May 31st – June 3rd, 2013
Girts Balodis
Sarah
Ryan
Sarah Ryan works primarily with clay in its raw state, becoming the vessel for interrogation of the nature of the material. Her work embodies a physical exploration of the materiality of clay, while challenging the prescriptive nature of ceramics. Her main concern lies at the boundaries of art itself. She is interested in the moment of transformation where, a material, an object or a gesture can be defined as art.
Her current practice combines research in clay with the use of live performance and contemporary media, including video, photography and digital manipulation. From Co. Laois, Sarah received a BA(hons) Fine Art, Ceramics from Galway Mayo Institute of Technology in 2011. In 2013 Sarah graduated from Crawford College of Art and Design with an MA Art and Process.
Comments on practice – (for further idea of practice not for statement)
‘Taking quite a different tack.. Sarah Ryan’s Ceramics is Dirt is one of the best sculptural works on display
My search for ways to show the spiritual, ethereal things through painting- surface that must embody more than what is seen with an eye is how meditation through the process of painting produces an evidence of search for spiritual image of a human being.
Experimenting with found materials and paint in attempt to depict immaterial things- human being as body and spirit- tangible and intangible matter. Using earth as a material for painting with symbolic meaning of human as a creation, its corruptible character and transcendence of human soul on other hand.
Anastasia Richards studied Fine Art at the Slade School in London. She forged as career as an interior designer running her own company for over 20 years.
She always maintained a passion for painting. Anastasia’s preferred medium is oils, specialising in surrealist and impressionist styles. She retired to Beaufort, Co. Kerry, where she currently resides and teaches classes from her studio.
“Oil painting has been the most exciting of my life, I can’t wait to work every day that I can!”
Jean Power is a Textile Artist from Castletownbere, West Cork. She completed her BA Honours Degree in Textile Design in June 2012, her current work looks at ‘The Fishing Industry’ in Castletownbere.
"It is a huge part of my cultural heritage and many of my family are involved in the industry. I like the application of the knot making and net mending. They're simple applications I use in Textiles but are also used in the fishing industry. The needle the fishermen use when net mending is very similar to the shuttle I use when I'm weaving, the connection interests me.
I reference the monthly fishing quota's by encasing 'discards of fish', 'knots' and 'quota regulations in parchment' in clear resin buoys. I collect found ropes and weathered knots and I record these textures through embossing into paper. I am interested in the different species of fish and have used the Japanese art of 'Gyotaku' (printing) to depict the actual scale, form and texture of each fish.
Anastasia Richards
Jean
Power
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