The Fractured Self

Cecilia Bullo

Preview 6pm-8pm 27.05.10

Exhibition continues 28.05.10  to 13.06.10

Open 2-6pm   Thursday-Sunday

Unit H, is pleased to present ‘The Fractured Self’, an exhibition of Italian / Irish artist Cecilia Bullo’s investigation into the potential of a journey or voyage taken in the hope of healing ones inner self. Through aspects from the life of theorist, philosopher and playwright, Antonin Artaud, the artist considers the coping mechanisms that come into play when the body and mind are at pains to mend a trauma. Bullo’s work departs from Artaud’s journey to Ireland in 1937, a journey made in the hope of returning what he believed to be St. Patrick’s crosier to its homeland.

The importance of the crosier to Artaud becomes for Bullo both a physical and metaphorical guide with which she delicately probes the nature of self healing and the journeys that are taken as part of this process. Through the Jungian suggestion that the experience of psychosis is a journey for the individual to rediscover something that has been lost to them, the concept of METANOIA comes to represent an existential journey towards recovery.
In Greek metanoia means a change of mind, for Karl Jung it stood for a process that the psyche goes through in a spontaneous act towards self reparation after a breakdown. For Bullo the creation of personal mythologies by the individual who is in a state of metanoia, offers the artist a situation from which to explore the nature of the schizophrenic body, self-reparation and the potential of amulets such as Artaud’s crosier, which embody for the holder magical and healing properties.

This body of work was inspired by an artist’s residency at the foot of Saint Patrick’s resting place, Croagh Patrick. It is a sensitive evocation of what it is to journey through trauma and the aids that are physically and psychologically developed in order to survive the affects of contemporary living.

A text by Monica Flynn based on email conversation and some unresolved thoughts on Bullo’s work will accompany the exhibition.

Unit H is The Market Studios curated exhibition series which is programmed by Claire Behan and Deirdre Morrissey. As a new exhibition & project space it is dedicated to introducing work by international artists as well as providing a platform for a variety of events from a dynamic network of Irish, visual art practitioners.  The Market Studios is an independent not-for-profit workspace, established in December 2007 by curator/ artists, Claire Behan, Deirdre Morrissey and artist Monica Flynn.  The Market Studios is a creative space which has taken a proactive approach in establishing a locus were visual artists, writers and curators can meet, work and enjoy the benefits of peer and cross disciplinary exchange.  Located in the heart of the markets area, just off Capel St, the studios provide workspace for 20 artists.

http://themarketstudios.wordpress.com/

Swine Flew: Pigasus An Irish Myth

selected for inclusion in the
180th Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition
24 May – 31 July

Detail of ‘Swine Flew: Pigasus An Irish Myth’

mixed media 2010

for more details on the exhibition visit www.royalhibernianacademy.ie

See also www.marynoonan.com

Red Stables Summer Programme 2010.PDF

Summertime provides the public with a chance to see what the artists do at The Red Stables, how their careers are evolving and how important The Red Stables is in promoting contemporary visual arts practice both at home and abroad. In the four years since its opening, The Red Stables has provided affordable studios to over 50 Irish and international artists from which to make new work and connect to a network of support within the Dublin arts scene. The studios have also fostered the establishment of an active community of artists working with contemporary practices within the local community in and around St Anne’s Park and Dublin 3.

Dublin City Council Arts Office is fortunate to be attracting partnerships with acclaimed arts organisations in supporting public projects and programmes which will be presented as part of The Red Stables Summer Art Programme 2010. This year’s visual art programme will showcase work in a wide variety of media encompassing painting, sculpture and installation, and programme highlights will include The Irish Residential Studio Award Exhibition with work by Tadhg McSweeney, Paul McKinley, Maria McKinney and Niall de Buitleár;  Hopeful Structures, an exhibition of work by Mark Clare and Fionnuala Hanahoe curated by Sally Timmons as part of the new Emerging Curator Programme; and Art as Research Practice an International Studio Programme curated by Jay Koh in partnership with CREATE and Trinity College Dublin.

Spaced Out

Moore Mall, ILAC Centre, Dublin 1

Supported by ILAC

PrettyvacanT launches ‘Spaced Out’, a group exhibition examining the nature of spaces.

Our existence takes place in defined areas. Boundaries. Zones. Environments.

Likewise these experiences can be captured within the space defined by art. Inside a picture frame, within brush strokes, frozen on a monitor.

 The Spaced Out exhibition responds to the vast space of the unit at the ILAC while commenting on the wider issue of vacant spaces in Dublin and beyond.

 Spaced Out unites thirteen artists who look at notions of space via their own chosen medium.

 The exhibition will take the form of a large-scale group show incorporating painting, photography, installations and video projections

 The artists are:

 Olive Barrett | Caroline Doolin | AJ Doyle | Louise Farrelly | Gillian Fitzpatrick | Fionnuala Hanahoe | Frances Hayes | Niamh Heery | Emer Lynch | Denise McCabe | Lesley-Ann O’Connell | William O’Neill | Claire Weir

Additional support from Oxfam Home, Francis Street

 PrettyvacanT was set up in 2009 to repurpose empty buildings as temporary exhibition spaces for artists.

 For Sales, Enquiries and Further Information contact

Louise Marlborough

Tel: + 353 85 8418510 Email: prettyvacantdublin@gmail.com