Engage Art Studios

Exhibitions

The Niland Gallery has finished its season of programming for 2011. Thanks to all of our partners, everyone at Engage Art Studios, artists, curators and supporters, especially Oliver Niland and the Arts Council, without whose support the project would not have been possible.

And... Thanks to the Arts Council, please stayed tuned for future programming in 2012 as we create a platform for young and innovative curators through the presentation of several exhibitions, events, screenings and talks in the heart of Galway.

From Field Work. Photo by Clare Lymer.

Perambulatory Rhetorics
New work by Victoria Smith and Lisa Sweeney
The Niland Gallery, Merchants Road, Galway City
November 26th – December 10th

‘The Paths taken by strollers consist of a series of turnings and returning that can be likened to “turns of phrase” or “stylistic devices”. A perambulatory rhetoric does exist. The art of “turning” a phrase has its counterpart in the art of “turning” course. As with everyday language, this art entails and combines both styles and usages...Spatial practices also correspond to manipulations of the fundamental elements of a constructed order; like rhetorical tropes, they are divergent from a kind of “Literal” meaning defined by the urban system.’

– Michel de Certeau, Other People: Ethnography and Social Practice

The Niland Gallery presents Perambulatory Rhetorics, an exhibition featuring a new body of work by two local artists from Engage Studios and Artspace in Galway, Lisa Sweeney and Victoria Smith. Perambulatory Rhetorics is an exhibition that focuses on spatiality, structure, space, the snapshot and how as two artists- Smith and Sweeney walk, observe and meander through the ‘city’ which has made an extended trajectory in the creation of two intertwined spatial installations within the raw structural space of the Niland Gallery.

The artists’ practices within Perambulatory Rhetorics considers architecture, space, the walk to and from the studio, conversation and dialogue, the psycho geography of a social public space, planning, personal journeys, the captured snapshot, the happened upon object, drawing, technology, a sense of time, place and the individual memories of journey’s taken and future journeys to come.

Perambulatory Rhetorics takes as its starting point the text ‘Walking the City’ by Michel de Certeau in which he considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behaviour are put by individuals and the group. He describes the tactics of the ordinary person for reclaiming autonomy from the all pervasive forces of commerce, politics and culture. In understanding the public meaning of ingeniously defended private meanings de Certeau draws on an immense theoretical literature. The Practice of Everyday Life takes a turning point away from the producer(writer, scientist and city planner) and the product (book, discourse, city street) to the consumer (reader and pedestrian) De Certeau acts very much like his own ordinary hero, manipulating, elaborating and unveiling the scientific autonomy that he denies yet requires.

Perambulatory Rhetorics is a conceptual construct that Smith and Sweeney’s research and investigations into ways in which users commonly assumed to be passive are guided by
established rules of operation. By means of inquiry and hypotheses that indicate pathways for further research into the notion of the trajectory. This traces out the ruses of other interests and desires that are neither determined nor captured by the system. This goal is achieved in the everyday practice of being an artist; the artist who grasps the material of these practices but not their form. It is a statistical inquiry into the breakdown of efficacious meanderings into units. Sweeney and Smith have reorganised their results of this analysis laid out by de Certeau according to their own artistic codes. Trajectory suggests a movement involving a plane projectory, a flattening out into a transcription, a graph, a line which can be revealed as trace acts. These universal analyses of writers and artists are believed to be traced back to nothing more that the expression of the local and the exotic experience as is the case in these two artists investigations into spatial cultures. Only in this local network of labour, recreation and culture can one grasp how, within a grid of socio-economic constraints these pursuits unfailingly establish relational tactics (a struggle for life), artistic creation (an aesthetic) and autonomous initiative (an ethic) as described by de Certeau

The ordinary activity of working and walking within a city and in the studio comes to light in the Niland Gallery. This exhibition is an analysis in leading the audience, the readers of the show to uncover for themselves their own situations, their own tactics, their position in relation to this response, their own creations in front of each individual and collective practice in Perambulatory Rhetorics.

Lisa Sweeney is a member of Artspace Studios, Galway. She completed a BFA in GMIT in 2003. Since graduating she has held a number of solo shows throughout Ireland and exhibited in France, Norway and Sweden. Some recent projects include Interstice 2011, an Artspace Studios project at Supermarket Artist-led Art Fair in Stockholm, Outside:Insight 2011, sculpture exhibition in Brigits Garden, Galway and Collective Consciousness 2011, Artspace Studios group show in the Galway Arts Centre. Her practise includes drawing, painting, mixed media installation and structural work

Victoria Smith makes work that is about the tangible site, mundane reality and the recreation of a readymade reality. Her practice explores themes of the fragmented urban and rural site, domesticity, connections, memory, loss and identity. Smith is an artist, writer, curator, and teacher. She has completed her MA, Art in the Contemporary World, at NCAD, Arts Administration and Cultural Policy at Goldsmiths College and the Hdip, BFA at Crawford College Cork. She is the current chairperson on the board of 126 artist led space and a member of Engage studios, Galway. Smith has taught and exhibited extensively in Ireland, England, Africa, America, and Europe. Recent shows include Spectrum of Activity curated by Padraic Moore and Ian McInerny, the Black Mariah gallery, Cork; In_Flux Artist led fair, Occupy Space, Limerick; Culture Night, Engage Studios Galway(2011); Galway Arts Centre, Fundraiser group show(2010):Land, Harold’s Cross Gallery, Dublin, Ireland(2007); Illusion Art Gallery, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates(2004); The Discerning Eye, Pall Mall Galleries, London, UK.

www.vickysmith.ie

The Niland Gallery is an Engage Art Studios project and is made possible by the generous support of the Niland family and the Arts Council. The Niland Gallery is open Fri – Sat from 12 until 5pm or by appointment and is located on Merchants Road, Galway.

Tulca 2011: After the Fall
Curated by Megs Morley
November 4th – 20th, 2011

The Niland Gallery is delighted to be a part of Tulca 2011: After the Fall curated by Megs Morley. We will be hosting the work of Fillipo Berta, Nilu Izadi, Joanne Richardson and David Rych as part of the festival for the full two weeks. The gallery is open everyday. Please see www.tulca.ie for complete details.

The Niland Gallery is an Engage Art Studios project and is made possible by the generous support of the Niland family and the Arts Council. The Niland Gallery is located on Merchants Road, Galway.

Trust
Maeve Curtis, Kate Molloy and Beth O' Halloran
Curated by Mark Cullen
The Niland Gallery
October 1st - 30th
Opening Reception: Friday 30th of September 6 – 8pm.

Mark Cullen was invited by Engage Studios to curate a show in The Niland Gallery following some form of interaction with the artists of Engage Studios.

The idea of trust comes from a belief in artists being able to rise to the challenge of exhibiting their own work without excessive curatorial mediation, and in an understanding that the 'exhibition' presents a valuable opportunity for artists, entrusted by the gallery, to explore their work in the public realm. It is a trust in the artists vision of their own work. Following an invitation from Engage Cullen invited these three artists to take on the three rooms of the Niland Gallery, a room each per artist. Manifold manifestations of trust will permeate the hang as the different circumstances of each artist effects how their work can be installed; Maeve Curtis will have her work installed in absentia as she passes the mantle of trust over to a colleague, Kate Molloy will have her first opportunity to explore her working constellations in a gallery show since graduating in 2011, and Beth O Halloran has entursted the curator to hang her work following consultations at her studio.

Beth O'Halloran's practice of late has been multi-disciplinary combining painting and photography with site-specific installations. Her interests lie in asking questions about transitional states and the blurred borders between changing conditions which can manifest physically or metaphysically. She has exhibited predominantly in Ireland and the U.S. but also Japan and the U.K. Recent exhibitions include her first museum based show at the Olin Museum of Art, Maine. She received her master's degree at IADT, and her BA from NCAD and the Glasgow School of Art.

Kate Molloy is a member of Engage Studios and a graduate of GMIT. Her work is a combination of abstract paintings and drawings based on endless elements of the everyday with the main focus of the work is in its placement, how it may create a conversation amongst the pieces. In a way posing the question can paintings or drawings influence each other by considering the way they have been arranged together?

Maeve Curtis poses questions about our ubiquitous use of imaging technology - Why have we become so trusting of imaging technology? Is our faith in machines changing how we see ourselves as individuals? Are we possibly at the start of the long anticipated endgame of the individual where machines will no longer have faith in us? She graduated from NUI, Galway with a First Class Honours Degree in 2007. She has been the recipient of many awards and is currently exhibiting work in the prestigious Threadneedle Prize Exhibition, in the Mall Galleries, London.

Mark Cullen is an artist and founder/director of Pallas Projects/Studios.

The Niland Gallery is an Engage Art Studios project and is made possible by the generous support of the Niland family and the Arts Council. The Niland Gallery is open Friday and Saturday from 12 until 5pm or by appointment and is located on Merchants Road, Galway.

Contact: thenilandgallery@gmail.com or engageartstudios@gmail.com

In Extremis
A group exhibition with: Tadhg O’Cuirín, Anne O' Byrne (Artspace Studios Galway), Tim Acheson, Brid Egan, Jennifer Cunningham (RHA Residency Dublin) and Mitch Conlon. Curated by Tim Acheson.The Niland Gallery, Galway
23 – 24th September 2011

Opening reception: Culture Night, Friday 23rd September 2011, 6-8pm.

The theme for the show 'In Extremis' is a Latin phrase meaning "in the farthest reaches" or "at the point of death", the phrase can also describe a situation calling for extreme or direct measures. Artist and curator Tim Acheson set out to explore this theme and its contemporary connection to Ireland and Galway by selecting artists from Engage Art Studios, Artspace Studios and The Royal Hibernian Academy Residency Program. The result is a fascinating and diverse range of works, including a two channel video installation, sculptural works, painting and photography.

Galway Culture Night aims to showcase Galway’s rich cultural fabric and make the Arts accessible to absolutely everyone. In Extremis was conceived especially to take part in these events and will only be on for 2 days.

The Niland Gallery is an Engage Art Studios project and is made possible by the generous support of the Niland family and the Arts Council. The Niland Gallery is open Friday and Saturday from 12 until 5pm or by appointment and is located on Merchants Road, Galway.

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For more information contact: thenilandgallery(at)gmail.com or engageartstudios(at)gmail.com

Field Work
A group exhibition with: Colm Clarke & Tonya McMullan, Alissa Kleist & Ruaidhri Lennon, Fiona Larkin, Duncan Ross
With text by Rowan Sexton
Curated by Charlotte Bosanquet
The Niland Gallery, Galway
19th August 2011 – 10th September2011

Fieldwork has been conceived as a research based project in Galway. From Belfast four artists or groups have be invited for an intense 4 days to make work for the Niland Gallery. Four days to make work based on experiences of traveling to, the city and people of Galway, staying through the generosity and co-operation of locally based artists, studio members of Engage Studios. This research based approach to the show aims to create new networks between the 152 Miles that separate Galway from Belfast, cross pollinating and establishing sustainable partnerships.

Rowan Sexton (Dublin) has been invited to respond to the work created with text and will be working in the Gallery as the artists are making the works.

Contact: thenilandgallery(at)gmail.com or engageartstudios(at)gmail.com

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Colm Clarke and Tonya McMullan have recently begun to collaborated on projects together. As their primary collaboration they have just completed the curators residency at Paragon Studios as a curatorial team.

Colm received a BA(hons) Fine Art from University of Ulster (2006), was a co-director of Catalyst Arts (2006-2008) and currently sits on the board of Bbeyond. He recently exhibited in Disconnected GT Gallery (Belfast), EPAF (Poland), Ars Electronica (Austria), Belgrade Triennial (Serbia), Art Karavan (India) and Exist-ence (Australia).

Tonya McMullan received a BA (Hon) from Edinburgh College of Art, she is currently a Director of Catalyst Arts, co –founder of the Edinburgh Based artist collective Echo and a participant in Belfast based art collective, PRIME. She has recently shown in Give and Take (Forte Bragg and Belfast) 2011 and Transcent, MAS Gallery (Serbia) 2010

www.tonyamcmullan.co.uk
www.primecollective.wordpress.com
http://clmrk.co.uk
http://bbeyondperformance.org

Alissa Kleist’s & Ruaidhri Lennon have worked together previously in 2009 on a print project in Limerick Printmakers.

Alissa Kleist has just completed her MA Fine Art at the University of Ulster. She has taken part in art@work 2010 and the UNESCO supported ‘Sensucht nach Ebene 2 ‘as well as being a founding member of artist collective PRIME. Kleist is currently showing at Water Tower Art Fest , (Bulgaria) and the Void, (Derry).

Ruaidhri completed his BA(hons) in 2008 at Limerick School of Art and Design and has just completed a MA Fine Art at the University of Ulster. He has taken part in the UNESCO recognised public art project “Sehnsucht nach Ebene 2, in the Museum of Modern Art in Arnhem, Netherlands and has shown at the Void, (Derry).

www.alissakleist.com
www.primecollective.wordpress.com
www.ruaidhrilennon.com

Fiona Larkin is an artist based in Flax Art Studios, Belfast who’s work primarily finds form in video, photography and action. She holds am MA from the University of Ulster and has exhibited widely both Nationally and Internationally.

www.fionalarkin.com
www.flaxartstudios.com

Duncan Ross seeks to integrate the development of a personal visual language with active participation in arts education, dissemination and advocation. He graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in 2000 and completed His MA in Fine Art from the University of Ulster in 2009.

http://www.dfross.com/dfrossIllustration/dfrossIllustration.htm
http://www.axisweb.org/seCVPG.aspx?ARTISTID=14346
http://www.thevacuum.org.uk/issues/issues0120/issue04/is04artcowbre.html

Rowan Sexton is an independent curator based in Dublin. She has previously worked in an educational and curatorial capacity for the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Ireland and Dublin City Gallery the Hugh Lane. She was awarded a B.Sc from NUI Maynooth in 2000, and is currently completing a Masters in Visual Arts Practice at the Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire.

Charlotte Bosanquet is an artist/curator based in Belfast. She graduated from Glasgow in 2004 and moved to Belfast in 2008. Having finished on the Board of Directors at Catalyst Arts, Belfast in early 2011 she formed the collective, PRIME. From 2004 to 2007 Charlotte co-curated Cabin Exchange in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Melbourne.

www.charlottebosanquet.com

Engage Art Studios for the Galway Arts Festival presents:

Vis-à-vis
Artists from Monster Truck Studios (Dublin) and Engage Art Studios (Galway)
Ella Burke, Ann Maria Healy, Steve McCarthy, Angela O’Brien, Lesley Ann O’Connell, Tadhg O’Cuirín, Noilin O'Kelly and Jim Ricks
The Niland Gallery, Lower Merchants Road
11th - 24th July 2011
Opening reception: Wednesday July 13th 6pm.

An artistic 'face off' between Monster Truck Studios (Dublin) and Engage Art Studios (Galway) at The Niland Gallery, Merchant's Road, Galway. 4 artists from each studio will exhibit side by side.

This pairing of studios includes a diverse range of practices with painting, large scale photographs, digital works, monumental sculptures and drawings.

To include Noilin O'Kelly, Ella Burke, Lesley Ann O’Connell and Steve McCarthy from Monster Truck and Ann Maria Healy, Angela O’Brien, Tadhg O’Cuirrin and Jim Ricks from Engage.

The Niland Gallery is an Engage Art Studios project and is made possible by the generous support of the Niland family and the Arts Council.

www.engageartstudios.com | www.monstertruck.ie

Aidan Dunne of The Irish Times writes: "Dublin’s Monster Truck Studios meet Galway’s Engage Studios in Vis-á-Vis at the Niland Gallery and the result is a really good show...". Read the rest here.

Hammer and Feather – Experiments in Space
A group exhibition with Tim Acheson, David Beattie, Karl Burke, Cecilia Dannell, Angela Fulcher, Dana Gentile, Ann Maria Healy, Clare Lymer, Laura McMorrow and Victoria McCormack. Curated by Mary Conlon
The Niland Gallery
10th June – 2nd July 2011
Opening reception: Thursday 9 June 2011, 6-8pm

Forty years ago this summer, Commmander David Scott conducted an experiment on the moon. On the final walk of the Apollo 15 mission, he performed a live demonstration dropping a hammer and a feather in the vacuum of the lunar atmosphere. With no air resistance, both hammer and feather hit the surface at the same time proving all objects fall at the same rate, just as Galileo had proposed hundreds of years earlier.1 Galileo’s significant contributions to the fields of mathematics, physics and astronomy are widely acknowledged, unlike the philosophical prose, artistic training and aesthetic observations that informed his experiments and hypotheses. His strategies often led to inconclusive results and failed attempts, but despite being limited by the technologies of the time, his creative process would influence and inform multiple disciplines for centuries. The legacy of his controversial explorations changed our world view.

In her recent article, In Free Fall – A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective,2 Hito Steyerl writes: “Imagine you are falling. But there is no ground.” And if everything falls at the same rate, would we even realise? Anti-foundational philosophy suggests we are in a period of metaphysical ‘groundlessness’ – a time for re-evaluation or re-definition is required during which we must re-orientate our limitations to new horizons. Perhaps we should not be looking for stable ground but should remain floating observers in perfect stasis. Or not. “{F}alling does not only mean falling apart, it can also mean a new certainty falling into place.” 3

Hammer and Feather features the work of 10 artists whose engagement with materials and space continues to challenge and resist the physical and canonical frontiers of art practice. A remote-control plinth; mapping light; abandoned festival tents; tectonic sculptures; hovering objects. In the context of the new Niland Gallery, the exhibition invites artists and visitors to imagine the possibilities and potential of this space - once empty in the vacuum of the economic downturn and now a site for discussion, discovery and, of course, experimentation.

Hammer and Feather – Experiments in Space is curated by Mary Conlon, Shinnors Scholar. The Niland Gallery is an Engage Art Studios project and is made possible by the generous support of the Niland family and the Arts Council. The Niland Gallery is open Friday and Saturday from 12 until 5pm or by appointment and is located on Merchants Road, Galway. Contact: www.engageartstudios.com

Image: David Beatie, White Light, 2010

1Joe Allen, NASA SP-289, Apollo 15 Preliminary Science Report, Summary of Scientific Results, p. 2-11

2Eflux Journal, Issue 25, May 2011

3Ibid, Issue 25, May 2011

A recent review of Mary Conlon's Hammer and Feather here.

Everything Must Finally Fall
By Declan Clarke
The Niland Gallery
Lower Merchants Road
12th-28th May 2011
Opening reception Thursday, May 12th 6-8pm

Engage Art Studios is pleased to present the work of Declan Clarke at The Niland Gallery. The show will consist of the three video works: 'Red Moon', 'Everything Must Finally Fall' and 'Nothing Human is Alien to Me'.

Clarke’s work is thoughtful and nostalgic, exploring the fleeting symbols and derelict statues of power, particularly the iconography of the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc. Sarah Pierce writes: “Much of Clarke's work connects his interest in political/socialist history with contrasting personal encounters with communism and it is through these connections that Clarke incites a contest between political stories and personal lives that is at the crux of any notion of ‘representation’”

In 'Red Moon' New York passersby are asked if they know who Yuri Gagarin is. The video then travels to the site of the former Soviet space museum and ultimately reflects on the once optimistic look to expansion. In 'Everything Must Finally Fall' a plane pulling the words ‘I Have Doubts’ is flown over a city. With 'Nothing Human is Alien to Me' Clarke became interested in the processes of erasing the past. In the immediate wake of the collapse of European Communism many cities, Berlin in particular, chose to quickly eradicate any evidence of the former regimes.

Declan Clarke was born in 1974 and studied at NCAD and Chelsea College of Art, London. Recent solo exhibitions include We'll Be This Way Until the End of the World, Mother's Tankstation, Dublin 2011; Loneliness in West Germany, Goethe Institut, Dublin; Declan Clarke & Derek Jarman Serpentine Cinema, Serpentine Gallery at The Gate Cinema, London 2009; Nothing Human is Alien to Me, Pierogi, Leipzig, 2008; Mine are of Trouble, Four Gallery, Dublin, Trauma and Romance, Gallery 3 off-site project, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin both 2006.

Recent group exhibitions include We Are Grammar, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York; Der Menchen Klee, KIT Kunstverein, Dsseldorf; Ayn Rand | Wilhelm Reich, Essays and Observations, Berlin all 2011, Auto-Kino! Curated by Phil Collins, Temporare Kunshalle, Berlin, 2010; UR NOW Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable, UK; Our Time, Smallpox, Lisbon, 2009; 10,000 to 50, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Through the Lens, Beijing Art Museum of Imperial City, Beijing, China, both 2008; Left Pop, Second Moscow Biennial, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, 2007; Duncan Cambell, Declan Clarke & Emily Wardill, Art Now, Tate Britain, London. In May 2010 his work was included in the Migrating Forms Underground Film Festival, New York.

The Niland Gallery is open Friday and Saturday from 12 til 5pm or by appointment.

The Niland Gallery is an Engage Art Studios project and is made possible by the generous support of the Niland family and the Arts Council.

What are you thinking?
A group show of Adapt Galway members
The Niland Gallery
Lower Merchant’s Road
14 April – 7 May 2011

A collaborative exhibition will be held in the Niland Galley, Merchants Road, curated by Austin Ivers, lecturer in GMIT. The artist-led groups supporting Adapt Galway are represented in the exhibition by the artists: Eimearjean McCormack, Laura brennan, Jim Ricks, Mara Sola, Lisa Ryder, Eimear Twomey, Simon Fleming, Christiaan Von Nuland, Paul Maye, Lisa Sweeney, Lisa O Donnell, Caroline Moran, Ann O Byrne, Eilis Carthy and Maeve Curtis.

Adapt Galway is a coalition of visual arts organisations. These groups are working together to create a united vision for the visual arts in Galway. Adapt Galway is comprised of representatives from and supported by Engage Art Studios, Knee Jerk, 126 Artist-Run Gallery, Ground Works Studios, Lorg Printmakers, Artspace and A-Merge, and has been endorsed by Tulca Season of Visual Art, Average Arts, MART, Féach Steering Committee, Live@EIGHT and more. Adapt welcomes the support of other interested organization involved with visual arts in Galway.

Adapt Galway supports the the use of city ‘slack spaces’ for creative purposes, the development of a purpose-built Galway centre for contemporary art, the re-purposing of the derelict Connaught Laundry as a working arts studio and sculpture facility, an festival of independent art organisations and progressive reform to arts funding.

The Niland Gallery is an Engage Art Studios project and is made possible by the generous support of the Niland family and the Arts Council.

www.adaptgalway.com

Tulca 2010: Living on the Edge: People, Place & Possibility
with Engage Art Studios at The Niland Gallery
Galway
November 6th - 21st, 2010

Tulca Festival of Visual Arts 2010 will present the work of over 40 national and international artists across 8 venues and public spaces in Galway city and will include a hectic programme of workshops, talks and live performances. Now in it's 9th year, Tulca will run for 2 weeks, from the 6th of November to the 21st of November.

Engage Art Studios is an artist-run studio space in Galway city centre. Engage supports ambitious contemporary artists in a professional environment. Artists hail from as far away as Sweden and the US and as close as Galway City itself. Engage members’ practices range from the emergent to the well established, and the media Engage artists work in is also diverse, including everything from performance to drawing to video to oil on canvas to sculpture to installation and more.

EimearJean McCormack has created drawings and prints based on climatic changes and contrast them against human activities contributing to land alteration. Jennifer Cunningham’s video, Island, is about Inishlacken, a deserted island off the coast of Roundstone, Galway. It explores the themes of emigration and relocation as it addresses the island’s isolated beauty and the way that modern life has cast aside once useful objects. Cecilia Danell shows an alternate route out to Mutton Island in a stop motion video. She references sci-fi space travel and brutalist architecture, while highlighting the lesser known sides of a structure integral to the Galway City coastline. Rust Mountain is new work by Miriam Donohue. Using the found object and accompanying sound, the artist works as collector, transporter, thief and as documenter of the sounds of the last docking place. Maeve Curtis exhibits Turn, the remnant of a performative arena where the energetic and rhythmic forces of tidal currents are played out through the meeting of contesting surfaces. Porifera is a piece by Maria brennan that explores living on in the remote ‘edge of Europe’ where the idea of self-protection and survival can become insular and isolating. She combines the biology of sea sponges and an allegorical look at regeneration and fragmentation.

To View the Full Tulca Programme, go to www.tulca.ie

Watch us on Platform Ireland.
Read about us in the Galway City Tribune.

Galway City Culture Night 2010
Open Studios at Engage
September 24th, 6 –9pm

www.galwayculturenight.com

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Enrage

Curated by Ian McInerney for the Galway Arts Festival 2010
The White Room Gallery
July 13th – August 14th 2010
Opening reception: Tuesday, July 13th, 6pm

Engage Studios is an artist–run studio space in Galway city centre. Now in its sixth year, Engage supports contemporary artists in a professional environment. This exhibition is curated by Ian McInerney, co–founder of the Black Mariah Gallery in Cork, and reflects the diversity of the members’ practice ranging from drawing to painting and video to installation.

Featuring the work of:

Tadhg O’Cuirín
Tiarnán McDonough
Eimear Twomey
Roisin O’brien
Siobhan McGibbon
Angela O'brien
Miriam Donohue
Eimear Jean McCormack
Jennifer Cunningham
Maeve Curtis
Seamus Keane
Áine Phillips
Cecilia Danell
Maria brennan
Ann Maria Healy
Jim Ricks
Sandra Bunting

Check us out in the Galway Arts Festival programme here.

Check out what Aidan Dunne of The Irish Times has to say about Enrage here.

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Centre – Line is a group multimedia exhibition showing as part of the Volvo Ocean Race Galway Stopover Art trail. Engage Art Studios is located in the heart of the city and is home to 23 artists working in a diverse range of media, 16 of engages artists will exhibit work for Centre – Line which was curated by Victoria Mc Cormack. The show will open on Saturday June 23rd at 4pm in the cathedral buildings on Middle Street, the show will run until June 6th and will be open to the public daily between 1-5pm.