Ormond Art Studios

Camilla Hanney – Gathering Dust

Gathering Dust

Gathering Dust, a site-specific installation, explores themes of impermanence, cycles, traces and death. It reminds us that we are all but transient beings and our bodies, along with the material world that surrounds us, are in a slow process of returning back to the dust from which we came. The installation’s fragile qualities mirror our own ephemerality, a preciousness that is constantly overlooked.

Camilla Hanney is recent graduate of Fine Art IADT and is the recipient of the 2015 Ormond Studio’s Graduate residency. This exhibition marks the culmination of her residency.

Camilla’s work is heavily informed by research, often confronting issues concerning gender, tradition, nature and time.
Material is an integral component in her practice. She uses materials that are rich in associations and investigates ways to transform them and by doing so often projects new identities and meaning onto the work. She is interested in how the unsettling qualities of an object can be disguised or reversed.
Her work asserts our compulsion to gaze at what should disturb us, toying with the tensions that lie between beauty and repulsion, curiosity and discomfort, desire and disgust.

For more information about Camilla’s work see http://camillahanney.wix.com/artist

‘Gathering Dust’ Photographs 2015

Camilla Hanney was the recipient of the Graduate residency award for 2015. Below are a selection of photographs from her solo show ‘Gathering Dust” at Ormond Studios .

Opening Gathering Dust 1

Gathering Dust, a site-specific installation, explores themes of impermanence, cycles, traces and death. It reminds us that we are all but transient beings and our bodies, along with the material world that surrounds us, are in a slow process of returning back to the dust from which we came. The installation’s fragile qualities mirror our own ephemerality, a preciousness that is constantly overlooked.

Helen Mac Mahon – Eidolon, Platform Arts Belfast

Helen Mac Mahon’s exhibition ‘Eidolon’ will be opening in Platform Arts Belfast on Thursday the 1st of October from 6 to 9pm. The show will then run until the 24th of October.

For more information see the Platform Arts website platformartsbelfast.com or the Facebook event page http://www.facebook.com/events/426527620885092/

Ormond Stew

‘Ormond Stew’ is influenced by the artistic practices of the members currently residing in Ormond Studios from the perspective of its newest members.

The exhibition examines how practices can exist and influence each other in this artist-led initiative.

It aims to challenge and reflect upon the creative atmosphere in such an environment, and is an experiment meant to encourage conversation and integration among it’s members.

A series of conversations were conducted amongst members in the realizing of the show.
Through the course of these meetings, thematic language and common themes arose that helped shaped the show.

ingredients;
self reflection / self – actualisation / deliberation / a place for contemplation / an integral part to practice*life / shared experiences / sensory submersion / trust in simplicity / definitions are finite / reading not explaining / suggestion / digestion and observation/ Deceitful memory / recreated memories / objects as vehicles of memory / representations of constructed or false realities imaginary situations /

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Opening: 7 – 9pm
17 & 18th of September.

All other viewings by appointment.

Kieran Gallagher – Culture Night Talk in Highlanes Gallery

Image from Theresa Nanigan’s ‘not sorry’.

On Culture Night in Highlanes Gallery, artist, teacher and studio member Kieran Gallagher and his students will discuss their exhibited project. The work is based on Theresa Nanigian’s 2014 exhibition ‘not sorry‘, an intimate portrait of the Irish teenager and young adult. Kieran and the students from St Oliver Plunkett’s Community College, Drogheda will discuss their work and the impact gallery learning can have on students understanding of process and concept in art practice. THEN, Kieran will be rushing back to Dublin to take part in our open studio!

Helen Mac Mahon – ILLUSION on Tour, Petrosains Discovery Centre, Kuala Lumpur

Ormond member Helen Mac Mahon has work exhibited as part of ‘ILLUSION on Tour’, the Trinity College Science Gallery’s touring exhibition, at the Petrosains Discovery Centre in Kuala Lumpur. The show runs until December.

‘Petrosains, The Discovery Centre at Suria KLCC presents a new visiting exhibition – “Illusion”, an exhibition which offers an insight into the human mind through an exploration of the motivations and mechanisms of sensory deception. In simpler terms, “Illusion” will make you question what you see and will help you to investigate how perception underpins the way we see, feel, think and understand the world.

“Illusion” was developed by Science Gallery at Trinity College, Dublin and offers a diverse range of artworks or exhibits that deal with different types of illusions, from Significant Birds by Nye Parry, Cubes by Jennifer Townley and The Hurwitz Singularity by Jonty Hurwitz. All exhibits will deceive the senses, showing that what we perceive is often radically different from the reality of what our eyes observe or our ears hear.

This exhibition recently showcased in Charlotte, North Carolina and Petrosains is their first venue in Asia, which makes it a MUST-VISIT exhibition. It will be at Petrosains from August 2015 till December 2015’

Steven Maybury & Helen Mac Mahon – Quantum Leap

Studio members Steven Maybury and Helen Mac Mahon will be exhibiting work in Quantum Leap as part of the brilliant Foundation15 in Tullamore. The festival runs from the 10th -25th September with a jam packed programme of art, music and theatre and an educational programme that will run alongside it.

For more information see their website www.foundationartsfestival.com or follow their Facebook page – www.facebook.com/foundationartsfestival?fref=ts

Camilla Hanney Awarded Graduate Residency 2015

We would like to thank every artist who took the time to apply for the Ormond Studio’s graduate residency. We received lots of really impressive submissions and the decision making process was not an easy one, however, a decision had to be made and we are delighted to announce that Camilla Hanney is the recipient of this year’s award.
Congratulations Camilla, we’re all looking forward to working with you! If you would like to find out more about Camilla’s work, here is a link to her website.

http://camillahanney.wix.com/artist

Jessica Kelly & Elisabeth Van Dam – LOVEDOLL

A collaboration between dancer, sculptor, philosopher Elisabeth Van Dam and visual artist Jessica Kelly, who defines her video work simply as “moving images”, LOVEDOLL arose from the expressive figures of Van Dam’s autobiographical neon drawings.

As the eponymous LOVEDOLL, she appears as a latter-day Faustian “Gretchen” singing her mad love for her madness making loverman. Her song, a re-working of Schubert’s Gretchen am Spinnrade, inspired by Goethe’s tragic maiden, was created in collaboration with Laurens Marien of Soldier’s Heart.

Bathed in the radiance and colours of a future-Flemish, hallucinatory medieval aesthetic, the metamorphic LOVEDOLL emerges in a fractured video space, with claustrophobic and expansive moments, both fertile and barren. She offers up her fruity delights, simultaneously childlike and erotic, carnal yet unreal, iconic and eclectic, glittering yet dirty.

LOVEDOLL, a collaboration between Ormond artist Jessica Kelly and Elisabeth Van Dam will be shown at the Zaradi Tebe festival in Ghent, Belgium this weekend. http://zaraditebe.com/album/elisabeth-van-dam-lovedoll

Mary Jo Gilligan – Foaming at the Mouth 7

Visual art spoken word, curated by Tracy Hanna and Emer Lynch. This is the last event of the 2015 series!

Emma Haugh
Katherine MacBride
Naomi Sex
Tanad Williams
Kate Heffernan
Pádraic E. Moore
Philip Napier
Mary-Jo Gilligan

Doors open from 7pm so arrive early to grab a good seat, a drink from the bar, and some food (beef/ veggie burgers & salads available). 8pm start.

The Polo Clubhouse is behind the zoo on Lord’s Walk, a 10-15 min walk from the main Parkgate St. entrance.
There is no need to pre-book and admission is free.

More info: emerlynch.tracyhanna@gmail.com