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.

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)

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.

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)

Laura Wade; Fine Art: Print

"My work is a response to the anatomy of the human form. I want to explore the biological complexities of the inner body and contemplate its aesthetic possibilities. Through my work, I attempt to evoke a sense of being, and invite the viewer to consider their own physical presence. My inquiry into the intricate layers becomes a mapping of the body, reminiscent of a larger order and pattern of relationship in all things." Laura Wade

 

Images and information kindly submitted by the featured artist, Laura Wade.

Fiona Doyle; Fine Art: Paint

Fiona Doyle is a 4th year student, studying Fine Art in GMIT. Her speciality is paint, with interests in photography and graphics which she uses in her work. She is currently working on a collection of paintings to use in the CCAM upcoming show in May. Below is a statement by the artist accompanied by two photographs of some of her paintings. They are painted with acrylic, oil and watercolour onto raw canvas. For any further information Fiona can be contacted by the  email address below.

"My work involves de-constructing photographs I have taken and translating them into paintings. They contain a sense of space due to layers of juxtaposing images; exploring a relationship between reality and a created world."

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” Henry David Thoreau

(Artists own statement)

Contact details: fionamcdoyle@gmail.com