ARTWORKS
The Carlow Arts Festival and VISUAL Carlow Annual Open Submission and Art Award
Sponsored by Hotron
Featuring selected works from the Irish Museum of Modern Art Collection
When:
Launch and Art Prize Awards: Tuesday, 4 June @ 7pm – 10pm
Exhibition: Wednesday, 5 June – Sunday, 9 June @ 11am – 8pm
Exhibition continues until 2 September
FREE
Presenting work in film, sound, performance, painting, sculpture, new media and photography, ARTWORKS celebrates contemporary visual art and its potential to stir ideas and reflect on LIFE
Along with artists selected the exhibition also includes a number of important works from the IMMA collection including Pierre Huyghe’s Block Party, (2002, Film) and Mairead McClean’s, No More, (2013, Film).
Selected Artists: Marian Balfe, Colin Crotty, Mark Cullen, Gabhann Dunne, Mary A. Fitzgerald, Jane Fogarty, Helen Hughes, Jo Kimmins, Breda Lynch, Jonathon Mayhew, Paul Mosse, Oisín O’Brien, Tom O’Dea, Laurence O’ Toole, Jane Queally, Joanne Reid, Amanda Rice, Emma Roche, Joan Sugrue, Chanelle Walsh, Linda Conroy, Fiona Reilly, Sinead Ní Mhaonaigh.
Includes work for the IMMA Collection by artists: Pierre Huyghe, Mairead MacLean, Mark O’Kelly, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Daphne Wright.
This year’s open call invited artists to submit work that comments on the trials of our post truth world and the potential of collective energy. Time, labour, love, loss, coping mechanisms, and space for imagining for the future, these are some of the themes that are explored in ARTWORKS 2019.
Along with artists selected from Open Submission Dearly Beloved also includes a number of important works from the IMMA collection including Pierre Huyghe’s Block Party, (2002, film) and Mairead McClean’s, No More, (2013, Film).
2019’s selectors are Jo Mangan Artistic Director, Carlow Arts Festival, Dennis McNulty, Visual Artist and Emma- Lucy O’Brien, Curator, VISUAL Carlow.
In recent years ARTWORKS has established two art prizes, The HOTRON Award for an outstanding piece of work and the Éigse Prize for work by a recent graduate. Both prizes are sponsored by Hotron Ltd.Past Hotron prize winners include Maria McKinney (2018) and Alan Phelan (2017).
This exciting summer exhibition gathers a diverse selection of ideas, work and talent from artists working nationally and internationally. Presenting work in film, sound, performance, painting, sculpture, new media and photography, ARTWORKS celebrates contemporary visual art and its potential to stir ideas and reflect on LIFE.
For the last 40 years Carlow has been proud to host one of Ireland’s largest open submission visual art exhibitions and art prizes. Emerging in 1979 as part of the Eigse Carlow Arts Festival, ARTWORKS has, since 2009, been successfully co-produced by Carlow Arts Festival and VISUAL Carlow, and presented in the extraordinary galleries at VISUAL. It has a firm place in the arts calendar and continues to develop as one of the country’s most important cultural events.
Curated and produced by Emma-Lucy O’ Brien.
Technical team at VISUAL: Anthony Walsh, Tadhg McSweeney, Saidhbhin Gibson, Steven Aylin, John Whelan
FUNDED BY
Eigse-Carlow Arts Limited registered charity no. 20035419.
