleen’, the silly witch and many more. Booking essential contact Victoria T. 01 222 7843 E. victoria.kearney@dublincity.ie

Mulled wine and mince pies will be available from Tir na nOg Caife for €3.50 and  ginger bread biscuits for children for €1.50.  There will be ‘Jingle Bell’ horse and carriage rides around the park on Saturday 10^th December(€5 per person).    

The Red Stables Art, Craft and Food Market  will be open from 10am – 5pm every Saturday.

Land & Sea

1st November  – 24th December 2011

An exhibition of impressions captured of land and seascapes by artists  Bernadette Kiely, Rebecca Bradley, Susan O’Regan, Mairéad Geary, Angie Grimes and Gert van Maanen.

Open weekends Fri-Mon 11.30am – 6pm  

Doswell Gallery, West Square, Rosscarbery, Co Cork.               

Phone +353 (0)23 48137, +353 (0)87 7478713                             

email info@doswellgallery.com

 www.doswellgallery.com

‘My paintings express my personal and cultural histories having grown up in the seaside town of Skerries in north county Dublin. I have a deep affinity for the elemental power of water and the mysterious forces of nature. My paintings evolve over time through a process of rich layers of pigment. I use both volume and colour to shape the image that flows across the canvas. The rhythms and frequencies of pigment application create depths and swells on the paintings surface. Colour is used to heighten and expand the work’s emotional range. My pallet is not drawn from the need for representation but from the lyrical and emotive narrative in my art.’ Angie Grimes

Roscommon Arts Centre

Opening reception Thursday 10th November 5.30pm – 7pm. All Welcome.

Thursday 10th November – Thursday 15th December | viewing during centre opening hours

Peter Burns creates paintings and sculptures in a variety of materials and has a very tactile approach to his work. Based on his research into literature, art history, myth and allegory, Peter’s paintings are often playful re-workings of romantic themes with allusions to faraway places. The sculptures are often very fragile, an important feature which lends the sculptures a warmth and pathos. Since graduating with a Masters in Fine Art from NCAD (2009), Peter has been involved in numerous solo and group exhibitions, the most recent being a solo exhibition in the Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast and as part of a group show at this years Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition in Dublin.  Anne Hendrick’s paintings deal with the nature of reality and the truth within the seen image by simulating architectural, psychological and social spaces or situations within a landscape. The work questions ideas surrounding representation and the idea of an embellished truth. Dualist themes are prevalent; ambiguous narratives are slowly revealed. Anne Hendrick graduated with a BA Joint Honours in Fine Art Painting and History of Art from NCAD (2006). In 2011 her work has featured as part of a number of group exhibitions including New Connections at Rua Red, Dublin.  Most of Mary Noonan’s work is watercolour and drawing-based. The pieces chosen for this exhibition are a reflection of her research into Irish folklore and superstition and her own upbringing on a farm in the west of Ireland. The work is informed by a sense of the uncanny, and explores ideas relating to identity, landscape and cultural history. Since graduating with a Masters in Fine Art from NCAD 2009, Mary Noonan’s work has featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions including the 181st Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition (2011), Dublin and TULCA, Galway Arts Centre (2010).

This group exhibition is curated by Patrick T Murphy, RHA, Dublin.

more info at: www.roscommonartscentre.ie

image above: Self-Portrait as Ancient Irish Elk
watercolour, watercolour pencil & pencil on paper, Mary Noonan 2011

VISIT

22nd October 2011

12 – 6pm

The Red Stables Artists Studios is included in VISIT 2011 on Saturday 22^nd October. The artist’s studios will be among eighteen studios in Dublin city open to the public and will involve over two hundred and fifty visual artists. This is a wonderful opportunity to meet artists and explore their working environment and visual arts practise. The exhibition space at The Red Stables will feature video work by Alan James Butler, recipient of The Irish Residential Studio Award 2011 – 2012 and photo etched prints by Lars Wikström, a Swedish artist, resident at The Red Stables International Studio during July and August 2011.

VISIT is supported by Dublin City Council. 

www.visitstudios.com 

Swedish artist, Lars Wikström is currently residing in The Red Stables International studio until the end of August. Lars uses various printing techniques in his work, both old and new. He combines digital photography with traditional printing methods. He recently gave a photo etching demonstration and will give a presentation on his work in Graphic  Studio Dublin, Distillery House on Wednesday 17^th August at 5pm.

All welcome.

www.lakris.nu

Kevin Kavanagh Gallery

28 July – 13 August 2011

Opening reception 28 July 6pm

Kevin Kavanagh is pleased to present Room Outside, an exhibition of new and older work that concerns itself with the idea of landscape but more specifically the artist’s representation of a room outside whether it’s a real physical space or an imagined constructed space.

Using Northern Forest (see image ) by Michelle Considine as a starting point, the exhibition presents new paintings by Oliver Comerford, Stephen Loughman, Dermot Seymour, Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh and Paul McKinley. A selection of Nevan Lahart’s  Goya’s Gaia that featured at Preview Berlin 2010, and two recent photographs by Sean Lynch that featured at Volta 7 Basel (2011). A recent watercolour by German artist Karin Brunnermeier and a new work on paper by Michelle Considine. Two photographs from Patrick Jolley’s Ice House, a selection of work from Gary Coyle’s ongoing project , At Sea, the Daily Practice of Swimming and finally sculpture by Tadhg McSweeney and German artist Ulrich Vogl.

www.kevinkavanaghgallery.ie

The Douglas Hyde Gallery

July 22 – August 29, 2011

Opening July 21, 6 – 7:30pm

This exhibition – the first such show to take place at the Douglas Hyde Gallery since 1990 – is an informal gathering of Irish paintings that have been inspired, in various ways, by landscape. Intended to have an air of lightness and ease, it is also a reflection of darker, more ambiguous, moods and currents in the world.

I invited artists to take part in this summer exhibition in much the same way as I might put together a list for a party. Some are old friends; others are acquaintances; a few are people I don’t really know but whose work I find interesting for one reason or another. Unfortunately it wasn’t possible to make the gathering more comprehensive or all-embracing.

To give the exhibition a particular focus, artists were asked to propose two or three works that might throw some light on the idea of ‘liminality’ – in-between places, edges, thresholds, points at which something is transformed – and I chose the final image from their suggestions.  It has been an interesting and enjoyable process, and I thank all the artists for their enthusiasm and generosity.

John Hutchinson

Artists taking part in the exhibition:

Michael Canning, Fergus Feehily, David Godbold, Patrick Hall, Elizabeth Magill, Eoin McHugh, Stephen McKenna, William McKeown, Paul McKinley, Nick Miller, Ciarán Murphy, Gavin O’Curry, Mairead O’hEocha, Kathy Prendergast, Marc Reilly, Tony Swain.

[Image]: D-House – Paul McKinley

The Narrow Limitations of Common Sense

An exhibition of mixed media drawings, paintings and sculptural works by Mary Noonan

at The Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co. Mayo

opens Friday 5 August 2011 at 7.30pm

Exhibition continues until Saturday 27th August

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An exhibition of mixed media drawings, paintings and sculptural works by Mayo-born artist Mary Noonan. “This work is a reflection of my research into Irish folklore and superstition relating to ‘fairy-faith’, particularly from the late 19th and early 20th century. It also has a direct relationship to my own upbringing on a farm in Mayo. The materials and processes I use, such as tearing and cutting the paper, become a metaphor for psychological aspects of uncovered narrative. The work is informed by a sense of the uncanny and explores ideas relating to identity, landscape and cultural history.” Mary has both a BA and MFA in Painting from NCAD. Currently based in Dublin, she has exhibited widely since 2000 including COE Claremorris Open Exhibition (2006, 2007, 2010), RUA Annual Show (2008) RHA Annual Show (2011, 2010) and was an invited artist at TULCA 2010. This is Mary’s 6th solo exhibition.
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image: The Strength of a Body is Needed by the Shadows
acrylic, gold marker and plastic on birch panel 122cm x170cm 2011

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more info at: www.marynoonan.com and www.thelinenhall.com

Packed with live music and fun galore The Northside Music Festival 2011 guarantees to be a celebration that all the family will enjoy! This year’s exceptional music programme will be held in distinctive settings such as city parks, community centres, churches and civic spaces that will strengthen existing audiences and encouraging new audiences to come along.

The Red Stables plays host to The Oxo Boys Stringband and Beoga  on Monday 1^st August from 2pm.

The Oxo Boys Stringband play fiddle and banjo music that we associate with America ‘s Appalachian Mountains and Beoga, a five piece band from Antrim specialise in modern Irish music.

The Northside Music Festival is proudly brought to you by Dublin City Council.  A full programme of events is available from The Arts Office on t: 01 222 8588/7305, e-mail: artsoffice@dublincity.ie or visit our website: http://www.dublincity.ie/RecreationandCulture/ArtsOffice.