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This form of educational delivery has attracted international interest in the programme. This is evident in the alliances formed with a range of third level institutions arising largely on the basis of the initiative. Such institutions include: the University of Ulster, The Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen and the University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland, Loughborough University (UK) and Kingston University (UK). While recognising the importance of this model and its delivery it is also time to view and experience the work of these graduate students. Many of the graduates were participants on the Arts and Culture programme. Their practice is evidence of the value of collaboration and operates by both acknowledging the local and its contexts within the wider contemporary art world. Their dedication, drive and application to their studies has been exemplary. From, literally, ferrying portfolios and art materials across to Sherkin Island, developing environmental landworks in gale force winds and ordering library books and seeing them delivered to the hall in cardboard boxes, they fully acknowledged the unique aspects of this programme and used them to their strengths. We sincerely wish these first BA in Visual Art graduates every success in their future work. I would like to thank and acknowledge the commitment of all the staff at DIT who have worked on this BA, particularly the programme co-ordinator Bernadette Burns. We are most grateful to our partners Sherkin Island Development Society and to the West Cork Arts Centre for showing such dedication and enthusiasm for this BA and to the Pilot Programme. Without their commitment, dedication and co-operation we would not be here celebrating the work of these graduates. The influential American writer and arts activist Lucy Lippard, who delivered a public lecture on Sherkin Island as part of the Art Council’s Critical Voices Programme in June 2002, spoke of the local as being “the intersections of nature, culture, history, and ideology that form the ground on which we stand.” Building on Lippard’s definition it is perhaps our own intersection of defining, collaborating and delivering a BA programme from the local to a national and international context that will further inform us on where we now stand.
Celebration Majella O’Neill Collins Chairperson West Cork Arts Centre The BA in Visual Art Degree Show 2009 at West Cork Arts Centre celebrates the work by seven students who are the first to graduate from the BA (hons) in Visual Art Programme, Sherkin Island. The development and implementation of this programme is supported by a partnership between Sherkin Island Development Society Ltd (SIDS), the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) and West Cork Arts Centre (WCAC). Along with the other partners, West Cork Arts Centre is committed to the development of transformative learning provision at the higher levels of educational achievement which this programme provides. It also provides opportunities to build capacity in the arts so that artists can live, work and study on the islands - underpinning the capacity for living in remote and rural island and coastal environments. As an organisation concerned with the development of the arts and with issues of access to and participation in the arts for all sectors of society, West Cork Arts Centre recognises that the BA in Visual Art Programme is a significant arts and cultural resource for this region. It has extended the range of creative opportunities not only for islanders and the broader West Cork community but also for the students and lecturers of DIT, Dublin. The BA in Visual Art Programme brings professional artists to the area and creates opportunities for students, other artists, communities and arts organisations alike. It invigorates the process of engagement with the arts, it supports the establishment of learning communities and leads to the development of networks to promote exchange between communities of interest and the interrogation of contemporary arts practice. We are delighted to show this work by Sheelagh Broderick, John Desmond, Gill Good, Jill Hegarty, Tess Leak, Ciarnad Ryan and Geoff Stephens and to showcase both the Degree Programme and the individual emerging artists involved. We would like to thank the seven students who are the first to graduate from this programme, for their enthusiasm, hard work and commitment to both the programme and to this exhibition. We would also like to congratulate them on a wonderful first exhibition of which we hope there will be many more.
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