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Update
Award-winning
artists
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Margaret
Corcoran: from An Enquiry, oil on
linen,
2002, 46 x 61 cm; courtesy the artist
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• Margaret Corcoran has
won the annual, prestigious and remunerative Golden Fleece
Award, which was inaugurated last year in memory of Helen
Lillias Mitchell.
• The very valuable AIB
Prize for 'artists of promise' has been won by Dara McGrath.
McGrath, a graduate of the Institute of Art, Design and
Technology, Dún Laoghaire, was nominated by Draíocht
Arts Centre, Blanchardstown, Dublin. The 20,000 euro award
goes towards financing a show at Draíocht, and a catalogue.
• Jim Buckley, an artist
from Cork who is now based at the Gray's School of Art
in Aberdeen, is among ten artists sharing in "Britain's
richest arts award scheme," the Creative Scotland Awards.
Buckley is one of ten successful candidates who will each
receive £30,000 to "develop their creative skills or experiment
with other art forms."
Gaeltacht art site launched
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Home
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A new website has been launched, dedicated
to artists (not just visual artists) in Gaeltacht areas.
The stylish design alone makes it worth a look. Go to
www.ealain.ie
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Other Contexts
Majella Ní Chríocháin
is given as the contact name for ealaín na gaeltachta
mentioned above. She also turns up in another context,
Contexts to be precise. There she writes about
the arts in the Gaeltacht areas.
Volume 2 / Issue 1 of Contexts
has just appeared. It is published by creative activity
for everyone, also known as cafe. The general thrust of
Contexts, and cafe, is about accessing the arts, at a
community level. Enquire about the magazine from +353
1 473 6600 or cafe@connect.ie.
Derry artist for Venice
We have mentioned in previous
issues that Katie Holten is to represent the Republic
of Ireland in the Venice Biennale. However, she is not
the only artist from these shores who will be lagoon-side.
Derry-based Colin Darke has been chosen by Biennale Director
Francesco Bonami to participate in the show Clandestine,
which takes place in the Arsenale in Venice.
Darke will be showing a piece
which he has been working on for the past two-and-a-half
years. It consists of the three volumes of Marx's Capital,
handwritten onto 480 two-dimensional objects, laminated
in A4 sheets.
In fact, the Venice Biennale
will have a third representative 'from Ireland': Paul
Seawright, originally from Belfast, will be taking part
in the Welsh Pavilion. Wales is taking part in the Biennale
for the first time this year, as is Scotland.
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Colin
Darke: two images from Capital (detail);
courtesy the artist
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Artists send rocket
The Orchard Gallery, Derry, has
closed. The Orchard has been one of the most influential
and innovative galleries in Ireland, and the closure is
being greeted with general dismay in the region. A group
of some of Derry's most significant artists sent a letter
of protest in early March to the City Council and to the
Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Of the Orchard, they
say,
The Orchard
Gallery was in the past the flagship for the visual arts
in Ireland. It gained a remarkable international reputation
and was regarded as one of the most desirable galleries
in which to exhibit one's work. It has over the past quarter-century
exhibited some of the world's leading artists, as well
as playing an invaluable role in promoting the careers
of the city's emerging artists.
The letter is signed by Maolíosa
Boyle, Denzil Browne, Colin Darke, Willie Doherty, Damien
Duffy, Marcella Ferguson, Sara Greavu, Julius Guzy, Mark
Hill, Conor McFeely, Locky Morris, Hilary Morton, Ciarán
O'Doherty, and Pascale Steven. You can find the full text
of the letter by following the links from here: www.recirca.com/artnews/158.shtml.
Since that time, artists have
been meeting and planning, hoping to find a way of bringing
the visual arts back to the Orchard space. As yet, there
is nothing definite.
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