Quickly noted: EV+A winners / ACNI go crafty / Concrete award / Collège Irlandais / Sponsorship awards (June 11, 2002)
+ A winners / ACNI go crafty / Concrete award / Collège Irlandais / Sponsorship awards (June 11, 2002) EV + A winners
This year's EV + A prizewinners have been announced by curator Apinan Poshyananda. They are Amanda Coogan, David Dunne, Niamh McCann and Ciarán O'Doherty. The prizes this year take the form of travel awards to visit Bangkok, Cambodia, Vietnam and Singapore.
ACNI go crafty
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland has announced a major new initiative in support of crafts, applied arts and design. "The special initiave commits £500,000 of Arts Council of Northern Ireland National Lottery Funds to establishing Northern Ireland as an area of excellence in the produciton and exhibition of crafts, applied arts and design," according to the press release.
Jean Green: Bathse'ba , concrete, 66 cm high, 75 kg; courtesy Irish Concrete Society
Concrete award
It's not your usual medium, and it's unusual for the same artist to wind the award three years in a row. Jean Greene has won the Irish Concrete Society's Sculpture Award yet again.
Helen Carey for Collège Irlandais
The former director of the Galway Arts Centre has been appointed director of the soon-to-open refurbished Collége Irlandais in Paris. According to the press release,
Helen Carey previously held the position of Executive & Artistic Director of Galway Arts Centre, Cúirt International Festival of Literature and Executive Director of Galway Youth Theatre from 1999. Prior to this she was Public Art Project Manager for a Landmark Millennium Project in Bristol, worked with the London literary agency Curtis Brown, attended University College Dublin, and spent time in Paris studying the language and gaining knowledge of French contemporary visual arts...
The Irish College, Paris was founded in 1578, and has been in its current building since 1769. It is situated on rue des Irlandais in the Latin Quarter. The historic building will reopen with over 40 rooms providing subsidised accommodation for students, artists and academics. The Irish Cultural Centre will have an exhibition space, conference facilities, mediathek and artists' studios. The historic chapel and Library will also be refurbished for the October opening.
Sponsorship awards
Business2Arts has announced the winners of this year's sponsorship awards. Those that specifically deal with the visual arts are as follows:
Consultus : highly commended in the Small Business category for its sponsorship of a scholarshop covering a student's costs for one academic year at the Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork. In return, the student must work with Consultus and their PR agency, aspire! , to provide visual material for use in marketing communications.
Texaco : winner in the Continuing Sponsorship of the Arts category, for the Texaco Children's Art Competition , which is now in its 48th year.
Lundbeck Pharmaceuticals : highly commended for its collaboration with the George Moore Society in creating the Lundbeck National Art Exhibition. "This sponsorship programme involves a major inational project aimed at promoting art as a valuable form of therapy within psychiatric hospitals and day centres throughout the country."
Scott Tallon Walker Architects : winner in the Best Sponsorship of a Single Arts Project for "their outstanding contribution to the Hugh Lane gallery's Patrick Scott Retrospective."
Project Management Group : winner in the Best First Time Sponsor category, for their sponsorship of the Crawford Municipal Art Gallery's exhibition of watercolours and drawings by Picasso.
Euroject Ireland : highly commended in the same category for its support of the Royal Hibernian Academy's Futures exhibition.
Ansamed , Arigna Fuels and System Label : highly commended for their support of Roscommon County Arts Office's Art@Work programme, which places artists in three-week residencies i nparticipating companies.
George Moore Society : winner of Aer Rianta's 4000 euro Arts Award, for its collaboration with Lundbeck Pharmaceuticals (see above).
Eagle Star : Judges' Special Recognition Award for its sponsorship of the National Gallery's Monet, Renoir and the Impressionist landscape show.
You'll find Business2Arts here .
Comment 1 on 2002-06-24 09:18:06
What on earth is B2A anyway? Their awards just seem like a list of the only reasonably high profile exhibitions that got sponsorship at all, and not very good shows either? Their web site also reads like a who's who of Irish business and it seems to me to be some elaborate public relations exercise which mainly benefits the coffers of B2A?
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