Jobs at Circa / John Burke / Pallas gallery / Cill Rialaig gallery / Belfast guide / reader survey / ev+a curator / Byrne award / Duggan award (Friday 15 December 2006)
Liz Aders moving on
The sad news for Circa is that Liz Aders, our administrator for the last four years or so, is to return to Australia in the new year. The good news, of sorts, is that Circa is hiring; please see our job notice here.
John Burke passes
Readers will be saddened to learn that scuptor John Burke died earlier this week. "Born in Clonmel, County Tipperary in 1946, John Burke studied at the Crawford School of Art in Cork, and in London with Brian Kneal. A creator of large-scale steel sculptures, he had exhibited regularly and executed some major commissions, which he combined with a regular teaching career in the Crawford College of Art...His outdoor works included the abstract red steel sculpture at the Bank of Ireland building on Baggot Street, Dublin." (Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon press release, 12 Dec 06 - full text here)
Pallatial gallery
We wrote back in July (see here) that Dublin's innovative Pallas exhibition space was to close later in the year. Now Pallas has been able to announce the opening of a new gallery:
"On the 26th of January of 2007 Pallas will open Pallas Contemporary Projects, a new gallery project space on Grangegorman Rd. Dublin 7....PCP signals a departure from Pallas Heights and a new aesthetic challenge to our artistic programme...The programme for Pallas Contemporary Projects 2007 features new Irish art with:
•Two solo exhibitions by Eilis McDonalds and Brendan Flaherty,
• The Important Thing Is That Tomorrow Is Not The Same As Yesterday - An exposition of dialectical aesthetics curated by Gavin Murphy,
• The first solo exhibition in Dublin by Irish artist Clive Murphy, who is currently based in New York,
Our international programme presents:
• William Cruickshank an exciting emerging sculptor from London,
• An exchange ‘Art trafficking’ program with Project 304 Bangkok.
Within this program there will be one off events, talks screenings, outside interventions by persons as yet unknown and regular publications."
Location:
Pallas Contemporary Projects. 111 Grangegorman Rd, Dublin 7;
www.pallasstudios.org / info@pallasstudios.org
Urban retreat
Talking of galleries, a new one opened in Dublin's Docklands on Wednesday of this week. Run by the Cill Rialaig
Project, it will feature works by both Irish and international artists who
have been resident at Cill Rialaig in County Kerry. The first exhibition there is of work by Martin Finnin. The Cill Rialaig Project is well known as providing residencies for artists in the wilds of the Kerry Gaeltacht; it will be interesting to learn if they find the Docklands wilder(!).
Urban Retreat Gallery is located at the HQ Building on Hanover Quay in
Docklands and will open from Monday to Friday, 11am to 6pm, with some
Sunday views. For further information on the gallery, contact +353 1 478
5159 or llambkin@dublindocklands.ie.
Luscious Belfast art guide
Did you know that Belfast boasts 24 public galleries and 23 private ones? No? Such ignorane will not outlast a fine-looking production launched this week and called the Belfast Art Guide. It will also tell you about public art, antiques and workshops. And you can download same here.
Please feed us back
There's a new online survey for readers of that excellent / awful - you tell us - publication, Circa Art Magazine. Please lend a hand by clicking here.
Ottmann for ev+a
German-born, New York-based Klaus Ottmann is to be the next curator of ev+a, Limerick and Ireland's premier open-submission exhibition. More on Ottmann here. ev+a openon on 13 March 2007.
Byrne gets Hamlyn
Gerard Byrne, who is to represent the Republic at next year's Venice Biennale, is one of five recipients of this year's Paul Hamlyn Foundation awards for the visual arts. The award is worth £30,000 over three years. More here.
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John Burke was the most influential artist to come out of
Cork in the 20th century. A generation of Cork sculptors,
many with now international reputations, owe their initial
sculptural experience to him as a teacher at the Crawford
School of Art. He had great integrity and suffered fools
badly. In the last number of years his profile as a
sculptor had diminished through ill health but his
influence was and still is immeasurable. He will be greatly
missed.
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