DdC_VISITING ASSOCIATES
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Kevin Killen, NI Romy Muijrers, NL Melisaa O'Faherty IRE Kiera O'Toole, IRE Fiona Robinson, UK Marisa Rappard, NL Kevin Townsend USA Ram Samocha IL Mary-Ruth Walsh, IRE |
Rachael Agnew
Practice as research exploring the fundamental ontology of interstitial spaces in the form of site-specific drawing installations, interventions and events. Interstitial spaces here refer to in between, empty, transitional, transient or non-places that are assumed and unquestioned. Phenomenological description is utilised in order to question the ontology of interstitial spaces. For phenomenology the primordial question is that there is, which is essentially bound with Being, as opposed to science and the question of how there is from a third space. As part of the knowledge building process of understanding through philosophical questioning, drawings, like philosophy, interrogate assumptions, challenge people and encourage critical thinking.
Biography
Rachael Agnew (b.1982) is a member of Abbey Studios, Dublin.Most recent events include: ‘Elevate.1’ (a global day of performances in elevators across the world), a performance drawing @ the Gallery of Photography, Co.Dublin (2017); and ‘Drawing as walking’, a site-specific research drawing, Malahide Castle, Co.Dublin (2016).
Rachael’s artworks have also been shown at The Lab, Co.Dublin (2011), The Dock, Co.Leitrim (2013) and UCC, Co.Cork (2007).
Rachael holds a Higher Diploma in Philosophy from UCD (2015) and a Masters in Visual Arts Practice from I.A.D.T. (2011).
rachaelagnew.com
Biography
Rachael Agnew (b.1982) is a member of Abbey Studios, Dublin.Most recent events include: ‘Elevate.1’ (a global day of performances in elevators across the world), a performance drawing @ the Gallery of Photography, Co.Dublin (2017); and ‘Drawing as walking’, a site-specific research drawing, Malahide Castle, Co.Dublin (2016).
Rachael’s artworks have also been shown at The Lab, Co.Dublin (2011), The Dock, Co.Leitrim (2013) and UCC, Co.Cork (2007).
Rachael holds a Higher Diploma in Philosophy from UCD (2015) and a Masters in Visual Arts Practice from I.A.D.T. (2011).
rachaelagnew.com
Greig Burgoyne
Burgoyne was born in Glasgow Scotland, studied at Hoschüle Angewandte Kunst Vienna & MA painting Royal college of Art London. He engages in a broad based site- specific drawing practice that embraces film, live performance, ad hoc installation, sound & text works
Burgoyne unites materials often sourced in and around the proximity of the site each project takes place within, alongside process led rule based strategies, endurance, accumulation and duration.
Taking anomalies of the space, he seeks to test, measure or expand the paradoxes at the heart of body/site relations with regard to space, language and thinking.
The results are immersive, be they absurd or beguiling and specific to site.
Burgoyne proposes new dialogues and frameworks that seek to generate a condition of becoming, translation and flux instead of stasis; a site of experience rather than simply location.
www.greigburgoyne.com
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeUrGwn2AgnSavSjub-ceXA
Burgoyne unites materials often sourced in and around the proximity of the site each project takes place within, alongside process led rule based strategies, endurance, accumulation and duration.
Taking anomalies of the space, he seeks to test, measure or expand the paradoxes at the heart of body/site relations with regard to space, language and thinking.
The results are immersive, be they absurd or beguiling and specific to site.
Burgoyne proposes new dialogues and frameworks that seek to generate a condition of becoming, translation and flux instead of stasis; a site of experience rather than simply location.
www.greigburgoyne.com
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeUrGwn2AgnSavSjub-ceXA
Felicity Clear
Clear’s drawing based practice has expanded to include 3D drawing, installation and animation. The drawings describe structures that are untenable, there is an uncertainty as to their status; scaffolding or ruin; recognition or abstraction; investment and indifference. Light and shadow are important components of the work in some cases drawing and shadow merge and it is unclear which is which. The provisional nature of drawing and its other technical role in engineering, architecture, blueprints and everyday life are key to the intention of the work. Clear is interested in the idea of potentiality, the moment when something is coming into being but resists actuality, so endings remain open and a range of possibilities appear.
Biography Felicity Clear is a Dublin based artist educated at the National College of Art and Design and later Dun Laoghaire College of Art Design and Technology. Her work has been included in curated group exhibitions in the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Contemporary Arts Society London, Crawford Gallery Cork, The National Gallery Dublin, The Model Sligo, Limerick City Gallery, The Dock Leitrim. Solo Exhibitions include: Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, The Lab Dublin, The Rubicon Gallery Dublin, Lexicon Dun Laoghaire, Galway Arts Centre, Mermaid Arts Centre Wicklow.
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Biography Felicity Clear is a Dublin based artist educated at the National College of Art and Design and later Dun Laoghaire College of Art Design and Technology. Her work has been included in curated group exhibitions in the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Contemporary Arts Society London, Crawford Gallery Cork, The National Gallery Dublin, The Model Sligo, Limerick City Gallery, The Dock Leitrim. Solo Exhibitions include: Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, The Lab Dublin, The Rubicon Gallery Dublin, Lexicon Dun Laoghaire, Galway Arts Centre, Mermaid Arts Centre Wicklow.
felicityclear.com
Brian Fay
1. From a speculative reconstruction of underlying figure- macro x-ray- Rembrandt Old Man in Military Costume
Pencil on Paper, Winner of the AXA Drawing Prize 2016, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin.
Brian Fay is an Irish artist living in Dublin. His practice uses different representational strategies in drawing to record, depict and present models of time and temporality using pre-existing artefacts, objects and artworks.
For Fay a pre-existing artwork or artefact has a complex relationship to time, one that does not have a straight linear chronology. It both depicts and represents the historic time in which the image has been made, the time of its reprographic production, the time depicted in the image itself, the contingent time of the image's reception, and the times and mode of its reproduction. This temporal complexity is further extended by acts of conservation and restoration which, though acts of interpretation and adaptation folds time back on the artwork itself. Further temporal readings are brought again when a drawing employs an intensive time consuming drawing strategy, one that can establish a direct relationship to the original source material.
Solo shows include A Mobile Living Thing DLR Lexicon Gallery (2021), To something that went before (CSdeK), Oonagh Young Gallery (2018), X (IR), nag Gallery, Dublin (2016), Of the Survival of Images (and Objects) (2014) also nag Gallery and Broken Images or When does Posterity Begin? (2011), Ashford Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. Group shows include Inspiration and Rivalry: After Vermeer (2017) National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, After an Act (2018) Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Motion Capture: Drawing and the Moving Image, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork (2011) and the international touring show Into Irish Drawing (2009) curated by Arno Kramer.
His work is in the National Drawing Collection Ireland, and the collections of The Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, the Dublin Institute of Technology, Office of Public Works and numerous private collections. He has received awards from both the Arts Council and Arts Council Northern Ireland. He is the winner of the 2014 Derwent International Drawing Prize and the AXA Drawing Prize 2016.
Fay holds a practice led PhD from Northumbria University, England, entitled States of Transience: Drawing practices and the conservation of museum artworks. He is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Technological University Dublin, and has been invited on to the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation Residency Programme, Connecticut, USA in 2021.
Further information on his practice is available at https://www.brianfayartist.com
Marie Hanlon (IRE)
Marie Hanlon, What Remains pencil drawn staples and real stables on paper.
Marie Hanlon is a Dublin based Irish artist working in a variety of media including; painting, drawing, sculpture, video and installation. She holds a BA in English and History of European Painting from University College, Dublin and an MA from The National College of Art & Design, Dublin.
Moving forward from a strong concern with abstract painting Hanlon’s collaboration with contemporary composers led her to use a broader range of media. Her expanded practice brought a new engagement with reality and whether looking at big environmental issues or small details of everyday life, she employs a subtle commentary which can be at times serious, but also playful. Sculpture and installation predominate in recent work; It’s all about Books (2019) The Cregan Library, DCU and her forthcoming exhibition for The Lab Gallery, Dublin, which will show six installation works exploring issues of water stress in a time of climate change.
Marie Hanlon describes herself as a ‘one thing at a time’ type of artist. Although her drawings may be made quickly or slowly she prefers to work on them in periods of concentrated time rather than in parallel to, or as part of, other work. Line predominates; rhythmic, restless, wandering, sometimes creating illusions which play with ideas of space and perception.
Hanlon has exhibited as a solo artist and in group shows throughout Ireland and abroad, in addition she has had many screenings in concert performance spaces. Venues include: Shatin Town Hall, Hong Kong / KULTURECENTRE, Næstved, Denmark / University of Lille, France / The Kevin Barry Room, NCH, Dublin / The IFI, Dublin / The Cregan Library, DCU, Dublin / The Luan Gallery / Solstice Art Centre / Rua Red / Rubicon Gallery / RHA / Visual, Carlow / Draiocht Art Centre / Fenderseky Gallery, Belfast / Wexford Art Centre / Galerie Katharina Krohn, Basel / Percussion Penthouse, New York, / Vancity Theatre, Vancouver / Cali, Colombia South America / Irisches Kulturfestival, Stuttgart, Germany / The Nerve Centre, Derry.
https://www.mariehanlon.com
Moving forward from a strong concern with abstract painting Hanlon’s collaboration with contemporary composers led her to use a broader range of media. Her expanded practice brought a new engagement with reality and whether looking at big environmental issues or small details of everyday life, she employs a subtle commentary which can be at times serious, but also playful. Sculpture and installation predominate in recent work; It’s all about Books (2019) The Cregan Library, DCU and her forthcoming exhibition for The Lab Gallery, Dublin, which will show six installation works exploring issues of water stress in a time of climate change.
Marie Hanlon describes herself as a ‘one thing at a time’ type of artist. Although her drawings may be made quickly or slowly she prefers to work on them in periods of concentrated time rather than in parallel to, or as part of, other work. Line predominates; rhythmic, restless, wandering, sometimes creating illusions which play with ideas of space and perception.
Hanlon has exhibited as a solo artist and in group shows throughout Ireland and abroad, in addition she has had many screenings in concert performance spaces. Venues include: Shatin Town Hall, Hong Kong / KULTURECENTRE, Næstved, Denmark / University of Lille, France / The Kevin Barry Room, NCH, Dublin / The IFI, Dublin / The Cregan Library, DCU, Dublin / The Luan Gallery / Solstice Art Centre / Rua Red / Rubicon Gallery / RHA / Visual, Carlow / Draiocht Art Centre / Fenderseky Gallery, Belfast / Wexford Art Centre / Galerie Katharina Krohn, Basel / Percussion Penthouse, New York, / Vancity Theatre, Vancouver / Cali, Colombia South America / Irisches Kulturfestival, Stuttgart, Germany / The Nerve Centre, Derry.
https://www.mariehanlon.com
Madlen Herrström
Image: Madlen Herrström, Forest, drawing sounds
Kind permission by Madlen Herrström
Text: Madlen Herrström
Kind permission by Madlen Herrström
MARLEEN KAPPE
The space which fades in between, mixed media, 18 x 11, 4 x 8 m, Photo Henk Geraedts © PARK
In her work Marleen Kappe explores the borders between drawings and installations. It’s sometimes delicate to tell where her drawings stop and her installations begin and vice versa.
Her drawing installations are partially abstract worlds referring to urban, artificial landscapes. She creates and moulds desolated urban situations containing elements we all know, like billboards, fences, corrugated roof and building constructions; artefacts of our modern time. Things and places you are mostly familiar with, but still are too abstract and emotionally on a distance to feel comfortable with.
In their visual character her drawing installations are open and clear, straight lines and precisely drawn, machine like objects, are combined with more abstract shapes.
In contrast with the open visual character, the pieces also have a mystical and mysterious radiance. It all visualizes a kind of frozen moment where everything is still quiet. It’s the moment just before things seem starting to move, starting to change.
BIOGRAPHY
Marleen Kappe born in Deventer, the Netherlands (1983) is currently based as a visual artist in Amsterdam. Her work was part of group exhibitions in Ballina Art Centre, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (NL), Museum van Bommel van Dam Venlo (NL), Teylers Museum Haarlem (NL), Witteveen Visual Art Centre, Kunstgemaal Bronkhorst (NL), Kunstvereniging Diepenheim (NL). Solo exhibitions in Art Space Fontrodona Amsterdam (NL), Kunstenlab Deventer (NL), Art space PARK Tilburg (NL). She was the co-founder of Daily Traces, a temporary pop-up project space in Amsterdam created to explore drawing interactions. From 2001-2006 she studied at the AKI, Academy of Art and Design Enschede (NL).
www.marleenkappe.nl
Her drawing installations are partially abstract worlds referring to urban, artificial landscapes. She creates and moulds desolated urban situations containing elements we all know, like billboards, fences, corrugated roof and building constructions; artefacts of our modern time. Things and places you are mostly familiar with, but still are too abstract and emotionally on a distance to feel comfortable with.
In their visual character her drawing installations are open and clear, straight lines and precisely drawn, machine like objects, are combined with more abstract shapes.
In contrast with the open visual character, the pieces also have a mystical and mysterious radiance. It all visualizes a kind of frozen moment where everything is still quiet. It’s the moment just before things seem starting to move, starting to change.
BIOGRAPHY
Marleen Kappe born in Deventer, the Netherlands (1983) is currently based as a visual artist in Amsterdam. Her work was part of group exhibitions in Ballina Art Centre, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (NL), Museum van Bommel van Dam Venlo (NL), Teylers Museum Haarlem (NL), Witteveen Visual Art Centre, Kunstgemaal Bronkhorst (NL), Kunstvereniging Diepenheim (NL). Solo exhibitions in Art Space Fontrodona Amsterdam (NL), Kunstenlab Deventer (NL), Art space PARK Tilburg (NL). She was the co-founder of Daily Traces, a temporary pop-up project space in Amsterdam created to explore drawing interactions. From 2001-2006 she studied at the AKI, Academy of Art and Design Enschede (NL).
www.marleenkappe.nl
KEVIN KILLEN
Kevin's practice is the creation of light artworks and installations, often site-specific. While different bodies of work have very separate theories behind them, the connection is Kevin's desire to use light to translate movement into tangible forms. The most recent body of work, Infinity Studies: Monotony, draws on time and motion studies, as investigated by Frederick Winslow Taylor (time) and Frank and Lilian Gilbreth (motion), that document the time it should take to complete a process and how breaking down the process into components and removing unnecessary ones increases efficiency.
Biography
Studied from 1996 to 1999 at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design University College (now the UCA), specialising for one year in 3D Design and two years in Fine Art. He continued his training in Dallas Texas in 2009, studying neon glass skills; developing his long term interest in neon. Now based in Northern Ireland, Killen has been continually exploring his own visual language using the medium of light, exploring issues of boundaries and behavioural patterns. Recent exhibitions include: Ireland Glass Biennale Dublin Castle 2019, Sculpture in the City, Streel Flow Broadgate 2018, City of London London, 2017; Dissolving Histories: A Moment in Time, Golden Thread Gallery, 2017; Tipping Point, QSS Bedford Street, Belfast, 2016; A1 , F.E. McWilliam Gallery, Banbridge, 2015. Kevin Killen’s work is in numerous public and private collections including: the Arts Council of Northern Ireland; Belfast City Council; Queens University & Belfast City Hospital. Selected publications include: New Glass Review 39, The Corning Museum of Glass, USA, 2018; Sculpture Magazine USA, September Issue, 2017.
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Biography
Studied from 1996 to 1999 at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design University College (now the UCA), specialising for one year in 3D Design and two years in Fine Art. He continued his training in Dallas Texas in 2009, studying neon glass skills; developing his long term interest in neon. Now based in Northern Ireland, Killen has been continually exploring his own visual language using the medium of light, exploring issues of boundaries and behavioural patterns. Recent exhibitions include: Ireland Glass Biennale Dublin Castle 2019, Sculpture in the City, Streel Flow Broadgate 2018, City of London London, 2017; Dissolving Histories: A Moment in Time, Golden Thread Gallery, 2017; Tipping Point, QSS Bedford Street, Belfast, 2016; A1 , F.E. McWilliam Gallery, Banbridge, 2015. Kevin Killen’s work is in numerous public and private collections including: the Arts Council of Northern Ireland; Belfast City Council; Queens University & Belfast City Hospital. Selected publications include: New Glass Review 39, The Corning Museum of Glass, USA, 2018; Sculpture Magazine USA, September Issue, 2017.
kevinkillen.com
Arno Kramer
High Winds Move Slowly, 2017, Arno Kramer and Henk Vish, The Model curated and toured by the Museum De Buitenplaats, Netherlands
Arno Kramer
Besides the artistry Kramer writes about visual arts. He published, for example, seven poems and a novel. From his last Dutch poetry edition, in 2017, a translation translated from Salmon Poetry Ireland. In addition, he has taught as a guest lecturer at the Academy of Arts and Industry (AKI) in Enschede, and in countries such as England, Scotland and the United States. Since 1995, Kramer has been living in Ireland annually to work on remote locations for new drawings. In Ireland he exhibited in many museums, lectured and lectured and organized Into Irish Drawing. An exhibition also seen in Paris, Northern Ireland and the Netherlands. Arno Kramer designed the Drawing Center Diepenheim, where he is a curator from 2008. With All About Drawing, which he started and performed with Diana Wind, he put 50 years of Dutch drawings on the map.
Henk Visch Henk Visch followed a curriculum from 1968 to 1972 at the Academy of Arts and Design St. Joost in 's-Hertogenbosch. After his studies, he initially made drawings and etching. In 1982, Visch spent a year in Atelier PS I in New York, where he became known for his figurative sculptures. From 1984, the artist has taught at the Amsterdam Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten and the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. The work of Henk Visch is located in many major national and international museum collections. Visch has also exhibited at international exhibitions, such as the Documenta in Kassel and the Venice Biennale. In addition, the artist has recently been asked to be the Dutch representative at the Kathmandu Biënnale.
Above text taken from Green on Red Gallery: https://www.greenonredgallery.com/update-news/2018/11/26/arno-kramer-at-the-model-sligo-and-ballina-arts-centre
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In 2016, six professional Irish artists, whose practice is rooted in drawing, first met at a peer critique event, organised by Visual Artists Ireland and chaired by Arno Kramer. Arno is a renowned visual artist, curator and founder of Drawing Centre Diepenheim in The Netherlands, who champions contemporary drawing in all its diversity. One of the many outcomes of this serendipitous encounter was the establishment of our drawing-focused platform, ‘Drawing de-Centred’ (DdC). So it is fitting that Arno Kramer is our first Featured Artist.
Arno is a renowned artist predominantly engages in making drawings and drawing-installations and is currently curating an international exhibition Beyond Drawing with three Dutch artists Marleen Kappe, Romy Muijrers, Marisa Rappard and three DdC members, Felicity Clear, Kiera O’Toole and Mary-Ruth Walsh.
In 2017, Arno exhibited with fellow Dutch artist Henk Vish in The Model, Sligo . The exhibition, High Winds Move Slowly, was curated and toured by the Museum De Buitenplaats in the Netherlands and marked the first time that these two artists have been brought together in one exhibition. DdC member Kiera O’Toole was invited by The Model to select works from The Niland Collection, which resonate with her own artistic interests. O’Toole considered the work of Arno Kramer.
Beyond Drawing 2020
March_ Ballina Arts Centre, Ballina Ierland/Ireland
July_ Uillinn West Cork Art Centre, Skibbereen, Ireland/Ierland
For further information about Arno: www.arno-kramer.nl
Besides the artistry Kramer writes about visual arts. He published, for example, seven poems and a novel. From his last Dutch poetry edition, in 2017, a translation translated from Salmon Poetry Ireland. In addition, he has taught as a guest lecturer at the Academy of Arts and Industry (AKI) in Enschede, and in countries such as England, Scotland and the United States. Since 1995, Kramer has been living in Ireland annually to work on remote locations for new drawings. In Ireland he exhibited in many museums, lectured and lectured and organized Into Irish Drawing. An exhibition also seen in Paris, Northern Ireland and the Netherlands. Arno Kramer designed the Drawing Center Diepenheim, where he is a curator from 2008. With All About Drawing, which he started and performed with Diana Wind, he put 50 years of Dutch drawings on the map.
Henk Visch Henk Visch followed a curriculum from 1968 to 1972 at the Academy of Arts and Design St. Joost in 's-Hertogenbosch. After his studies, he initially made drawings and etching. In 1982, Visch spent a year in Atelier PS I in New York, where he became known for his figurative sculptures. From 1984, the artist has taught at the Amsterdam Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten and the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. The work of Henk Visch is located in many major national and international museum collections. Visch has also exhibited at international exhibitions, such as the Documenta in Kassel and the Venice Biennale. In addition, the artist has recently been asked to be the Dutch representative at the Kathmandu Biënnale.
Above text taken from Green on Red Gallery: https://www.greenonredgallery.com/update-news/2018/11/26/arno-kramer-at-the-model-sligo-and-ballina-arts-centre
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In 2016, six professional Irish artists, whose practice is rooted in drawing, first met at a peer critique event, organised by Visual Artists Ireland and chaired by Arno Kramer. Arno is a renowned visual artist, curator and founder of Drawing Centre Diepenheim in The Netherlands, who champions contemporary drawing in all its diversity. One of the many outcomes of this serendipitous encounter was the establishment of our drawing-focused platform, ‘Drawing de-Centred’ (DdC). So it is fitting that Arno Kramer is our first Featured Artist.
Arno is a renowned artist predominantly engages in making drawings and drawing-installations and is currently curating an international exhibition Beyond Drawing with three Dutch artists Marleen Kappe, Romy Muijrers, Marisa Rappard and three DdC members, Felicity Clear, Kiera O’Toole and Mary-Ruth Walsh.
In 2017, Arno exhibited with fellow Dutch artist Henk Vish in The Model, Sligo . The exhibition, High Winds Move Slowly, was curated and toured by the Museum De Buitenplaats in the Netherlands and marked the first time that these two artists have been brought together in one exhibition. DdC member Kiera O’Toole was invited by The Model to select works from The Niland Collection, which resonate with her own artistic interests. O’Toole considered the work of Arno Kramer.
Beyond Drawing 2020
March_ Ballina Arts Centre, Ballina Ierland/Ireland
July_ Uillinn West Cork Art Centre, Skibbereen, Ireland/Ierland
For further information about Arno: www.arno-kramer.nl
Orla McHardy
Orla McHardy, No Common Sentence (#1), (2016-2020), GIF from the film 00:25:11
Working through expanded animation, video, text, documentary, collage, sculptural installation and within a tradition of feminism(s), my current work interrogates where value is placed (and not placed) on the hidden time of care and labour. My research-based practice reclaims embodied subjectivity and the interrupted time of caregiving as sites of critical knowledge, where our lived experiences and daily activities are forms of expertise that exist outside of institutional frameworks.
www.orlamchardy.com
www.orlamchardy.com
Kiera O'Toole
Kiera O’Toole. Drawing Wonder, Chalk and algae and seawater on a concrete structure, Dunmoran Beach, Sligo, Ireland, 2019. This project is is a finalist for Project Anywhere which is a global blind peer-reviewed exhibition 2019.
O'Toole's practice and research centres on drawing in the expanded field to examine the perceptual and aesthetic experience of the drawing. O'Toole is concerned with how humans experience the embodied mark,: its complexity, diversity, universality and presentness. Hr practice is realised both inside and outside the gallery space; studio, public art, digital media, installation, sculpture, photography. O'Toole's practice includes residencies, presentations, writing including book chapter titled Drawing from the Non-Place', published by Cambridge scholars, 2020.
Biography
Dublin born, Kiera O'Toole is an artist and a PhD doctoral researcher at Loughborough University UK. O’Toole’s practice and research examines site-responsive drawing in the environment. This is released both inside and outside the gallery space: site-specific drawing, public art, digital media, installation and sculpture. Recent exhibitions include ARTWORKS 2020, VISUAL Carlow, Carlow Arts Festival, Highlanes Gallery 2020, Beyond Drawing curated by Arno Kramer, Ballina Arts Centre, West Cork Arts Centre 2020. Upcoming exhibitions include CCA Derry, The Drawing Box, Mumbai and Walking Keshcorran’ which is a residency with Tommy Weir. Recent residences include Project Anywhere which is a global bind peer-reviewed exhibition, conference and is led by the University of Melbourne and Parsons School of Art, NY. O’Toole also publishes including contributing book chapters; ‘Drawing from the Non-Place’ published by Cambridge Scholars in 2020 and a book chapter ‘Project Anywhere Biennial IV’, 2021 published by University of Melbourne. Kiera is a co-founder of Drawing deCentered which is professional artist-led collective that explores contemporary drawing practice in Ireland.
kieraotooleartist.com
Biography
Dublin born, Kiera O'Toole is an artist and a PhD doctoral researcher at Loughborough University UK. O’Toole’s practice and research examines site-responsive drawing in the environment. This is released both inside and outside the gallery space: site-specific drawing, public art, digital media, installation and sculpture. Recent exhibitions include ARTWORKS 2020, VISUAL Carlow, Carlow Arts Festival, Highlanes Gallery 2020, Beyond Drawing curated by Arno Kramer, Ballina Arts Centre, West Cork Arts Centre 2020. Upcoming exhibitions include CCA Derry, The Drawing Box, Mumbai and Walking Keshcorran’ which is a residency with Tommy Weir. Recent residences include Project Anywhere which is a global bind peer-reviewed exhibition, conference and is led by the University of Melbourne and Parsons School of Art, NY. O’Toole also publishes including contributing book chapters; ‘Drawing from the Non-Place’ published by Cambridge Scholars in 2020 and a book chapter ‘Project Anywhere Biennial IV’, 2021 published by University of Melbourne. Kiera is a co-founder of Drawing deCentered which is professional artist-led collective that explores contemporary drawing practice in Ireland.
kieraotooleartist.com
Melissa O'Faherty
Suspended Drawings titled 'Moonrock I and II' by Melissa O'Faherty. Installation photograph form Mermaid Arts Centre, Co.Wicklow Irl., Solo Drawing Show 2016.
Melissa's drawing works explore the connections and influence of modern day scientific findings on art. Of particular interest to her drawing practice is the experience of phenomena in nature and also allowing for depictions of alternative views and reflections of humanity's influence and control over our natural environment including the imaginings of new more habitable worlds.
Biography
Melissa O'Faherty was born 1972, Dublin Ireland. Attended IADT, Dublin (1993-96). Exhibitions include Annual Exhibitions , Royal Hibernian Academy Dublin 2016, 2019. Pallas Studios Periodical Review #7, Dublin 2017. Solo show ‘Spaces of the Imagination’ at Mermaid Arts Centre, Co.Wicklow, 2017. Residential Award Notre Dame University, 2019. Collections include Offce of Public Works, Dublin, Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin. Currently selected as a Turps Correspondence Course , contemporary painting Artist, based in London 2018-20. Upcoming solo show Royal Hibernian Ashford Gallery Dublin, 2021. Founding member of Drawing deCentered, an artist contemporary drawing collaboration.
Biography
Melissa O'Faherty was born 1972, Dublin Ireland. Attended IADT, Dublin (1993-96). Exhibitions include Annual Exhibitions , Royal Hibernian Academy Dublin 2016, 2019. Pallas Studios Periodical Review #7, Dublin 2017. Solo show ‘Spaces of the Imagination’ at Mermaid Arts Centre, Co.Wicklow, 2017. Residential Award Notre Dame University, 2019. Collections include Offce of Public Works, Dublin, Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin. Currently selected as a Turps Correspondence Course , contemporary painting Artist, based in London 2018-20. Upcoming solo show Royal Hibernian Ashford Gallery Dublin, 2021. Founding member of Drawing deCentered, an artist contemporary drawing collaboration.
FIONA ROBINSON MA PRWA RA Hon. HRSA
President of the Royal West of England Academy
President of the Royal West of England Academy
Fiona Robinson, Discords II, Graphite charcoal chalk and wax, 63.5 x 63 cm. 2012. Collection British Museum, London, UK
Shortlisted for The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2012
Fiona Robinson makes drawings in response to music. Her work is concerned with surface and the representation of space. Through line, diverse media and erasure she explores the interaction between sound, physical spaces and mark-making. Her recent work prioritises: Debussy and Chopin’s piano music; Bach’s Cello Suites and John Cage’s works for prepared piano. Using the language of drawing she creates an equivalence of, a transcription of, music. It is not a system of notation or an alternative to a musical score to be re-interpreted, it is a response to the sound. Through her engagement with music - playing the piano, listening and drawing the movement and sound - her drawings present a communication between composer and artist, a conversation between two practitioners, through the languages they use to express their ideas.
www.fionarobinson.com
www.fionarobinson.com
KEVIN TOWNSEND (USA)
Kevin Townsend, A tidal gravity, durational erasing, buffed graphite on wall surface, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, Massachusetts
"I describe my expanded drawing practice as rendering monuments to moments as they pass. Big ideas and questions about time, duration, obsession, and mark-making drive my work. But simple, small details often animate it— they become rules for me to focus on while in the act of drawing. My meditative works range from intimately scaled, delicate drawings that aggregate hours on paper to large-scale, public pieces that accumulate days of marking at the scale of architecture.
My large-scale works are composed, rendered, and exhibited on-site, directly on urban surfaces, the facades of buildings, or the walls of museums, and galleries in cities across the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia. The drawings are decidedly low entropy arrangements; they do not feel like a random collection of lines. Each mark is a tic of the clock, a thought, a decision, and action made in a moment of the perceptual present, oriented to the other moments recorded before it. The accumulated marks evoke swarms, fields, clouds, flows, or topographies that index the passage of time and a laboring body's movement through space." Kevin Townsend
Biography
Currently, I live and work in the Kansas City metro area. I was born, raised, and educated on the east coast, earning my BFA from Corcoran College of the Arts & Design at GW University and my MFA from the School of Visual Arts, NYC. Alongside my art practice, I've been a teacher and curriculum writer for the last 20 years, teaching drawing, printmaking studio, and professional practice at accredited art and design colleges.
My large-scale works are composed, rendered, and exhibited on-site, directly on urban surfaces, the facades of buildings, or the walls of museums, and galleries in cities across the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia. The drawings are decidedly low entropy arrangements; they do not feel like a random collection of lines. Each mark is a tic of the clock, a thought, a decision, and action made in a moment of the perceptual present, oriented to the other moments recorded before it. The accumulated marks evoke swarms, fields, clouds, flows, or topographies that index the passage of time and a laboring body's movement through space." Kevin Townsend
Biography
Currently, I live and work in the Kansas City metro area. I was born, raised, and educated on the east coast, earning my BFA from Corcoran College of the Arts & Design at GW University and my MFA from the School of Visual Arts, NYC. Alongside my art practice, I've been a teacher and curriculum writer for the last 20 years, teaching drawing, printmaking studio, and professional practice at accredited art and design colleges.
RAM SAMOCHA
Dust to Dust 2 - Drawing performance by Ram Samocha
Draw to Perform - Performative Drawing Day – London, March 2020
A Day of Drawing Performances & Workshops by Draw to Perform
Sunday 8 March 2020, 10:00-18:00. Artsadmin – Toynbee Studios, London.
Inspired by childhood memories and elder experience this drawing performance by artist Ram Samocha combines between few elements of drawing, movement, and sound. Samocha used charcoal and sanguine powder to draw with and to create a large ephemeral painting. All photos by Robert Luzar.
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Mary-Ruth Walsh
I’m interested in buildings and the way they effect how we move and behave. From exploring the frenetic spaces of market places to the desolate loneliness of empty spaces my practice has sustained a focus on architecture and buildings.These ideas are realised through drawing, sculpture, installation and film. My work does not illustrate but rather engenders ideas of place / no place and subjectivity. Exploring why and for who the space is created and, within this, how we position ourselves in that space. Research underpins my practice and explores the question of how identity is shaped and the play between art, literature and subjectivity
Biography
Dublin born MaryRuth Walsh is a graduate of Goldsmiths College London and NCAD Dublin. Her selected work has been exhibited in Irish Museum of Modern Art; The Hugh Lane Gallery; Royal Hibernian Academy (all Dublin); CUBEOpen (Manchester); Oonagh Young; Cross Gallery (both Dublin); Highlanes Gallery (Drogheda); Parlour (New York); Arts Centre (Wexford). Her work is exhibited both inside and outside the gallery space. Current exhibitions include: A Silent Space in the Turning World, a solo exhibition in Sirius Arts Centre by Mary-Ruth WalshNew paintings, collages and blueprints by Mary-Ruth Walsh, that reinterpret architecture and landscape and reflect on Brian O’Doherty’s longstanding engagement with space, place and architecture. Commissioned by Sirius Arts Centre for One Here Now: the Brian O’Doherty / Patrick Ireland Project. Supported by the Arts Council and Cork County Council.
http://www.siriusartscentre.ie/visual-art/mary-ruth-walsh
Also, I am… a solo exhibition in Grölle Pass Projects, Germany by Mary-Ruth Walsh
supported by Cultural Ireland.http://groelle.de/raum2-exhibitions.php?p=267
maryruthwalsh.org
Biography
Dublin born MaryRuth Walsh is a graduate of Goldsmiths College London and NCAD Dublin. Her selected work has been exhibited in Irish Museum of Modern Art; The Hugh Lane Gallery; Royal Hibernian Academy (all Dublin); CUBEOpen (Manchester); Oonagh Young; Cross Gallery (both Dublin); Highlanes Gallery (Drogheda); Parlour (New York); Arts Centre (Wexford). Her work is exhibited both inside and outside the gallery space. Current exhibitions include: A Silent Space in the Turning World, a solo exhibition in Sirius Arts Centre by Mary-Ruth WalshNew paintings, collages and blueprints by Mary-Ruth Walsh, that reinterpret architecture and landscape and reflect on Brian O’Doherty’s longstanding engagement with space, place and architecture. Commissioned by Sirius Arts Centre for One Here Now: the Brian O’Doherty / Patrick Ireland Project. Supported by the Arts Council and Cork County Council.
http://www.siriusartscentre.ie/visual-art/mary-ruth-walsh
Also, I am… a solo exhibition in Grölle Pass Projects, Germany by Mary-Ruth Walsh
supported by Cultural Ireland.http://groelle.de/raum2-exhibitions.php?p=267
maryruthwalsh.org