Paraic Leahy Awarded Residency at Ucross Fellowship Program

It is the mission of the Ucross Foundation to foster fresh and innovative thinking in the visual arts, literature, and music by providing residencies, work space and uninterrupted time to individual artist, writers, and composers. The Foundation supports residents whose work reflects a depth of individual creative exploration and the potential for significant future accomplishment. Situated on a 20,000 acre working cattle ranch, the Ucross Foundation’s unique geographic location introduces individuals to the land, people and ethos of the northern High Plains and Rocky Mountain region.

Ucross Foundation Fellowship Program Wyoming, U.S.A.

The Residency is supported my the 'The Arts Council of Ireland - Traveling and Training award 2011'


www.ucrossfoundation.org

Gerry Davis Has been Shortlisted for the Bristol Door Painting Prize. Fingers Crossed he wins.


Check out his and other shortlisted entries here


http://thedoorprize.co.uk/

NLA II

W.S.S Artists Emmet Kierans & Gerry Davis will be Exhibiting as 

part of IMOCA's New Living Art 2 show This October.

Wickham Street Studios Group Show

Ludic/Ludo/Ludos is a group exhibition of artists currently working in Wickham Street Studios, Limerick. The show intends to open out to the viewer a succession of art practices. By taking members artworks and concepts less than 200m from the studio to the gallery, we are gazing into a point that underscores the reality that a good deal of 'play'/ experimentation and working things out is involved in the creative process. 'Ludic' is used in philosophy to describe play as an 'act of self definition' which may be close to what individual artists are doing when they're making work. It could also be what defines a group. Artists have access to each others ideas, concepts and processes in Wickam st. It has 12 spaces for 12 artists, each space essentially a playground in itself. abstaining from any attempt to categorize any relationships between practices within the group. The viewer is invited to make what may be their own playful or even absurd connections between the works and the artists, and even create new meanings.W.S.S was set up in April 2009 to provide affordable studio spaces for artists, and an outlet for its members to be part of a wider artistic community. It has become one of Limerick’s key arts organisations and it’s member were responsible for the establishment of Occupy Space. The current members are:

Ramon Kassam, OrlaithTreacy, Paul Rhatigan, Emmet Kierans, Noelle Collins, Paraic Leahy, Gillian Kenny, Rory Prout, Tom Prendergast, Sean Guinan, Kevin O' Keeffe and Gerry Davis.

Ludic/Ludo/Ludos was selected by Ramon Kassam, Kevin 'O Keefe and Noelle Collins with advice and input from Marian Lovett, Curatorial Advisor with Limerick City Gallery of Art .

Occupy Space will be open until 10pm on Friday 23rd September as part of Limerick Culture Night, Wickham, Street Studios will also 23open up the studios on culture night between 5 & 10 pm. It will provide the public with the opportunity to meet the members, and engage with some of the ideas and processes being undertaken by them.

http://www.occupyspace.com/2011/09/ludicludoludos.html

Chris Boland

Dehumidifier

Rory Prout

Rory Prout was born in Tipperary in 1985. After graduating from LSAD in 2008 he remained to live and work in Limerick where he is currently a member of Wickham Street Sudios. He has shown work nationally and interntionally. His practice engages with the representational challenges posed in a culture accustomed to advances in image technology. Working primarily in painting his themes include censorhip, identity, duplicity and ambiguous narrative.

Gillian Kenny

Gillian is a Limerick based artist. She attended the Limerick School of Art and Design and then completed a Masters in Fine Art in Belfast.

Gillian was awarded the Countess Markievicz medal for painting in 2000. She has received significant funding from the Arts Council, including a travel award for a research project in Mexico in 2005. Gillian has been exhibiting her paintings both nationally and abroad for the last eleven years, at venues such as Limerick City Gallery, The Hunt Museum Limerick, The Belltable Limerick, Droichead Arts Centre Drogheda, The Molesworth Gallery Dublin, The Lab Dublin, Spectrum Fine Art London, The Phatory New York and The Engine Gallery Toronto. Gillian completed her forth large scale solo exhibition at Limerick City Gallery in 2010. Her paintings focus on the dialectics arising through the use of photographic language in painting. Her paintings have been described by Irish Times critic Aidan Dunne as “crisply and expertly painted.”

Evening Time-The Telephone Call 120 cm  by 90cm Oil on Canvas

The Night Before   80cm by 60cm Oil on Canvas

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