What's On...

CURATED by MAURICE O’CONNELL

Preview on Friday 23rd April at 5.30pm. All are welcome.

Galleries 1 & 2:
5 Conversations Gathered by Maurice O’Connell
Captain HPP Deasy
City Building
Liberty Town
There Is No Here
Transglobal Futures

Gallery 3:
Film screenings (looped, free)
Tuesdays: Le Jetée (Chris Marker)
Wednesdays: Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Thursdays: Fata Morgana (Werner Herzog)
Fridays: Wild Blue Yonder (Werner Herzog)
Saturdays: Manufactured Landscapes (documentary about photographer Edward Burtynsky)

Maurice O’ Connell has invited ten people to consider the notion of new Architectural narratives in the Landscape. These narrative/stories reinterpret the place of architecture in the landscape and the role of makers, doers and inhabitants of place. In a time of varied concerns about our future, the project visits a collection of stories that propose other understanding as to how we might continue to construct and develop our presence in Ireland, Europe and the rest of this “fragile” planet.

Maurice O’Connell developed a social conscience via a range of performance and visual art interventions throughout the 1990’s platforming work throughout Ireland, UK, Europe, South America and USA. From 2000 onwards Maurice has worked with architects, theatre practitioners, private business and local community developers endeavoring to bring about community and cultural change. The results have been community enterprises, educational programs, theatre manifestations and structural development plans. O’Connell continues to develop this artistic role as a regional advisor to the community/voluntary sector. He is director of the private philanthropic business Savoury Soaps, the theatre director of the November Club and University Lecturer at Combined Universities Cornwall.

If you are interested in purchasing or discussing any of the work, please contact Claire on 071 9650828.

The galleries are located upstairs in The Dock and are open 10am-6pm Tuesday to Friday. Admission to the galleries is free.

Pauline Garavan: Blazing Roofs

Pauline Garavan’s work to date has distinguished itself by an obsession with the details, creating works that feel as if they have been formed at a deliberate,nearglacial pace. In Blazing Roofs, new paintings and sculpture made for her exhibition at The Dock, Garavan focuses her attention on the rusted galvanized roofs of sheds and long-abandoned dwellings that are found dotted over the rural landscape in the West of Ireland. The browns and reds are evocative of this landscape, taking on the colour and warmth of fire when viewed in bright sunshine. Garavan sets about capturing these elements in a close-up examination of their sometimes irregular beauty.

Pauline Garavan Studied Fine Art at G.M.I.T., and Sligo I.T. She has been exhibiting regularly in the RHA Annual Show, and this year participated in Belfast’s Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition. Her work has featured in the 2008 Taispeántas Ealaíne an Oireachtais in Cork, Kenny Gallery, Galway, 2009 and Custom House Studios in Westport, 2007 (solo). Her work is found in private collections in both the US and in Ireland. Pauline Garavan lives in County Mayo.

The galleries are located upstairs in The Dock and are open 10am-6pm Tuesday to Friday. Admission to the galleries is free.

Anna Macleod: Systems Failure

Systems Failure, Anna MacLeod’s exhibition for The Dock, includes drawings, prints and small constructions that address the delicate balance between humanity and land use. The work seeks to question the relationship between scientific and technological interventions into eco-systems and the alienation of the individual from the global environmental crisis. Water is the emotive tool used here to explore the fragile ecologies between source and consumption.

Idea developed in conversation with curator Liz Burns.

Anna Macleod is a visual artist based in Leitrim. Her work has recently been exhibited nationally and internationally; Camouflash / Mediations, Posnan Biennale, Poland and New Sites, New Fields, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton 2008; Public Gestures: An Exploration of Practice-Led Research, The Lab, Dublin and Curio Kiosk Project, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana 2009.

The galleries are located upstairs in The Dock and are open 10am-6pm Tuesday to Friday. Admission to the galleries is free.

Grace Weir: Déjà vu

Déjà vu is the title of Grace Weir’s 4 minute film (previously unseen in Ireland), which is one of two works she will be exhibiting at The Dock. Déjà vu plays with complex ideas of time, referring to Einstein’s description of time as a river, occasionally broad and slow or narrow and fast, with rivulets which can break off and return at a different point. Two people are momentarily part of the same event but have different perceptions of it, even different timescales. Also showing will be Script 3 the latest in a series of Weir’s short films, showing the artist creating pinholes in a piece of paper to spell out words that become evident when held up to a source of light.

Grace Weir studied at NCAD, Dublin followed by a M.Sc at TCD, Dublin. She co-represented Ireland at the 49th International Venice Biennale in 2001. She has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions include ‘In my own time’ at The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin; ‘Dust defying gravity’ Furini Arte Contemporanea, Arezzo Italy; ‘A fine line’ Cornerhouse, Manchester; ‘Meanwhile elsewhere’ Percy Miller Gallery, London; ‘Loop 08’ Fundacio Miro, Barcelona; ‘Through the Lens’ BAMOIC, Beijing; ‘Blackboxing’, Project Arts Centre, Dublin; ‘Biennale!’ Temporarycontemporary, London; ‘As Heavy as the Heavens’ Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, in Denmark; ‘Tir na nOg’ Irish Museum of Modern Art. Commissions include ‘Little Bang’ for NIFCA, Helsinki Finland. Following a residency at St. John’s College in Oxford, in 2007 she had a show at the Science Museum in London. Grace Weir lives in Dromahair, Co. Leitrim.

Djeribi (edible art intervention)

Bernadette Kiely (painting)

David Michalek (film: Slow Dancing) *Please note - ends 24th December 2009

Aileen Lambert (sound/performance work)

Katharine West (ceramic sculpture)

Curated by Siobhán Garrigan,
Associate Professor of Liturgical Studies, Yale University

Opening Saturday 14th November at 2pm. All welcome.

The Dock is celebrating Culture Night 2009. Join us for a night of entertainment and discovery.

The Dock will stay open until 11pm with a whole range of exciting events from music to gallery tours. If you have never had a chance to check out your local Arts Centre before now then this is the perfect chance, or if you are a regular we look forward to seeing you again. Best of all you can experience all of this culture for free as there will be no charge to any of the events on the night.

Keep an eye on our blog http://www.thedock.ie/blog for more information on Culture Night Carrick and how you can be involved.

Notions of Capital presents Heteratopic Glitch by Aideen Barry and Anne Ffrench, One Size Fits All by Carol Anne Connolly and Where We Gather by Linda Shevlin. Aideen Barry is based in Galway and is the Visual Artist Ireland Northwest representative. Anne Ffrench lives and works in West Cork while both Linda Shevlin and Carol Anne Connolly are based in County Roscommon. As an exhibition Notions of Capital explores our attachment to the idea of capital in the norm, playing with this conditioning and offering a less economic bound view.




one size fits all Carol Anne Connolly 2009


Still from Where We Gather Linda Shevlin 2009





Heteratopic Glitch Aideen Barry & Anne Ffrench 2008

To bring together interests in both The Dock’s exhibition, John Walker: Painter, and the John McGahern International Seminar, which comes to Leitrim in July, The Dock is presenting writer and journalist Belinda McKeon in public conversation with art critic and writer Declan Long on the topic ‘The writer and the painter: the heroic in art and literature’.

All are welcome and encouraged to come along and participate in the conversation at this free event, in Gallery 1 at The Dock.

Declan Long is a writer and lecturer at the National College of Art & Design, Dublin, where he is Course Director of the MA ‘Art in the Contemporary World’. He is a board member of the Douglas Hyde Gallery, and he writes regularly on contemporary art for a range of Irish and international publications.

Belinda McKeon is a writer and journalist, born in Co. Longford and now living in Brooklyn, New York. She writes regularly about the arts for The Irish Times and is a frequent contributor to RTE radio and television, chiefly to The Arts Show and The View. Two of McKeon’s plays have been produced in Dublin, and she is currently under commission to write a full-length play for The Abbey Theatre. She has been a participant in the John McGahern International seminar since its inception in 2007.

Exhibition opening on Saturday 27th June at 2pm. All welcome.

This summer The Dock presents ‘John Walker: Painter’, a major exhibition of the artist’s work in Ireland. John Walker (b. Birmingham, 1939) is a monumental figure in contemporary painting: a ‘painter’s painter’; an artist whose work has been as daring in its innovation as it has in its incorporation of the history of painting Walker is a figure represented in major collections throughout the world, a highly regarded and influential teacher and a painter whose work embraces Australian, European and North American influences. Though John Walker was born in Birmingham and was associated with British art early in his career (he represented the UK at the Venice Biennale in 1972), he left for New York in the early 70s, where his work was warmly received by the New York critics. Walker then moved on to Australia, where he became Dean of the School of Art, Victoria College in Melbourne and where he was deeply influenced by Aboriginal and Australian art and culture. Walker now divides his time between Boston, where he is Director of Graduate Painting at Boston University and Maine, where he paints outdoors in the rugged coastal landscape. We hope that artists and art lovers from all over Ireland and further afield will make the trip to Carrick-on-Shannon this summer and take advantage of this rare opportunity to view John Walker: Painter.

John Walker was born in Birmingham, England in 1939 and studied art at Birmingham School of Art and Acadamié de la Grand Chaumière, Paris. His work is held in many public collections worldwide including The Australian National Gallery, Canberra; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Guggenheim Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Tate Gallery, The British Museum, and The Victoria & Albert Museum, London. John Walker is represented by Knoedler Gallery in New York and Nielsen Gallery, Boston.

A groundbreaking work that offers new reflections on the pathways between visual art, media, music, theatre, philosophy, text and dance, pioneering new ways of production and presentation…

Known particularly for the avantgarde nature of their work and for their artistic integrity, Leitrim-based Ursula Mawson-Raffalt and Anthony J. Faulder-Mawson‘s artistic language is a unique one, which does not simply reflect current artistic trends. They invent means to layer their independent works to form a third entity which is “somehow greater than the sum of its parts”.

Also featuring Duncan Keegan (Irl), Adrian Ciglenean (Romania) and James Tyson (Wales) this constantly evolving body of work resides on the borders between the performing arts and visual art.

Alice Lyons will be in conversation with John Walker on the Friday the 26th of June at 6pm, the evening before the exhibition opens.
This is a wonderful opportunity to experience an intimate discussion about the life and work of a a monumental figure in contemporary painting. The talk is free but advance booking is advisable and can be done by calling The Dock on 071-9650828 or emailing thedockvisualarts@gmail.com

Opening reception 5.30pm Friday 24th of April.
All very welcome.
Gillian Lawlers work will be discussed on the evening of the opening reception.

Gillian Lawler was born in Kildare in 1977 and currently lives in Dublin. She received a BA in Fine Art (Hons) from the N.C.A.D. in 2000. She has exhibited extensively throughout Ireland including recent solo shows at the Cross Gallery, Dublin (2008), Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast (2007) and Draiocht Arts Centre, Drogheda (2007). She was the winner of the Hennessey Craig Award at the RHA Annual exhibition in 2007. Future exhibitions include a solo show at The Cavanacor Gallery, Donegal and This is not s shop, Dublin in November 2009.

“This body of work focuses on a sense of unease within an urban architectural context. I want to consider spatial, structural and psychological fluctuations and schisms within an urban framework. Formerly familiar structures appear strange and peculiar. The act of architecture is significant in its unavoidable manner of influence and its ability to affect mood, orientation, pleasure, economy and feelings. This work explores anxiety and estrangement associated with the experience of architectural space within urban living.” Gillian Lawler

Opening reception 5.30pm Friday 24th of April.
All very welcome.
Denis Farrell will speak about his work on the evening of the opening reception.

Denis Farrell was born in Carlow and grew up in Monaghan. Initially he studied at Limerick School of Art and Design. In 1990 Farrell was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the New York Studio School. The year culminated in the critically acclaimed “Paintings in Wax” Exhibition, in their Professional Gallery. The following year Farrell was awarded a full Scholarship to study at Yale University where he received his MFA in 1993. Over the next seven years he continued his practice in New York, and during that time exhibited throughout the USA. In 1994 he was included in the “New Talent Exhibition” at Alpha Gallery in Boston which was curated by Alan Fink. Returning in 2000 to Ireland, Farrell has exhibited at Taylor Galleries, Limerick City Gallery of Art and has recently installed 15 paintings in the US Ambassador’s residence with the newly commissioned Sol Lewitt Wall Drawing. He has built a studio on Sliabh an Iarainn mountain and continues his practice between there and Aubepierre Sur Aube in France.

Finola Jones / Jo Ann Jones / Atta Kim / Alice Lyons
Orla Mc Hardy / Alanna O’Kelly / Charles Tyrrell + Eileen Tyrell

Love features in our world every day and has provided endless inspiration for the arts; from long before Shakespeare, through centuries of songs to modern day cinema. And at this time of the year aspects of love (or at least aspects of a certain type of love) are brought centre stage, and we thought this might be a good time to ask some contemporary artists from Ireland and abroad to make an exhibition about love. We didn’t specify what kind of exhibition we were hoping for, we told them that love was the focus of the show, and the rest was up to them to consider and expand upon.

Love at The Dock includes Korean artist Atta Kim’s time lapsed photography of love-making; a sound work by Finola Jones; American painter Jo Ann Jones’ meditations on the darker side of relationships; Orla Mc Hardy’s short film based on Ivor Cutler’s writings; Cork-based painter Charles Tyrrell in a collaboration with his daughter, textile artist Eileen Tyrrell; an installed poem by Alice Lyons; and an offsite installation in Carrick on Shannon by Alanna O’Kelly.

The opening for Love will be on Saturday 14th February at 2pm.
All welcome.

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The Dock invites you to the opening of our Spring Exhibition LOVE.
It is a group exhibition featuring work from Finola Jones, Jo Ann Jones, Atta Kim, Charles Tyrrell and Eileen Tyrrell, Orla Mc Hardy, Alice Lyons and Alanna o Kelly. LOVE brings together a diverse collection of artists all working in different mediums, photography, drawing, film, textiles, poetry and sound. The exhibition will open, aptly, on Valentine’s Day the 14th of Feb. at 2.00pm.
Aphrodisiacs and love potions will be served

Clive Bright
Majella Clancy
Dearbhail Connon
Billy Moore
Ricardo Marques
Elaine Reynolds
Heidi Wickham
Kate Wilson

* DOWNLOAD THE INVITATION TO THE EXHIBITION OPENING HERE - http:://http://www.thedock.ie/downloads/einvite.pdf *

From its first year of operation in 2005, The Dock has presented an open exhibition – Open Season – every December by artists from the region. These exhibitions were major events featuring hundreds of works. At this point, The Dock wants to create an opportunity to highlight work by some of these artists whose practice warrants more focused attention. EIGHT showcases the work of Clive Bright, Majella Clancy, Dearbhail Connon, Billy Moore, Ricardo Mortagua, Elaine Reynolds, Heidi Wickham and Kate Wilson. While the eight artists all have associations with the region, they were selected by virtue of the diversity of approaches and media they employ, encompassing sculpture, painting, drawing and installation. What they all share is a commitment to quality within their work and a professionalism toward the on-going development of their practice.
This exhibition opens on Friday 12th December at 5.30pm. All are welcome to the opening reception.

Admission is free to all exhibitions in the galleries. Opening hours are 10am - 6pm, Monday to Saturday.

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Heidi Wickham

Originally from South Wales, Heidi Wickham trained first at West Surrey College of Art and Design, followed by an Honours Degree in Fine Art from Bristol Art College, now the University of the West of England. Heidi has been involved in drawing since leaving Bristol in 1989, but it has only been in the last six years that she has exhibited, having previously taught art to community groups and private individuals. Heidi is currently represented by five galleries in Ireland - as well as private collections in Norway, London, New York and a gallery in Paris.

Billy Moore was born in England and has been living in Ireland for the last 12 years.
His work – in sculpture and painting – is held in many public and private collections.
Recent exhibitions include a solo show at Sólas Gallery, Ballinamore, County Leitrim (2008),group exhibition at the Higher Bridges Gallery in Enniskillen (2008), Invited Artist, Boyle Arts Festival (2008). Billy Moore participated in Roscommon County Council's Art at Work program and is a member of the Boyle Arts Group. He is represented by the Tramyard Gallery, Dalkey, County Dublin. Billy Moore lives in
County Sligo.

A native Dubliner, Dearbhail is now based in Kinsale, Co Cork. She attended the degree program on Sherkin Island and has exhibited extensively in the West Cork region in venues such as The West Cork Art Centre and The Warren Gallery. She had her first solo show in 2006 at the Inchydonney Lodge and Spa. She has also worked with performance artist Amanda Coogan. Her work is permanently on show at the Hayden Shaughnessy Gallery in Kinsale. It is also part of the private collections of both Cork University Hospital and Temple Street Hospital, Dublin.

For the past three years Dearbhail has been employed as part of the Arts for Health Programme, working in Skibbereen, Schull and Bantry hospitals. She also holds a BA (hons) in media production, is an independent film maker and currently doing an MA in art therapy at Crawford College Cork.

Born in Co Leitrim, Majella Clancy studied at GMIT, Galway and LIT, Limerick before completing an MFA at The University of Ulster, Belfast in 2006. Recent exhibitions include a solo show at Queen Street Studios Gallery in June 2008. Group exhibitions include "Ephemeral Boundaries" Talbot Gallery, Dublin; "Eigse 2008" Carlow, Curator Patrick T Murphy Director RHA; "Selected Artists" Curator Robbie O Halloran, Mary Street Gallery, Waterford. Forthcoming events include a solo exhibition at Ballina Arts Centre in 2009 and a residency at The Leitrim Sculpture Centre in 2009. Her work is included in many collections including OPW, Dublin, The Arts Council of Northern Ireland and The University of Ulster Permanent Collection.

Ricardo Marques, originally from Portugal, has been living in Ireland since 2003. He has participated in exhibitions at The Leitrim Sculpture Centre, 2003 & 2008; Iontas, Sligo, 2003; and Derg View Gallery, Mountshannon, 2006. He works in stone, wood and more recently, mixed media installation. Ricardo Marques now lives in County Clare.

A graduate of the Slade School of Art London, Kate Wislon has been working as a painter in Ireland for 13 years. She is a recipient of Award of Distinction from the RHA Gallagher Gallery. Her work can be found in civic collections and private collections throughout Ireland and the UK. A founding member of Tulips and Oysters Cross Arts, much of Kate's work draws from a multidisciplinary approach to the arts and often combines dance, sound, film and painting through cross-arts dialogue. In 2006, Kate exhibited Portrait at Lemon Street Gallery, Dublin. This large body of work was inspired by practicing musicians. Kate's recent painting continues to explore the relationship between sound, colour and form.

Kate is currently co-artist in residence at St Edwards School, Sligo. The residency is running as part of the Kids Own Publishing Partnership 'Nature of Sligo' project. Other current collaborative work includes a multi-camera video piece shot at Warwick University with sound artist Cathal Roche for Encounters funded by the Arts Council under its Projects, New Work Award.

Clive Bright is an artist who lives on his family farm in south county Sligo. Since graduating from NCAD in Dublin in 2003, Bright has had numerous solo exhibitions of his paintings at the Cat & the Moon Gallery, Sligo, 2007;The Tramyard Gallery, Dalkey, 2007; The Linenhall, Castlebar, 2006. Group exhibitions include the RHA Annual Exhibition and the Boyle Arts Festival, 2007. Clive Bright was the recipient of the 2005 Golden Fleece Award and his work is held by many public and private collections.

Elaine Reynolds studied in the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Reynolds' work is strongly research and process-driven; investigations include the use of live action and video. Recent activities demonstrate an interest in social and economic theory, exploring industrial processes and the idea of labour as a commodity.

Since graduating in 2007 she has participated in events such as 'Excursions' performance festival, Limerick; 'Never Ending Telescope' The Back Loft, Dublin; 'Transitopia' a site-specific project, Naas, Co. Kildare. Reynolds was one of six local artists involved in the 'New Sites-New Fields' research project based at the Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton.

The Dock will be full of Christmas delight on the evening of the 12th of December. 5.30pm
You are invited to preview our winter exhibition EIGHT where we showcase the work of 8 artists all with connections to Leitrim.
If you are looking for something unique for under the Christmas Tree or just some simple time out...we would be happy to share your company.....

There will be a free gallery tour of the Discussions in Sculpture exhibition on Wednesday 5th November at 1pm. A great chance to find out more about the work on show! All are welcome.

Curated by Oliver Dowling

This exhibition, the second in a series of four, will feature:

Maud Cotter
Dorothy Cross
John Gibbons
Paul Gregg
Fergus Martin
Kathy Prendergast
Alistair Wilson
Grace Weir


The preview of the exhibition is on Friday 31st October at 5.30pm
All are welcome.

*Download the invitation at
http://www.thedock.ie/downloads/Conversations_4.pdf




Grace Weir studied at the National College of Art and Design, followed by a Master of Science at Trinity College, Dublin. She co-represented Ireland at the 49th International Venice Biennale in 2001 with her video installation around now. She has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally.

Her solo exhibitions include: The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland (2000); John Curtin Gallery, Perth, Australia, (2002); Percy Miller Gallery, London, UK (2003); Cornerhouse, Manchester UK (2003); The Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia (2004) The Science Museum, London (2007). Her group exhibitions include Singing the real, Iziko South African National Gallery, Capetown, South Africa; Blackboxing, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland; The last blue sky, Mothers Tankstation, Dublin (2007); Through the Lens: New Media Art from Ireland, BAMOIC Beijing Art Museum, China (2008)

In the '90s Grace Weir received a fellowship from P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, and she subsequently received several awards from the Arts Council of Ireland for the production of new work. She was commissioned by NIFCA, the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland in 2001 to make a net-art work titled Little Bang. In 2006 she was awarded a residency at St. John's College, Oxford where she spent time researching ideas which culminated in the 4 new works works seen in In my own time at the Science Museum, London in 2007.


Alistair Wilson was born in Penarth, Wales and has been living in Belfast since 1979. He graduated from Bath Academy of Art, Corsham and Chelsea School of Art, London with an MA in Sculpture. He has been until recently Course Director for the MFA and is currently Reader at the University of Ulster. He has exhibited widely in Europe and beyond including most recently: Third Space Gallery, Belfast, 2008; Tides, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 2006; Dogs Have no Religion, Czech Museum of Fine Art, 2006; and A Long Weekend -The Nature of Things (Artists from N. Ireland)/, 51st Venice Biennale; Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, 2005

His work is in many private and public collections including the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaion; Ulster Museum, Belfast, University of Ulster; the Arts Council of Northern Ireland; Trinity College, Dublin and Contemporary Irish Art Society. He has received several awards including a D.A.A.D. Scholarship, Berlin and Arts Council of Northern Ireland Major Bursaries and has recently been appointed to the Faculty of the British School at Rome.

Fergus Martin works in a variety of media from two-dimensional work such as painting and photography as well as sculptural works. He has exhibited in Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, and the US. His work is included in public collections including The Irish Museum of Modern Art , Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork and The Arts Council of Ireland.
He has recently completed a new sculpture, Steel, for the entrance gates to The Irish Museum of Modern Art. His exhibition of new work, Fergus Martin, is currently showing at The Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, and he is taking part in the exhibition Yo Mo' Modernism at ccnoa (centre for contemporary non-objective art) in Brussels.
In addition to his solo work, Fergus Martin joined forces with photographer Anthony Hobbs in 2003 to work on a series of projects. As Martin & Hobbs, they showed in Venice and Dublin, and their work is included in the collections of The Irish Museum of Modern Art and The Arts Council. He is represented by the Green on Red Gallery, Dublin.


Paul Gregg has been based in Dublin since 1995. He has exhibited in Europe and the United States. In recent years, the primary focus of his practice has been the creation of large- scale, publicly commissioned projects. Those of note include: one revolution per day, at the AO Foundation, Davos Switzerland, Subaquatic Dublin Our Ladies Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin, 2003; Magnesium, Carlow County Council, Carlow, 2002; Parachute Mystery, Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford, 1998; Belfast Buildings Fracture Clinic, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, 1998; Tin Can Communication, Intermedia 1997, Triskel Art Centre, Cork; Pageantry & Rhetoric, Artscape 97, Baltimore, Maryland.
Paul Gregg earned a Bachelors of Arts degree, summa cum laude, from University of California, Los Angeles (U.C.L.A.) and a Masters of Fine Arts from the Rinehart School of Sculpture, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore Maryland. He has received numerous awards for his academic and artistic work including membership into Phi Beta Kappa honour society, a Fulbright scholarship, The Amilie Rothschild Award, The Fire Station Artist Studios residency, and Irish Arts Council awards including major artists' bursaries in 2003 and 2005.

Kathy Prendergast began exhibiting in the early 1980s and currently lives and works in London. A sculptor of quiet but immense sophistication, Prendergast has persistently revolved around a potent cluster of issues in her work, chief among which are sexuality, identity, landscape, mapping and power She participated in the 1985 Paris Biennale, and in 1995 she was awarded the Premio 2000 for the best young artist at the Venice Biennale. A section of her monumental project The City Drawings, comprising several hundred delicate drawings of the street plans of the world's capital cities, was shown first at Venice and subsequently at the Tate Gallery, London. A larger section again was exhibited in Prendergast's 1999 solo exhibition The End and the Beginning at the Irish Muesum of Modern Art, which has since acquired the work in its entirety for its permanent collection. In recent years Prendergast has exhibited widely in various venues including Sydney Biennale, the ICA, Boston, the Drawing Center, New York and 0044, an exhibition which toured PS1, New York, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo in 1999/2000.

She is represented in the collections of the Tate Gallery, London, the Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, the Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo and the Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, and numerous private collections in Ireland, Great Britain, Europe and USA. She is represented by the Kerlin Gallery, Dublin.


Dorothy Cross was born in Cork and has been exhibiting regularly since the mid-80s. Her witty and inventive investigations of contemporary sexual mores and politics tend to be produced in series. Her first major solo shows were Ebb, at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, in 1988, and Powerhouse at the ICA, Philadelphia, the Hyde Gallery and Camden Arts Centre, London, in 1991. Over the past few years Dorothy Cross has devoted increasing amounts of time to the development of large-scale public events and projects, most memorably the award-winning Ghost Ship, an ethereally illuminated light-ship which haunted Dublin Bay for a few weeks in 1998.
Dorothy Cross has participated in numerous group shows internationally including the 1993 Venice Biennial, the 1997 Istanbul Biennial and the 1998 Liverpool Biennial. She also took part in the ground-breaking 1994 exhibition Bad Girls in the ICA London and CCA, Glasgow; the 1998 exhibition Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism and Self Representation, which was shown at MIT List Art Center, Boston, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami and the San Francisco MOMA; 'Skin' (with Ernesto Neto and Yoel Davids) at the Cranbrook Museum, Michigan. Recent solo shows have included Angles Gallery, Los Angeles (1997), Mimara Museum, Zagreb (2000), Frith Street Gallery, London (2001) and Kerlin Gallery (2002).

Her work is included in the collections of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Norton Collection, Santa Monica, Art Pace Foundation, Texas, the Goldman Sachs Collection, London and the Tate Modern, London, among others. A major retrospective of Dorothy Cross's work took place in June 2005 at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. She is represented by the Kerlin Gallery, Dublin.


Maud Cotter was born in Cork where she lives and works, having spent time living in London. Her most recent one-person exhibition titled, Not the Full Story was in the Rubicon Gallery, Dublin in January 2007. In 2006, she was short listed for the inaugural Irish American Arts Awards, New York. Her work has featured in group exhibitions and solo projects in Europe and the United States since the early eighties including 0044 Irish Artists in Britain at PS -1 New York; A Measured Quietude at the Drawing Center, New York and one person exhibitions at the Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Wales and Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Ireland. In 2000, she was short listed for the Glen Dimplex Award at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Other major exhibitions include; Crawford Municipal Gallery Cork and Turku Art Museum Finland.

Maud Cotter's work is in the collection of among others; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Allied Irish Bank, New Hall College Cambridge, the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaion, and in numerous collections in Ireland, and Europe. She is co-founder of the National Sculpture Factory, Cork and a member of Aosdána (2000). Cotter was based in London at the Delfina Trust (1992-1997) and completed a residency at the British Embassy in Luxembourg - Artists in Residence program (1995). She is represented by the Rubicon Gallery, Dublin.


John Gibbons was born in County Clare and now lives and works in London. He studied at the Limerick School of Art, Crawford School of
Art, Cork and St. Martin's School of Art, London. He was awarded the Macaulay Fellowship in Sculpture in 1975 and has continued to receive many awards since then including the Bryan Robertson Trust Award 2008. He has had solo exhibitions in Ireland, UK, Spain, Hungary, Germany and the USA. He has a long association with the Flowers Gallery,London and his most recent exhibition there was Endless Sky/And Other Stories, at Flowers Central in 2007. In 2008 John Gibbons was a Fellow of the Ballinglen Arts Foundation; was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 2006 and has been visiting Professor and visiting artist at many colleges and residencies in Spain, Canada and America. His work has been featured in publications worldwide including the Arts Council of England; Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada; The Modern Art Centre / Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain; the Tate, London; the Contemporary Irish Arts Society. He is represented by Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin. http://www.johngibbons.org.uk


Oliver Dowling (invited curator) is an independent contemporary visual art specialist with comprehensive experience representing Irish artists, galleries and public institutions, offering particular expertise in curating exhibitions, advising on policy and forming collections.

He started his curatorial career with the Arts Council in 1967 touring exhibitions of Irish art within Ireland and presenting international exhibitions in Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Belfast; worked on the early ROSC exhibitions 1967 and 1971; was Director of the Oliver Dowling Gallery, Dublin from 1975 to 1994 showing Irish and International artists; facilitated the curation of visual arts program of L'Imaginaire Irlandais, France 1996; Visual Arts Specialist to the Arts Council 1997 to 2006. Currently, he is developing plans for a major exhibition of international art in Dublin 2011. He serves as a board member of Irish Visual Artists Rights Organisation and on the Board of Trustees Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane.

There will be a free gallery tour of the Commodity Form exhibition on Saturday 27th at 12pm. A great chance to find out more about the work on show! All are welcome!

SATURDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER – SUNDAY 26TH OCTOBER
COMMODITY FORM

Colin Darke: The Capital Paintings
David Mabb: Rhythm 69

Commodity Form is an exhibition that brings together two solo painting projects by artists Colin Darke and David Mabb. While each project could be shown singly, the juxtaposition of the two opens a debate between the social and political concerns of the artists.

Colin Darke’s The Capital Paintings is a series of 480 oil paintings in which a range of seemingly random things - e.g., sweet wrappers, found advertisements, bank statements - is painstakingly painted onto un-primed canvas. The collective impact of these things painted using the language of fine art raises questions both about the nature of art and about the origin and purpose of the selected objects. This work follows on from an earlier project in which Darke hand copied three volumes of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital onto 480 flat objects.
Colin Darke studied fine art at Goldsmiths College, London (1980). He has held solo shows in Derry, London, Ontario and Dublin and has participated in numerous group shows including A Measured Quietude, The Drawing Center, New York (1999); Manifesta 3, Ljubliana (2000); the Venice Biennale (2003) and the Busan Biennale (2004). The Capital Paintings were shown at Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin (2007) and at The Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast (2008). Colin Darke lives in Derry.

David Mabb’s Rhythm 69 is a series of 70 paintings made from a perplexing array of references. Pages from a 1960’s pattern book of William Morris wallpaper designs have been glued onto individual canvases. A number of images by the artist/film-maker Hans Richter are sequentially painted onto each page from the Morris wallpaper pattern book. The Hans Richter sketches are in turn from a storyboard for a proposed 1970 animated film, based on sketches by the artist Kasimir Malevich, dating from 1927. The result is a visually rich dialogue in politics, aesthetics and history.
David Mabb is influenced by the history of the designer, poet and essayist William Morris; reinterpreting Morris’ textiles to investigate political and artistic traditions. His solo exhibitions include A Factory As It Might Be or The Hall of Flowers, Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario (2003); William Morris, “ministering to the swinish luxury of the rich” Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (2004); Morris in Jaipur: The Work of Art in the Context of Hand-made Reproduction, Jaipur and New Delhi (2005), Art into Everyday Life, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (2006). In 2008, Rhythm 69 was shown at The Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast and in Alesund, Norway. David Mabb teaches at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
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*The preview of this exhibition is on Friday 19th September at 5.30pm. All are welcome.

There will be a free gallery tour of the Landscapes exhibition on Saturday 26th July at 12pm, given by resident artist at The Dock, Laura Gallagher. All are welcome to come along and find out more about the work on show.

LANDSCAPES ‘08

Dennis McNulty: the migrant/ landscape

In John McGahern’s short story “Gold Watch”, the protagonist makes many physical journeys by car and train, moving between the city where he now lives and the farm he grew up on. Travelling between these two places somehow also enables him to travel between his lived reality and the possible reality that a different set of decisions would have produced. the migrant/landscape, uses this story as the starting point to relate spatial and temporal journeys to thought processes through the medium of a video installation.
Dennis McNulty is an artist based in Dublin. His installation and sound performance work deals with the friction between the planned and the unplanned especially with respect to urban space. In 2004, he represented Ireland at the São Paulo Bienal. His work has been shown in Ireland, the UK, France, Japan, Brazil and Colombia.

Patricia Burns: New Paintings

Patricia Burns will be exhibiting a new body of work as part of the Landscapes 08 exhibition at The Dock. About Patricia Burns, poet Thomas McCarthy writes, “Her work is complex and haunting. The sense of disturbance is everywhere. There is a withdrawal from the built world by the filter of a long view... There is a photographic sense of a camera retreating from its object, yet collecting everything minimal and essential--not an advance or attack upon subject matter but an artistic distancing from every comforting sense of home."
Patricia Burns has recently exhibited her work at The Vanguard Gallery, Cork (2007); The Ashford Gallery of the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (2007);and Catherine Hammond Gallery, Glengarrif, Cork (2005). Her work is in the collections of the OPW, AIB group and AXA insurance. She has been artist-in-residence at the Ballinglen Foundation in Ballycastle, County Mayo. She lives in Cork.

Robin Whitmore: Drawings from Moving Trains

“These are drawings made on till roll while I was on train journeys. Because the train moves so fast, only half glimpsed views get recorded. I draw as fast as possible but time necessarily forces me to edit the information as I go, so one field gets stitched onto another perhaps a half mile further on; whole villages are compressed and a car might appear to veer into a river.
Later on, for weeks after, I ink in this high-speed sketch, blocking in shadows and emphasising contours, trusting memory or invention to pull everything together, so that a new kind of landscape emerges on the paper which turns into a fantastical version of the real thing. “ - Robin Whitmore, 2008
Robin Whitmore’s work is rooted in drawing. He has tended not to show in galleries, preferring to work in places that are unrelated to the art scene. Much of Robin’s work has looked at the potential that drawing has to stimulate and open up dialogue. His popular drawing installation Dream Diary featured on the staircase in The Dock in 2007. He lives in London.

John Gerrard: Smoke Tree III

John Gerrard's principal works utilise gaming technologies to create
confounding figurative pieces sited between cinema, photography and
sculpture. These centre principally on topics of energy, time and human
relations to the natural environment. On exhibit at The Dock will be Smoke Tree III (real time 3d), a virtual sculpture with the central basis formed by an oak tree that is transformed as it emits plumes of dark and swirling carbon, creating a mesmerising and ever-changing tableau. The work operates from dawn to dusk, constantly moving around the central motif. Recent solo exhibitions by the
artist include Dark Portraits at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin,
travelling to Hilger contemporary, Vienna (cat.)(2006/7) Recent group
exhibitions occurred in Marian Goodman Gallery, NY, USA (2007), Iziko-SA
National Gallery, Cape Town, ZA (2007), The Seoul Museum of Art, South
Korea (2006), The Art Museum of Western Virginia, USA (2006), National
Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung (2005), Liverpool Biennial, UK,
(2004) Lehmann Maupin Gallery, NY, USA (2004) amongst others

*The preview of this exhibition is on Friday 11th July at 5.30pm.
All are welcome.

In conjunction with the ‘Architecture -The Bridge’ exhibition, artists Bridget Corcoran and Sarah Stevens have been busy working with local school children.
Pupils from St. Mary’s Boys School, St. Josephs National School and St. Mary’s Girls School were asked to use their wildest imagination in designing a bridge that would be suitable for crossing the river Shannon. Some of these marvellous suggestions have now been turned into actual 3D structures and will be on show for a limited time in The Dock.
For your chance to view these fine creations and make your own suggestions why not bring the family along to The Dock on Saturday 7th June at 3pm. Fun activities will also take place on the day and light refreshments will be provided for all willing participants.

There will be a free gallery tour of the Architecture exhibition on Saturday 31st May at 12pm, given by Leitrim-based artist Stephen Rennicks, who is one of the artists involved in this exhibition. A great chance to find out more about the work on show! All are welcome.

Four Artists - Rhona Byrne, Ronnie Hughes, Stephen Rennicks, Ciarán Walsh
Four Architects- Dominic Stevens, Micheál Sweeney, Dominick Comerford, Thomas Flynn
Bridge Stories: A Community Project led by Mella O'Brolcháin & Roisín Loughrey

The Irish inland waterways system has, and continues to be, a constant regenerative force for people and places, both urban and rural. It is also of major historical significance. The River Shannon is the heart of this system and is set to benefit from a new bridge in the coming years as part of the planned by-pass for the town of Carrick-on-Shannon, the home of The Dock.
Within this rich context, The Dock has asked four artists and four architects to explore the potential this new bridge offers. In parallel with this, The Dock also invited a community artist and a filmmaker to initiate a new archive of 'bridge stories' in collaboration with local people. This archive is revealed within a film, located where a new bridge might cross, but where none yet exists. What stories might this new bridge lead to?

everyday--an exhibition of art works that arise out of the things that are under our noses, underfoot, on the table, in the wardrobe, on the farm, around the corner...

John Brady: Gigantic Cart

The artist will build, on site, an enormous cart using railroad sleepers and a chainsaw. When finished, the cart will be placed beside the pillar in the front courtyard of The Dock. The cart will be a site for the stacking of everyday objects, which will change periodically, and for which the artist is open to suggestions from the public. John Brady grew up near Westport, County Mayo, and the cart and its stacks are related to his memories of things seen around the childhood farm. He lives in Galway and is a member of Artspace artists collective. See
http://giganticcart.blogspot.com/

Sarah Browne: A Model Society

A short survey on quality of life, conducted by the artist, was performed on knitwear models in Iceland, and the answers were edited and knitted into lopi sweaters. The sweaters are modelled in poses and locations typical of the utopian imagery of knitting pattern photographs. The title refers to the models who participated but also to the qualities that may be necessary for the construction of this seemingly perfect social order. Sarah Browne lives in Leitrim.

Howard Matthew: The Mayflies Project

Howard Matthew has created an experimental animated film from bits of trash, about everyday life in Newcastle-upon-Tyne .The film's rich soundtrack, recorded in situ, brings to life a normal day in the city. As you watch these trash-scenarios come alive, you listen in to a street preacher's colourful evangelism in which he decries Jesus as "more famous than Newcastle United"; to everyday exchanges in a mini-mart with the sound of rustling plastic bags; and the muffled talk in a late night chip shop. Howard Matthew lives in London.

The Domestic Godless: The Domestic Godless Guide to Catching Gannet and Some Recipes

The staircase in The Dock will host The Domestic Godless's advice on an age-old practice for catching gannet, taken from from the monks on Skellig Michael. The Domestic Godless, based in Cork, are comprised of artists Stephen Brandes, Irene Murphy & Mick O'Shea. They formed in 2003 as a response to the conservative nature of the Irish palate and to break a number of food taboos. Thanks to them, Vietnamese swamp eel, gannet rissoles and Yemeni goat's tongue salad are set to overtake bacon and cabbage as national favourite dishes.

Janek Simon: Homemade Watches, Bread Insects and Other Contraptions

Using the availability of knowledge that exists on the web, Janek Simon set himself a challenge to see how long it would take him to build a digital wristwatch from scratch. Learning the basics of electronics, programming, pcb-making, and DIY methods, the digital watch, (a dream possession of every boy of Simon's generation), took less than two months to make. His exhibition at The Dock will include the homemade electronic watch, moving insects made with bread abdomens along with a few other subversive and clever contraptions. Janek Simon was born in Kraków, and he now lives and works in both Kraków and Warsaw.

CLEA VAN DER GRIJN in conversation with AIDAN DUNNE - Art Critic with The Irish Times

Aidan Dunne, Art Critic with The Irish Times, will lead a conversation with artist Clea Van Der Grijn about her current exhibition moment(ous) at The Dock in Carrick on Shannon on Wednesday, April 2nd at 4pm in Gallery 2. All are welcome.

moment(ous) is a photographic installation which observes the pain of a mother's loss. In the artist's words, this new work - in three parts - "attempts to expose something partly beautiful, partly unsayable, and partly intolerable."

Clea Van der Grijn is most recently known for her series of heavily layered paintings of the Madonna (The Outsider, 2006), prompted by her experience of living in a Franciscan monastery in County Roscommon. With moment(ous) Van der Grijn departs from the medium of painting, and yet retains a layered and textured quaility associated with much of her previous work.

Clea van der Grijn has exhibited her work throughout Ireland in numerous solo exhibitions including the Cross Gallery, Dublin and the Roscommon Arts Centre. Her work is held in many public collections. She was born in Dublin and lives and works in County Sligo.

SOME WORK ABANDONED IN FRESCO DIARMUID DELARGY
Fresco- the technique of painting in pigments on wet plaster-- is a medium rarely used by contemporary artists. Diarmuid Delargy presents a series of frescoes never before seen in public. Delargy made the frescoes as an experiment in technique during the period of making his well-regarded body of work ‘The Beckett Suite,’ but promptly abandoned the frescoes and didn't look at them for over ten years. The frescoes, along with selected etchings from Delargy's ‘The Beckett Suite’ will be presented, giving viewers a rare opportunity to see various aspects of creative investigation from an artist with a reputation for technical virtuosity.

Diarmuid Delargy, a painter and printmaker, is a native of Belfast. He studied art at the College of Art and Design, the Ulster Polytechnic and at the Slade School of Art in London. His work has been extensively exhibited nationally and internationally. He is represented by Taylor Galleries in Dublin and is a member of Aosdåna. He lives and works in County Sligo.

To see Diarmuid's and Cléa's work please go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/thedockcleavandergrijn/

*The preview of this exhibition is on Friday 22nd February at 5.30pm. All are welcome.

moment(ous)
CLÉA VAN DER GRIJN

Clea Van der Grijn is most recently known for her series of heavily layered paintings of the Madonna (The Outsider, 2006), prompted by her experience of living in a Franciscan monastery in County Roscommon. With moment(ous) Van der Grijn departs from the medium of painting, and yet retains a layered and textured quaility associated with much of her previous work.

moment(ous) is a photographic installation which observes the pain of a mother's loss. In the artist's words, this new work - in three parts - "attempts to expose something partly beautiful, partly unsayable, and partly intolerable."

Clea van der Grijn has exhibited her work throughout Ireland in numerous solo exhibitions including the Cross Gallery, Dublin and the Roscommon Arts Centre. Her work is held in many public collections. She was born in Dublin and lives and works in County Sligo.
to see Diarmuid's and Cléa's work please go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/thedockcleavandergrijn/
The preview of this exhibition is on Friday 22nd February at 5.30pm. All are welcome.

JUDI WERTHEIN
BRINCO

In Judi Werthein's project Brinco ("to jump"), trainers were manufactured in China to assist illegal immigrants seeking to cross the Mexican-United States border. The trainers include a map of the region printed on the sole, a compass, a mini-flashlight, a secret pocket to hide money, and an image of Santo Toribio Romo the official saint of the Mexican migrants – all features to aid migrants in the arduous and dangerous trek north. Approximately 1000 pairs of Brinco sneakers were produced in China. They were given away for free in Tijuana to Mexicans setting off for the border, and sold for over $200 as a limited edition in a high-end boutique in San Diego, with proceeds going to a shelter in Tijuana. Werthein examines how a simple pair of shoes can be a product of cheap labour in a globalised marketplace, a functional tool and a luxury commodity.

Brinco comes to The Dock after being on exhibition in 2007 at the Tate Modern in London, where it has been purchased as part of their permanent collection.

Judi Werthein was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and received her Masters of Architecture from the University of Buenos Aires (1993). Werthein's selected solo exhibitions include: Chinati Foundation ( Thoughts Come to Mind); Centro Cultural Borges (Buenos Aires), Bronx Museum of Art ( Manicurated); Kent Gallery (Turismo); Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Bahia Blanca, Ruth Benzacar Galeria (Buenos Aires), Centro Cultural San Martín (Buenos Aires). She has been included in exhibitions at El Museo del Barrio, Apex Art, The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (NY); the 2000 Havana Biennial (Cuba); and the 29ª Bienal de Pontevedra (2006) Imagined Movements between Galicia and the Southern Cone Argentina – Chile - Uruguay.

For more please see...

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/theirresistibleforce/default.shtm

<http://www.shamelessmag.com/blog/2007/10/the-irresistible-force-judi-werthein/>;

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JACKIE MCKENNA
NEW WORK FROM THE STUDIO

Jackie McKenna, a native of north Leitrim, is known throughout Ireland for her many public sculpture commissions. In 2005, she was an artist in residence at the Leitrim Sculpture Centre in Manorhamilton, and for the first time in her career, she began a studio-based practice. McKenna had time to pursue other concerns that had long been sidelined during the years she had focused on commissioned sculptures . This exhibition is the result of the experimentations with new materials and working methods that began during the residency and continue to the present.

McKenna's new work grapples with a host of political concerns within a personal vocabulary using materials that are new to her practice. Memories from the past, both recollections of childhood and politicizing experiences such as time the artist spent working in Palestinian camps in Beirut (1982-1983) are brought into form in materials such as clay, plaster and turf mould.

Jackie McKenna was born in North Leitrim where she continues to live and work. She is a co-founder of the Leitrim Sculpture Centre in Manorhamilton. Her public sculpture commissions, many in bronze, stone or wood, are found throughout Ireland including: the William Butler Yeats Interpretive Centre, Drumcliffe County Sligo; The Madonna and Child, St. Mary's Church, Carrick-on-Shannon; the City Cow, City Park, Wolfe Tone Street, Dublin. She is currently working on commissions forU.N.I.F.I.L. in Sligo and for Iarnrod Eireann in Dublin.

For the third year running, The Dock invites locally-based artists in the Leitrim area to submit work for the annual Open Season exhibition. Work will be accepted in all media: paint, photography, sculpture (subject to size), digital media, etc. All work must be ready to hang. Artists should submit up to two works to Caoimhín Corrigan at The Dock, on or before Thursday 29th November. Every effort will be made to accommodate all who submit work for this ‘open season’.

All are welcome to join us for a mulled wine reception to open this exhibition on Friday 7THDecember from 5.30pm – 7pm. A great opportunity to find an original Christmas gift!

A REAL CORNER OF THE WORLD FIONNA MURRAY

Fionna Murray's work is concerned with the way perceptions of the past are interpreted in the present and how being "at home is moderated by separation from one's place of origin. The unexpected "stills" of memory become captured things in the imagination. Her paintings attempt to give these interior glimpses form and recognition in the exterior world.
Fionna has exhibited extensively throughout Ireland including solo exhibitions at the Rubicon Gallery, Dublin and the Galway Arts Centre and she was the first artist-in-residence at the Centre Cultural Irlandais in Paris. She lives in County Clare

APPARAZIONE ADRIAN PACI
A seminal work by the internationally recognized visual artist Adrian Paci. Paci's videos concern the emotional nature of origins. An Albanian, he has lived in Italy for 10 years but has maintained, both conceptually and sentimentally, his original ties of family, friends, and culture. His split screen video installation, Apparizione, features his young daughter in a dialogue across space and time with the people of Paci's native place in Albania. It is a profound statement about displacement, emigration and origins and has been a popular exhibition with audiences in museums, galleries and conferences worldwide. Adrian Paci will give a presentation on his work during his exhibition at The Dock.

Yvonne Cullivan’s work evolves from a contemplation of transformation - change may be occurring in an immediate sense (physical, emotional) or in the external environment (social, geographical, cultural). Her work bears witness to this cyclical process of change and adjustment to change. It observes, documents, quietly comments. From time to time in its formation, it reaches beyond the mobile studio to engage directly with the community and locality. This work originally arose out of a 6 month residency at Leitrim Sculpture Centre in Manorhamilton. Yvonne is currently artist in residence in The Ark, Dublin’s cultural centre for children.

DISCUSSIONS IN CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE
Discussions in Contemporary Sculpture is the first of four annual exhibitions, each one selected by a different curator, offering four different perspectives on contemporary sculpture.

Curated by Mark Garry, this exhibition features some leading young Irish and International contemporary artists; Karl Burke, Robert Carr, Charles Matson Lume, Norman Mooney, Paul Mckinley, Christophe Neumann, Jenifer Phelan, Martha Quinn, Robin Watkins and Nina Canell. While the majority of these artists make work that is traditionally recognised as sculpture and installation, this show will present work in a wide variety of media including video, photography, sound, drawing and painting.

New Work on Paper by Peter Brooke
"On a Thousand Islands in the Sea.." by Cora Cummins
Weather Cube by Gareth Kennedy

“On a Thousand Islands in the Sea...” Cora Cummins
This constellation of floor-based sculptures, print works and paintings
presented by Cora Cummins focuses on the idea of islands – as sites, spaces
and zones that exist as separate entities within the wider fabric of everyday reality. The work is motivated by an interest in the notions of ‘explorers’; travel writing; ideas of utopia; environmental issues; critiques of leisure time as a commodity; and our restless inner urges to be ‘elsewhere’. The forms and imagery in the show refer to an eclectic range of sources: tidal islands, light houses, pavillions, bandstands and the manicured ‘hyper-real’ forms of golf courses – some based on the virtual space of computer games.

This exhibition might be read as a playful series of meditations about the possibilities offered by navigations between and across borders – to the
outer limits and edge zones of imagined possibility – a kind of logbook, offering
viewers a space in which to reflect upon and recall their own journeys and dreams of retreat.

Cora Cummins graduated in Fine Art from the Dublin Institute of Technology (1995) and has an MA from NCAD (2003). She has had three solo exhibitions with the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, has done a residency at the Irish Museum of Modern Art and has participated in many group shows nationally and internationally. She has also been involved in curatorial and publication projects such as The Fold, which is published by The Workroom Press.

WEATHER CUBE Gareth Kennedy
As part of Landscapes ’07 at The Dock, visual artist Gareth Kennedy has been commissioned to create a temporary public artwork. A transparent cube structure will be sited on the banks of the river in Carrick-On-Shannon. The transparent cube will function as a steam-sauna. Members of the public will be invited to partake in a steam sauna, and hence the microclimate of their body comes to the fore as they sit in the hot space of the structure, sweating. They are at once cut off from the external environment, yet it remains visible and all
around them. An audio work composed for the site will guide the visitor through this experience, and will reflect upon the notion of how “climate change means landscape change”. This will culminate in the participants reentering
the macro-climate (outside) and jumping in the river Shannon.

This work originally stems from research into the historical sweat house structures, which are located almost exclusively in North Leitrim and West Cavan. While these historical sources are the grounding for this work, it uses modern materials and a minimalist language to reinterpret the Leitrim sweat house in light of contemporary Ireland. This meeting of the modern with the vernacular and how this can generate new responses to contemporary concerns is a key issue for Kennedy’s work.
for an update on the where abouts of the weather cube please see,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid

Gareth Kennedy graduated from the National College of Art and Design in 2003 with first class honours. Based in County Leitrim, he works on both collaborative and solo projects that have included public commissions, gallery-based exhibitions, artist residencies and education-based projects. Kennedy adopts a flexible approach that utilises a diverse range of media and processes, which range from the use of specific types of materials to context specific social interactions. Recent projects and exhibitions include EV+A 2006; Claremorris
Open ‘06; Cluster at Participant Inc. New York; Art@Work, Co. Roscommon; Space- Shuttle, Belfast; and the Installation Room at Hotel Ballymun.



New Work on Paper Peter Brooke
Peter Brooke’s recent paintings on paper combine observation, memory, geology, geography and history into an imagined landscape. The artist writes, “For over 15 years I have worked reclaiming old pastures and cutting new trails, and maintained a woodlot creating a wildlife habitat in a relatively small area within the Piedmont Uplands of Vermont where I live. Through close inspection
I have cataloged tree types, landforms, stonewalls and cellar holes, and observed a variety of views around my home in Pomfret, Vermont. Back in
the studio, I paint these landscapes from memory creating an amalgam of history, geologic time and personal experience. These places where old paths and cliff outcroppings converge, where streams emerge from forests to
feed small ponds, where the terrain is shaped by a combination of geologic and human forces - it is these places that haunt my memory and provide me with new possibilities for visual invention. Often glimpsed in passing, then later observed, they provide the armature on which the painting may form.”
Peter Brooke is a painter whose work has been exhibited widely in solo and group shows worldwide, including Reeves Contemporary, New York; Gallery
NAGA, Boston; Dolan/Maxwell, Philadelphia; and the Royal Academy, London. He has spent time in Ireland on fellowships to the Ballinglen Foundation in Ballycastle, County Mayo, where he returns in June 2007. His work is included in major public and corporate collections worldwide. Peter Brooke was born in Concord, Massachusetts and lives in rural Vermont.

Eithne Jordan
Eithne Jordan is one of the most consistently
inventive and quietly innovative painters of her
generation.Her intense yet subtle,reticent pictures
have earned her a formidable reputation as that
rare thing,a “painters ’ painter ”.The Dock presents
an exhibition of Jordan ’s recent explorations of
metro stations and urban architecture,tunnels,
car and road signs--paintings which are dark in tone and conjure an
atmosphere of stillness and silence.Eithne Jordan has exhibited in
Ireland,Amsterdam,Berlin,London and New York.Since 1991,she has
been living and working between Ireland and France.
Paul O ’Connor
Paul O ’Connor lives and works in County Sligo from where he continues
to produce photography/video projects alongside graphic design work
(under the title ‘Judo Design ’).Paul was a founding member of The Light
Surgeons,which created mixed media projections for
contemporary dance/music/art events for many artists
from DJ Shadow to David Bowie.He is currently
completing a photographic book for H.H.The 17th
Karmapa in India and for The Academy of Everything
is Possible.His exhibition for The Dock looks at the
domestic work of four Leitrim-based architects,
exploring how people inhabit their houses,and how
their work inhabits the landscape.To view additional versions of work exhibited in this exhibtion go to http://www.judodesign.com/thedock.
*The preview of the Architecture exhibition is on Friday 25th May at 5.30pm.All are welcome.

This is an informal get together between artists of the area and the VAI
west of Ireland representative Aideen Barry.
Aideen is interested in hearing from artists about any dif .culties and/or
success they are having as visual artists working in the west of Ireland.
The clinic is an opportunity to discuss new services and opportunities
available to artists as VAI members.It is hoped that this meeting will help
with the development of a visual art infastructure in the west.If you are
interested in attending please contact the arts of .ce on 071 9621694

A Buyer ’s Evening will run in conjunction with The Dock ’s April/May
exhibition Convergence.
Be it that you have a space in your home that you would like to .ll or an
entire hotel to adorn,or you would just like to develop your appreciation
of art,you are welcome along.As part of the evening Jacquie Moore,
head buyer for the Of .ce of Public Works has been invited to give a short
talk on The Art of Buying Art.The evening will also be an opportunity to
preview upcoming exhibitions at The Dock.A wine and canape reception
will follow.For more information contact Claire McAree on 071 9650828
or cmcaree@leitrimcoco.ie.

To celebrate Bealtaine (the national arts festival
celebrating creativity in older age),The Dock
presents an exhibition of paintings from South
Leitrim Active Age groups,led by Carrick-on-
Shannon Active Age.The Bealtaine exhibition
opens on Wednesday 9th May at 6.30pm.All
are welcome.
*Admission is free to all exhibitions in the galleries.Opening hours are 10am –6pm,
Monday to Saturday and 2pm-6pm Sunday.

Convergence features The Dock's resident artists Padraig Cunningham, John Albert Duigenan, Laura Gallagher and Linda Shevlin. In an effort to provide a window into the creative processes happening in the privacy of their studios, each resident artist has identified another artist with whom there is a creative dialogue or connection to exhibit a work.

"From various points on the map, we have come together as resident artists at The Dock. In this exhibition, we bring our work out of the studios and into the gallery spaces that have become familiar to us over these last eighteen months. Additionally, as individuals, each of us recognises another artist with whom we share an affinity, whose work has focused a spotlight or touched our own in some way. We have invited those artists to exhibit a work with us in the spirit of "convergence". It is our hope that the exhibition might give us (and our audience) a measure by which to see how we have verged toward or away from things that have inspired us. Our studios will also be open to the public for the duration of the exhibition." Padraig Cunningham, John Albert Duigenan, Laura Gallagher, Linda Shevlin.

PADRAIG CUNNINGHAM / BILL VIOLA
Nothing ever seems quite what it is; your memory always plays tricks with what you believe to be true. When you close your eyes, the image left behind on your retina soon fades but there is still a residue. This distance between the real and imagined is what informs my art practice.
Painting/drawing allows me to make a reality of its own from that residue, mainly through the informal process of playing with colour. Colour creates form. Often a work may start with a clear idea or intention but this will be soon destroyed through the process of building the work. Particularly susceptible to this destruction are any representational elements, which soon become wiped away and the work starts to take on a physicality of its own.

The dialogue between the real and imagined. A conversation between tradition and modernity. Contrast between inside and out. Between chaos and calm. Snatches of dialogue. A nod to this and that. These are some of the themes and feelings one has when confronting Bill Viola’s work. His works are at once personal and universal, using imagery from his own history while also referencing the history of art.

Viola does not think much of originality but rather sees his work as a borrowing, a transformation that stems from the long tradition of imagemaking in western art. The clear references to painting in Bill Viola’s work through the use of scale, composition, colour and subject matter, while using such a modern medium as video, give me as an artist an exciting point of entry into his practice. While enjoying the visceral nature of his work, I have also in the back of my mind my own painting. Often the videos in extreme slow motion seem to want to capture some of the stillness of painting. It is a quality I particularly like and makes me reassess my own work, to the point where I have created a short video based directly on a series of paintings titled ‘shortwalk’.


JOHN ALBERT DUIGENAN / CAROLINE PATTEN
I have been inspired by people who are not necessarily artists or the modern masters. Caroline has the skill of a great artist because of her humorous vision and serious look at life. We both have a similar outlook and acceptance of where we are in world. Both our works are unassuming but show potential. They have a childish sense of fun.

My drawings are little anecdotes of the real world. Within them are odd-bod reflections of the inner self. I don’t attempt to make sense of these drawings but allow the viewer to pose questions. I can’t explain them articulately as the drawings tend to be inarticulate themselves. These images are slight reflections of the outside world with just a hint of reality.


LAURA GALLAGHER / STEPHEN KELLY
My current paintings have evolved as a result of my interest and growing attachment to the landscape that we move through and our relationship to it.

I use nature as a source from which to raise questions about our existence while exploring the relationship between our internal creative process and our external physical surroundings. This strengthens our sense of identity as I believe we are entwined with nature.

I have found that the language of the mark - both drawn and painted -is one that speaks most clearly to me in my work. I will continue to strive to push this linear language further, allowing drawing and painting to merge on one surface. Through these marks I hope to open up a dialogue between the viewer and the work, something which I feel has been skillfully realised in Stephen Kelly’s work.

Stephen’s fluid, confident strokes created with such rhythmic ease, have something very definite to say. Within these bold, vigorous brush marks he creates a tremendous amount of space and energy on the surface of the canvas. The casual, playful mark making created from an earthy palette are images that have stayed with me and continue to do so while I work. For me, Stephen’s work is a strong reminder of how powerful a painting can be.


LINDA SHEVLIN / HUGHIE O’DONOGHUE
I’ve always felt a strong pull towards artists who evoke pure, unihibited, raw emotion through the medium of paint. Recalling the first time I saw the work of each one is not only a visual memory but a sensory one.

My first experience of Hughie O’Donoghue’s work was in 1999 in the exhibition “Episodes from the Passion” at The RHA Gallagher Gallery. At the time I had been struggling with my own work. I had a studio then but had yet to produce anything that I was happy with. I lacked direction but, above all, I felt I hadn’t been excited by art, especially painting, since leaving college in 1996.

I can clearly remember walking through the exhibition in the RHA that day and feeling overwhelmed by what was emerging in front of me. O’Donoghue’s paintings were extremely affecting. I could feel the struggle, the pain and the exhilaration the painter experienced. The sheer, gargantuan, physical presence of his work drew me in. A number of years later, I heard O’Donoghue give a talk in the RHA to coincide with the publication of his book Painting, Memory, Myth. I was struck by his animation when a member of the audience asked him a question about his painting methods. What became clear was that this was a painter who had passion for his medium and had no qualms about pushing it to its limits.

I’ve only recently moved out of the city to a rural part of County Roscommon. I’m surprised at how this new location is affecting my painting, which has always been informed by the rural landscape. It’s not what I expected. Most of the paintings in the current series, Burning Fields, are derived from images I found by browsing images available online by simply searching for “Burning Fields”. I wanted to take a very immediate source or starting point for my work and develop these images through the process of painting, creating an interesting dialogue between current and more traditional work practices.

http://www.thedock.ie/downloads/convergence.pdf

The most recent exhibition from Cork based artist Catherina Hearne extends her artistic enquiry into our individual and collective memories as people, families, communities and as a nation.

This exhibition is one for all the senses. The works on display present a visual feast of colour, surface, form and texture. They reward careful investigation due to the complexity of layered information and overall attention to detail. Materials used include soap and rose buds so that they stimulate the viewers' sense of smell.

This exhibition by Longford-based artist Gary Robinson includes a walk-in machine that is an attempt to imitate the natural rhythm and beautiful chaos that makes up a ripple. The viewer becomes the 'object that is dropped into the water' and thus part of the creation of the ripple. There is also a series of paintings, images of an internal landscape, not unlike thought maps, working in conjunction with the machine.

Throughout 2007,artist Robin Whitmore will be showing his daily Dream Diary above the staircase in The Dock. Viewers are invited to sit on a settee at the foot of the stairs, where they will be able to hear the artist ’s voice giving descriptions of the dreams projected onto the wall above them. Fourteen dreams will be shown at a time and then updated every fortnight. The Dream Diary at The Dock will display Robin ’s dreams from 1st January to 31st December 2007. Throughout the year Robin will be running dream-related drawing workshops for the public and the resulting work will be displayed to form another dimension to the exhibition.

http://robinwhitmoredreamdiary.blogspot.com

Robin Whitmore’s daily Dream Diary is proving very popular with visitors to The Dock, as they settle into the setee at the foot of the stairs and listen to the artist’s voice giving descriptions of the dreams projected onto the wall above them.
Robin has been in residence in The Dock over the summer, gathering dreams from people in the Carrick area. Some of these dreams will be displayed later in the year to form another dimension to the Dream Diary exhibition. The collected dreams are also being illustrated and included in a small booklet, which is the first stage of a larger book of collected dreams he is aiming to publish.

Robin is still keen to meet with anyone, of any age, who has a dream they would like to contribute. He will be in the Dock until the 5th September and encourages people to visit him in his studio. He will return again in mid October. The dreams he has gathered and illustrated to date can be see at http://collecteddreams.blogspot.com