List of participating artists:
Exhibition Beyond the Myths 13 September
– 5 October 2008
1.
Ciara Healy (Ireland / UK)
When a sense of place or
home is lost through social or environmental change we often attempt to make
tangible what is missing and absent. In order to come to terms with this loss,
we romanticise what has been left behind precisely because it is no longer
physically tangible.
2.
Dieter Buchhart (Austria)
Critically tackling the relation of
society and nature in his installation work, Dieter invites the visitor to
participate to complete the work. In the project ‘House for Urtica - Cork’ the
weed Urtica dioíca, the great
stinging nettle, is part of the artwork.
3. Meaghan Schwelm (USA)
Meaghan
makes art to find things again. She develops installations, dwellings,
garments, and artifacts from mechanically reproducible or industrial materials
and ephemera.
4. Julia Pallone (Cork)
Over the last 10 years I have been developing my art practice involving
drawings, photography, sculpture, installations and performances. My work is
conceptual and focuses on expression with a poetic and surrealistic vision of
the world, be it by analogy, similarity or evocation of ideas.
5. Colette Lewis (Cork)
The Harbour was
experienced as a natural extension, bridging communities across the water. In
this era of the car it is considered more of a barrier separating and dividing
communities. I’ve created a collection of 'greeting postcards' which function
as 'views' to engage communities that inhabit the Harbour.
6. Mara Scrupe (USA)
The activity of borrowing and interpreting images
from the natural world – whether mediated or wild - is an ages-old process, one
which is deeply etched in the human psyche and memory and belies a seemingly
insatiable human need for associations with nature.
7. Tom Fannon (Cobh, Co. Cork)
I love the way you can play with the
paint on the canvas until you find something that works. The hardest part is to know when to
leave it alone. I paint simply for
the enjoyment and to leave behind a piece of myself.
8. David Kavanagh (Cork)
Science is
constantly opening up new frontiers of knowledge, but ignorance expands in
tandem, it often seems that every new discovery gives rise to a number of new
questions. This results in an enormous playing field of theory and counter
theory, mystery and revelation.
9. Mary Gough (Conna, Co. Cork)
Loves to paint "en
plain air" where the stimulus of the immediacy gives a unique vibrancy and
liveliness. Works also from sketches made on location.
10) Allan Giddy (Australia)
His sound and video work 'Stations of the Cross' shows crows vying
to roost on St. Colman's Cathedral in Cobh. They 'recompose' The Wild Colonial
Boy through (Bells/organ/choir), as each point of the cross is made active to
their touch.
11. Martin Sims (Australia)
The artwork is envisaged by inverting most of the
physical characteristics of a Martello Tower through transcribing its shape and
essential contours - both interior and exterior – into transparent, visible
form.
12. Danny McCarthy (Midleton, Co. Cork)
"Sounding d
(harbour)" This work is created from field recordings made at various
sites around Cork Harbour including boat trips made as part of the "Lab.
Days" which formed an integral part of the project. A soundscape is
created making the listener aware of the acoustic ecology of the area.
Acknowledgments
The Cork Harbour
Project was created, managed and realized by Sarah Iremonger for Sirius Arts
Centre, with help from Jim Wilson who initially conceived the idea of
connecting artists with the unique environment of Cork Harbour.
The Cork Harbour
Project could not have taken place without help from the Arts Council through a
New Project award 2007 and the Cork County Council’s Arts Award Scheme 2007
& 2008.
Special thanks to all
the artists and speakers who participated in Lab 1 & Lab 2 in 2007
For the realization of
this exhibition and related events, thanks to everyone at the Sirius Arts
Centre; Cobh and Passage West / Monkstown Town Councils; Paul and Gemma
O’Halloran of Ryan’s Bar, Cobh; Danny Halligan; The Mercantile Hotel, Sydney,
Australia; Birgit O’Driscoll & ECAD East Cork Area Development; Alice
D’Arcy, Sophie Le Roch and Sébastien Bertrand of Cork Greenmap also Naomi Fein;
Lieutenant Commander Cormac Rynne, Irish Navy; Ted Creedon; O’Leary Insurance;
Jane Smith, Office of Public Works Ireland OPW; Jamil Yamani Technical
Programmer, College of fine Arts COFA; University of New South Wales UNSW; The
Environmental Research Institute for Art ERIA; Sydney Olympic park Authority
