Glasimile- seahorses tired of living in the real world

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Glasimile – Seahorses tired of living in the real world is the fourth collaborative work by Carl Giffney and Ruth E Lyons of The Good Hatchery. In 2010, SOMA  contemporary Artbox, a new artist led gallery space in Waterford City, commissioned the two artists to make the resulting new solo exhibition.

The exhibition runs from 4th – 26th June. With an opening event on the 4th and a closing event on the 26th.

Note: Closing event has been changed to take place at 7pm rather than 5pm. Music, drinks and food will be enjoyed.

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Full documentation of the exhibition can be found here

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Many thanks for the support provided by SOMA contemporary Art Box, Waterford Arts Office, Offaly Arts Office, Smart Ply and Nextdoor off licences.

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Mercedes Fire

MERCEDES FIRE

International Summer School

20th – 28th August 2010

Multiple venues, Ireland

Open Call for Participation

Mercedes Fire is a themed summer school for contemporary artists. This year’s focus is the concept of monumentality and its relationship to a fast changing society. It invites artists from across the world to come to Ireland for eight days of touring workshops, gallery visits and guest lectures. Mercedes Fire offers the opportunity to develop new work and to network with well-known specialists in the field.

Mercedes Fire raises questions on how an event, history, person or ideology can be represented in the name of a public. Has the age of permanent sculpture past? How does society represent itself and its values through public sculpture? What would a monument for the future look like?

Details

The touring summer school will begin in Cork, a city in on the south coast and home to some of Ireland’s most important art institutions. It will then move to Offaly, where it will be hosted by The Good Hatchery, a rural sculpture center with a reputation for developing ambitious art projects in a public setting. The summer school will culminate with a special event in Dublin and the opportunity to tour the city’s cultural venues.

Application

Mercedes Fire will take place for eight days from August 20th  – 28th, 2010. Potential participants are asked to offer a short statement of interest (approx 200 words), samples of previous work and CV. It is important that the statement of interest clearly demonstrates an engagement with the theme of the summer school.

The fee for the summer school is 100 euro. This covers tuition, food and accommodation for participating artists. Travel within Ireland and materials budget are also covered by the summer school but artists are responsible for making travel arrangements to Ireland. The deadline for application is 9th July 2010. The workshops will be held in English.

Application to be sent to:
thegoodhatchery@gmail.com
before 5pm, 20th July 2010

Mercedes Fire is facilitated by Ms. Claire Feeley, head of curation at the Irish Museum of Contemporary Art (IMOCA) www.imoca.ie and Ms. Ruth E Lyons, artist and director of The Good Hatchery www.thegoodhatchery.wordpress.com.

Glasimile

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Glasimile Seahorses Are Tired of Living in the Real World is a collaborative installation by  Carl Giffney and Ruth E Lyons. The show opens in SOMA Contemporary ArtBox, Waterford city’s newest contemporary artspace on Friday 4th June at 7pm. The opening will be accompanied by Music from Torann.

This installation of dynamic proportions  investigates pertinent issues of the place of faith, the changing role of local industry and the iconic image of the seahorse.

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Israeli

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Installation image of Mark Clares Splendid Isolation, a life size replica of an Israeli watch tower now being constructed on farmland in Co. Offaly as part of Celestial Salt.

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Savoir Faire 212

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The Good Hatchery presents Savoir Faire 212, the latest collaborative work by artists Ruth Lyons and Carl Giffney at Place, Gorey, Co. Wexford. Place is a new initiate that fuses contemporary art practices with self sustainability, in this case the operation of a shop front.

Savoir Faire 212 is a development of the thematic concerns evident in The Good Hatchery’s recent works, The Solution and Iridescence A. Through the use of water, commonplace utilitarian objects and communication devices, Savoir Faire 212 creates an interactive situation that speaks of necessity, the global society and the storage and distribution of energy.

This solo exhibition is curated by Paul Murnaghan and will open on Friday the 11th December at 6pm at Place, 5 Johns Street, Gorey, Co. Wexford.

For full documentation please follow  this link

A press release can be found here.

Celestial Salt

Celestial Salt is underway. This winter project run by The Good Hatchery sees six artists bring an art work that was originally created for an art context to the very rural surroundings of The Good Hatchery, an environment with no current infrastructure to support contemporary art. This environment, at this time of year, is characterised by large expanses of frosty industrial bog, short hours of stark winter sunlight, challenging weather conditions and few or no people exploring the out of doors. All of these attributes are rarely involved with outdoor group exhibition in Ireland. Among many other things, Celestial Salt is keen to experiment with this custom.

The following works are now being installed:

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Mark Clare- Splendid Isolation

Splendid Isolation is a life size replica of a wooden military watch tower used by Israeli forces in the 1940s. The work was originally created in the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA). It has been exhibited at IMMA, at EV+A in Limerick, in Galway and in Riga, Lithuania. For Celestial Salt the 8 meter tower will be installed on what was once the front lawn of the Clonearl Estate House. The house now long gone, the land is used to graze cattle yet it is still displays uncharacteristically expansive patches of rolling grass, punctuated by oak trees.

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Alex Conway-  Sound Suit

In Sound Suit Alex Conway engages with his physical surroundings by the means of a self-created suit. This suit incorporates audio technology that includes a series of contact mikes, loop stations, pedals, speakers, radio transmitters and sound recorders. By interacting with various surfaces, textures and materials Alex creates a sonic landscape that is played in real time, recorded and can be transmitted via radio wave. Originally this performative work took place on Dublin’s Thomas Street. For Celestial Salt, Sound Suit will be carried out in three locations that have been chosen by the artist: a dense forest of leafless hazel, a space beneath a motorway overpass and a bog rail line.

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Anita Delaney-  Pyramidal

Pyramidal is a video installation originally exhibited in Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin. The work comprises of two video projections both screened on a single pyramid structure that is made up of two panels of frosted perspex. For Celestial Salt,  Pyramidal is sited on a large stretch of industrial bog land and is powered by a 230 volt petrol powered generator.

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Doreen Kennedy- Flower Bed

Flower Bed is a photographic installation that was included in the Sculpture in Context exhibition in Dublin’s Botanical Gardens. By bringing this work to Daingean town centre, Doreen Kennedy has created a blooming flower bed made entirely of photographs that punctuates the town’s winter.

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Barbara Knezevic-  Elation / Deflation Object

Elation / Deflation Object is an installation of large latex weather balloons filled with helium gas. The installation originally took place at Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin. For Celestial Salt, the installation will float in the rusting skeletal shell of an abandoned warehouse. The remains of this huge building form part of the now defunct Bord na Mona briquette factory.

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Ben Mullen-  Bog Bodies

Bog Bodies sees Ben Mullen bring a currach that he constructed in Co. Clare to the landscape of east Offaly. He has chosen to install this sculptural work in the bog that sits at the foot of Croghan Hill. The boat is buried 5 feet beneath the turf, invisible to any potential audience members and is left in that state awaiting further developments.

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Each installed art work is teamed with a writer who is asked to use it a seed to create a new piece of writing. These writings and documentation of all works involved in Celestial Salt will be presented in a publication that will be launched in Dublin in January. Writers include: Darren Barrett, Patrick Bresnihan, Jenny Fitzgibbon, Claire Feeley, Paul Murnaghan and Luke Sheehan.

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Many thanks to Eileen Hanlon, Offaly Arts Office and all artists, writers and volunteers involved.

What’s Next? @ Draiocht Art Centre

The Good Hatchery will be making a presentation at What’s Next?, a proffesional developmet seminar for recent college graduates organised by Draiocht Art Centre. The event will take place on November 12th.

For details of the event, please see the Draiocht website.

From Daingean with Love….

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A selection of the postcards made during the From Daingean with Love … weekends.

The brief of the project was simply; to make a postcard for a town that has no postcards. The project was inspired by the fact that since the recent renaming of Dingle in county Kerry its Irish name ‘An Daingean’, post destined for Daingean, Co. Offaly has found itself being rerouted to An Daingean, Co. Kerry.

Consequently people who have lived in Daingean for generations have suddenly been bypassed by the postman for the more popular seaside destination leading to the loss or delay of their post.  From Daingean with Love… hopes to instill a sense of pride in place in this town which finds itself at the polar end of the tourist scale to its coastal counter part.

Participating artists visited the area for a short weekend stay during the Summer months. Given that the people of Daingean are the primary market for the postcards, artists were asked to consider what their postcard would say to the local community about the town.

Participating artists included: Tonya McMullan, Lioubov Kadyrova, Chris Timms, Francis Quinn, Kate Minnock, Shiela Rennick, Peter Prendergast, Emma Haugh, Elaine Hurley and Orla Gargan

The postcards are available in the local post office.

Celestial Salt: call for proposals

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The Good Hatchery is now accepting proposals for its main annual program: Celestial Salt. This years project aims to investigate the role of contemporary art outside of its comfort zones and usual supports. Artists from all disciplines are invited to propose the presentation of pre-existing work in the environment that surrounds The Good Hatchery.

Selected artists will be provided with an amount of financial and technical support along with transport, local information, workspace and accomodation as required. The outcomes of the project will be documented in a comprehensive publication and be presented at an event detailing the issues arrising from this project.

Celestial Salt will take place in November and December 09. The deadline for submissions is Friday 9th October 09.

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To see a detailed Celestial Salt brief please click here.

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The Good Hatchery in FRIEZE

We were very pleased when we noticed that  The Solution ,  Ruth Lyons’ and Carl Giffney’s collaborative work created for THIS MUST BE THE PLACE, the inaugural exhibition of IMOCA (Irish Museum of Contemporary Art), was mentioned in an article by Meave Connolly on the Dublin art scene, in the latest edition of FRIEZE Magazine. The printed version also featured an image of the Good Hatchery’s piece!

-The interest in archival modes of presentation in contemporary art over the past few years has also recently been contested by some Dublin-based artists. ‘This Must Be The Place’ (2009), curated by Paul Murnaghan and Sally Timmons, presented works by ten artists’ collectives at the inaugural exhibition of the self-styled, artist-run Irish Museum of Contemporary Art (IMOCA). Located (just like IMMA) outside the city centre, IMOCA is housed within a leaky, disused warehouse rather than a preserved historical landmark. Participants in the show were asked to respond to a specific question – How Do We Think?  – in any form other than an archive. The results were startling both in terms of scale and form. Artist collective The Good Hatchery, based in a converted hayloft in a rural area of county Offaly, built a large structure (entitled The Solution, 2009) that referenced Bernd and Hilla Becher’s canonical images of water towers and catalogued some Irish examples, while also dispensing water….

Please follow this link to the full article

Further documentation of The Solution and other projects can be found at these sites.

carlgiffney.wordpress.com

ruth.ie

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