Artbeat June - Dec 2010 - West Cork Arts Centre
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Exhibitions<br />
Performances<br />
Education<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> News<br />
Guide to the <strong>Arts</strong> in <strong>West</strong> <strong>Cork</strong><br />
<strong>June</strong> - <strong>Dec</strong>ember <strong>2010</strong><br />
Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Untitled,<br />
oil on canvas, 2009
Take a bow!<br />
The arts really matter to us in Ireland; they are a big part of people’s lives, the<br />
country’s single most popular pursuit. Our artists interpret our past, define who<br />
we are today, and imagine our future. We can all take pride in the enormous<br />
reputation our artists have earned around the world.<br />
The arts play a vital role in our economy, and smart investment of taxpayers’<br />
money in the arts is repaid many times over. The dividends come in the form of<br />
a high value, creative economy driven by a flexible, educated, innovative work<br />
force, and in a cultural tourism industry worth a2.4 billion directly a year.<br />
The <strong>Arts</strong> Council is the Irish Government agency for funding and developing<br />
the arts. <strong>Arts</strong> Council funding from the taxpayer, through the Department of<br />
Tourism, Culture and Sport, for <strong>2010</strong> is a69.15 million, that’s less than a1 a<br />
week for every household.<br />
So, at the end of your next inspirational encounter with the arts, don’t forget<br />
the role you played and take a bow yourself!<br />
Find out what’s on at<br />
www.events.artscouncil.ie<br />
You can find out more about the arts here:<br />
www.artscouncil.ie
Welcome to our latest edition of <strong>Artbeat</strong>.<br />
Half-way through the year and we<br />
already have much to celebrate – in April,<br />
President Mary McAleese visited the<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> for Health project in Skibbereen<br />
Community Hospital, commending<br />
the work of bringing the arts to the<br />
community hospitals and day care<br />
centres in our region. She was also guest<br />
of honour at the Conferring of Awards<br />
for the BA in Visual <strong>Arts</strong> degree on<br />
Sherkin Island – a programme which has<br />
gone from strength to strength with the<br />
intake of a new group of twenty students<br />
embarking on their degree course in<br />
September.<br />
We have an exciting programme lined<br />
up for the remainder of <strong>2010</strong> beginning<br />
with <strong>West</strong> <strong>Cork</strong> Artists <strong>2010</strong>, celebrating<br />
the work of the many artists who live and<br />
work in our community.<br />
We are again delighted to work with the<br />
Sound and Vision strand of Skibbereen<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> Festival (18 – 31 July www.<br />
skibbereenartfestival.com) and we will<br />
present a new film by Laura Gannon,<br />
photographic work by Eoin O’Conaill<br />
and young people from Oileán Chléire<br />
and two new documentary films by<br />
Katherine Waugh and Fergus Daly at<br />
WCAC.<br />
We follow with solo exhibitions by Irish<br />
painter Sinéad Ni Mhaonaigh, American<br />
sculptor Ellen Driscoll and French<br />
photographer Gilles Perrin. On 15 July<br />
at 7.00pm, we will host the launch by<br />
Karl Wallace, Director Siamsa Tíre, of the<br />
new book Micka by Beara based author<br />
Frances Kay published by Picador.<br />
We also invite our friends and supporters<br />
to join us on a tour to the wonderful<br />
Lismore Castle, Co. Waterford on<br />
Tuesday 6 July to view the Gerard Byrne<br />
exhibition.<br />
We are participating in Culture Night on<br />
Friday 24 September (www.culturenight.<br />
ie), when arts and cultural organisations<br />
across Ireland open their doors until late<br />
with hundreds of free events, tours, talks<br />
and performances for you, your family and<br />
friends to enjoy.<br />
Earlier this year, we were delighted to<br />
receive full planning for our new building for<br />
the arts for <strong>West</strong> <strong>Cork</strong>. Work is continuing<br />
on the development plans and we hope<br />
to invite tenders for its construction in the<br />
Autumn.<br />
We are also continuing to fundraise,<br />
the main event this Summer is the Jim<br />
O’Driscoll Memorial Group Art Auction<br />
of work by leading figures in Irish Art<br />
at the Warren Gallery, Mary Ann’s,<br />
Castletownshend on Wednesday 11<br />
August.<br />
<strong>West</strong> <strong>Cork</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Centre</strong> would like to thank<br />
you for your ongoing interest and support,<br />
for your participation in our programmes<br />
and your attendance at events and we look<br />
forward to seeing you all here more and<br />
more.<br />
For details of the above and further<br />
information on our programmes see<br />
www.westcorkartscentre.com and join us<br />
on Facebook to receive regular updates on<br />
what’s happening at the <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Centre</strong>.<br />
Image below shows President Mary McAleese<br />
speaking to an <strong>Arts</strong> for Health participant at<br />
Skibbereen Hospital during her recent visit.<br />
Photo: Garry Minihane
<strong>West</strong> <strong>Cork</strong> Artists <strong>2010</strong><br />
26 <strong>June</strong> - 17 July<br />
A group exhibition by artists<br />
living and working in <strong>West</strong><br />
<strong>Cork</strong>.
<strong>West</strong> <strong>Cork</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Centre</strong>’s annual Summer<br />
Show, <strong>West</strong> <strong>Cork</strong> Artists, opens this<br />
year on Friday 25 <strong>June</strong> at 7.00pm. This<br />
popular exhibition in the Art <strong>Centre</strong>’s<br />
visual arts programme includes work by<br />
artists from all over the <strong>West</strong> <strong>Cork</strong> region.<br />
The range of work on show is, as<br />
always, eclectic with paintings, drawings,<br />
photographs, prints and sculpture all<br />
included.<br />
Exhibiting artists include Sarah<br />
Iremonger, Marie Cullen, Julia Penney,<br />
Gert J van Maanen, Wendy Dison, Anne<br />
Marie McInerney, Susan Montgomery,<br />
Sara Hodson, John Philip Murray, Ann<br />
Marie O’Donovan, Linda Sebeo Cohu,<br />
David Seeger, Alison Trim, John Simpson<br />
and Dee Pieters along with many others.<br />
Image left: Julia Penney, Kettle and Montbresia, (detail); Below, clockwise from left: Marie Cullen, Red Bog; Sarah Iremonger,<br />
Emerson Series - Mahon Falls <strong>2010</strong> (detail); Wendy Dison, The Ploughman (detail) and Gert J van Maanen, Rockmen Good<br />
Morning.
Sound and Vision<br />
A major component of the Skibbereen<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> Festival (18 - 31 July) is Sound<br />
and Vision. This strand includes sound<br />
and image in all its manifestations; the<br />
spoken word, music, sound installations,<br />
radio, the natural environment, art film<br />
and live sound-based events. Art Trail<br />
locations include WCAC, Skibbereen<br />
Town Hall, Abbeystrewry Church and<br />
a series of unoccupied shops and<br />
businesses around Skibbereen, which<br />
will be transformed into temporary<br />
galleries for the Festival.<br />
From Monday 26 to Saturday 31 July<br />
(from 10.00am - 1.30pm) WCAC will<br />
screen The Art of Time by Katherine<br />
Waugh and Fergus Daly, a film which<br />
captures some of today’s most exciting<br />
24 July - 21 August<br />
developments in the art of time,<br />
exploring how leading international<br />
practitioners in architecture, video<br />
art, film, theatre and philosophy are<br />
challenging traditional temporal ideas,<br />
questioning the nature of memory and<br />
perception today, and inventing new and<br />
radical notions of time.<br />
Also during that week, from 1.30pm -<br />
5.00pm WCAC will screen Experimental<br />
Conversations: Making and Unmaking<br />
the Moving-Image by Fergus Daly, a<br />
full-length documentary examining major<br />
concepts and practices in contemporary<br />
image-making and featuring leading<br />
European filmmakers, artists and<br />
critics alongside some of Ireland’s most<br />
renowned artists.
From 24 July to 21 August <strong>West</strong> <strong>Cork</strong><br />
<strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Centre</strong> presents a new film by<br />
Laura Gannon entitled World/Interior.<br />
Moving through the interior of an empty<br />
house, the camera pans walls that are<br />
cracking and blistering with damp and<br />
moves through semi-empty rooms,<br />
most containing large mirrors which<br />
give multiple views of the spaces being<br />
filmed. The audio is inspired by the<br />
soundtrack of the film The Dead by John<br />
Huston, which provides a choreography<br />
that accompanies the probing camera<br />
movements. Laura Gannon works<br />
predominantly in 16mm and digital film,<br />
drawing and photography. Her work<br />
explores human relations, the unspoken,<br />
personal histories and events that have<br />
taken place in site-specific spaces.<br />
Oileán is a photographic project by 12<br />
young people from Cape Clear Island and<br />
documentary photographer Eoin O’Conaill<br />
who has been working with the group for<br />
the past five months.<br />
The exhibition includes work from each of<br />
the young participants, exploring different<br />
aspects of their daily lives on the island,<br />
each giving an insight into the experience<br />
of living and growing up on Oileán<br />
Chléire.<br />
For WCAC Eoin O’Conaill has produced<br />
a series of landscape images and<br />
portraits taken on the island during his<br />
time there.<br />
Is togra grianghrafadóireachta é Oileán<br />
ag 12 daoine óga ó Oileán Chléire agus<br />
grianghrafadóir doiciméadach Eóin Ó<br />
Conaill atá tar éis bheith ag obair leis an<br />
ngrúpa le cúig mí anuas.<br />
Mar chuid den taispeántas, deineann<br />
obair ó gach rannpháirteach, iniúchadh<br />
ar gnéithe éagsúla dár saol laethúil<br />
ar an oileán, an turas farantóireachta<br />
ar scoil, teaghlaigh, caithimh aimsire<br />
agus an tírdhreach, gach ceann ag<br />
tabhairt léargas ar an dtaithí atá acu ar<br />
maireachtáil agus fás aníos i gCléire.<br />
Tá Eóin Ó Conaill tar éis sraith íomhánna<br />
tírdhreacha agus portráidí a cuir i láthair<br />
a thógadh i gCléire i rith a ama ann.<br />
Cuireann na híomhánna seo an pobal<br />
agus timpeallacht éagsúil Chléire i láthair,<br />
ó portráidí cónaitheoirí áitiúla, daoine<br />
óga agus daoine nua tagtha san phobal,<br />
deineann na híomhánna seo iarracht<br />
dearcadh nua a gabháil den áit agus<br />
pobal uathúil.<br />
WCAC projects for Sound and Vision<br />
open at the <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Centre</strong> on Saturday 24<br />
July at 3.00pm.<br />
Image left: Laura Gannon, World/Interior (still); below, from left: Eoin O’Conaill, image from Oileán and Katherine Waugh and<br />
Fergus Daly, The Art of Time (still)
EDUCATION & COMMUNITY PROGRAMME<br />
Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh<br />
Paintings<br />
28 Aug - 25 Sept<br />
An exhibition of paintings<br />
exploring line-based imagery<br />
and abstract elements by<br />
this Wicklow-based artist.
Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh deals with space<br />
and non-spaces in the form of abstract<br />
images which she describes as portraying<br />
a void. Her paintings allude to the<br />
idea of a contemplative place, between<br />
where a journey begins or ends. She<br />
views the artistic process, and a picture<br />
in the making, as a space of possibility<br />
and of transformative potential. She places<br />
the viewer at the edges and borders of<br />
undefined space merging the performative<br />
with the philosophical. These intelligent<br />
explorations of the fundamentals<br />
of abstraction expand and transcend the<br />
basics.<br />
Ní Mhaonaigh uses rich, creamy coats of<br />
oil paint to create sumptuous surfaces.<br />
Austere yet richly coloured, scraped and<br />
layered - the paintings have a deceptive<br />
simplicity. She is judicious in her palette,<br />
using colour sparingly, finding an edgy<br />
balance between austerity and lushness.<br />
As art historian and curator Pádraic<br />
E.Moore has written, “the gutsy, even<br />
aggressive application of colour is<br />
countered by the sensitive and delicately<br />
tentative scoring of the paint in all its<br />
precise and potent hues. Rare is it to see<br />
paint being worked so sensually and yet<br />
often so brutally. The juicy colours push<br />
and pull, and the eye is caught in an<br />
impossible impasse. Are we gazing onto<br />
boundless unlimited and infinite space,<br />
or are we peering into claustrophobically<br />
constraining, sealed and hermetic compartments<br />
from which nothing can leak?<br />
Can we, simultaneously, do both?”<br />
This new body of work explores the<br />
line-based imagery that’s inherent in her<br />
work alongside non-linear, abstract elements<br />
to embody ideas about the division<br />
between different aspects of her process<br />
and between two opposing states: consciousness<br />
and the subconscious.<br />
Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh was born in 1977.<br />
She completed her BA Fine Art at Dublin<br />
Institute of Technology in 2001 and is currently<br />
working towards her MPhil at DIT.<br />
Recent exhibitions include Paintings,<br />
Dunamaise <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Centre</strong>, Portlaoise and<br />
New Work, Sligo Art Gallery in <strong>2010</strong>;<br />
Paintings , Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin; Futures,<br />
Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin,<br />
and solo exhibitions at Wexford <strong>Arts</strong><br />
<strong>Centre</strong> and Galway <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Centre</strong> in 2009;<br />
Her work is in the collections of The <strong>Arts</strong><br />
Council of Ireland, Office of Public Works,<br />
Dublin Institute of Technology, Boyle Civic<br />
Collection and The Mermaid <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Centre</strong>,<br />
amongst others and private collections in<br />
Ireland, UK and the USA.<br />
Image left: Untitled, oil on canvas, 2009<br />
Image right: Untitled, oil on canvas, 2009
Ellen Driscoll<br />
1 Oct- 20 Nov<br />
Fastforwardfossil (Part 3)<br />
Drawing, photography and sculpture<br />
by this American artist.
Ellen Driscoll’s recent studio practice<br />
continues an investigation in sculpture<br />
and drawing of the architecture and<br />
landscapes that result from natural<br />
resource harvesting and consumption.<br />
The drawings were made at Sirius Art<br />
<strong>Centre</strong>, Cobh after she was given access<br />
to the oil refinery at Whitegate near <strong>Cork</strong>.<br />
The worlds in the drawings are drained<br />
of colour, and yet filled with the flux, fluid,<br />
and spillage of a chaotic, dystopic future.<br />
In one drawing a lone devil’s poker grows<br />
in the dense industrial infrastructure. In<br />
another, a shrunken abandoned mansion<br />
nests inside a structure used to oversee<br />
the loading of oil onto the barges that sail<br />
out from the refinery.<br />
The sculptural landscapes are direct<br />
responses to the drawings. Made from<br />
thousands of plastic milk and water bottles<br />
harvested from the recycling bags<br />
of urban streets, the landscapes employ<br />
the translucent plastic as a signifier for<br />
ghostliness, fluidity, and transformation.<br />
Using the fact that the plastic bottles<br />
once contained our purest drinks, milk<br />
and water, as a departure point, the landscapes<br />
extend themselves from the<br />
intimate local daily act of quenching thirst<br />
to the unseen counterweight on the other<br />
side of the world: the oil rigs of the North<br />
Sea, the North Pacific subtropical gyre,<br />
the rogue fire on the Nigerian pipeline,<br />
the Himalayas of discarded e-waste in<br />
Asia.<br />
Ellen Driscoll lives and works in New<br />
York, USA. She is Professor of Sculpture<br />
at the Rhode Island School of Design,<br />
USA and in 2009 was awarded a residency<br />
at Sirius Art <strong>Centre</strong>, Cobh, Co. <strong>Cork</strong>.<br />
Recent solo exhibitions include Fastforwardfossil<br />
(Part 1) at Frederieke Taylor<br />
Gallery, New York, and Fastforwardfossil<br />
(Part 2), SmackMellon, Brooklyn, New<br />
York in 2009; Hunter Gatherer, Long<br />
Island University Humanities Gallery,<br />
Brooklyn in 2007. Recent group exhibitions<br />
include Near Everywhere, curated<br />
by Ellen Driscoll, at GASP, Boston, USA,<br />
browser, inter-actor, co-author, producer,<br />
nomad, curated by Lauren Ewing, Fine<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> Work Center, Provincetown, MA,<br />
USA and Yoshitomikura, Hiroshima, Japan,<br />
curated by Rene Grayre in 2009.<br />
Her work is held in many public and<br />
private collections in the US including<br />
the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the<br />
Whitney Museum of American Art.<br />
Image left: Ellen Driscoll, Untitled, ink on paper, 2009. Image: Etienne Frossard<br />
Below: Ellen Driscoll, FastForwardFossil (Part 2), detail. Photographs: Curtis Hamilton
Gilles Perrin<br />
People of the Sea<br />
27 Nov - Jan 2011 French photographer Gilles<br />
Perrin documents the fishing<br />
industry in <strong>West</strong> <strong>Cork</strong>
French photographer, Gilles Perrin began<br />
to develop a body of work during his residency<br />
at Sirius Art <strong>Centre</strong>, Cobh in 2008<br />
which documented the (mostly) men<br />
who work in the fishing industry along<br />
the south coast of Ireland from Cobh to<br />
Castletownbere. He returned a year later<br />
to continue his work on this series of<br />
portraits which also serves to remind us<br />
of an industry in crisis and a way of life<br />
under threat.<br />
He says ‘as a responsible human being,<br />
my profession is to make photographs<br />
and to witness. This work does<br />
not attempt to be either ethnological or<br />
anthropological; moreover it cannot be<br />
exhaustive and reflect objectively a social<br />
context. It endeavours, above all, to be<br />
humanistic and curious, even sentimental.’<br />
For this series he worked with large<br />
format photography using a 4”x5” folding<br />
camera on a tripod and black and white<br />
instant film. All shots are taken at a low<br />
shutter speed (one second to 1/8 of a<br />
second), a more ‘human’ speed with<br />
which one can capture a breath or a<br />
heartbeat. Working in negative/positive<br />
allows Perrin to immediately give a print<br />
to the person he has photographed and<br />
he retains the negative to print up.<br />
in a large format. He says ‘as I take a<br />
photograph and give back the image, my<br />
subject and I are engaged in an important<br />
ceremony. This ritual linking human<br />
interaction to the photographic act is<br />
essential to me’.<br />
Eager to avoid photographic ‘voyeurism,’<br />
he selected the people to photograph<br />
by visiting harbours and piers, chatting<br />
to the people he met there and meeting<br />
other people by word-of-mouth. He<br />
says ‘the tool that enables me to convey<br />
an understanding through my photos is<br />
simplicity. No photos are taken furtively;<br />
there are no ‘stolen’ images. Although I<br />
am the one who ultimately depresses the<br />
shutter, there is always a dialogue with<br />
my subjects, explaining what I would like<br />
to do and how I work. My portraits are<br />
never anonymous. Each of my portraits<br />
carries the subject’s name, recording, in<br />
many senses, who they are’.<br />
Gilles Perrin was born in Paris in 1947.<br />
He has an MA in photography and since<br />
1972 has worked as an author-photographer,<br />
specialising in large format photography<br />
in panoramic and panoscopic<br />
cameras. This exhibition will take place<br />
in two venues – <strong>West</strong> <strong>Cork</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Centre</strong>,<br />
Skibbereen and Sirius <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Centre</strong>, Cobh.<br />
www.siriusartscentre.ie<br />
Image left: Gilles Perrin, Martin Crowley called Marvellous, fisherman Cobh, Co. <strong>Cork</strong> and below: Patrick Diver skipper, Marek<br />
Jadwizuk and Marvin Polak, Antonio Hernando and Romualdes Simait fishermen on Deborah M, Baltimore, Co. <strong>Cork</strong>
Programme for Children and Families<br />
Art Club<br />
Children are invited to join this challenging<br />
and enjoyable journey into visual art.<br />
Using the exhibitions in the gallery for<br />
inspiration, children will develop individual<br />
journals filled with ideas and experiments.<br />
Playing with techniques for drawing and<br />
mark-making will form the basis of this<br />
short course.<br />
Drama Club<br />
This is an active and enjoyable series<br />
of drama and puppetry workshops for<br />
children. Using games and improvisation,<br />
they will explore aspects of theatre production,<br />
movement, spatial awareness,<br />
voice and listening skills. Games and<br />
group work are central to the process.
Alan Foley Academy of Dance<br />
WCAC continues to work with Alan<br />
Foley’s Academy of Dance to deliver an<br />
expansive dance programme for children<br />
and young people. This includes special<br />
pre-school ballet sessions for young<br />
children to develop key skills in an enjoyable<br />
way.<br />
For older children sessions are available<br />
in modern and jazz exploring choreography<br />
and high energy dance, hip-hop<br />
and also classical and contemporary<br />
ballet for all levels. Dancers can elect to<br />
take part in an end of year production<br />
performing alongside professional dancers<br />
and full-time students at <strong>Cork</strong> Opera<br />
House.<br />
Programmes for Schools<br />
<strong>West</strong> <strong>Cork</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Centre</strong> works with both<br />
primary and second level schools to support<br />
teachers in the delivery of the visual<br />
arts curriculum and provide access to<br />
professional artists and artwork.<br />
The primary schools classroom based<br />
programme begins in the Autumn term<br />
and includes a visit to the gallery for a<br />
guided tour and practical workshops<br />
around Ellen Driscoll’s Fastforwardfossil<br />
(Part 3) followed by practical workshops<br />
in schools and a project pack to help<br />
teachers deliver an integrated and cohesive<br />
visual arts project. The programme<br />
develops creativity and visual arts skills<br />
in both pupils and teachers, as well as<br />
providing opportunities for cross curricular<br />
links. Special needs groups are also<br />
catered for within this programme.<br />
Image left: A young girl absorbed in her painting at Art Club.<br />
Image below: Dancer Sinead Byrne with AFAD intermediate modern dance students, <strong>2010</strong>
Programme for Youth<br />
WCAC Youth Theatre<br />
This Autumn, YT Director, Karen Moynihan<br />
focusses on role play, self expression,<br />
developing vocal, physical and<br />
performance skills to lay the foundation<br />
for WCAC’s Youth Event 2011.<br />
FNYA (Friday Night Youth <strong>Arts</strong>)<br />
Beginning in November, the Friday Night<br />
Youth <strong>Arts</strong> Group gives young people<br />
(13 - 18) the opportunity to work alongside<br />
professional artists in a contemporary<br />
arts context. Working with artist and<br />
Youth Coordinator Alison Trim, the group<br />
will develop artwork through a collaborative<br />
process for WCAC’s Youth Exhibition<br />
in the Spring.<br />
Second Level Schools<br />
<strong>West</strong> <strong>Cork</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Centre</strong> worked with a<br />
transition year group from Mercy Heights<br />
Secondary School, Skibbereen, to<br />
develop a sculptural permanent installation<br />
from discarded spectacles at the<br />
Ultralase Clinic, <strong>Cork</strong>. This project was<br />
facilitated by artist Catherine Ryan and<br />
funded by Ultralase Ireland.<br />
This Autumn’s second level schools<br />
programme focuses on drawing, exposing<br />
students to contemporary drawing<br />
practice through a gallery visit, and sup<br />
porting their development through an<br />
artist’s visit to the classroom. The work<br />
will form part of the Youth exhibition in<br />
Spring 2011. Interested schools should<br />
contact WCAC before, or at the beginning<br />
of, the Autumn term.
Oileán: Artist Residency<br />
Photographer Eoin O’Conaill visited Cape<br />
Clear Island regularly since February<br />
<strong>2010</strong> working with the young people of<br />
the island (12 – 18) and encouraging<br />
them to engage creatively with their everyday<br />
life through the medium of photography.<br />
In return, the young people introduced<br />
Eoin to the island, enabling him to<br />
develop his own body of work alongside<br />
theirs. The resulting exhibition, a diverse<br />
body of work reflecting each individual’s<br />
experience linked by their landscape, will<br />
be shown at WCAC as part of Sound and<br />
Vision. This programme is funded by the<br />
National Youth Council of Ireland’s Artist<br />
in Residence with Youth Programme and<br />
Údarás na Gaeltachta and run in partnership<br />
with Tír na Spraoi, an organisation<br />
based on Cape Clear Island which provides<br />
services for children up to the age<br />
of 16 years who reside there, funded by<br />
the Office of the Minister for Children.<br />
I <strong>2010</strong> forbraíodh clár for-rochtain le<br />
daoine óga ar Oileán Chléire, maoinithe<br />
ag Comhairle Náisiúnta Óige na hÉireann<br />
agus Údarás na Gaeltachta.<br />
Thug grianghrafadóir Eóin Ó Conaill<br />
cuairte rialta ar Oileán Chléire ó mí Feabhra<br />
<strong>2010</strong> agus d’oibrigh sé le daoine<br />
an Oileán ar aois 12 – 18, ag spreagadh<br />
iad chun dul i ngleic lena gnáth saol trí<br />
meáin grianghrafadóireachta..<br />
I gcomaoin do sin, chuir na daoine óga<br />
an oileán in aithne do Eóin, rud a chuir<br />
ar a gcumas é a chorpas oibre féin a<br />
dhéanamh taobh leo. Chruthaíonn an<br />
saghas malartú seo timpeallacht do foghlaim<br />
agus forbairt ina<br />
bhfuil a ról féin le líonadh ag Eóin agus<br />
na rannpháirtithe.<br />
Taispeánfar an taispeántas, a beidh mar<br />
thoradh ar seo, le corpas oibre éagsúil<br />
a léiríonn taithí an duine aonair, nasctha<br />
lena tírdhreach, in Ionad Ealaíona Iarthar<br />
Chorcaí mar chuid den sraith Fuaim is<br />
Fís ag Féile Ealaíona san Sciobairín i mí<br />
Iúil (féach leathanaigh an taispeántas<br />
chun teacht ar tuilleadh eolas).<br />
Eagrófar an chlár seo i gcomhpháirtíocht<br />
le Tír na Spraoi, an eagraíocht lonnaithe<br />
ar Chléire a chuireann seirbhísí ar fail do<br />
leanaí suas do aois 16 blian a bhfuil ina<br />
chónaí ann, agus é maoinithe ag Oifig an<br />
Aire Leanaí.<br />
Image left: Work in progress, permanent sculpture for Ultralase Clinic in <strong>Cork</strong>.<br />
Below from left: Installation from My Mind is a Map Youth <strong>Arts</strong> Exhibition, <strong>2010</strong> and photography from Oileán by Eoin O’Connaill.
Programme for Older People<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> for an Active Mind<br />
This regular course is facilitated by artist<br />
Paul Cialis, and is for people aged over<br />
55 years who are interested in exploring<br />
Visual Art. It is social in approach and<br />
invites participants to sample traditional<br />
painting skills, new techniques and different<br />
ways of working with acrylic paint<br />
and other materials. The course is linked<br />
to the Exhibition and other programmes<br />
at WCAC. Supported by <strong>West</strong> <strong>Cork</strong> VEC<br />
& HSE.<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> and Health<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> for Health is growing programme,<br />
first initiated in 2002 and currently involves<br />
a team of artists regularly working<br />
in six <strong>West</strong> <strong>Cork</strong> Hospitals managed by<br />
<strong>West</strong> <strong>Cork</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Centre</strong>. A new strand is<br />
currently being implemented into five Day<br />
Care <strong>Centre</strong>s.<br />
The majority of the hospital and day care<br />
service users are older people. The purpose<br />
of the programme is to implement<br />
an art programme into the culture and<br />
practice of all long-stay units as a core<br />
activity. This progressive programme is<br />
constantly evolving and is influenced<br />
by arts and health practice nationally. It<br />
involves a weekly group workshop and<br />
regular one to one support to encourage<br />
and develop creative ideas. The sessions<br />
provide a valuable opportunity for<br />
exchange between the artists and the<br />
participants for the benefit of both.<br />
Each of the six participating hospitals<br />
has its own artist who brings a different<br />
range of skills, approaches and experiences<br />
to the programme. They work<br />
together as a team, discussing ideas,<br />
methodology and ways of dealing with<br />
the ongoing challenges of working in a<br />
care environment.<br />
Artists on the programme include, Sarah<br />
Ruttle, Anne Harrington Rees, Julia Pallone,<br />
Sarah O’Brien and Sharon Dipity.<br />
Between Drawing and Painting<br />
Starting in September, this course, facilitated<br />
by artist John Simpson, explores<br />
form and space along with other fundamental<br />
visual art skills and ideas. Using a<br />
variety of materials, participants follow a<br />
process of making and drawing in both 2<br />
and 3 dimensions.
Programme for Adults<br />
Programme for Adults<br />
Some basic materials are provided however<br />
participants will be encouraged to<br />
purchase their own materials. Participants<br />
may submit their work for FETAC.<br />
Monthly Life Draw<br />
This new programme of day-long life<br />
drawing sessions (not facilitated), offers<br />
artists the time to explore this fundamental<br />
discipline. Basic equipment; easels<br />
and drawing boards are provided. The five<br />
hour session is held on the last Saturday<br />
of each month from September.<br />
Discover <strong>Arts</strong><br />
Thinking creatively and looking at ways<br />
to inspire the imagination is at the core of<br />
this programme aimed at Job Seekers. It<br />
starts with basic visual arts skills enabling<br />
participants to collect ideas and develop<br />
a journal of artwork. Artists John Simpson<br />
and Julia Pallone will deliver the programmes<br />
- one on site at WCAC and the<br />
other in Clonakilty. Supported by WCCP<br />
Explore Drama<br />
A new programme inspired by Youth<br />
Theatre facilitator, Karen Minihan, offers<br />
adults an opportunity to explore acting<br />
and improvisation. This short course will<br />
lead participants through a number of<br />
primary acting skills including movement<br />
and voice work.<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> in Care, Learning Day<br />
This three day annual opportunity offers<br />
an introduction to developing arts<br />
projects, delivering art workshops and<br />
working with artists in a care setting.<br />
The course is for careworkers and artists<br />
working in a care environment. Networking<br />
and peer learning opportunities are<br />
a key element to the day. No previous<br />
experience with arts is necessary to<br />
participate.<br />
Learning Network for Artists in<br />
Business<br />
WCAC has teamed up with <strong>West</strong> <strong>Cork</strong><br />
Community Partnership to create a biannual<br />
opportunity for networking with<br />
peers and shared learning. The day is<br />
tailored to the needs of artists who are<br />
setting up or who have already begun<br />
their own small business and will take the<br />
form of presentations, group discussions<br />
and simple exercises. The next event is<br />
planned for November <strong>2010</strong>.<br />
Mentor Opportunities<br />
WCAC is active in contracting artists<br />
from many disciplines to engage in participatory<br />
arts practice. To support their<br />
development, WCAC provides mentoring<br />
opportunities within the programme. Over<br />
the past number of years, artists have<br />
benefitted from this opportunity through<br />
the <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Centre</strong>’s Children’s Drama, <strong>Arts</strong><br />
and Health, and Schools Programme.<br />
It is hoped to offer two more opportunities<br />
this Autumn in visual art and arts for<br />
healthcare.<br />
Image left: Member of Between Drawing and Painting class at work. Below from left: Mouth painting by<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> for Health participant and AFAM Group in discussion with artist Kate Byrne, 2009.
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THE BARN GALLERY<br />
Garranes South, Drimoleague<br />
T: 028 31677<br />
E: sheilahooks@eircom.net<br />
W: www.barngalleryireland.com<br />
PAINTINGS, COMMISSIONS & TUITION<br />
Studio of Sheila Hooks, a professional artist known best<br />
for her paintings of the Irish landscape. Commissions<br />
accepted for most subjects. Open most days throughout<br />
the year but adviseable to telephone first. Situated 200<br />
metres off the Skibbereen Rd.<br />
Tuition at The Barn Gallery<br />
Sheila is also a qualified and experienced art tutor /<br />
demonstrator providing many courses during the year as<br />
well as individual private tuition. Professional Associate of<br />
the SAA. Full Member of the Pastel Society of Ireland for<br />
whom she recently tutored a masterclass.<br />
SILK PAINTING WEEKEND<br />
24th & 25th July<br />
Leave with 3 finished projects to impress your friends<br />
(drawing skills not essential)<br />
€170 inc. materials<br />
WATERCOLOUR WEEKEND COURSES<br />
Flowers & Gardens (indoors if wet)<br />
31st July & 1st August<br />
Gardens & Landscape<br />
14th & 15th August €150 inc. SAA paints<br />
PASTEL WEEKEND COURSE<br />
7th & 8th August €140<br />
Lots of tips & tricks & techniques. Small group (max 6)<br />
Idyllic location. Accommodation can be arranged.<br />
DRAWING & PAINTING<br />
10 Week Courses (2 hrs per week) commencing end of<br />
September.<br />
Private tuition can be booked by the hour.<br />
Hands-On arts and craft workshops<br />
T: 027 66133<br />
E: info@handsonwestcork.com<br />
W: www.handsonwestcork.com<br />
Hands-On workshops give you a chance to learn from<br />
some of <strong>West</strong> <strong>Cork</strong>’s most accomplished craftworkers and<br />
artists. Workshops range from single days to ongoing day/<br />
evening classes, and are suitable for complete beginners<br />
or experienced practitioners.<br />
Learn drawing, painting, raku ceramics, throwing, kiln<br />
building, stone carving, woodcarving, stained glass<br />
and glass fusing, green wood chairmaking, sculpture,<br />
photography, children’s art, printmaking, bookbinding,<br />
mosaics and paper mâché. Hands-On tutors include:<br />
Alison Ospina, Jim Turner, Ben Russell, Adrian Wistreich,<br />
Michael Ray and Pauline Agnew. All teach in their own<br />
studios.<br />
St. Barrahane’s Church Festival of<br />
Music <strong>2010</strong><br />
Castletownshend, Co. <strong>Cork</strong>,<br />
E: barrahanemusic@eircom.net<br />
W: http://homepage.eircom.net/~barrahane<br />
Thursday 22 July<br />
Christopher Marwood - Cello<br />
Jan Cáp - Piano<br />
Admission: €15, (under 13 free)<br />
Thursday 29 July<br />
Catherine Leonard - violin<br />
Hugh Tinney - piano<br />
Admission: €15, (under 13 free)<br />
Thursday 5 August<br />
Fiachra Garvey - Piano<br />
The best Irish competitor of the 2009 AXA<br />
International Dublin Piano Competition.<br />
Admission: €15, (under 13 free)<br />
This is a Music Wide Concert promoted by Music<br />
Network.<br />
Thursday 12 August<br />
To Be Confirmed:<br />
An Intimate Evening with Shaun Davey, Rita<br />
Connelly and friends.<br />
Thursday 19 August<br />
The Three Irish Tenors.<br />
Admission: €25<br />
All concerts begin at 8:30 p.m.<br />
Reservations and Ticket Sales:<br />
Mrs. Angela Eborall, Tel: +353 (0)28 - 36193<br />
Mrs. Jacqueline Weij, Tel: +353 (0)28 - 33752<br />
Ticket Sales Only: The Coffee Shop, Union Hall<br />
(028-34444) and Thornhill Electrical, Skibbereen<br />
(028- 22557)<br />
Cheques made payable to: St. Barrahane’s Music<br />
Festival. No Credit Cards.<br />
Sherkin Island Summer art workshop<br />
T: 087 8319929<br />
E: Cora_Collins@eircom.net<br />
W: www.sherkinart.com<br />
Workshops will run for five weeks Monday to<br />
Friday from 28 <strong>June</strong> to 30 July.<br />
Sherkin Island Summer Art Workshop brings<br />
together, for a five-day period, beginner, emerging<br />
and experienced artists who have a common<br />
interest in art.<br />
The Workshop will be run by Majella O Neill Collins,<br />
a resident of Sherkin Island and a successful<br />
working artist and Cora Collins, a resident of<br />
Castleconnell County Limerick, a mural artist and<br />
colour consultant.<br />
The Fee of €750 includes all tuition, materials,
WEST CORK ARTS NEWS<br />
meals and accommodation. This promises to be<br />
a marvellous opportunity for fun and adventure in<br />
a beautiful offshore Island and in a comfortable<br />
relaxed atmosphere.<br />
The timetable for the workshop offers plenty of<br />
variety - drawing, painting, land-art, exploration<br />
of different techniques and materials, artists’ talks<br />
and a field trip by boat to Heir Island.<br />
Numbers are limited so book early.<br />
Skibbereen Heritage <strong>Centre</strong><br />
Old Gasworks Building<br />
Upper Bridge Street<br />
Skibbereen, <strong>West</strong> <strong>Cork</strong><br />
T: 028 40900<br />
Fax: 028 40957<br />
E: info@skibbheritage.com<br />
W: www.skibbheritage.com<br />
Enjoy a visit to the Skibbereen Heritage <strong>Centre</strong> in<br />
its riverside location in the Old Gasworks Building.<br />
The Great Famine Exhibition - learn about this<br />
period of Irish history using the latest in multimedia<br />
technology. Skibbereen was one of the worst<br />
affected areas in Ireland, as testified by the mass<br />
graves near the town where almost 10,000 victims<br />
are buried. Visitors can also take a historical<br />
walking tour of the town.<br />
The Lough Hyne Visitor <strong>Centre</strong> reveals the<br />
unique nature of this marine lake, Ireland’s first<br />
Marine Nature Reserve. Find out about the<br />
history, folklore and formation of this renowned<br />
natural phenomenon. Follow with a trip to the<br />
lake’s walking trail.<br />
Other features; genealogy information,<br />
archaeology information, wildlife of the river<br />
Ilen, gift shop, hot and cold drinks and snacks,<br />
wheelchair friendly, car park adjacent.<br />
Special Heritage Week events are planned<br />
for <strong>2010</strong> to commemorate the <strong>Centre</strong>’s 10th<br />
anniversary. Please see www.skibbheritage.com<br />
for full details on all of these free events.<br />
GERT J. VAN MAANEN STUDIOS<br />
Singing Birds House, Coolkelure, Dunmanway<br />
T: 023 8855135<br />
E: info@gertjvanmaanen.com<br />
W: www.gertjvanmaanen.com<br />
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC THIS SUMMER<br />
You are more than welcome to visit his place of<br />
work located in this idyllic part of <strong>West</strong> <strong>Cork</strong>.<br />
Many of his contemporary paintings will be on<br />
display. Open daily from early <strong>June</strong> till late August,<br />
but do please contact him to confirm your visit.<br />
WORKING ARTIST STUDIOS<br />
71 North Street, Skibbereen,<br />
T: 086 1628471<br />
E: contact@workingartiststudios.com<br />
W: www.workingartiststudios.com<br />
ARTIST RESIDENCY<br />
Working Artist Studios, Skibbereen are offering a<br />
Studio Space and facilities with 24 hour access,<br />
for two week and four week block bookings.<br />
Longterm arrangements also available<br />
This would be attractive for :<br />
• An artist who would like to totally immerse<br />
themselves in their work for a fixed time<br />
without distractions.<br />
• An artist who would like a change of<br />
environment.<br />
• Someone who is currently working at home<br />
who would like the discipline and stimulus of<br />
working within a professional setup.<br />
• Somebody from another country or part of<br />
Ireland, who would like to experience working<br />
from a Studio base in <strong>West</strong> <strong>Cork</strong>.<br />
This studio is part of a building comprising Studios<br />
and Galleries, managed and used full time by<br />
a group of four professional Irish Artists. The<br />
core group, Working Artist Studios, has been in<br />
existence for ten years. For more background and<br />
contact information, including cost, please go to<br />
www.workingartiststudios.com<br />
Cape Clear International<br />
Storytelling Festival<br />
Cape Clear Island, Skibbereen, Co <strong>Cork</strong><br />
T: 086 8443067<br />
E: director@capeclearsorytelling.com<br />
W: www.capeclearstorytelling.com<br />
Friday 3 – Sunday 5 September<br />
A storytelling festival with a difference, set on the<br />
beautiful island of Cape Clear. Blending the old<br />
with the new, each year we invite five professional<br />
storytellers from all around the world celebrating<br />
each teller’s respective cultures through the art<br />
of storytelling. Music, walks and guaranteed fun<br />
until the small hours throughout the weekend are<br />
on the cards with a few extra sailings too. This<br />
renowned weekend is now in its 16th year, and<br />
offers a mix of international fame and multicultural<br />
diversity, suitable for all ages and nationalities.<br />
The atmosphere is relaxed and easy going and<br />
promotes a festival of unique standing in the world<br />
of storytelling. This year’s storytellers include:<br />
Rosemary Woods, Charlotte Blake Alston,David<br />
Campbell, Pat Speight and Suse Weisse.
WEST CORK ARTS NEWS<br />
Sarah Walker Gallery<br />
The Pier, Castletownbere, Co. <strong>Cork</strong><br />
T: 027 70387 Mob: 086 890 2338<br />
E: sarahwalker@eircom.net<br />
W: www.sarahwalker.ie<br />
Visit the gallery on the waterfront at the far west<br />
end of The Pier, Castletownbere.<br />
Open Monday to Saturday 11.00am to 6.00pm<br />
<strong>June</strong> through September and Easter & Xmas<br />
holidays or by appointment.<br />
Open most weekdays October through May, to<br />
check, telephone prior to visit.<br />
“All these paintings are evidence of a life lived<br />
close to brambles, trees, country roads, spring and<br />
winter air. Sarah Walker’s art filters nature with a<br />
connoisseur’s eye, thereby giving it a fine aesthetic<br />
pedigree.”<br />
Brian O’Doherty from Representing Art in Ireland.<br />
Paintings by Sarah Walker and a selection of<br />
other artists. Available: original oils on canvas, oils<br />
on paper in mounts and photographs and prints.<br />
Come browse and take a look at Castletownbere<br />
harbour from the balcony<br />
Haiti House Building Project Fundraiser: Sat<br />
July 3rd: Sale of Anonymous Postcards by Irish<br />
Artists, Locally Produced Food Market and Live<br />
Gig with Dr Strangely Strange and Luka Bloom<br />
Summer Show Opening Sat July 31st: Exhibition<br />
of Sarah Walker Paintings and Installations by<br />
Graduates from Art Colleges around the country.<br />
DOSWELL GALLERY<br />
<strong>West</strong> Square, Rosscarbery<br />
T: 023 8848137 / 087 7478713<br />
W: www.doswellgallery.com<br />
Doswell Gallery exhibits contemporary art from<br />
leading and emerging Irish and international artists.<br />
Exhibitions<br />
1 <strong>June</strong> -12 July<br />
Gallery Artists - paintings, prints, ceramics, glass<br />
17 July - 12 August<br />
Monica Boyle & Ian Humphreys - paintings<br />
6 August - 13 September<br />
Kevin Callaghan - ceramics<br />
14 August - 13 September<br />
Paul Ringrose - paintings<br />
Opening Times<br />
1 <strong>June</strong> - 12 July<br />
Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon: 11.00am - 6.00pm<br />
13 July - 13 September<br />
Everyday: 11.00am - 6.00pm<br />
COURTMACSHERRY CERAMICS<br />
Main Street, Courtmacsherry, Co. <strong>Cork</strong><br />
T: 023 884 6239<br />
Locally made porcelain tableware for everyday<br />
use, oven to table, hand decorated with <strong>West</strong><br />
<strong>Cork</strong> motifs. Ideal for gifts & wedding presents.<br />
Also art pieces and wall plates.<br />
Open: <strong>June</strong> - Mon – Fri 10.00am to 6.00pm<br />
Sat 10.00am to 1.00pm<br />
July & August - Mon – Sat 10.00am to 6.00pm<br />
Closed September<br />
<strong>West</strong> <strong>Cork</strong> Chamber Music Festival<br />
Bantry, Co <strong>Cork</strong><br />
T: 027 52788<br />
W: ww.westcorkmusic.ie<br />
Friday 25 <strong>June</strong> - Saturday 3 July<br />
The 15th <strong>West</strong> <strong>Cork</strong> Chamber Music Festival<br />
features the world’s finest soloists and ensembles<br />
playing concerts from morning to late night in Bantry<br />
House, St Brendan’s Church and St Finbarr’s<br />
Church in Bantry. The line-up include the Artis<br />
Quartet, Scottish star violinist Nicola Benedetti,<br />
much-admired violinist Alina Ibragimova with her<br />
quartet, Israeli violinist Vadim Gluzman, Finnish<br />
violinist Pekka Kuusisto, French pianist Philippe<br />
Cassard, the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland<br />
with the Irish Youth Choir, Russian pianist Kirill<br />
Gerstein, who was recently named the recipient<br />
of the <strong>2010</strong> Gilmore Artist Award and many more.<br />
The programme includes six glorious quartets<br />
that Mozart dedicated to his friend and mentor<br />
Joseph Haydn, paired with single string concertos<br />
by Vivaldi, Telemann and Johann Sebastian<br />
Bach while the unmissable Late Great Show each<br />
evening will feature Late Great Masterworks by<br />
Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms.<br />
The Festival’s reputation for programming unusual<br />
works will be furthered by performances of Don<br />
Giovanni arranged for string quartet, quartets by<br />
Viennese composers Weigl and Wellesz, rarely<br />
played quartets by Enescu and Moeran and much<br />
more.<br />
Jorg Widmann is Composer-in-Residence and will<br />
chair the Young Composers Forum which features<br />
performances of and discussions about the winning<br />
string quartets from the Festival’s <strong>2010</strong> Composition<br />
Competition. There will be a Violinmakers<br />
Exhibition and the Young Musicians Platform.<br />
The <strong>West</strong> <strong>Cork</strong> Chamber Music Festival is generously<br />
supported by the <strong>Arts</strong> Council of Ireland,<br />
Failte Ireland and <strong>Cork</strong> County Council. The Irish<br />
Examiner is media sponsor of the <strong>West</strong> <strong>Cork</strong><br />
Chamber Music Festival.
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<strong>West</strong> <strong>Cork</strong> Literary Festival<br />
Bantry, Co <strong>Cork</strong><br />
T: 027 55987<br />
W: www.westcorkliteraryfestival.ie<br />
Sunday 4 - Saturday 10 July<br />
Michael Palin, Margaret Drabble, Fay Weldon,<br />
John Boyne, Carol Drinkwater, Eavan Boland and<br />
Anthony Horowitz are just some of the writers appearing<br />
at this year’s <strong>West</strong> <strong>Cork</strong> Literary Festival<br />
which features some of the finest writers and<br />
poets from Ireland and abroad.<br />
The Festival is once again generously supported<br />
by the <strong>Arts</strong> Council, Failte Ireland, <strong>Cork</strong> County<br />
Library and <strong>Arts</strong> Service and RTÉ Lyric fm. Speakers<br />
include leading Irish poet, Eavan Boland;<br />
award-winning travel writer Tim Mackintosh-Smith;<br />
Rooney Prize winner Philip O Ceallaigh and<br />
Booker Nominee, Simon Mawer. We are also<br />
delighted to introduce Suad Amiry, Palestinian<br />
author of the international bestseller Sharon and<br />
My Mother-in-Law, Singaporean poet and novelist,<br />
Felix Cheong, bestselling novelist John Boyne<br />
and many more. Manchán Magan and Damien<br />
Enright discussing Writing for the Environment,<br />
Peter Sirr and James Harpur talking about the<br />
Poetry Journey, Simon Mawer and Tim Severin<br />
sharing their thoughts on Research are just some<br />
of the afternoon seminars taking place in the<br />
Maritime Hotel.<br />
There will be a broad range of writing workshops<br />
including: Fiction with Peter Cunningham,<br />
Short Fiction with Nuala Ni Chonchuir, Writing<br />
for Women with Catherine Dunne, Freelance<br />
Journalism with Sue Leonard, Bound to be Read<br />
with literary agent Jonathan Williams, Poetry with<br />
Leanne O’Sullivan, The Graphic & Fantasy Novel<br />
with Celine Kearney, Crime Writing with Alex<br />
Barclay, Short Fiction with Nuala Ni Chonchuir,<br />
Song Writing with Julie Feeney and Writing for the<br />
Stage with Ursula Rani Sarma.<br />
The Festival will also feature a new generation<br />
of Irish writers, including immigrant poets. There<br />
will be master classes in travel writing and fiction,<br />
seminars on the art of editing and some entertaining<br />
talks: Brian Dillon will speak about hypochondriac<br />
writers; Tony Humphreys will be launching<br />
his new book, Karen Coleman will speak about<br />
abuse in religious institutions, and Eileen Battersby<br />
on re-reading classics. The <strong>2010</strong> Fish<br />
Anthology will also be launched in St Brendan’s<br />
Church.<br />
The Ewe Sculpture Garden & Gallery<br />
N71 Kenmare Road, Glengarriff.<br />
T: 027-63840 (call if travelling far)<br />
E: info@theewe.com<br />
W: www.theewe.com<br />
See also Facebook and YouTube<br />
Open Summer daily 10.00am to 6.00pm or by<br />
appointment.<br />
Ireland’s only interactive sculpture garden has<br />
expanded yet again and now consists of four<br />
inter-linked gardens, including the Valley of Eden.<br />
Try Evolution Walk and learn about your history,<br />
test the Human Sundial, or marvel at the giant<br />
and dinosaur. A must see destination for anyone<br />
interested in art and nature. Spectacular setting in<br />
a beautiful mountain forest by a tranquil waterfall.<br />
Sculptures, mixed media and paintings for sale by<br />
Sheena Wood.<br />
Also tea garden and bead workshop.<br />
The Warren Gallery<br />
MaryAnns, Castletownshend, Co <strong>Cork</strong><br />
T: 086 - 8510531<br />
E: info@warren-gallery.com<br />
W: www.warren-gallery.com<br />
Events This Summer<br />
1 May - 1 July: Felim Egan - New Works<br />
1 July - 14 July: Rachel Gallagher - Coast<br />
15 July - 30 July: Yvonne Moore - Summer Paintings<br />
4 August - 31 August: Aidan Bradley - <strong>West</strong> <strong>Cork</strong><br />
The Series II<br />
Dublin Show at Gresham Hotel 18 - 20 <strong>June</strong><br />
Across the Irish Sea - John Thompson, Lancashire<br />
Painter, Solo Show<br />
Masters of Tradition<br />
Bantry House, Bantry, Co. <strong>Cork</strong><br />
T: 027 52788<br />
W: www.westcorkmusic.ie<br />
Wednesday 11 - Sunday 15 August<br />
As ever the Festival is headlined by Martin Hayes,<br />
the fiddler from East Clare, whose distinctive touch<br />
and extravagant virtuosity has brought the tradition<br />
to new levels. His trance-evoking sets with Dennis<br />
Cahill have mesmerised audiences all over the<br />
world. At this early stage <strong>West</strong> <strong>Cork</strong> Music can<br />
announce that the Festival will feature Caoimhin<br />
O Raghallaigh, Brendan Begley and Aine Ni<br />
Dhonnacha. The brochure for this special musical<br />
experience will be available in July. The Masters<br />
of Tradition Festival is generously supported by<br />
the <strong>Arts</strong> Council of Ireland, Failte Ireland and <strong>Cork</strong><br />
County Council.
HOW TO FIND US<br />
<strong>West</strong> <strong>Cork</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Centre</strong> is situated<br />
adjacent to St. Patrick’s Cathedral<br />
in the centre of the market town of<br />
Skibbereen.<br />
From <strong>Cork</strong> – Take the N71 through<br />
Innishannon, Bandon, Clonakilty,<br />
Rosscarbery and Leap.<br />
From Killarney – Take the N71<br />
through Kenmare, Glengarriff,<br />
Bantry and Ballydehob.<br />
Opening hours<br />
Monday – Saturday<br />
10.00am – 5.00pm<br />
All event details are correct at time<br />
of going to press and are subject<br />
to change.<br />
Image above: WCAC Building, Skibbereen. Image by Phil Pound<br />
<strong>West</strong> <strong>Cork</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Centre</strong>, North Street, Skibbereen, Co. <strong>Cork</strong>, Ireland.<br />
Tel: +353 (0)28 - 22090 Email: info@westcorkartscentre.com<br />
Web: www.westcorkartscentre.com