Upcoming Festival: "NEW REALITY: Contemporary Collage in Ireland"- Friday the 9th of September – Saturday the 1st of October 2022 -at Market House Craftworks, Cappoquin, Co. Waterford, Ireland.

🔸🔹🔸UPCOMING FESTIVAL: NEW REALITY: CONTEMPORARY COLLAGE IN IRELAND”🔸🔹🔸

Opening Reception: Friday 9th of September 6pm - 8pm

New Reality Festival: Friday 9th of September - Sunday 11th of September 2022

Exhibition Running from: Friday the 9th of September – Saturday the 1st of October 2022

I am absolutley thrilled to be invited to take part in the upcoming - 'New Reality’ Contemporary Collage in Ireland festival and exhibition. Organised by the wonderful Silvio Serverino, Una Gildea, Jane Jermyn and the Market House Craftworks.

The ‘New Reality’ exhibition opens with a Festival on the weekend of the 9th-11th Sept. The festival will feature a series of workshops a the Parochial Hall, Cappoquin, P51 VY40. Each hosted by mega talented master collage artists, Marta Janik, Una Gildea, Tom Doig, Alan Murphy and Tatyana Feeny.

I am also inviting you to join me in a “Monster” workshop hosted by truly on Saturday the 10th of September at 14.30 -16.30. Workshops come at a small cost and booking is recommended either through Eventbrite or by phone 087-2187962.

Other events will include live music by 'Mamacha & the Forest of Sound', fabulous screenings of Moving Collage, a talk by the man himself Sean Hillen (Sean Hillen Artist), subject of the award winning documentary "Tomorrow is Saturday".

The exhibition itself will be open to the public from 9th Sept - 1st October at Market House Craftworks The Square, Green Street, Cappoquin, Co. Waterford, P51 KD37.

For more on this rich and amazing event visit: https://www.instagram.com/new_reality_festival/

Upcoming Exhibition - K-FEST Arts Festival - Killorglin, Co Kerry, Ireland - 22nd - 25th October 2021

K-FEST 2021

KILORGLIN, CO.KERRY, IRELAND

22nd - 25th October 2021

I am thrilled to announce that I will be taking part in this year’s K-FEST Arts Festival in wonderful Killorglin, Co. Kerry. The action will all be kicking off on October bank holiday weekend.

Their programme is jam packed with incredible Visual Arts, Crafts, Music, Drama, Workshops and Family Events. I can’t wait to get involved in this feast of culture and curiosity .

Check out a statement from the festival below:

“K-FEST is delighted to be back for 2021, albeit delayed to the October Bank Holiday from the usual June Bank Holiday weekend.

From October 22nd to 25th, you can expect a wide range of visual and performance art taking place in pop-up galleries dotted throughout the town.

With a focus on emerging artists, K-FEST has very much established itself as an important date on the national arts calendar, where the arts community and the local community become one community for a weekend.

You also expect the best in up-and-coming Irish bands and music acts, with genres from jazz to pop to rock to punk to electronic and DJs. K-FEST was nominated for a best small music festival in the IMRO awards just before lockdowns, so they can’t wait to get going again and curating more great Irish music.

As well as family events and workshops during the day, there is a drama-packed programme including plays, poetry, films, comedy shows and even a cabaret circus.”

Check out more from the festival at their official site here.

Upcoming Exhibition - Empty Columns are a Place to Dream @ The 53rd Annual Birr Vintage Arts Week, from the 14th-20th of August 2021

Various Sites in Birr Town Centre, Birr, County Offaly,

The 53rd Annual Birr Vintage Arts Week,

From the 14th-20th of August 2021

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“Empty Columns” Panel Discussion Tuesday 17th August at 7.30pm, Birr Theatre & Arts Centre

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I am absolutely thrilled to be taking part in The Empty Columns are a Place to Dream Project as part of The 53rd Annual Birr Vintage Arts Week this August. This project curated by Ric Kasini Kadour will feature the work of 20 international collage artists, responding to an empty column which sits at the centre of Parsons Square, Birr, County Offaly. Through this project we explore monuments at large as focal points for communities, ideas and intentions; and their sometimes oppressive, often contentious, and potentially constructive roles as we move forward into the future.

Ric writes: “Monuments are a particular type of public art that plays an important role in the psyche of a community. A stitch that binds geography to history, monuments express community values. They say, ‘This is who we are. This is what we want the future to remember.’ They commemorate the dead and recall the past. But unlike headstones, monuments are communal by design, collective expressions of grief and remembrance.”

For more on the project from Ric Kasini Kadour visit here.

For more on Birr Vintage Arts Week visit here.

Upcoming Exhibition - Brittle/Fragile @ Westival Gallery, Castlebar Street, Westport, Co.Mayo, Ireland

Westival Gallery, Castlebar Street, Westport, Co.Mayo,

Wed Oct 23rd - Mon Oct 28th, 10 am - 6pm daily.

Launch Weds Oct 23rd 7 pm

Free

I am thrilled to announce that this October I will take part in Brittle/Fragile an Exhibition taking place as part of Westports Upcoming Westival.

Here is a statement from the Festival:

Through an open call, artists were invited to submit work on Westival 2019’s theme, ‘Brittle / Fragile’. The result is an exciting and varied group show showcasing selected work from Irish and international artists, featuring sculpture, painting, drawing and photography.

The theme proved a generous, many-headed muse, with artists responding in a huge variety of ways and presenting a multiplicity of creative interpretations – personal fragility, vulnerability as strength, frailty engendering feelings of protectiveness, the brittle geopolitical landscape, the fragility and ever-increasing vulnerability of our planet….

Thought-provoking and impressive in equal measure, this exhibition is a must-see.

For more about Westival and a full program of events visit: www.westival.ie