We are delighted to share that a full time studio space at Ormond Art Studios will become available from the 1st of July 2023. 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. Applications should be sent with the subject line: June 2023 Full Time Member Open Call.

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: Sunday 25th June 2023 at Midnight
Applicants will have access to the studio from the start of July

The Office of Interludes, 2022, is an artist publication based on the collaborative work of Emily Johnston and Ormond Studio member Emma Battlebury.

‘One window has a warped green netting and the other is pasted with old newspapers. Sunlight lights up the pellucid pages with an x-ray precision, square by square: the grids of Sudoku puzzles laid over race horses, page 3 bosoms bleeding into catastrophes. This is our clock…’

The publication contains:
1 x Lenticular postcard
1 x Envelope with printed text
1 x A3 risograph poster
1 x Screenprinted envelope enclosure

The 80 page publication was made in collaboration with in collaboration with HOAX
Irene Mansoldo & Finn Melvin Caird.

And if you are interested in ordering a copy of this beautiful publication you can find more information on https://pebblyalphabet.net/office1.html

Metaxu, an ethereal evening of live vocal and electronic music performances in the Pepper Canister Church with musicians and sound artists Aisling Or Ni Aodha, Soria Reilly, Dylan Kerr and Dreamcycles organised and curated by Jennifer Moore. The Metaxu series’s second iteration took place last Thursday, April 6th 2023. For the event, studio member Holly Pickering contributed a written piece printed in the accompanying pamphlet alongside drawings from Cara Farnan. Holly’s moving words accompanied a fantastic evening of music and performance in relation to the idea of Metaxu as explored in the writings of the mystic philosopher Simone Weil.

Studio Artist Bronagh Lee’s animation “Revolve & Revolution” made for Brigid Dublin , A city-wide celebration of women past & present inspired by the Celtic goddess Brigit, Wed 1 – Mon 6 Feb 2023, will be projected in Barnardo Square until the 6th February.

The animation tells the story of the Celtic Goddess Brigid in the modern world. In speaking about the piece Bronagh said ‘Revolve and Revolution’ tells the story of the Celtic Goddess Brigit in the modern world. I love that Brigit stands for so many different things that are both parallel and perpendicular to one another. From water and serenity to fire and passion. Magic, healing, protection, poetry and rebellion – Brigit stands for the complexity of the modern-day woman and the power that they possess in being both gentle and strong.’

Be sure to check out the videos featuring aerial performances in front of Bronagh’s animation on the brigit_dublin Instagram page.

To get us through the dark December days and keep us inspired right through the festive season, we are sharing our current studio member’s top three inspirations from 2022 on our Instagram Christmas Countdown Take Over!

In the past few months, we have had a couple of new members join. Welcome to the studio, Anna Stuart, Sinead Kampff, and Holly Pickering!

Anna Stuart

Anna Stuart is a visual artist currently based in Dublin, having graduated with First Class Honours from the BA Art programme at IADT, Dun Laoghaire. Encompassing a variety of media, her practice explores a philosophy where parameters rather than outcomes are set for works. Often being described as scenarios, her works evolve together with their environment and offer a visual investigation into time, phenomena and the potential chain of actions and unknown reactions that occur when living systems come into contact. This methodology has taken many forms, including the exploration of the alchemic qualities of minerals such as salt, as well as the fabrication of a non-digital, experiential helmet. Inspired by the everyday coexistence between the human and non-human environment, Anna’s practice is driven by her fascination with time and a desire to explore new areas of art making as a way of observing and engaging with the world.

Sinead Kampff

Sinead Kampff is an artist based in Dublin, Ireland. She recently graduated with a degree in Fine Art Painting from the National College of Art and Design. Her work explores the concept surrounding abandonment, which manifests mainly in the abandonment of buildings. Her practice involves painting and sculptural pieces.

Holly Pickering

Holly Pickering (b.1998) is an artist based in Dublin. Her oeuvre is concerned with interrogating language structures inherent in both the corporeal act of speech and in written material, meditating upon the physical effect of language upon the body and the relationship between language and how we navigate ourselves throughout the world. Her practice is multi-disciplinary, encompassing film, sound and sculptural installations often oriented around experimental texts and fictional narratives. Film, literary forms, and poetry are central to her practice.

Held online this year, Ormond Art Studios is hosting an hour-long series of talks from some of the BA graduates of 2022. The artists who will be sharing their work are our graduate resident awardee, Holly Pickering, and our shortlisted applicant, Leanne Finnegan. 

This free event will be held over zoom on 5th November 2022, 14:30 – 15:30.

This work appropriates the phrase “whisper the secret into the hole” from the science fiction film 2046 by Wong Kar-wai. The scene from which the text draws, unfolds between an android and a man who falls in love with her. Her responses to him are delayed, which he believes to be a symptom of her fatigue/malfunctioning, before realizing that her silence is an effort in refusal. This work takes apart his unreciprocated words, repeating them on a cassette player and dispersing them throughout the room in the form of phonetic symbols.

Within the space there are 4 prints referencing different forms of handwriting, and a copy of the novel The Golden Bowl, a book transcribed by Theodora Bosanquet, an amanuensis to Henry James.  
Collectively, this work considers ideas surrounding the physical effect of language upon the body and the body upon language, dictation and silence.

Holly Pickering (b.1998) is an artist based in Dublin. Her oeuvre is concerned with interrogating language structures inherent in both the corporeal act of speech and in written material, meditating upon the physical effect of language upon the body and the relationship between language and how we navigate ourselves throughout the world. Her practice is multi-disciplinary, encompassing film, sound and sculptural installations often oriented around experimental texts and fictional narratives. Film, literary forms, and poetry are central to her practice.

It’s been fantastic to have Holly with us here in Ormond, and we were delighted to facilitate her residency exhibition here in the Ormond Studios Gallery in October.

Ormond Art Studios member Mary Kervick worked with artists Hilary Morton and Colin Darke through collaborative/delegated processes on …but the words are new, 2022, Hilary Morton, Mary Kervick, Colin Darke
The series of batik banners are on show in the Project Arts Centre as part of their current exhibition, Soon (In 45 Years’ Time) / Gan Mhoill (I gCionn 45 Bliain). The exhibition, which was curated by Sara Greavu, runs until October 29th 2022!

Photographs by Louis Haugh.

Bronagh Lee has created an illustration for Heinz Beans with Barnardos Ireland. Her work here highlights the Barnardos Breakfast Club – each pack you buy donates 3 breakfasts to Barnardos Breakfast Club, giving kids across Ireland a hot and nutritious breakfast before school! And can also be spotted on numerous billboards across Dublin City!