Visual Art at the Triskel this August

Hi Cork Cultural Companions Welcome to the Triskel Visual Arts Newsletter. Now that it’s August, we’re closer to the free talk that Dr Matthew Whyte and Dr Michael Waldron will be giving on Friday 23 August. We’ll release tickets closer to the date so mark that in your diary now!   We’re also closer to our brand new lecture series with Matthew Whyte. He will take you on an art-filled journey over six weeks with the first lecture on Tuesday 17 September. There is a discount if you purchase the series of six lectures so get your tickets now.   In the meantime, you can continue to explore Maritime, the exhibition that epitomises the French Connection. That’s in Triskel Sample Project Space until the start of September so only a few weeks left. See you soon Gillian and the team at Triskel Triskel Sample Project Space Cork/Brittany ‘Maritime’ Residency Exhibition Wed 26 June - Mon 2 Sept ‘Maritime’ is an artist-led residency exchange programme between artists based in Brittany, France and Cork, Ireland. Caroline Boyfield and Laure Colomer travelled to Cork in May 2024 to undertake residency activity in Sirius Arts Centre and Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre, responding to their contexts, landscapes, culture and history within their practices and presenting public events. Cork-based artists Rebecca Bradley and Ida Mitrani were selected by open call to engage in two weeks’ residencies in Brittany in April 2024 and work with both Caroline and Laure during their time in Cork, to enable creative exchange and peer learning. In order to offer this residency programme a meaningful culminatory platform to celebrate and share the work and learnings arising from it, the Triskel Sample Project Space will host a summer group exhibition of work by Rebecca Bradley, Ida Mitrani, Caroline Boyfield and Laure Colomer. Opportunities are currently being explored to enable this exhibition to tour to a gallery in Brittany in 2025. Read More The French Connection: Irish Artists in Brittany from Impressionism to Contemporary Art Heritage Week Fri 23 Aug, 11am - 1pm Tickets are free and will be released on Tuesday 20 August at 10am Join Art Historian Dr Matthew Whyte and Art Historian and Curator Dr Michael Waldron as they speak about the impact of Brittany both in art history and in the National Collection at Crawford Art Gallery.   Dr Whyte will open by exploring the lure of Brittany for artists during the birth of Modernism in the late nineteenth century, discussing why artists including Monet, Gauguin, Picasso, and so many others flocked to the area to develop styles such as Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. In the era of industrialisation, the natural and ephemeral qualities of the Northern French coastline and its communes inspired artists seeking new ways to capture atmospheric effects with their brush.   Dr Waldron will then turn attention to the Irish artists who travelled to the area in search of a new aesthetic. Looking at our National Collection through the Crawford Art Gallery’s magnificent holdings, Dr Waldron will explore the ways in which Irish artists have responded to Brittany’s culture, landscape, and emerging artistic styles.   The talk will conclude with a tour of the present exhibition Cork/Brittany ‘MARITIME’ in TRISKEL SAMPLE Project Space, which represents a culmination of an artistic residential exchange, supported by Brittany Ferries, between two members of Sample-Studios in Cork and two French artists based in Brittany. The exhibition stands as a renewed and absorbing testament to the historic artistic ties between Ireland and Brittany.     In partnership with Sample-Studios and Triskel Arts Centre.   Images: (top) William Gerard Barry, Time Flies (1887), Collection Crawford Art Gallery (bottom) Rebecca Bradley, Dream Upon Waking (2024), © Rebecca Bradley Book Tickets The Ideal Body in Ancient Greece & Rome Art History Reframed: Autumn Lecture Series Tues 17 Sept, 11am - 1pm €25 for individual lectures. Get 20% when you purchase all 6 lectures Art Historian Dr Matthew Whyte offers a new lecture series, which takes the audience on an art-filled journey through the often beautiful, sometimes scandalous, and always fascinating moments in the development of Western civilisation. See series info » 1. The Ideal Body in Ancient Greece & Rome We begin with Greece, exploring how the writings of Homer, Plato, and Aristotle produced a fascination with the concept of the ideal human. Though remote in time, the Ancient Greeks shared with contemporary culture the preoccupation with what it means to be beautiful. Moving on to Ancient Rome, we explore how a state founded on the liberal values of Republican democracy suddenly found itself in the grips of individuals who used art to make themselves into gods – the Caesars of Imperial Rome. This week, we explore the human form, discussing how it can equally represent beauty, liberalism, power, and corruption. Book Tickets