Unrequited Hatred - Press Release

Unrequited Hatred

Curated by Darren Barrett and Tadhg Ó Cuirrín

The Shed, Galway Docks
11th - 25th August Opening reception; Friday August 10th, 7pm

Opening Hours; Wednesday to Saturday 12pm - 6pm


Featuring work by: Darren Barrett, Alan Bulfin, Daniel Cunniffe, Terence Erraught, Nevan Lahart, Tadhg Ó Cuirrín, Jeroen Van Dooren, Kees van Lankveld, Francis Quinn.

'Play is nothing if nothing if not an open and unreserved challenge to everything opposed to play'

Georges Bataille

Unrequited Hatred will be a diverse and multi-faceted constellation of work, that is representative of a shared attitude or stance towards our artistic practice. This attitude manifests itself in the form of a collective desire to create work that is provocative, energetic, assertive and that is indifferent towards the increasing commercialisation of the contemporary art world.


Thematically, the exhibition will confront the obsession with utilising or killing time efficiently within the present consumerist society. This obsession filters itself through the mediums of technological devices such as television, computers, the internet and mobile phones. Champions of communicative technology posit that this free flow of information has helped liberate the role of the individual within Western society. However a convincing argument could be made that precisely the opposite has occurred; namely that the constant bombardment of information and visual stimuli has had the effect of debilitating the individuals capacity to think and reflect, contributing to the pervading sense of ennui and lethargy that characterises the postmodernist epoch.


The exhibition Unrequited Hatred will respond to, and attempt to transcend the present condition. In this project the artists will attempt to carve up the exhibition space as an independent site from this culture of passivity. By intermixing a variety of different materials and sources, the objective will be to create work that is allusive and rich in connotations, that resists constrictive judgement and easy classification. The processes of play and humour will be used to provoke; but also to induce more expansive methods of thinking and creating.  In the final instance, while the project will ultimately remain firmly rooted within the fabric of the contemporary landscape, we will nonetheless strive to present to the viewer something of the disavowed and fantastical desires that lurk beyond the façade of everyday life

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BRIAN LOUGHRAN & KATE HOWARD | THE SHED | 126 GALLERY | GALWAY ARTS FESTIVAL | 16 - 29 JULY 2012

BRIAN LOUGHRAN & KATE HOWARD | THE SHED | 126 GALLERY | GALWAY ARTS FESTIVAL | 16 - 29 JULY 2012 126 in association with the Galway Arts Festival present: Brian Loughran Kate Howard 16th - 29th July 2012 Opening reception: Friday 20th July, 7pm   'Guillotine', 2012 Brian Loughran Brian Loughran is a Galway based visual artist, graduating from LCAD in 1995. Loughran explores notions of memory and identity in his work, often using the mediums of object installation and performance art. Brian has received grants from the Arts Council of Ireland, and has performed and exhibited in Unit 1, Dublin, Platform Arts, Belfast, 2009, ‘Weather permitting’, Galway, Driocht, Dublin, and RAP, Limerick. For 'The Shed' exhibition, Loughran presents two new works, 'Prey' and 'Guillotine'. Both works play on the viewer's sense of anticipation and expectation. 'Guillotine' alludes to the seduction of dangerous close encounters and the notion of being close to the edge of a perilous situation. 'Prey' evokes a sense of frustration and endless empathy as the work is futile in its nature. 'Bauen', 2011 Kate Howard Kate Howard aims to examine the various spatial and architectural features of the exhibition space. By the means of nominal site-specific intervention, seizing an existing situation and exposing the essence of the materials employed. Howard is primarily concerned with instability and alterability, with construction and decay. She hopes to create new environments that reveal the essence and unpredictability of the materials themselves. Through employing and manipulating functional everyday materials and re-configuring their potential. Interventions produced on site, objects become spatial structures. Kate Howard is a contemporary visual artist and arts organizer based in Galway. In 2010 she completed her MA in Arts Policy and Practice through the Huston School of Film and Digital Media at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She holds degrees in Fine Art from Sligo IT (2000) and GMIT (2009). Image: Eimearjean McCormack The Shed, Middle Pier, The Docks, Galway Facilitated by the generous support of the Galway Harbour Company and the Galway City Arts Office, The Shed is a large 4,000 square foot warehouse space located on the middle pier of the Galway Docks. The space will be used for the duration of 2012 and into 2013 for a wide variety of projects and exhibitions, all instigated by local artists affiliated with Adapt Galway's organisations. Adapt hopes that by doing so, it will provide a unique platform for local artists to showcase their talents at a local and national level. Adapt also hopes to highlight the great potential of such vacant spaces around the city and how they could be used in the future. http://g.co/maps/czyv4  follow on twitter | follow on facebook | forward to a friend   126 is supported by the Arts Council, the Galway City Council and our membership.     126 is supported in kind by Adapt Galway, Galway Harbour Company and the Harbour Hotel.  Our mailing address: 126, Artist-run Gallery Queen St Galway Ireland contact@126.ie www.126.ie Opening hours: 1pm - 6pm (16th - 29th July)  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences | view email in browser

The Kitchen Table Artist Collective @ The Shed

The Kitchen Table Artist Collective | The Shed | May 23rd – June 14th 2012

The Kitchen Table Collective are the third Galway based visual art organization to take up a residency at The Shed as part of a  project by ADAPT Galway. The public are invited to view the work in progress on Saturday 2nd and Sunday 10th June 12-6pm.

The Kitchen Table collective was founded in July 2011 by nine recent fine art graduates from GMIT. The group’s formation was precipitated by discussions that took place at an Open Space experimental workshop presented by Tulca in May 2011 (Open Space for New Horizons), and was a direct response to an offer of a physical space by one participant at 3 McDonagh Ave., Mervue – the Rosa Parks Studio and Gallery.

The collective is committed to the Open Space model of interaction and dialogue between arts practitioners.

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ArtSpace Studios Galway @ The Shed

This week sees the second event at The Shed a project by Adapt Galway. Facilitated by the support of the Galway Harbour Company, The Harbour Hotel and Galway City Arts Office.

ArtSpace Studio artists will make use of the large 4,000sq ft warehouse located on the middle pier of the Galway Docks to create ambitious new work. With a closing reception open to the public on Thursday 17th May @ 7pm. For further information go to adaptgalway.com. For opening hours contact ArtSpace on 091 773046

Art Space Studios is an artists collective founded in 1986 by a group of
 Galway based artists. Today Artspace Studios provides studio spaces and 
state of the art facilities for 22 professional artists. Artspace policy 
strives to strengthen the ideal of an artist collective by upgrading 
working conditions.

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Launch of Adapt Galway @ The Shed, 5th April 2012

The Shed Awaits You

                                                        

When you hear the words docks, harbour and shed what is the one image that springs to mind?

Art? Maybe not right now but the upcoming launch of The Shed by Adapt Galway might change that.

The Shed, located on the middle pier of Galway Harbour, will provide a unique space for artists to create experimental large-scale sculptural works during a 4 week residency. The residency forms part of an exciting 12 month programme of events at The Shed which will involve a number of local artist collectives including 126, Engage, Artspace Studios and Lorg Printmakers. The programme of events is being co-ordinated by Adapt Galway. 

The official launch of the programme of events takes place on Thursday 5^th April at 7pm where many of the artists will be available to discuss the concept and the programme of events. The Forge studios, being the first group to occupy the shed, will show their work in progress.  All members of the public are invited to attend.

At approximately 4,000 square foot the warehouse, residing on the middle pier of the docks, will be transformed into a unique exhibit space in which a diverse mix of artists shall either showcase their work or use as a working space.

It is a unique and exciting project which will not only allow artists work in a large space, it will also allow the general public view works from artists they may have previously unheard of. The project has been generously supported by The Galway Harbour Company, The Harbour Hotel and the Galway City Arts Office.

Adapt Galway is a coalition of visual arts groups and artists. They have a long term strategy to develop artist led spaces in Galway city.  The Shed project highlights not only the need for visual artist space, but also the opportunity for unused vacant commercial units to be utilised in such positive manner.

So far the interest in the concept has been good with a number of property owners already in discussions to donate their vacant space to the group.  Adapt Galway are always interesting in meeting with stakeholders and owners of unused space for short to medium term artist-led events.

More information on the programme is available on www.adaptgalway.com

FORGE STUDIOS AT THE SHED

FORGE STUDIOS

Work in progress...