Cork Cultural Companions is an Age & Opportunity Arts initiative, delivered by Muintir Cork and supported by the HSE and Cork City and County Councils. Cork Cultural Companions has local networks of members who attend events together regularly in Cork City, Mallow, Bantry and East Cork.
Tuesday, 5 March 2024
March in the Glucksman Gallery
Monthly newsletter for upcoming events in the Glucksman
We will be busy behind the scenes with our Art Library touring programme and our outreach work with communities which this month includes the launch of Better Together, an exhibition to mark World Down Syndrome Day 2024.
This month you can read the Little Interview which features Kevin O'Brien, who has travelled the island of Ireland installing and delivering artwork as part of our Art Library initiative.
As ever, we look forward to welcoming you in person or online to explore creative activities through our award-winning educational resources.
The GLUCKSMAN team
Image Caption: Installation shot of Radical Archaeologies. Image by Jed Niezgoda.
Territory presents new large scale works by Hughie O’Donoghue in the context of his career-long exploration of land and memory.
"There has never existed a time in human history where somewhere on the earth territory was not being contested. Allusions to some of these struggles occur in my work at regular intervals, but the territory that is referenced in the title of this exhibition is personal and is concerned with how identity is formed through an understanding of our place in the world.
This has become an increasingly urgent question in the last hundred years or so. Very few people now have so strong a connection to a particular place that it provides them with a reassuring identity. Since the Industrial Revolution a gathering displacement of peoples has occurred and its momentum is only increasing. Few people today have the luxury of staying put, of watching the world go by. Ireland as much as anywhere has understood this, with its long history of departures. History and particularly personal history, has become an engine of identity, a way of understanding the world, the how and why of things, a way of connecting." - Hughie O'Donoghue, 2023
Using tarpaulin as his canvas, the artist layers paint to build up richly crafted surfaces that hold and relay these narratives of personal and Irish histories. In the exhibition, recent paintings are presented alongside works such as Knocknalower from the UCC Art Collection and the sculpture A Distant Thunder, providing audiences with a unique opportunity to see the range that O’Donoghue has developed across his investigations of loss, remembrance and placemaking.
Final week, closing 10 March 2024
Image Caption: Installation shot of Territory: Hughie O'Donoghue. Image by Jed Niezgoda.
Artists: Stephen Brandes, Samuel Laurence Cunnane, Miriam de Búrca, Fiona Kelly, Catríona Leahy, Dara McGrath, Miriam O'Connor, Gwen O'Dowd, Nigel Rolfe, Clíodhna Timoney
Curated by Chris Clarke and Fiona Kearney in collaboration with Dr. Benjamin Gearey, Department of Archaeology, UCC.
Radical Archaeologies features Irish art practices that consider and create complex topographies inviting viewers to reflect on social, environmental and political issues often buried, or elided into the contemporary landscape of our island. In partnership with the IRC COALESCE/INSTAR+ Irish Peatland Archaeology Across Time project, the exhibition's public programme will promote discussion and awareness of the ways in which culture, climate action and sustainability are interlinked.
Radical Archaeologies: Unearthing Landscape in Contemporary Irish Art is supported by The Arts Council Ireland, University College Cork, IRC COALESCE/INSTAR+ project funding and private philanthropy through Cork University Foundation.
Final week, closing 10 March 2024
Image Caption: Samuel Laurence Cunnane at the opening of Radical Archaeologies. Image by Cathal Noonan.
Artists: James Lee Byars, Jonathas de Andrade, Shirazeh Houshiary, Austin Hearne, Samir Mahmood, Grace Ndiritu, Hermann Nitsch, Jennifer Tee
Curated by Chris Clarke
Mysterious Ways explores the ways in which ritual and religion inform contemporary artistic practices. Through performative ceremonies, totemic objects, and meditative environments, such works invite viewers to transcend the everyday, to experience art as a moment of spiritual awakening. Featuring works by Irish and international artists, Mysterious Ways reveals how art and belief continually respond and reflect upon one another.
Mysterious Ways is supported by The Arts Council Ireland, University College Cork and private philanthropy through Cork University Foundation.
An exhibition of artworks by young people exploring our relationship with the land
This Spring over 800 young people from schools across the region have visited the Glucksman to take part in creative workshops that respond to the exhibition Radical Archaeologies: Unearthing Landscape in Contemporary Irish Art. The young people worked with art facilitators to explore ideas of history, heritage, archaeology, climate, biodiversity and how we can learn from the past to help shape a better future. Their artworks will be on display in Gallery 1 from 14 to 17 March 2024.
Featuring work by St. Catherine's NS; Scoil na nÓg Glanmire; St Joseph’s NS; Glasheen BNS; St Finbarre's NS; Scoil Mhuire JS; Scoil Réalt na Mara NS; Gaelscoil na Dúglaise; St Lachteen's NS; Kilmagner N.S; St Columbas GNS; Gaelscoil Uí Drisceoil; St Marys Special School; Togher Girls School; St Columbas GNS; Beaumont GNS; Scoil Phádraig Naofa; St. Maries of the Isle; Togher BNS; Scoil Éanna; Fermoy Adair NS; Grange National School.
14 - 17 March 2024, Thursday to Saturday 10am - 5pm & Sunday 2pm - 5pm
The Glucksman is delighted to host UCC Professor Marcel Jansen and artist Moritz Fehr to present their respective research and practice, which intersected in Glenkeen Garden.
Glenkeen Garden is The Crespo Foundation’s artist-in-residence program, a sanctuary of artistic inspiration and natural-cultural splendour nestled along the shores of Roaring Water Bay in West Cork. Under the title of ArtNature/NatureArt, Glenkeen Garden has served as a space for artists since 2021. Artists from diverse disciplines were invited to spend two to three months on the premise, immersing themselves in the rich tapestry of West Cork's social and environmental fabric. A strong emphasis on art-science collaboration is facilitated through partnerships with the Environmental Research Institute at University College Cork and Frankfurt’s Senckenberg Research Institute.
Now, with The Glenkeen Variations: Disquieting Frequencies, a new and public part of the program emerges, inviting former residents to return to Ireland and present their works and research to wider audiences at specific communities at the Goethe Institute in Dublin, The Glucksman at UCC, and the Working Artists Studio in Ballydehob.
Carlos Garrido Castellano in dialogue with Professor Minna Valjakka
This event will explore the ways in which public art generates avenues for social transformation and community-based interaction. Through an engagement with the collaborative work that Prof. Minna Valjakka has developed over the last decades, our aim is to see how public art matters in different parts of the world. The event will also examine co-creative strategies and ways of documenting and researching urban transformations based on visual creativity.
Dr. Minna Valjakka is an art historian focusing on various forms of urban creativity (such as street art, interventions, performances, and sound art) in relation to public spaces and civil society formation in East and Southeast Asian cities.Through locally-embedded, long-term research at the intersection of art studies, urban studies and environmental humanities, she examines urban creativity as a response to the distinctive trajectories of environmental crisis, geopolitical circumstances, developments in arts and cultural policies, and transocial mediations.
This event will take place in the River Room. Admission free, no booking required.
Bring the whole family along to the Glucksman this Sunday afternoon from 3-4pm for a free art workshop. Led by experienced artists, these free events invite children (and their guardians!) to learn all about making art. Just come along at 3pm equipped with your imagination.
This season, we will be drawing inspiration from current exhibition Radical Archaeologies: Unearthing Landscape in Contemporary Irish Art making artworks from natural materials, exploring hidden histories, traditions, and heritage. Families will spend a creative hour exploring a variety of materials and techniques.
Places allocated on first come first served basis. Children must remain accompanied by a guardian.
This month the First Cut! Youth Film Festival will take place in Youghal Co. Cork and we are delighted to announce that the short film made by YMCA Cork STEP students in partnership with the Glucksman and filmmaker Dervla Baker has been selected for screening. The film ‘We’re Here and We’re Free’ is a short story that explores the challenges of addiction. It follows the journey of a young man as he encounters the ghosts of his past and sees him being forced to confront the life he left behind.
The film will be screened as part of the Schools & Youth Groups programme on Wednesday, 6 March.
An exhibition to mark World Down Syndrome Day 2024
Young people with Down Syndrome and their families visited the Glucksman last October to take part in facilitated hands-on creative workshops that explore the idea of togetherness. Taking the theme of family as the inspiration for the art activities, children and their parents worked on large scale drawings, prints and paintings. Under the guidance of curator Meadhbh Healy, participants had the opportunity to learn new skills and to make great art in a fun and relaxing environment. This exhibition to mark World Down Syndrome Day 2024 showcases the artwork made in these workshops and provides us with a moment to celebrate the creativity of the young artists and their families.
Better Together runs in the Glucksman Foyer Exhibition Space from 19-22 March 2024
Birds are singing, flowers are blooming, Spring is here!
This month, why not bring a splash of colour in your home and decorate your walls with stunning birds and insects of all sizes and colours. Send messages to your loved ones with beautiful writing set sustainably designed by Pawpear. In the Glucksman shop we have amazing eco friendly, fun and educational products.
Visit the Glucksman shop on UCC Green Campus from Tuesday to Saturday 10am - 5pm or Sunday from 2pm - 5pm to discover more wonderful products in store or online. Please note that the shop will beclosed from 18 - 29 March, but you can visit usonline.
The Art Library is currently on tour across the country
Mayfield Community training Centre, Cork Educational Training Board provides training, educational & employment related services for young people and we were delighted to get them involved in the Art Library over the past number of weeks. They had Kathi Burke's Equality & Shane O'Driscoll's C.R.E.A.M on display in their buildings and we were thrilled to have our Albers Curatorial Assistant, Meadhbh Healy visit the centre recently to tour the centre with art tutor Nicola Sheehan.
The Art Library is a loan collection of artworks available to schools, community hubs and healthcare settings across Ireland and aims to give these groups the opportunity to encounter original works of art and access inspiring educational materials that combined aim to enable them to engage with the relevant issues of society with, and through, art. It is supported through the Arts Council of Ireland.
This month's Little Interview features Kevin O'Brien, a Cork-based artist, who has travelled the island of Ireland installing and delivering artwork as part of our Art Library initiative.
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