Amy Quinn; Fine Art: Textiles

“The Face Fabric” 

Reflecting a personality through one image by really examining facial expressions and colour has been my main aim for the past year. Translating My portraits through my chosen medium of textiles has been difficult but extrmemly rewarding. By working solely with machine embroidery I have found a way of translating my paintings onto fabric and managed to maintain the soft colours and blends that I took from my paintings.

Laura Carroll; Fine Art: Paint

Statement

Looking at decoration and femininity has always been a prevalent theme throughout my work, working with a variety of mixed mediums and materials. My work ranges from drawing and collage to photography (both medium format double exposures and digital work), which I try to bring together through installation based pieces.

Lauren Coyle; Fine Art: Print

Statement

The observation of my immediate environment has consistently inspired my work. An examination of this has prompted me to investigate the strength of our online world, and how people can create a virtual persona. This allows people to inhabit a world which is both alluring and consuming.

Baska Szostak; Fine Art: Textile

Artist Statement

I like to look at the world and discover the beauty and quirks in ordinary places. Being able to create a new point of view on something ordinary is what I enjoy most about creating art. My current work focuses on my everyday life, documenting and mapping the little things I most enjoy. It captures snapshots of what I see throughout the day and tracks my routes around the city of Galway creating a narrative of my day to day living. It is a documentation of my favourite aspects of life as well as an exploration of personality captured through small scale studied gouache paintings and more experimental mixed-media embroidered fine craft textile pieces.

Contact: baska.b.szostak@gmail.com  

Martin Reid; Fine Art: Paint

Statement 

A spectacle of a technologic wilderness

The interreflection between technology and natural landscape

Contact: martinreid.art@gmail.com

Rosaleen Tanham; Art & Design: Paint (Part-Time)

"My home place, the West of Ireland, is very beautiful.  It is my sense of this place that anchors, grounds and feeds me.  Nature is my inspiration. The always fascinating seascapes, skyscapes and landscapes.   Constantly changing, transmuting, recycling through the seasons, birth, death, regeneration.  Constantly surprising –  shapes, colours, forms, lines, patterns.  Endlessly entertaining.  I try, a lot of the time frustratingly, to capture it through my work, using pencil and paint, watercolour, acrylic and oil." Rosaleen Tanham

Image and statement kindly submitted by the featured artist, Rosaleen Tanham.

Catherine Buck, Fine Art: Ceramics

 

Statement

 

Fascinated by mundane objects, I take inspiration from items such as disposable packaging. I collect and re-examine these redundant objects with the aspiration to extend their life span in some way. Through processes of plaster and clay humble objects are reincarnated from an ephemeral life, to one of longevity. Playfully using repetition and reformation to allow these new forms to occupy a different sense of space and give them a sense of permanence.

Work in progress...

Slip-cast white earthenware (bisque stage)

Slip-cast white earthenware (bisque stage)

Email: catherinebuckvisualartist@gmail.com

Rosemarie Langtry; Art & Design: Paint (Part Time)

Kay Murphy; Art & Design: Paint (Part Time)

Observing people and their surroundings, my work relates to a sense of place.  My aim is to capture the ambience and spirit of the moment.

Vicky Leonard; Art & Design: Paint (Part Time)

www.spiritart.tumblr.com

Jackie Eastwood; Art & Design: Paint (Part Time)

To protect and preserve is a series of work which considers the fragility and future of wildlife on our planet

Clive Brittain; Fine Art; Print

Jason Dunne; Fine Art: Paint

Statement

My interest lies in deconstructing images, narratives, and how these are read by the viewer. I expose how signifiers are used when viewing and understanding artworks, structuring narratives, and building relations across different media. I believe this can be done through seemingly abstract frameworks, and through this I expose the uncertain constructs of abstraction itself. I use the aesthetic frame to both allow and expose empathy between the artist and viewer.

Contact info:

Email: jasondunnevisualart@gmail.com

Mobile: +353 857600864

Roisin Ui Oistin; Fine Art: Paint

The SHAPE of things to come

Ronan Connor; Fine Art: Print

‘Moments of an individual’s life are most appreciated when content with one-self or shared with one another. My representation of a figure captured amongst elements of nature demonstrates how our emotions can alter each other. Solitude on this earth is either a blessing or a curse…’ 

Email: ronanjconnor@yahoo.com 

Jennifer Comerford; Fine Art: Print

"They say it’s the little things...a multitude of activity is constantly happening within our own little realms. Even minute details are stored within a level of consciousness. These occurrences are at play behind the scenes of our awareness. The seemingly insignificant being brought into the light." Jennifer Comerford

Email: jennifer_comerford_art@yahoo.ie

Images and statement kindly submitted by the featured artist, Jennifer Comerford.

Emma Cunningham; Fine Art: Sculpture

"We are as much a part of the natural environment as it is part of us, one cannot be separated from the other. Nature continuously changes and should we ever stop to appreciate it, what is it that we would see? Our existence is temporary, created from a series of successive moments none of which have any permanence. However could another existence be possible, one which we have yet to experience?"

Photo's and text kindly submitted by the featured artist, Emma Cunningham.

Mary Roberts; Art & Design: Paint (Part-Time)

"The shadow or reflection of an object can often be more intriguing than the object itself. They are ephemeral and gone in an instant. My aim is to capture that fleeting moment on camera and transfer it to the canvas." Mary Roberts

Contact info.

email:  salvadordali@eircom.net
website: maryrobertsart.com


Image and information kindly provided by the featured artist, Mary Roberts.

Tom Finn; Fine Art: Paint (Part-Time)

This is one Tom's paintings that will be exhibited at this years exhibition.

'Tocados/Seperation'
60''  x 30''
acrylic, charcoal, pencil, sand,
on weathered board, steel staples and felt ribbon .

Image and information kindly provided by the featured artist, Tom Finn.

Edel Power; Fine Art: Ceramics

Fine Art: Ceramics student Edel Power in the studio working on her porcelain pieces for the upcoming exhibition.

(Photo's taken by Catherine Buck)

Patrick Augustus Furey; Fine Art: Print

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(Mezzotint)

VII
(Mezzotint)

"My work contradicts the male ideal in classical art by displaying a constant vulnerability. It questions masculinity and social boundaries; encapsulating the ideals of classicism while playing on metaphorical symbolism and body language to suggest emotion. It is a form of poetry using symbolism instead of words relinquishing the need for explanations, a personal reflection on life experiences and an example of self-analysis." Patrick  A. Furey


Contact info.: Email : patrickfurey_art@yahoo.com

Images and text kindly submitted by the featured artist, Patrick Augustus Furey.

Patricia O'Donohue; Fine Art: Paint

Patricia uses a combination of paint and collage techniques to create her art work.



All images and information kindly provided by the featured artist, Patricia O'Donohue.