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Artists'
Association appeals / Expo no-show / Noreen O'Hare
(February
5, 2002)
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AAI
hoping to turn deficit round |
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 In
our last news item we reported that the Artists' Association
of Ireland was in serious financial difficulty and saw itself
forced to lay off staff. A flyer with the latest Art
Bulletin, the AAI's bi-monthy publication, puts their
current debt at around 63,500 euro. The Association is appealing
to its membership to come to the rescue. Specifically it
wants its members to works on paper, 10" x 10",
to be won at a 'Lottery Fundraising Evening' at 60 euro
a head. E-mail
them for more information.
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Don't
unpack those crates... |
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These
images of the Irish Pavilion are held here.
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The
Republic of Ireland's pavilion at Expo 2000 in Hanover was
widely acclaimed (more here).
On April 12, 2001, the responsible minister, Tom Kitt, announced
that the pavilion would be returned to Ireland, specifically
to the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and
Technology.
The
Institute is committed to deploying the Pavilion across
a diverse range of activities which will include an exhibition
space for creative works, particularly relating to film
and new media, a showcase for technology/business projects,
a location for a small number of R&D project and incubation
space for graduate entrepreneurs. In common with its 2,200,000
visitors in Hannover I believe that all future visitors
to the Pavilion will enjoy the same unique experience
in its newly located site in Dun Laoghaire.
...according
to the press
release at the time.
And
according to the pavilion's architects, Murray Ó
Laoire,
In
line with the competition brief and the spirit of innovative
sustainable principles, the building was fully demountable,
with the structural frame capable of being unbolted and
with the Kilkenny limestone cladding being unhooked etc..
Alas,
according to a report the day before yesterday, in the Sunday
Tribune, escalating costs mean that the plan will not
now be realised.
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Noreen
O'Hare passes away |
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This
news is somewhat belated and nonetheless sad: the former
Director of both the Orchard Gallery, Derry, and the Ormeau
Baths Gallery, Belfast, Noreen O'Hare, has passed on. Our
sympathies.
[March
2002: For a tribute to Noreen O'Hare by artist Colin Darke,
click here.]
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What's the crack at IMMA these days? I'm gagging for some
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| Comment 2 |
It is with great sadness that I've heard via Circa that
Noreen O'Hare has died. I worked with Noreen when she ran
the Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast, at the Orchard in Derry,
and at OBG. She was the most wonderful warm generous
person, a real and genuine supporter of visual art and
culture, and somebody who gave her last ounce of energy to
every project with which she was associated. She was a
great advocate of artists' rights - in a very cool and
quiet way I remember her insisting that artists be paid
properly, given expenses and allowances, etc. during a
project budget meeting. Noreen also knew how to enjoy
herself, and again that seems part of memories I have of
working with her - she helped me celebrate the opening of
my first solo exhibition at the Orchard Gallery in 1991. I
was so nervous and excited, and Noreen was just the right
person to have the opening go smoothly, and then party into
the night. She seemed to think of everything: and that's
the most important bit -again, working late packing a show
in the Crescent, Noreen thought to bring buns to keep us
all going.
I could actually go on and on - suffice to say, I'm very sad
indeed. As an artist, I owe a great debt to Noreen, but I
think much more importantly I'll just remember her as very
lovely and very warm.
Catherine Harper
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