Glucksman Gallery February

 

February 2024 at the Glucksman Happy St. Brigid's Day! We mark the beginning of Spring with a number of upcoming events in the gallery including educational courses, suitable for all ages and abilities. From a teenage art club, workshops for children and their families, Saturday morning drawing classes and a range of accessible tours. We look forward to welcoming you to our current exhibitions Territory: Hughie O'Donoghue and Radical Archaeologies: Unearthing Landscape in Contemporary Irish Art. For UCC Refugee Week, the Glucksman will be teaming up with the Schools of Sanctuary programme and welcome second level students to the museum to take part in art workshops looking at right based artworks in the UCC Art Collection. We love to share what is happening behind the scenes, and this month you can read about our upcoming exhibition, Beneath Our Feet, of over 800 students work and hear from Radical Archaeologies artist, Nigel Rolfe, in the Little Interview. 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 Territory: Hughie O'Donoghue. Image by Jed Niezgoda. Current Exhibitions Hughie O'Donoghue: Territory 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. Now until 10 March 2024 Image Caption: Hughie O'Donoghue at the opening of Territory. Image by Cathal Noonan. Radical Archaeologies: Unearthing Landscape in Contemporary Irish Art 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. Now until 10 March 2024 Image Caption: Installation shot of Radical Archaeologies: Unearthing Landscape in Contemporary Irish Art, Miriam O'Connor. Image by Jed Niezgoda. Education Saturday Drawing Classes Join us for a new season of drawing classes held every Saturday morning in the museum’s River Room. Participants will be introduced to line, shape, space, value, form, texture, and colour using basic drawing materials. These classes cater for all abilities whether a complete beginner or experienced draughtsperson. Participants will learn and put into practice a range of methods under the guidance of our facilitator, with an emphasis on the relationship between close looking and drawing.  Each stand-alone class runs for 60 minutes and all materials are provided.  11am Saturdays, 3 February to 2 March Booking is essential, limited places available - book here.   Teenage Art Club: Activism in Art This Spring the Glucksman invite teenagers to take part in a special hands-on art club that explores activism through art! Participants will be guided through the processes of printmaking, design and street art as they create artworks that call for positive social change. We’ll be looking to get inspired by contemporary artists and art projects from around the world as we look to communicate ideas of a better tomorrow. Saturdays 2-4pm, 10, 17 and 24 February Booking is essential, limited places available - book here.   Accessible Tours Discover our current exhibitions, Territory: Hughie O'Donoghue & Radical Archaeologies, 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. Creative Ageing: Curatorial Tour of Current Exhibitions 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 Hughie O’Donoghue: Territory and Radical Archaeologies: Unearthing Landscape in Contemporary Irish Art.   Territory presents new large scale works by Hughie O’Donoghue in the context of his career-long exploration of land and memory. 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. This is a free event but booking is required. All welcome. 11am, Friday 23 February - book here. Image Caption: Installation shot of Radical Archaeologies: Unearthing Landscape in Contemporary Irish Art, Catríona Leahy, Gwen O'Dowd, Miriam de Búrca Audio Described Tours 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. 11am, Thursday 29 February - book here. 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. Family Sunday An afternoon of creative fun 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.  Admission Free / Suggested donation €5 3pm - 4pm, Sunday,  4, 11, 18 & 25 February More information here. UCC Refugee Week Since UCC was granted University of Sanctuary status in early 2018, the University of Sanctuary Working Group has run in conjunction with the EDI Unit annual Refugee Weeks. These weeks celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion through a variety of events including talks, exhibitions, concerts and tours.  This year, the Glucksman will be teaming up with the Schools of Sanctuary programme and welcoming second level students to the museum to take part in art workshops. Students will look at right based artworks in the UCC Art Collection and develop their own creative responses.  In October 2023, the Glucksman invited teenagers from Drishane Castle Direct Provision centre to take in a project called Truth be Told. The teenagers worked with artist Seiko Hayase and facilitator Molly Sterling to develop artworks that explored messaging, media and visual storytelling. Their artworks will be displayed in the Glucksman Foyer Exhibition Space for the duration of UCC Refugee Week.  UCC Refugee Week runs from 19 to 24 February. More information here. Glucksman Shop This Spring, explore the natural wonders in the Glucksman gallery shop!  Grow your own soap kit, fill your home with beetles, butterflies and dragonflies of all colour and sizes, enjoy 15 fun gardening activities to grow and eat with children, keep in touch with friends and send them wonderful Irish wildflower design from locally made writing set, explore nature and collect plants in your portable press and much more!  All those items have been carefully made, are sustainable, kind to nature and are available in our Gallery Shop. Visit our online shop here to browse at your leisure and contact us if you would like any information, our team is happy to help! Behind the Scenes Beneath Our Feet 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 to 17 March 2024.    Little Interview This month's Little Interview features Nigel Rolfe, who's work is currently on display in our current exhibition, Radical Archaeologies.

The Glucksman is generously supported by our audiences, University College Cork, the Arts Council of Ireland and private philanthropy through Cork University Foundation. Opening Hours  Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 5pm Sundays 2 - 5pm. Closed Mondays Admission Free. €5 Suggested donation.  Plan your visit We look forward to welcoming you

Cork Choral Fest Choral Charity Night

 

Saturday 24th February, 7.30pm Curtis Auditorium, MTU Cork School of Music  While we await the 2024 Festival, we are delighted to invite you to the special fundraising concert 'Union of Voices - A Choral Charity Night'. The concert will feature The London Welsh Rugby Club Choir (UK) and the Cork Prison Officers Male Voice Choir, all in aid of Headway - Brain Injury Services and Support, and the Cork International Choral Festival.  Tickets: €21 (incl. booking fee) Buy tickets

Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre Exhibitions

 Exhibitions

Allegory of the MV Alta, Majella O’Neill Collins, 13 January 2024 to 24 February 2024
Majella’s current body of work imagines the journey of the MV Alta, a merchant vessel which was abandoned at sea, 1,400 miles south-east of Bermuda in October 2018 after suffering main engine failure, and washed ashore at Ballycotton, Co. Cork during Storm Dennis in February 2020, where her wreckage remains.
https://www.westcorkartscentre.com/majella-o_neill-collins

Edgelands Exhibition, 6 February to 12 March 2024, Stairwell Galleries, Uillinn Schools Programme 2023/2024
Kilcoe National School, Our Lady of Mercy National School, Dromore National School, Ardagh Boys School, Goleen National School
https://www.westcorkartscentre.com/edgelands

Residencies

Studio1: Aisling Roche & David Bickley, Biolum, 6 to 27 February 2024, Open studio: Tuesdays and Saturdays
This is a unique project fusing elements of craft, visual art, marine science, film and immersive sound design. The aim is to produce a visceral experience that is wholly inclusive to a wide demographic — channelling inner and outer landscapes as connected fragments and creating interstices that allow the viewer inside the core concept at a level anticipated to generate genuine connectivity.
https://www.westcorkartscentre.com/aisling-roche-and-david-bickley

Studio 2: Claire Hurley, 8 January to 27 February 2024
My work is concerned with the interface between our emotional world as individuals and the world around us. I am interested in exploring the space between stimulus and response, and how we express ourselves through clothing and adornment fascinates me. I work in response to my immediate environment and the often discarded or overlooked materials around me. Using found or natural materials, my work draws attention to our relationship with the natural world and our impact upon it. 
https://www.westcorkartscentre.com/claire-hurley

Studio 3: St Patricks Day Residency, Skibbereen Malayali Association, 8 January to 18 March 2024
The Skibbereen Malayali Association has been awarded the St. Patricks Day Residency at Uillinn for 2024. 
There are over 70 members of the community in Skibbereen. Malayalees have been part of our community in Skibbereen for the past 20 years.  The majority of the community members work in healthcare settings in Skibbereen, Bantry and Clonakilty. The Skibbereen Malayali Association was formed to celebrate the culture of Kerala. 
https://www.westcorkartscentre.com/st-patricks-day-project

UCC and Bollinger Family Space: Dance Artist in Residence, West Cork 2021 Ongoing: Luke Murphy.
Since 2015, the Dance Artist in Residence Programme at Uillinn has enabled opportunities for the people of West Cork to have access to, and engagement with contemporary dance practice of excellence. ‘As an artist with a deeply rooted connection to both Cork city and county it has been a consistent part of my practice to consider the needs and habits of local audiences. Working in a form based in abstraction, without a long history nationally, I believe that working to build audiences and increase exposure to contemporary dance, beyond the metropolitan centre and the core national festival programmes throughout the country, is crucial to the development of vibrant ecology for dance to develop and flourish nationally.’
https://www.westcorkartscentre.com/luke-murphy

Upcoming Events

Creative Carers at Uillinn, Fortnightly on Tuesdays 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
6 & 20 February, 5 & 19 March, 9 & 23 April. Free of charge for family carers
Book your place: 028 22090 / info@westcorkartscentre.com
CREATIVE CARERS at Uillinn is back in 2024. Artist Sarah Ruttle delivers six creative workshops for at home family carers on a Tuesday morning fortnightly. Previous attendees can come along for another term or you can start as new. No previous art experience is necessary.

The Lost Gecko featuring Fake Miami, 8pm 16 February 2024. Tickets €20 from Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-lost-gecko-featuring-fake-miami-tickets-809055565977  
Two Cork based artists come together for a unique show on 16 February at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen.
Scottish born Malcolm Urquhart is better known as Singer Songwriter, The Lost Gecko, and has been writing music, making albums and performing for over 20 years.
John Burke is a music producer and artist in his own right and has over 30 years’ experience in music as a vocalist, musician, songwriter and music producer.

Allegory of the MV Alta Gallery Talk by Majella O’Neill Collins on Saturday 17 February at 12 noon. All welcome.
https://www.westcorkartscentre.com/events/majella-o-neill-collins-gallery-tal/

Mark Making & Mixed media with Catherine Weld: Abstracting from Life, Thursdays 29 February to 28 March 2024 10:30 to 12:30 Booking directly with Catherine on 0858308918 or catherineweld@gmail.com

With the introduction of many new exercises, these sessions will be suitable for those who have attended my courses before, as well as first time participants of all levels of experience. https://www.westcorkartscentre.com/events/catherine-weld--abstracting-from-li/