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.
Please note our new public opening hours, we are pleased to now have our gallery spaces open from 11am - 5pm, Tuesdays to Sundays and we are looking forward to welcoming you in.
There is something for everyone in our new season of educational courses, suitable for all ages and abilities. From a Saturday morning painting course, Sunday morning Drawing + Wellbeing Workshops, free workshops for children and their families and a range of accessible tours. We are looking forward to hosting a free artist talk with The Glenkeen Variations on 10 May.
In our Behind the Scenes, read about the promotion of Meadhbh Healy & appointment of Katie O'Grady to the Glucksman team and our Little Interview features Austin Hearne, who's work is currently featured in Mysterious Ways.
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: John O'Halloran, President of UCC; Fiona Kearney, Director of The Glucksman; Dr. Amanullah De Sondy, Head of the Study of Religions Deptartment UCC; Colm Roche, Glucksman Board Member, pictured at the opening night of Groundwork & Mysterious Ways. Image by OSM Photography.
Artists: Jonathas de Andrade, Shirazeh Houshiary, Austin Hearne, Samir Mahmood, Ana Mendieta,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.
29 March - 7 July 2024
Image Caption: Samir Mahmood, pictured alongside his work Untitled, featured in Mysterious Ways: Art, Faith and Transcendence. Image by OSM Photography.
Artists: John Behan, Amber Broughton, Patrick Collins, Miriam De Búrca, Gabhann Dunne, James L Hayes, Martin Healy, Fiona Kelly, Catriona Leahy, Dara McGrath, Norah McGuinness, Peter Nash, Miriam O'Connor, Hughie O'Donoghue, Gwen O'Dowd, Garrett Phelan
This exhibition brings together artworks from the UCC Art Collection that focus on environmental observations and concerns, giving us an opportunity to reflect on the diverse ecologies that sustain our natural world. From in-depth explorations of our peatlands to skyward habitats and UCC’s own living arboretum, Groundwork presents the precious, sometimes precarious, but also hopeful vistas of our island home.
Share your ideas about cycling in Cork city and influence the creation of new public artworks by celebrated Irish illustrator Chris Judge.
We invite people of all ages to come to the Glucksman on Saturday 13 April to meet illustrator Chris Judge and to share their experiences and ideas of cycling in Cork city.
The Glucksman art museum in UCC have teamed up with Cork Midsummer Festivaland Cork Cycling Campaignto invite Chris Judge to create a trail of new public artworks. The temporary artworks created for Cork Midsummer Festival will showcase the importance and joy of cycling in urban spaces.
This community consultation will allow people the opportunity to share their ideas and experiences, to try their hand at a selection of creative activities, and help shape a unique project.
Discover our current exhibitions, Groundwork & Mysterious Ways, with a guided tour. Guided tours provide an introduction to the curatorial approach to the current exhibition, offering an insight into the ideas and context of the artworks on display.
As part of the Glucksman's commitment to the Arts and Creative Charter for Older People, the museum will be offering curatorial tours to older people. We will also be offering Audio Described accessible tours for blind and visually impaired visitors.
Join us for an audio described tour of our current exhibition Hughie O’Donoghue: Territory. This accessible tour designed for blind and visually impaired visitors will be led by one of trained staff members, who will give a detailed description of selected artworks in the exhibition. Territory presents new large scale works by Hughie O’Donoghue in the context of his career-long exploration of land and memory. No specialist knowledge is required. This friendly and informal tour will last approximately one hour with time for questions and answers.
This is a free event but booking is required. All welcome.
Image Caption: Tadhg Crowley (The Glucksman) giving an audio described tour to Tom Kenny (UCC Disability Support) and Clair Butler (UCC PHD Candidate) in Gallery 2. Image by Dervla Baker.
Creative Ageing: Curatorial Tour of current exhibitions
The Glucksman’s Creative Ageing Community programme is dedicated to involving older people in all kinds of activities in the gallery with an emphasis on social, fun and creative encounters. We invite older people to join us for guided curatorial tours of our current exhibitions Groundwork and Mysterious Ways.
No specialist knowledge is required. This tour will last approximately one hour and will be followed by time for discussion.
This is a free event but booking is required. All welcome.
The Glucksman is delighted to host former Glenkeen Garden artists-in-residnce Christiana Chiranagnostaki, Konstanza Kapsali, Markus Huemer and Tania Rubioto to present their work and discuss their research in a talk moderated by Ben Livne Weitzman.
Glenkeen Garden is a masterwork of dynamic composition. Over 25 years, it has been designed, cared for, and constantly revitalised. While general sketches set the garden's tones, stages, and scenes, flora and fauna take over and constantly form and re-form the land from within the pre-given frame. For Composing Landscapes, the Glenkeen Variations' second iteration, former Glenkeen Garden artists-in-residnce Christiana Chiranagnostaki, Konstanza Kapsali, Markus Huemer and Tania Rubio explore harmonious and discordant configurations of materials and inspiration drawn from the immediate surroundings of Roaringwater Bay. Using various creative techniques, such as cinematography, painting and music composing, the artists transform their observations and experiences into new forms of encounter.
Learn to paint in our new series of Saturday art classes. Led by a professional artist each class will introduce the fundamentals of painting like colour mixing, composition, underpainting, materials and tools, and much more. Suitable for beginners and those with previous experience. Each stand-alone class, and covers different painting techniques like colour, composition and underpainting. Each class runs for 60 minutes and all materials are provided. Booking is essential.
11am Saturdays, 4 - 18 May
Booking is essential, limited places available - book here.
Join artist Inma Pavon for a new series of Sunday morning classes that promote wellbeing through creativity. The classes will provide a mix of movement based activities, as well as drawing and making. Each stand-alone class, runs for 60 minutes and all materials are provided. Booking is essential.
11.30 am Sundays, 5 - 26 May.
Booking is essential, limited places available - book here.
Bring the whole family along to the Glucksman on Sunday afternoons from 3-4pm for a free art workshop. Led by creative facilitators, these creative sessions invite children (and their guardians!) to learn all about making art. Just come along at 3pm equipped with your imagination. 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.
The Glucksman are delighted to be back in the beautiful surroundings of Lismore Castle for Towers & Tales 2024. Our creative team will be offering fun hands on art making sessions for children throughout the day. Towers and Tales is a celebration of contemporary children’s literature and illustration, designed to give young audiences unforgettable, creative and transformational experiences with books.
Castle Flags (5-7yrs)
Castle flags have long been used to identify the owners and its occupants as well as to send messages to approaching travellers, armies or neighbouring castles. In this fun hands on workshop we will be making flags that share messages or that represent our families. Under the guidance of the Glucksman’s talented facilitators, children will be using pencils, crayons, card and sticks to create their own magical flags. Running at 10am, 12pm and 3pm
The Story behind the Mask (8-10yrs)
Become a superhero, a celebrity pop star, a mysterious villain or a scary ghoul in this fun mask making workshop. Participants will work under the guidance of the Glucksman’s facilitators to learn simple card folding and illustration techniques that will help them to create their own characters and stories. Running at 11am and 2pm.
Workshops will run for approx. 50 minutes & start at 10am, 11am, 12pm, 2pm, 3pm
All workshops are-booked through Towers & Tales website, here.
This April, the Glucksman Shop is delighted to have new stock in store. It is a pleasure to showcase local designers and makers and support them on their creative journey. Explore locally made notebooks from Togher based designer badly made books, Lithographic prints of iconic Cork locations from Hurrah Hurrah or illustrated stationery made & designed in Ireland from Pawpear.
We are thrilled to have extended our opening hours and are looking forward to welcome you in the Gallery Shop from Tuesday to Sunday, 11am - 5pm. You can also visit out online shop here.
The Glucksman is pleased to announce the promotion of Meadhbh Healy to the role of the Albers Curator of Collections + Public Engagement and the appointment of Katie O’Grady as Assistant Curator. Healy will implement the climate aware care and development of the UCC Art Collection, as well as co-ordinating the Glucksman’s nationwide Art Library initiative. O’Grady will support the curatorial team in its exhibition, education and public engagement work.
Glucksman Director, Professor Fiona Kearney said “I am hugely grateful to the Albers Foundation for supporting our curatorial work and enabling us to empower more people through art. I am delighted to have Meadhbh and Katie work as part of our wider team to ensure access for all ages and abilities to our ambitious programme.”
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