Ormond Art Studios are delighted to be inviting applications for our 2022 Graduate Residency Award!
The Ormond Art Studios Graduate Award will include a studio residency and peer mentoring in Ormond Art Studios for the month of September 2022 and will culminate in a solo exhibition in the Ormond Project Space in early October.
To apply please email your application in PDF format to ormondartists@gmail.com with the following information:
Letter of interest with regards to the Award and how you feel it will benefit your practice (300 words max)
Artist Statement detailing the themes, working methods, and use of media in your practice (300 words max)
Examples of work: documentation of work in the form of images or video hosted on Vimeo/YouTube/Own Website (please make sure these are not password protected/provide password). Please include the following details: title, medium, dimensions/duration, date of work. (10 works max).
Up-to-date CV (2 pages max)
Applications are welcome from all 2021 BA graduates and are due by midnight on the 14th of August 2022.
We are delighted to share that a full time studio space at Ormond Art Studios will become available from the 1st of June 2022. We are looking for one new full time member. Find out the specific details below.
Full Time Member Opportunity
Members have access our shared studio space in the heart of Dublin on Ormond Quay. There is shared studio equipment, the use of the Ormond Project Space (for any short term large work/laying out of projects/etc), as well as taking on a role in the running of the studios. Personal spaces are roughly 2 x 2.25 metres. Rent is €145 per month, including utilities, and a six month minimum residency is required.
Applying
Expressions of interest in joining an artist-led studio space should be sent to ormondartists@gmail.com. Please specify in the subject line of your application which of the above opportunities you are interested in.
Applications should contain: 1. CV (2 pages max) 2. Letter of interest articulating your reasons for wanting to join an artist-run space (300 words max) 3. 10 images of work/links to moving image works/website.
Deadline for applications: Tuesday 24th May 2022 at Midnight Applicants will have access to the studio from the start of June
We are delighted to welcome new studio member, film photographer and poet Letizia Lopreiato to Ormond Studios!
Letizia Lopreiato is a multilingual visual poet and film photographer working with 35mm photography, poetry, spoken word, and Super 8, to develop her social documentary practice with an art-photography style. Magnum Photos Portfolio Review featured artist (November 2020), Letizia embraced film photography in February 2018, a few months after her visual impairment diagnosis. The artist writes and performs her poetry in English, Italian and Spanish, and her work is published internationally, in the UK, Ireland and Italy.
Her Sonia’s Trees art-book is out as a publication by The Outside Press, and printed by Plus Print, Dublin, in December 2022. The artist is a professional member of Visual Artists Ireland, her work is part of the Ireland’s Office of Public Works State Art Collection, and it was exhibited at both PhotoIreland Halftone Print Fair at The Library Project, and at Dublin Art Book Fair, at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (November – December 2021), Dublin, Ireland.
Lopreiato’s solo exhibitions include: Exposure Alberta Photography Festival, 2022 Canada (February 2022), PhotoIreland Festival Open Program 2021, with a series of solo shows, between County Dublin and The Gallery of Modern Art in County Waterford in Ireland (July – October 2021); Exposure Alberta Photography Festival Canada (February 2021). Between 2020 and 2021 Letizia has been awardee of the Arts Council of Ireland: Agility Award Round 3, the Visual Arts Research Bursary, and the Connect Award. The artist comes from a Magna Cum Laude research background in International Relations and over a decade international program-management experience in the technology industry. Her interest lays in the application of barrier-free technologies for pluridiversity, inclusion and equality within the Visual Arts, and with a focus on Photography.
To learn more about Letizia’s work follow the links below
Ormond Art Studios is delighted to announce this years graduate exhibition,
Ascend | Recede by artist Ellen-Rose Wallace
About the artist
Ellen-Rose Wallace is a visual artist based between Limerick and Roscommon, working primarily with video, in addition to sculpture, performance and sound art to reflect on ideas of time, passage and place. Ellen-Rose is a recent graduate of Limerick School of Art and Design where she studied Sculpture and Combined Media. Through her practice, she explores experiential time in relation to narrative; paying attention to cycles in nature, often framed through misused or displaced objects. Focusing on the separation of time as is counted from time that is experienced, her work often takes the form of unending, unfinished, or cyclical narrative structures. Within her work, there is an emphasis on human presence and absence, while the things we leave behind or unnoticed are centred.
It has been wonderful having Ellen as a resident in our little studio over the past month and we are excited to say that we will be having our first in person opening since the pandemic on the 14th of October in celebration of her wonderful work!
Ascend | Recede is a video and sound installation which borrows from the space of the attic in her grandfather’s childhood home, where she stayed for the duration of her residency at Ormond Art Studios. The work reflects on ideas of ageing and memory loss through imagery and processes of repetition and transition.
The work centres around an image of the attic wallpaper: a system of fresh pale flowers now creased and stained with time. Within the work, its repetitions are confused; distorted as though misremembered. These patterns sink, breath, and fade to form a thin skin around the blue wooden wall panels. Surrounding this, a sound installation imagines the rhythm of spiralling footsteps ascending a staircase. They circle the viewer and continue upwards, passing through the space.
The show will take place from the 14th – 17th October at Ormond Art Studios, 4 Ormond Quay Lower, Dublin 1. The opening will take place from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm on the 14th October. Opening hours for the remainder of the exhibition will be 11:00 am – 6:00 pm.
We hope to see some of you on the opening evening and during the exhibition! It is not to be missed!
Please note: While we welcome all members of the public to our exhibitions and events, unfortunately Ormond Art Studios is not wheelchair accessible due to the nature of the studios being a listed Georgian building. If you have any questions or additional requirements that would make your experience at the exhibition more comfortable do not hesitate to get in touch at ormondartists@gmail.com
This September we have two new artists joining the studio – Vera Ryklova as a full time member, and Dennis as our short term let until the end of 2021.
Dennis Harvey
Dennis is an Irish filmmaker who is based between Dublin and Stockholm.
He makes work about movement, identity and the city. He is a member of Noncitizen, a film collective which tries to hand over the means of making films to those who rarely get to tell their own stories. Dennis has directed a number of short films which have screened at film and art festivals in Ireland, Sweden and the USA, and has released work with Fallow Media, the QFT Player and the Irish Times. He is currently directing two feature films: Kinopolitics, an essay about the personal politics of movement, and Celtic Utopia, a documentary about contemporary Irish identity, told through a new wave of folk and trad musicians and archive material.
Vera Ryklova
Vera Ryklova is a Dublin based artist who works in lens-based media. Vera‘s practice explores the concept of the self and the events that impact its social construction. Her own lived experience is her source and her own body is her medium. Both she deliberately uses to intimate women’s reality to the public eye. Vera performs to the lens and produces photographic and video self-portraits using the form of the series. Self-portraiture is not necessarily a genre she has focused on, it is rather the method she employs to explores her subject.
The key concept of Vera’s practice is confrontation. The camera has a function of a distancing device she utilises to experience a state of catharsis. Her work is particularly concerned with emotional conflict that results from the clash between two realities. One reality is designed and dominated by socially constructed expectations, roles and practices, while the other is desired and formed through the concept and perception of one self. Vera’s work is multilayed. It mixes research with elements of her past and present that then undergo a specific creative process. This together builds a subject for the viewers to explore, and invites their life experiences to impact the reading of her work.
In 2020 Vera was one of five selected Irish Talents representing PhotoIreland at Futures Photography. In 2017 she won the #hotronartworks Prize for work by a recent graduate and in 2016 she was shortlisted for the Hennessy Portrait Prize at the National Gallery of Ireland.
Currently she has a solo exhibition at Custom House Studios and Gallery (Westport). Previously she presented two solo shows: in 2021 at Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich (Belfast) and in 2018 at Triskel Cork. She has also exhibited in several group exhibitions held in Ireland and the UK, including the Filia Feminist Conference (London, Manchaster). Vera’s work was featured in Over Journal and Source Photographic Review and it is included in the art collections of Trinity College Dublin and Arts Council Ireland.
Originally from the Czech Republic, Vera was brought to Ireland on a journey of personal discovery and since 2007 she has been living and working here. She recently completed IADT ARC MFA (2021), and in 2015 she graduated from IADT’s BA (hons) Photography degree.
Ellen-Rose Wallace is the Ormond Art Studios Graduate Residency Awardee for 2021!
Ellen-Rose Wallace is a visual artist working across sculpture, lens based media, performance and sound art to reflect on ideas of time, passage and place. Working between her home in Roscommon and Limerick City, Ellen-Rose is a recent graduate of the Limerick School of Art and Design’s Sculpture and Combined Media programme, and is a member of the Miscreating Sculpture Collective.
Through her practice, she explores experiential time in relation to narrative; paying close attention to cycles in nature and weather, often framed through misused or displaced objects. Focusing on the separation of time as is counted from time that is experienced, her work often takes the form of unending, unfinished, or cyclical narrative structures.
Recently, her work has reflected on paradoxical impressions of time, as well as the contradictory sense of transition vs stasis that has been highlighted by the pandemic. Within her work, there is an emphasis on human presence and absence, while the things we leave behind or unnoticed are placed at the centre.
We are all very excited to have Ellen-Rose as part of the studio for the coming weeks – there are social media take overs, artist talks, and Wallace’s solo exhibition all coming this autumn.
Today I’m excited to share two studio space opportunities at Ormond Art Studios. We are looking for one new full time member, and have one short term space let. Both spaces are available from the start of September 2021. Find out the specific details below.
Full Time Member Opportunity
Members have access our shared studio space in the heart of Dublin on Ormond Quay. There is shared studio equipment, the use of the Ormond Project Space (for any short term large work/laying out of projects/etc), as well as taking on a role in the running of the studios. Personal spaces are roughly 2 x 2.25 metres. Rent is €145 per month, including utilities, and a six month minimum residency is required.
Short Term Space Let
This short term space let is from September – December 2021 (inclusive). The artist will have a personal space of roughly 2 x 2.25 metres. There is shared studio equipment and the use of the Ormond Project Space (for any short term large work/laying out of projects/etc). Rent is €160 per month.
All members need to comply with current social distancing guidelines and wear a mask while in the space.
Applying
Expressions of interest in joining an artist-led studio space should be sent to ormondartists@gmail.com. Please specify in the subject line of your application which of the above opportunities you are interested in.
Applications should contain: 1. CV (2 pages max) 2. Letter of interest articulating your reasons for wanting to join an artist-run space (300 words max) 3. 10 images of work/links to moving image works/website.
Deadline for applications: Wednesday 16th of August at Midnight Applicants will find out whether or not they were successful by the 23rd August, and will have access to the studio from the start of September.
This July studio member Ellie Berry took part in the WAC Walking as a Question 2021 conference – held in Greece, but this year featuring remote participants all around the world – such as Ellie.
For the conference she wrote a research paper, titled “Emerging Questions and Considerations on Leave No Trace and Walking Practices”. In this paper, Ellie looks at how Leave No Trace, the outdoor ethics education programme, has been designed as a guiding mindset for how one interacts with and influences the natural environments. As the act of walking experiences an upsurge in participants, our collective mark on the environment and its natural processes increase. As artists, one can argue that there is a responsibility in how one’s engagements shape the culture around an activity, and as walking spreads into more fields of life and research, this consideration becomes all the more important.
This paper aims to ask some emerging questions into how walking practices could incorporate or consider Leave No Trace within the practice. To investigate this topic I will be drawing on my artistic research into walking as practice, and my experience of both becoming and working as a Leave No Trace Ireland trainer.
She has also created an audio paper, designed as an immersive experience for people to listen to while walking. You can find the MP3 on her website at the above link, or listen to it via the below youtube video.
In June this year Lauren Conway’s graduate exhibition A Great Public Meeting launched at the IADT On Show website. Conway’s drawing practice explores empty educational spaces that question and challenge aspirational promises put forward by the state through formal education. Through the use of archival materials, documentation from site visits, and found images from her teenage years, Conway explores tensions between the empty school sites and the dense, awkward dancefloors of teenage discos.
This year studio member Bronagh Lee published her first illustrated children’s book, ‘The Pain in the Chest’ written by Áine Murray, and has announced the second book she is working on – ‘Rosie’s Magical Umbrella’ written by Karen Ryan.
The Pain in the Chest “follows a girl through her childhood and shows how anxiety has affected her using beautiful illustrations and rhyme, we learn that when we talk about our anxiety, we can find help, and the anxiety loses its power.” In a studio vlog, Bronagh discusses the full process, from reading the manuscripts, sketching and brainstorming, to the finished illustrations.
Having seen the beautiful process behind Pain in the Chest, everyone in the studio is waiting with bated breath for “Rosie’s Magic Umbrella” – “A child’s imagination is a powerful tool, but what if it REALLY could take you anywhere? Join Rosie as she heads out on a rainy day adventure like no other!” (Release date TBA 🐠)
For now, we can share with you the amazing cover art, as well as a of sneak peaks of the inner workings …
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