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2 December 2022 - 12 March 2023
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A Line Around An Idea: ways of knowing through contemporary drawing practices
Pablo Bronstein, Felicity Clear, Inci Evener, Helen Farrell, Rachel Goodyear, Julie Merriman, O’Donnell + Tuomey, Dan Perjovschi, Plattenbau Studio, Barbara Walker, Rinus Van de Welde
Curated by Chris Clarke and Fiona Kearney
Dessiner met une ligne autour d'une idée
Drawing is putting a line around an idea
Henri Matisse
Drawing is used across a wide range of disciplines as a foundational way of learning, sharing and generating knowledge. Contemporary artists and architects have also employed drawing to explore, challenge and sometimes upend how these disciplinary systems engage with the world. The exhibition A Line Around an Idea considers how drawing can be a generative and disruptive force within scientific observation and design, as well as interrogating art histories and canonical textual narratives.
A Line Around An Idea is supported by The Arts Council Ireland, University College Cork and private philanthropy through Cork University Foundation.
Taken from: https://www.glucksman.org/exhibitions/alinearoundanidea
The Swinging Pendulum
Joanna Kidney
November 18th - December 17th at The LAB Gallery, Dublin
Time passes and so the pendulum swings. To and fro from left to right, light to dark, simplicity to complexity. Oscillating between opposing sides, modes and ideas. The space which lies between holds the nuance, diversity and richness that makes up life.
The LAB Gallery is pleased to present its latest exhibition The Swinging Pendulum, a new body of paintings together with an experimental participatory drawing project by visual artist Joanna Kidney.
This series of paintings has evolved through multiple experimental processes in the studio by the artist, including automatic drawing exercises and the playful use of paper cut outs and found objects. The paintings embody ideas of dualism...the minuscule and the immense, knowing and unknowing, planning and improvisation. They invite slow looking where meaning is open, existing in the interpretation.
Alongside this body of work, the artist has introduced a participatory element to the exhibition, in the form of #themovabledrawingsproject. This comprises of a space for viewers to explore ideas related to drawing and its possibilities. This project is an open, experimental collaboration with people of all ages, a broad conversation.
Exhibition Preview on Friday November 18th at 6pm, with opening words from Cliodhna Shaffrey, Director of Temple Bar Gallery and Studios.
Publication Launch on Thursday December 8th at 5.30pm, where Joanna Kidney will be in conversation with writer Joanne Laws.
This work has been supported by an Arts Council of Ireland Visual Arts Bursary and Wicklow County Council Artists Support Award.
The Possibilities of Drawing
Public Workshop facilitated by Joanna Kidney
Saturday December 3rd 10.30am to 1pm
As part of her exhibition, Joanna Kidney invites you to join #themovabledrawingsproject conversation and delve into the possibilities of drawing.
In this workshop, we will use experimental drawing exercises to explore visible and invisible marks and lines through sound, movement and small objects. We'll look at other artists work as part of the conversation. Bring curiosity, small found objects and warm socks.
#themovabledrawingsproject is an ongoing participatory project by artist Joanna Kidney, an invitation to make temporary, 3 dimensional drawings and a space to think about the possibilities of drawing. It is an open, experimental collaboration with people of all ages, a broad conversation.
Free Workshop for adults (18+). Booking required
Book your ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-possibilities-of-drawing-tickets-463558685507
The Swinging Pendulum Publication Launch
Thursday December 8th 5.30pm
Join us on December 8th for the launch of The Swinging Pendulum Publication, where writer Joanne Laws and artist Joanna Kidney will be in-conversation at The LAB Gallery.
The Swinging Pendulum Publication is a 40-page full colour publication with text by Joanne Laws. It is written in response to artist Joanna Kidney's solo exhibition The Swinging Pendulum in The LAB Gallery (18 November - 17 December 2022).
Book your ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-swinging-pendulum-publication-launch-tickets-463562356487
Publication funded by Creative Ireland with design by We Make Visual and photography by Ros Kavanagh.
For Location, Opening Hours and Accessibilty Information, click here: http://www.dublincityartsoffice.ie/the-lab/visit-the-lab-gallery
For further information please see www.dublincityartsoffice.ie or email: artsoffice@dublincity.ie
Telephone: 01 222 5455
Orla O Byrne, Artist Talk
Friday December 2nd, Crawford Art Gallery, Lecture Hall, 12.30
Crawford Art Gallery are delighted to announce a Friends of Crawford Art Gallery talk with artist Orla O'Byrne. This talk will weave together various aspects of her research into the history of the Crawford Art Gallery building at Emmet Place, Cork. She will touch on what led her to request a residency, her own drawing practice and the appearance of some antique glass teaching slides.
Orla is a Cork-based visual artist and 2019 graduate of The Crawford College of Art and Design. In 2020 she was granted a 4-year studio licence at Backwater Artists Group and in 2022 she became a member of the Board of Directors there. Her previous awards include The Lavitt Gallery Student of the Year and the CIT's Registrar Prize. Recent arts-funded projects include a research trip to the marble quarrying region of Northern Italy and a desk residency at the Crawford Art Gallery, which was funded by Drawbridge, the drawing research hub based at MTU.
Orla is currently a 2022 MA: Art and Process candidate at MTU CCAD. This year's MA:AP show, 'Know That I Am Also At Sea', runs until December 8th at 46 Grand Parade, Cork.
Entry Fee: €8
Friends of Crawford: €5
STUDENTS GO FREE
MTU Crawford College of Art & Design presents the MA in Art and Process (MA:AP) 2022 Exhibition
Know That I Am Also at Sea
Opening Event: Thursday November 24, 6pm with Guest Speaker: Artist Aideen Barry
Dates: Friday November 25 - Thursday December 8
Opening Times: Wednesday - Friday, 11am - 5pm, Thursday December 8, 2pm – 5pm and Saturday December 3, 11am - 5pm
Venue: MA Art & Process Studios and MTU Gallery, 46 Grand Parade, Cork City
Admission is Free
MTU Crawford is delighted to announce the opening of the 2022 MA Art & Process exhibition. The show brings together a diverse range of media from moving image, painting, photography, and sculpture. The exhibition presents artworks from: Ava Hayes, Kiriko Hashimoto, Orla O'Byrne, Petrina Shortt, Sanda Gālina, and Shane Vaughan. This exhibition is an invitation to connect in an ever-changing environment. We each navigate times of unease from our own particular perspective. The work in this show speaks to our solitude as well as our togetherness. As artists, our materials and modes of making differ, but it’s in our attitude that we have found a common thread. We ask questions that are just beyond our grasp, push our materials beyond their intended purpose, and make work to communicate beyond words. In this beyond-space, we come together.
Know That I Am Also at Sea* refers to our individual journeys through the artistic process. Over the past year we have interrogated our practices; turning them over, shaking them out, discarding some elements and introducing others. There were times of uncertainty and doubt. We understood that this was an important time to float, to make, to be. While it was often a vulnerable place, we knew it was necessary to spend time here to allow the work to find its voice.
Our combined artistic research and processes explore public architecture, identity, natural materials, time, place and loss. Orla’s work is site responsive navigating personal experiences within the space of a public building. Shane uses digital technologies to construct and deconstruct concepts of identity; who are we and how do we become those people? Kiriko's relationship to wood honours this natural material as something precious and valuable. Petrina explores layered experiences of time, using a specific place to catalogue thousands of years of change. Through photography, Sanda dismantles the experience of many places into one moment to examine the feeling of displacement. Ava's performative paintings hide and reveal the facets of private and public; what we show, what we hide, what others take. The exhibition allows for reciprocal moments rather than an end point. The work will continue to evolve through engagement and connection. *title gratefully borrowed from the poem Altair Shines for my Beloved by Lucy Holmes
MA Art & Process is a 3 semester programme delivered from January to December, and part-time over 2 calendar years. The concept of process is understood in a variety of ways: as material exploration and the engagement with medium and technique; as theoretical investigation and systems of enquiry without resolved or object-based endpoints; as innovative models of art distribution, including the possibilities of working outside traditional sites of art production and reception. Process also refers to the progression each student achieves over the course of the MA, which involves the observation, critique, deconstruction, documentation and rebuilding of individual practice. This programme is delivered in our Grand Parade campus in Cork city, Ireland. MA in Art & Process is currently open for applications for January 2023.
To follow the trajectory of the exhibition, visit: https://www.instagram.com/mtu_crawford_ma_artandprocess/?hl=en
Artwork by: CCAD Lecturer and Artist Megan Eustace
Cover Versions is an exhibition of artworks from 50+ years of The Gallery Press which takes place in the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Dublin from 18 November 2022 – 29 January 2023.
Admired almost as much for the elegance of their appearance as for the excellence of their contents books from The Gallery Press have set standards in Irish publishing for more than fifty years.
This exciting and instructive exhibition includes paintings, photographs, prints and sculpture by Ireland’s leading contemporary artists that have been on or in (or just beyond) Gallery Press publications for more than half a century. Also featured are a number of American artists, some showing their work for the first time in Europe. Much of the work included in Cover Versions has never been seen in public before.
The catalogue for the exhibition is available to purchase from the RHA or from their online shop. Please visit https://gallerypress.com/2022/10/21/cover-versions/ for more information.
DRAWING ROOM
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork city
9th September - 4th December, 2022
Situated in the former drawing spaces of the Crawford School of Art – which relocated from our building in 1979 – this exhibition offers a cross-section of drawing works from the collection.
DRAWING ROOM highlights contemporary and historic practice, encompassing eighteenth-century sketches, nineteenth-century life drawings, and twentieth-century subject studies.
The exhibition features the work of Jo Allen, James Barry, Megan Eustace, Brian Fay, Angela Fewer, Samuel Forde, Seán Keating, Sarah Longley, Daniel Maclise, Walter A. Mulligan, John O’Leary, Suzy O'Mullane, Mervyn Peake, Kathy Prendergast, John Risi, Thomas Rowlandson, John Shinnors, Edith Somerville, Samuel Walsh, and William Willes.
Drawing is observation, curiosity, experiment, thought, freedom, and investigation. In presenting a diversity of styles and techniques together, this exhibition registers the changes in drawing practice and material choices over time, while also serving as an invitation for visitors to examine, linger – even draw!
Curated by: Michael Waldron
Taken from: https://crawfordartgallery.ie/drawing-room/
Drawing Connections (collaborative exhibition between Sample-Studios and Drawbridge) is delighted to coincide with Drawing Room, an opportunity which has led to quotes from Drawing Connections artists being displayed on the walls of Drawing Room.
ABOUT:
Within Sir John Soane’s Museum, the Drawing Office is the earliest surviving example of a working architectural office. To mark the 200th anniversary of its installation, Sir John Soane’s Museum is beginning a programme of restoration, new multi-layered digital interpretation, and the launch of the Museum’s first residency programme. The Drawing Office sits in the heart of the Museum, access via a staircase outside Soane’s celebrated Picture Room.
The historic importance of the Museum, its archive and collections are well known. What is less well known is the work the Museum does with contemporary artists and the relevance of the Museum and its collection to artists, architects and designers practicing now . The residency will enable Sir John Soane’s Museum to develop its work with contemporary practitioners, whilst complementing the broader work of the organisation.
Two artist residents will be hosted annually from 2023, for three months each, during the Spring (March to May) and the Autumn (September to November).
CRITERIA:
The Selectors will be looking for a high-quality self-directing practitioner who will use this new opportunity to best develop their practice and who will use the residency to best enhance the work of the Museum. How drawing is used as part of applicants’ work will be a key selection criteria. The Museum is keen to engage with the resident to maximise the associated benefits and will dedicate in-house resources to ensuring that artists make the most of the experience of working in this very special organisation. The Drawing Office was innovative at its time and the Soane wants to engage with an artist practitioner who will be original in their approach to the residency.
ARTISTS FEES:
Artists will be contracted for a minimum of 12 days working either in the Museum or in their studio during the three month period. The artist will be engaged over a pre-agreed number of days in the Museum either working on site, taking part in public engagement or educational activity or using the research facilities.
There will be an honorarium of £1,500 per artist or collaboration, to cover materials, travel and other expenses.
There will also be the possibility of an allowance for each artist on a case by case basis, to help cover accommodation, at the discretion of the Project Managers. Please note that this will not cover international artists’ travel expenses or Visa application fees.
More information on the application process and the residency itself can be found at: https://artistatsoane.artopps.co.uk
Image credit: Daniel Coombes
This is the third in a series of online events organised by the DRG at Loughborough University investigating ecologies of drawing.
Date: Wednesday, 25th May 2022
Time: 11am-12.30pm IST
About this event
This panel invites Daniel Coombes, Ann McDonald and Uri Wegman to present papers on the role of drawing in mapping environments. This event will be chaired by Kiera O’Toole, a practice-led PhD student at Loughborough University who is investigating the research question, "Can the process of Drawing in-Space record the ‘emotional vibrations’ of atmospheres to the extent the atmosphere is co-present in the drawing?"
The Drawing Research Network Ecology of Drawing Events have been organised by staff and PhD researchers from the Drawing Research Group at Loughborough University, chaired by Deborah Harty. This series aims to explore Ecologies of Drawing and how they might act as agents of change. Scientifically concerned with the interrelationships of organisms and environments in the context of drawing the term ecology might be understood generously to include: environments of dynamic exchange and metastable equilibrium; inter-relational sites of spatial and temporal encounter; the complex systems and patterns of material and virtual worlds; social, political, and economic ecologies; self-sustaining microcosms within spheres of containment; and fragile interdependencies. In the light of the analogous and entwined conditions of drawing and ecology, we are curious to learn how the agency of drawing operates as an ecological practice - be it in graphite trails, sonic traces, and waves of light, or events and encounters that activate diverse thought and conversation.
The event will take place via Microsoft Teams. A notification with the link will be sent 30 minutes before the start of the event.
To learn more and register for this free event please visit:
mergeemerge
a collaborative drawing project by
Michael Geddis and Joanna Kidney
at Mermaid Arts Centre, Co. Wicklow, Opening Saturday 7th May, 6-8pm
Running 9th May – 18th June, Monday to Saturday, 11am - 4pm
mergeemerge Book Launch and Artists Talk with Brian Fay, Michael Geddis and Joanna Kidney, 26th May, 6.30pm
Free event, booking essential through Mermaid Box Office, 01-2724030
This project began as a purely visual conversation by way of a series of small drawings posted back and forth between two artists. What emerged from this silent contemplation is a grand expression of the convergences and divergences in the work of Michael Geddis and Joanna Kidney.
After meeting during a Residency in Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Co. Mayo, their collaboration began in 2016 in response to the shared similarities of their work. As the collaboration has evolved over 5 years, the tensions arising from the differences in their approaches to drawing have come to energize their work. Taking cues from patterns and forms of science and the natural world, they passed drawings back and forward, both of them adding a part drawing to each one sequentially. Their joint drawings grew organically until each one reached its conclusion. What has emerged from their combined memory, intuition and imagination are intertwined otherworlds...worlds which speak of the minutiae, connectivity, touch and slowness.
https://www.mermaidartscentre.ie
https://www.michaelgeddisart.co.uk
www.joannakidney.com
This project has been kindly funded by Arts Council of Northern Ireland; Wicklow County Council; Ards and North Down Borough Council and supported by Mermaid Arts Centre, Co. Wicklow and Outpost Studios Residency Programme, Co. Wicklow.
Field of Action - Performative Drawings & Paintings
A Draw to Perform project at Canning Gallery, London
Day of Live Performances - Sat 5 March 12:00 - 18:00
'Field of Action' is an art project at the Canning Gallery, curated by Draw to Perform's founder and director Ram Samocha. The project will start on Saturday 5th March with a day of live drawing and painting performances by 13 local and international artists.
The remains of these performances will be installed and displayed in the gallery space for two weeks, allowing gallery visitors the opportunity of looking at them not only in the context of live art products but also as independent works of art that were uniquely created live in the gallery space and not in the artist's studio.
The day of performance and the following exhibition aims to open questions around the relevancy and the position of the artist's presence in our time, the creative process and the alternative ways of making art on-site. It also aims to explore the relevancy of the final product of art, its production and the options of sharing it today. It attempts to understand the impact of those objects as individual works of art suitable for display not only in the context of live art remnants but also as works which stand for themselves and hold appeal within of the contemporary evolving art scene.
As part of this project there will also be drawing performance workshops on Sat 12th and Sun 13th (10:00-12:00), and a panel discussion with participating artists on Sun 13th (15:00-17:00). Please visit Eventbrite and Draw to Perform websites for more information about all future activities.
Add a donation ticket and reserve now your participation in joining us on Saturday 5th March for the day of live performances, which will be running all day from 12:00 to 18:00 at the Canning Gallery space. The audience will be able to drop in throughout the day, observe the various performances and participate in some of the action.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/field-of-action-day-of-performances-tickets-262439703217
Sample-Studios in collaboration with CCAD Drawbridge at MTU
Call for expressions of interest
Drawing Connections Exhibition
Sample-Studios Gallery, The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Fitzgerald’s Park
6th - 28th October 2022
Curator: Drawbridge
Call for expressions of interest from graduates of MTU’s MA:AP programme, whose work encompasses drawing practice, to take part in an exhibition of drawing research work/projects that respond to drawings in the Crawford Art Gallery drawing collection.
The main exhibition site will be The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Fitzgerald’s Park but we are also interested in projects that explore the expanded field of drawing practice as, for example: embodied act or performance, as site specific response or narrative, as a method of capturing and exploring interactive collaborations, etc.
Six selected participants will have access to the selected works from the drawing collection in the Crawford Art Gallery on dates to be confirmed in May/June. Access to the Crawford Art Gallery drawing collection is also available online: https://crawfordartgallery.ie/online-collection/
The exhibition will be held on 6th - 28th October 2022 in The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion in Fitzgeralds Park. Sample-Studios may also facilitate workshops or other related activities which could use the participants as facilitators if they so wish.
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Deadline for receipt of applications: Thursday March 3rd 2022.
To apply please submit an expression of interest (150 words max) and 5 examples of relevant work. Convert all materials in a single PDF file with subject header Drawing Connections 2022 and email to crawford.drawbridge@mtu.ie
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For further information contact:
tactic.samplestudios@gmail.com
Can you hear me Damo? is the first solo show from Cork-based artist Anne-May Tabb and is curated by Alison O’Shea.
Anne-May Tabb is a Cork based artist. Her primary research broadly explores aspects of the everyday, relying on spontaneity, humour and connections found in the mundane. These concerns have remained a large part of her practice over the last number of years and have become especially prevalent during the last months. The everyday has become a site of close observation, our domestic lives melting into work, pleasure, and rest. This work looks to daily walks, pigeons, flatpack furniture and proverbs.
Anne-May was graduate resident at the Backwater Artists Studios and has taken part in multiple group exhibitions around Ireland. Can you hear me Damo? Is her first solo show presented with curator Alison O’Shea and supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.
Since November 2020 Anne-May has worked as the Research Assistant for Drawbridge, the drawing research hub based at MTU CCAD, a group which is exploring contemporary drawing in its widest possible interpretations through projects, collaborations and discussions.
The show opens on February 1st in St Peter’s Vision Centre, North Main Street and runs until February 14th. As part of the show AnneMay Tabb and Alison O’Shea will be in discussion with artist and curator Ciara Rodgers as part of the Faoin Spéir programme presented at the Living Commons, Wandesford Quay, Cork. This in person discussion will take place at 2pm Saturday 5th January followed by a tour of the exhibition.
Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
PhD Candidate position available - Drawing to Learn in Science
To apply or find out more visit: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/215880/phd-candidate-drawing-to-learn-in-science
About the position
A PhD position is available at the Department of Teacher education at NTNU. This is an educational position that shall provide promising research recruits the opportunity for professional development through studies towards a PhD. The position is connected to the PhD-program in Educational Science at the faculty of Social and Educational Science and the faculty will be your employer.
The position is connected to the ScienceHumanities research group coordinated from the Natural science section at the Department. The research group applies perspectives from the humanities and the social sciences to the study of natural science (including science in school) as a discipline and cultural practice, past and present. Studies of cultures of text and (re)presentation of science, how the Nature of Science is taught in the classroom, students’ understanding of science, and practical experiments in science teaching are included in this. For more information, see https://www.ntnu.edu/ilu/sciencehumanities
We are looking for a highly motivated candidate to participate in a research endeavor focusing on Drawing to Learn in Science.
Drawing to explore, model, represent and communicate scientific understanding and reasoning is inherent to scientific practice. The practice of drawing is intertwined with the history and nature of science in terms of how scientific knowledge is, and has been, produced and justified. When it comes to student learning, drawing has been shown to contribute to observation skill, enhanced recall, to make understanding explicit and to organize knowledge effectively, leading to deep learning. However, there is a lack of studies of how and why teachers include drawing activities in the science classrooms and how students engage in drawing as a science practice. Other relevant questions to ask are what knowledge and skills teachers need in order to make use of Drawing to Learn in Science in their classrooms, and how such knowledge and skills can be developed through pre- and in-service training. We are also interested in drawing as part of past teaching (and research) practices. If you have a research idea, approach or perspective within an area that we have not mentioned, we would still like to hear from you.
We invite applicants to submit their research ideas within the theme Drawing to Learn in Science. We are open to different research approaches to the topic and different educational contexts. The research ideas should be presented in the form of a project proposal, mentioning what the applicant would like to investigate and within which context.
ONE MONTH LEFT TO ENTER
The deadline to enter the Derwent Art Prize 2022 is fast approaching. Artists worldwide are invited to submit their work by Tuesday 4th January 2022, 5PM GMT
The Derwent Art Prize supports artists at all stages of their career – in particular young artists under the age of 25 who benefit from a reduced entry fee and two dedicated prizes of £4,000 and £2,000 each.
For more information, and to enter, you can visit https://www.derwent-artprize.com
The Centre for Creative Arts, Cultures and Engagement at London Metropolitan University is holding a ‘Performance Drawing,’ event organised as part of Art, Architecture and Design Sessions 2021-22.
Free event! Book your tickets now: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aad-sessions-performance-drawing-tickets-198190482067
Wednesday 8th December 5:30pm GMT
You are invited to a special CREATURE (https://www.londonmet.ac.uk/research/centres-groups-and-units/the-centre-for-creative-arts-cultures-and-engagement/) session exploring the connection between performance and drawing. "What is 'performance drawing'? When does a drawing turn into a performance? Is the act of drawing in itself a performative process, whether a viewer is present or not?" The session, hosted by Dr Jacek Ludwig Scarso (Reader in Art & Performance) will feature artists and researchers Dr Carali McCall and Claire Zakiewicz. The session takes inspiration from the recent publication Performance Drawing (Bloosmbury, 2020) and explores recent and established practices and questions in this field, with practical examples from the contributors' own work.
The Engineering Club
Competition | Engineering Sketches Student Prize 2021
Closing Date: 30th November 2021
Who can Enter?
Students can be from any design or construction discipline – both engineering and non-engineering, as long as the subject of their drawing/drawings is of an engineering nature. Students can be from any UK and non-UK universities and colleges. Entrants can submit multiple sketches from different projects, but be wary of overloading the judging process.
The competition is free to enter
To find out more visit: http://engineeringclub.org.uk/competition/engineering-sketches-student-prize-2021/
Online FREE Drawbridge Launch Event taking place on:
Date: Thursday 18th November 2021
Time: 2PM - 4.30PM
Drawbridge - Drawing Research Hub based at MTU Crawford College of Art & Design proudly welcomes you to our Launch Event!
Drawbridge - the first drawing research hub of its kind to be established within the MTU Crawford College of Art & Design campus - was founded by Dr Helen Farrell and Dr Lucy Dawe-Lane to facilitate opportunities for researchers, students and artists to collaborate and exchange ideas around contemporary drawing practice. With a focus on promoting the capability of drawing to give form to thought Drawbridge are currently engaging in drawing projects and collaborations with the aim of consolidating current drawing practice and research activity within MTU. This mini symposium offers a taste of what is to come and celebrates the launch of the Drawbridge website.
With great pleasure Drawbridge will be introducing some incredible speakers with connections to Cork and MTU to explore and celebrate the diversity of drawing research including Professor Maggie Cusack (President of MTU), Rachel Duckhouse (Visual Artist), Prof. Ed Krčma (Professor of Art History UEA) Dr Brian Fay (Visual Artist/ TUD Fine Art Lecturer) and Dr Lucy Dawe-Lane (CCAD Fine Art Lecturer).
To find out more about the event or to register follow the link below. Once registered, simply click on 'View the Event' to see your Zoom link details at any time:
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/drawbridge-launch-event-tickets-199231876907
Excited to see you there!
If you have any queries please get in touch with Research Assistant Anne-May Tabb at AnneMay.Tabb@mtu.ie
The MA:Art & Process course is now taking applications!
Late applications will continue to be accepted up until noon on January 3rd for course commencing 24th January 2022. Eligible applicants will be invited to interview.
To find out more please visit:
Solo Exhibition by Brian Fay 
A mobile living thing
Municipal Gallery, dlr Lexicon, Dún Laoghaire.
2 October – 5 December 2021
(Information taken as per Media Release)
dlr County Council is delighted to present A mobile living thing by Brian Fay, an artist based in Dún Laoghaire. The focus of this solo exhibition is a response to four small paintings by Irish artist Mainie Jellett in the Dun Laoghaire- Rathdown County Collection.
These works on paper by Jellet from 1932 to 1939 mark a change in her artwork from abstraction to a return to more naturalistic forms of painting. Brian Fay has made a series of new drawings that respond to the physical properties of these works as they slowly age, and to the life of Jellett herself. Together they can be seen as a reflection on time, both clock time and our own lived time. The title of the exhibition ‘A mobile living thing’ comes from Jellett’s writings on the making of painting and here Fay uses it to consider these four paintings as having a life and afterlife of their own. The exhibition features Fay’s new drawings and the four paintings by Mainie Jellett.
An Cathaoirleach, Cllr Lettie McCarthy said “we are really pleased to host this wonderful exhibition of Brian’s work. It is especially interesting to see him respond directly to the works of Mainie Jellet in the dlr County Collection”.
Brian Fay is an artist and Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at TU Dublin. Using drawing he examines the materiality of pre-existing artworks and objects to consider our complex relationships to time. He exhibits nationally and internationally and has recently been invited onto the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation Residency Programme, USA in 2022. His work is in the Arts Council Collection, National Drawing Collection, Crawford Art Gallery, DLR Art Collection and the Office of Public Works. He the winner of the 2014 Derwent International Drawing Prize and the 2016 AXA Drawing Prize.
The exhibition opens on Saturday 2 October and runs until Sunday 5 December 2021 at the Municipal Gallery, dlr Lexicon, Dún Laoghaire.
For further information, please go to www.dlrcoco.ie/arts
Arts Office contact: Ciara King
email: cking@dlrcoco.ie or phone dlr Arts Office: (01) 2362759.
Draw to Perform: Online Studio Visit with Maryclare Foá, Birgitta Hosea & Carali McCall
Sunday, 3 Oct 2021, 20:00 – 21:00 BST, London Time
Artists Maryclare Foá, Jane Grisewood, Birgitta Hosea, and Carali McCall co-authored the publication, Performance Drawing: New Practices since 1945 (Bloomsbury 2020), and to mark the first anniversary of the publication, Foá, Hosea and McCall are working together on a residency at Centre for Recent Drawing (London UK) to generate new ideas and extend their initial exploration of works at the intersection of drawing and performance. Together alongside the residency they have also curated a virtual exhibition, Performance Drawing 2021 (11th Sept – 14th Oct) with a series of online events. In their presentation for DTP, Foá, Hosea and McCall will reflect on performance drawing; the artists will talk about their individual practices and thoughts on collaborating since undergoing the residency.
To learn more about the event and book your place follow the link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dtp-online-maryclare-foa-birgitta-hosea-carali-mccall-studio-visit-tickets-166529200321
To learn more about the publication Performance Drawing: New Practices since 1945 (Bloomsbury 2020) click: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/performance-drawing-9781788313841/
For more information on the Centre for Recent Drawing and their online shows visit: https://drawntogether.wordpress.com
Unlocking: Rethinking through Drawing
2021 Thinking through Drawing Symposium - Saturday 23rd October
Live drawing events during the week 18-23 October, building to online symposium on Saturday 23rd October 2021
In a spirit of hope and regeneration, TtD are excited to explore the theme of Unlocking at their annual TtD symposium.
TtD's hybrid model will combine local live workshops held around the world and global online get-togethers each day of the symposium. As usual, the focus will be on sharing innovative and diverse drawing practices across fields, formats and platforms.
To learn more about the symposium and to book your place follow the link just below:
https://www.thinkingthroughdrawing.org/symposia--publications.html
Draw to Perform online meeting with M.Lohrum
M.Lohrum, the first performative artist to win the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize will be joining Draw to Perform for an online studio visit on Sunday 1st August 8PM (London time).
In this upcoming virtual studio visit, M.Lohrum will speak about her creative process and show new works she has developed over the last year.
Attendees will have the opportunity to take part in the making of her first online participative performative drawing.
To register or to find out more about Draw to Perform follow the links below:
https://drawtoperform.com/news/
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dtp-online-mlohrum-studio-visit-tickets-163086838123
NATIONAL DRAWING DAY
To celebrate National Drawing Day 2021, Backwater Artists Group presents studio artists; Stephen Doyle, Cassandra Eustace, Megan Eustace, Eileen Healy, Peter Nash and Ciara Rodgers in short films as they reflect on what drawing means to them and how it informs their practice from preparation to exhibition.
In a collaboration with MTU Crawford College of Art and Design, Backwater Artists Group is also delighted to present a video introduction to Drawbridge, a new Drawing Research Network in the Heart of Cork City. Research Assistant Anne-May Tabb reflects on five drawing projects which led up to the formation of this research hub, including their collaborations with BAG.
Filmed and produced by studio member Ciara Rodgers, the series of videos give an insight into projects, personal practice, residencies and exhibitions with an emphasis on the use of drawing, whether provisional or final. They will explore a variety of methodologies, from field sketching to performance, portraiture and figurative work to contemporary drawing practice, revealing how drawing can capture real time and how artists use drawing as the basis for many of their projects, often crossing disciplines into sculpture, painting, printmaking and film.
To check out these engaging National Drawing Day videos visit:
https://backwaterartists.ie/programme/national-drawing-day-2021/
PRESS RELEASE
Drawbridge – Drawing Research Network
Release date: 17th December 2020
Drawbridge is a new drawing research network based at CIT Crawford College of Art and Design. Drawbridge aims to provide opportunities for researchers, students, and artists to collaborate, exchange and disseminate ideas around drawing practice in its widest possible interpretation. Drawbridge plans to engage with diverse approaches from within the arts, incorporating disciplines such as performance, installation, film, and the written word, through a series of interdisciplinary projects and collaborations that will have an impact across the institute/university and beyond. Incorporating both theory and practice, Drawbridge is focused above all on promoting the capability of drawing to give form to thought, and on initiating and collaborating in research activities both nationally and internationally.
Drawbridge has already pursued collaborations that have included the departments of Architecture and Arts in Health and Education within CIT/MTU and we intend to expand our activities to develop collaborations with colleagues in such disciplines as science, technology, and music. Within the Crawford, Drawbridge is focused on developing existing and future drawing workshops and projects with the aim of exploring and consolidating current drawing practice. A shared interest in the experiential and phenomenological nature of drawing was the original impetus for the establishment of Drawbridge by Crawford lecturers Dr Helen Farrell and Dr Lucy Dawe-Lane. With the imminent foundation of Munster Technological University (MTU), Drawbridge is well placed to make an active contribution to the future research profile of the new university.
Drawbridge is grateful for the support of Crawford Head of College Catherine Fehily, CIT Teaching and Learning Unit (TLU), CIT Research Office, CIT Arts Office and CIT Faculty of Business and Humanities.
For more information contact
Anne-May Tabb
Drawbridge Research Assistant