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.

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

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.

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

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.

Irene Quinn; Fine Art: Sculpture

"My work is an exploration of a childhood memory of my ancestors' recollection of the moving bog, which is now defined by the dominance of European bureaucrats vying or the Seat of Power. Will they ever have enough now that they have barred us?" Irene Quinn

Image and text kindly provided by the featured artist, Irene Quinn.

Rebecca Connell; Fine Art: Textiles

“Forgotten Fatalities”

"My work challenges the audience’s inherent ideas surrounding beauty. It plays with the boundaries of revulsion and attraction, blurring the confines of what constitutes aesthetic pleasure. The pieces focus on animal carcasses, transforming everyday forgotten fatalities into delicate studies of mortality. These casualties, which previously incited feelings of disgust, now represent the exquisite sadness that is death. The grotesque becomes beautiful and the melancholic becomes enchanting." Rebecca Connell

Image and text kindly provided by the featured artist, Rebecca Connell.

Paint (Part-Time)

Back row:  Tomas Finn, Gerard Dillon

Middle row: Rosemarie Langtry, Rosaleen Tanham, Mary Dunne,
Kay Murphy, , Heather Rafter,
Mary Roberts, Vicky Leonard, Collette McHugh

Front row: Bernard Dooley, Jackie Eastwood, Roisin Ui Oistin

Textiles

Back row: Grace McEwen, Amy Quinn, Rebecca Connell, Jennifer Martin,

Amy Ni Bhranagain, Baśka Szostak, Kiera Murphy, Rachel Mc Mahon,

Front row: Laura Keating,Emma Ó Hainbhith,Sarah Heavin, Mona Sweeney.

Martin Tyndall; Fine Art: Paint

Fine Art: Paint student Martin prepares canvases for his final paintings of the year.

(Photo's taken by Catherine Buck with permission of the featured artist, Martin Tyndall)