our Art

This page is under construction. At the moment it details various resident artists but in the coming weeks it will include much more. Here you will be able to see all the work made on residency programmes, details of all visiting artists and full documentation of any public/enclosed installations initiated by the Good Hatchery.

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Full Time Artists

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RuthLyons

Please visit ruth.ie for further documentation of Ruth Lyons’ work

Biography-Ruth Lyons graduated from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin in 2007 with a BA in Fine Art Sculpture. Ruth has also studied in the Vilnius Academy of Fine Art in Lithuania. In the past few years Ruth has exhibited in both Lithuania and Slovenia aswell as in various events around Ireland.

Since graduating Ruth has been creating a large body of work in which she attempts to act as a prism to refract a moment.

The following images are thumbnails of some of her recent work.

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CarlGiffney

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Please find a site documenting Carl Giffneys work here.

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“Graduating in 2007 from NCAD with a 1st class honours, Carl Giffneys work is typified by its sociological concerns. Religion, history and bureaucracy are often taken as the landscapes in which we search for the components of identity. Where we find and how we piece together these parts are of great interest to him. Giffneys installations like iGod and The Meaning Life, unashamedly envelope audience members in sleek but hellish traps where his concerns are made all too clear. Giffneys practice relies on humour and scale to engage viewers while it attempts to create a rich balance between the ludicrous elements of his work and the serious. In his work we have met iGod, a 8 foot tall iPod that serenely preaches his sermon to us from a height. In Panoptigods Cathedral we observed a flock of 12 pigeons that home to lavish cathedral hutch where they practice their own form on ‘pigeon religion’. In Kilkenny, Giffney built an enormous and archaic machine that could produce pineapples using alchemy. This Flann O’Brien-esque contraption mimicked the ridiculous efforts placed on fruit growing by Victorians in the Area. The sociological nature of his work has often lead Giffney to engage with the public on their ground. He is at home performing on the streets. Here we see him interrupt, subvert and amuse.

Recent exhibitions have included Out of Site, Excursions and Art Horrific, where, among other projects, elements of his History from the Future performances took place. Currently one of Giffneys machines is installed in Westport town library where it claims to cure suicidal impulses in adolescent men. Between traveling and exhibiting, Carl Giffney bases himself at The Good Hatchery studios.” (Art@Work press)

Upcoming events include Never Ending Telescope, a group show in Dublins Back Loft and various public collaborations based around the N4 dual carriage way.

You can read a recent CV here.

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Visiting / Part Time Artists

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ChrisTimms

Chris Timms graduated from NCAD in 2007 with a BA honours in Media in the Fine Art Department. He has exhibited in Filmbase and Eschede, Holland where he spent three months during an Erasmus exchange program. He works primarily with film, though has worked on projects involving performance, sound, photography, and guerrilla art. His work has primarily been concerned with ethnography, and its long standing ties with various modes of documentary. He is a member of Parking Meter Press.

Some of his video work can be found here.

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JohnJones

John Jones will be visiting the Good Hatchery in January to begin adapting some of his recent work into a large scale, outdoor sculpture. We will see his birdhouses grow their angular mazes to suit their new outdoor site.

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JohnHolten

John Holten will be visiting us in February to undertake the challenge of writing a locally inspired story under certain stipulated constrains.

In 1969 Georges Perec wrote an entire novel without the letter ‘e’ ( The Void), in 1939 Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel 50,100 words long likewise without the letter ‘e’ – the lipogram is as old as the sonnet and the constraint it places on the writer can produce literature that is just as beautiful, concise and energetic. During the first Residency for Potential Literature John Holten plans to write a piece of work entirely without the letter ‘i’ and see what some of the challenges first laid out in the OuLiPo circle can bring to County Offaly.

John Holten has lived and worked in Paris, Berlin, Dublin and Oslo.
His fiction and writing on art have appeared in various publications and websites including Circa Magazine and The Cuirt Annual, 2007.
The short story Germania won ‘2006 Best Short Story’ in the oxygen.ie SMEDIA awards, the judge Joseph O Connor stating that Holten had ‘a compelling voice, distinct and edgy’ which showed ‘a willingness to push a little further.’
In 2006 publications appeared in www.veritymagazine.com ; RedSquare Magazine; O2 Magazine;www.tempomgz.com and west47.
He is currently completing the M.Phil in Creative Writing at Trinity College, writing a novel about grief and the singular Irish phenomenology of home and property.
www.johnholten.com

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Further Artists yet to be documented:

-Bridget Barnhart

-Luke Sheehan

-Ronan Coughlan

-Patrick Corcoran

-Sinead Bhreathnach- Cashell

-Sean-Og

-Caoimhin O Ratheallaigh

-Emma Houilhan

-Mark Durkan

-Rory Grubb