Artists so far confirmed are:
HIVE (Stephanie Hough, Lorraine McDonnell, Sharon McCarthy, Kevin Tuohy)
Lorraine Neeson, Stephen Brandes, NOTSUKO TECHNOLOGIES, Rachel McDonnell, Anthony Kelly, Fiona Kelly, Angela Fulcher, Tim Desmond, Lilian Ingram, Patrick Hough, Peter McMorris, Michael Foy, David Upton, Denise Kehoe, Richard Forrest, Suzanne van der Lingen; BELMONT MILLS ARTISTS Wendy Stephens, Linda Kelly & John Cullen
Artists Biographies:
Stephanie Hough
Born 1982 Stephanie grew up in a Bar, which began her interest into the broader spectrum of society and social interaction. Stephanie Hough graduated with a 1st Class Honors Degree in Fine Art from the Crawford College of Art & Design in 2005 and received an MA titled ‘Art in the Digital World’ from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland. Stephanie works with many media and thematic, which cover a broad array of personal insights into the social and its many manifestations through popular culture. Her research interests include a broad variety of subject matter, and her processes and production of such is just as diverse. Hough has exhibited her work throughout Ireland, UK, mainland Europe and America. Stephanie is also a founding member of Basement Project Space in Cork City, an ambitious artist-led initiative/project space.
My work often derives from popular culture using various and disparate sources including television, social media and music. Using popular culture as a readily available raw material, in an attempt to subvert and unearth embedded imperceptible social structures. Rendering the kaleidoscope of cascading cultural codes partially visible, likened to viewing its essence through the fictional “x-ray specs” rather than viewing the entire actuality. I embrace aspects of culture not obviously visible or easily verbalized, I refer to many of my works as humorous renditions. web: www.stephaniehough.wordpress.com email: hough.stephanie@gmail.com
Lorraine McDonnell
Lorraine McDonnell graduated from the Crawford College of Art & Design in 2005 with a B.A hons Degree in fine art. In 2009 she co-founded Basement Project Space and is currently on the board of members as Chairperson. McDonnell mainly uses the medium of painting and drawing, taking inspiration from graffiti, street art and contemporary illustration. More recently she has been experimenting with animation and digital painting.
www.lorrainemcdonnell.wordpress.com
Sharon McCarthy
Sharon McCarthy born in Waterford, is a multidisciplinary artist, who
graduated from Crawford College of Art & Design in 2005 and now lives and
works in Cork City.
Since graduating she has organised and participated in several projects in
Ireland and abroad, co-founded Cork artist collaboration SKART in 2006 :
co-organising project such as: 3 Vincents Avenue, Posted 1,2,3 & 4, and
Plus/Minus. Has been a board member and festival coordinator of Cork’s
contemporary art festival ArtTrail from 2008 – 2010.
Solo and group exhibitions include: OPEN HOUSE 4, Sirius Arts Centre, Cork
(2011) 4Right Place, Right Space?, Dublin (2010); Backwater Twenty10,
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork (2010); Waiting in the Wings 2, A.R.M., Maastricht,
Netherlands (2009); iD, Gorzow, Poland (2009); ±Plusminus, Yellow Box Art
& Music Centre, Oland, Sweden & Guesthouse, Cork (2008); POSTED 2,
Yellow Box Art & Music Centre, Sweden (2007); CEAD IN CHINA, Shanghai,
Hangzhou and Beijing (2007); X-mass the Spot, Draiocht Arts Centre, Dublin
(2006); Chaos & Creation, James Barry Exhibition Centre, CIT, Cork (2006).
Work held in several private collections
For more information check www. sharonmccarthy.wordpress.com
Kevin Tuohy
Born in Dublin, spent early years there, then Dunshaughlin, Co. Meath. Schooldays spent in Rosscarbery, Co. Cork, then Drimoleague. Currently based in Cork City. Graduated from Crawford College of Art & Design in 2005.
Current practice is focussing on structures, elements, perception and the generation and acceptance of value – using sound, found equipment and materials, drawing, painting, and other research to make works which respond to and question their environment. The interaction of people and materials with each other and their surroundings is defined by underlying and supporting structures. Structures of language and culture; physical embodiements of structure such as urban environments and architecture; administrative structures like a postal system, tax procedures, democracy. These structures are shaped by individual and collective needs, translations of internal processes into tactile form.
www.kevintuohy.wordpress.com kevintuohy00@gmail.com 086-3623523
Lorraine Neeson
Born in Ireland . Graduated from the Crawford College of Art and Design,
Cork, 2002 with a BA in Fine Art and MFA in Fine Art from The Slade School
of Fine Art in London in 2005. Lives and works in Ireland.
Recent exhibitions include:
Out of a Box, G126, Galway 2011, You Are Here, Workhouse Test, Kilkenny
2011, A Certain Slant of
Light, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, 2010, (Solo show); Claremorris Open
selected by Lisa Le Feuvre, 2010;
Invisible, Black Church Print Studio, Dublin, curated by Margaret O Brien,
Oliver Dowling and John
Graham 2010; Backwater Twenty 10, Crawford Gallery, Cork; Walking
through Walls, Tel Aviv Artists’
Studios, Israel, 2007; Claremorris Open 2007, selected by Ingrid Swenson,
The Birmingham School of
Business School, 2006 ; Black: Implication Flooding, Colony, Birmingham,
2006; Claremorris Open
2006, selected by Jeremy Millar, Day of Damaged Goods, Late Night at
Whitechapel, London, 2005 ; All
at Once, Together, at the Same Time, Colony, Birmingham, 2005.
AWARDS INCLUDE
Kerry county Council Arts Bursary Award, 2011, 2010, 2007, 2003
Claremorris Open Prizewinner 2007, selected by Ingrid Swenson
Adrian Carruthers Studio Award and Bursary 2005/2006, selected by John
Aiken, Bruce McLean, John
Hilliard, Ed Allington, Tom Lubbock and Acme Studios, London.
AHRB, UK, 2003/2004
Bank of Ireland Millennium Scholarship Award, 2003/2004
Ciaran Langford Memorial Award, 2002
Barry Moloney Memorial Award, 2002
Studio Award at National Sculpture Factory, Cork, 2002
Studio Award Bursary at Backwater Studios, Cork, 2002
Consultus Scholarship Award, 2001/2002
“New technologies for seeing, recording and picturing have reconfigured the traditional
materials from which soul and spirit have been formed by imagination, and so, alongside the constellation of spirit metaphors, I take up the story of ‘haunted media’ in the fine phrase of Jeffrey Sconce, and follow some of the ways in which modern technologies communicate the imagination’s make believe, its desires and terrors, and shape them through the latest telecommunications and imaging techniques”1
Lorraine Neeson works primarily with lens based media, light, sound, video installation
and architectural intervention, to create phantasmagoric environments that disrupt and
disorient a conventional sense of spatial and temporal logic. Underpinning her practice is the exploration of themes such as the uncanny in architecture, the literal, metaphorical and paradoxical treatment of light and darkness, visibility and invisibility and the manipulation of hidden and undisclosed information. A fundamental theme is the simultaneous representation of conflicting states of revelation and obliteration. An example is the work ‘Video Installation,‘ in which a disembodied shadow, projected by a light source – a video projector, effectually disrupts its own projection. The presence of a shadow, of which there is no referent, generates an uncanny sense of unease as one is unable to locate the body to which it belongs.
Strategies of inversion and reversal and the implementation of dislocating devices are
employed, to invoke intrigue within environments which deploy shifting shadows, sound, light and distorted reflection. Visual and aural interruptions are manifested as disembodied shadows, as light and sound from unexpected sources and as implied thresholds and portals which simultaneously entice and impede. Often, the work incorporates elements of trickery or illusion, which are instantly dispelled by drawing attention to the tricks and devices used to create them. The means of production are always present and visible within the space.
(1 – Warner, Marina, Phantasmagoria, Oxford University Press (New York) 2006, p.13)
Stephen Brandes
Born in Wolverhampton, United Kingdom in 1966.
Lives and works in County Cork, Ireland
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Rachel McDonnell
Rachel McDonnell studied at the Crawford College of Art and Design and
recently received a BA (hons) in 2011. In July 2009 she co-founded Basement
Project Space, an artist led initiative in Cork City and at present this is
where her studio practice is based. Rachel works in a variety of mediums,
specialising in collage and digital manipulation of found imagery and video.
She utilises these techniques to explore themes associated with sci-fi and the
grotesque to create other worlds and installations that encroach on the darker
side of the human psyche.
Anthony Kelly
Anthony D Kelly was born in Co.Mayo in 1985. He moved to Cork in 2007 to
attend Art, Craft and Design at Colaiste Stiofan Naofa. After briefly attending
Crawford College in 2008 he left to concentrate on his own professional
practice. He has been working out of the Basement Project Space, Camden
Quay for over a year and is a member of the board. He works mainly with
collage and assemblage techniques to create humorous, unnerving and
deeply satirical imagery.
Fiona Kelly
Born in 1985 Fiona Kelly holds a B.A in Fine Art, Sculpture, received from Cluain Mhuire, Galway (2005) and a B.A (Honours) in Fine Art, Printmaking, from the Crawford College of Art, Cork (2008). She has exhibited both Nationally and Internationally including exhibitions in Cork, IRE, Shanghai, CH, Zoetermeer, NL (Solo), New York, USA, and Reykjavik, IS. She has received numerous awards including The Culture Ireland Award (2011), Arts Council Travel and Training Award (2011), Cork Printmakers Graduate Award (2008) and the Westmeath Artist Bursary (2011, 2010, 2009, 2007). Fiona Kelly’s work is influenced by the surreal aspects of contemporary life and adopts common place objects to address her social concerns. In creating subjective narratives, and humorous allegories, she moulds new functionalities for her individualized characters. Kelly works through a myriad of techniques and materials in reaction to her found environment. Curatorial Projects include Cruiverbal (2010) showcasing 24 National and International Artists, and Co-Curating numerous exhibitions and events as an active member of Cork Contemporary Projects, Artist Collective. Her work can be seen in the permanent public collections of; The Crawford College of Art, Cork Institute of Technology, Eli Lilly and St Peters Market (The Bodega) Cork
Angela Fulcher
Angela Fulcher is a visual artist living and working in Cork City. She is a
graduate of the Crawford College of Art and completed an MA in Visual Arts
Practices at IADT Dun Laoghaire.
Recent exhibitions have been at The Guesthouse Project in Cork, Occupy
Space in Limerick and also at Askeaton Contemporary Arts.
Working in the mediums of sculpture, installation and photography, recent
work has explored spaces of organised leisure and the shared codes of
understanding in how to use these spaces. Her artwork borrows from the
design of these spaces and their abstract inference of possibilities and
manoeuvres.
Tim Desmond
The Forests of Western Uganda, July 2011. Stereo audio work
Making this piece allows me to take a counterintuitive approach to my day job of reporting stories for radio. By turning the conventions of radio production around I am allowing myself the freedom to go outside the norm.
Instead of the usual introduction action and conclusion of the structured narrative arc, what the listener hears is the waiting, searching and seeking of the subject.
By listening we begin to hear what is revealed by the forest. The sound of searching only conceals what is there. I was tracking killer chimps, who are said by experts to be hunting another primate species, the Red Colobus, to near extinction in Kibale forest. I saw no killings on that day.
Biog: Tim Desmond is a radio producer and documentary maker with RTE Radio One.
Lilian Ingram
Lilian Ingram (b. 1985, Sligo) received her B.A. in Fine Art in 2008 from the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology. Awards include the Eilis Kilgallen Award for best emerging artist at the Boyle Arts Festival in 2007 and the Thomas Dammann Junior Memorial Trust Award administered by the Royal Hibernian Academy in 2008. In September 2011 she will commence a M.F.A. at the National College of Art and Design. She lives and works in Dublin.
Patrick Hough
Patrick Hough was born in 1989 in Galway and Studied at Fine Art Media
at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. He graduated with first
class honours and was awarded a Highly Commended for his thesis ‘When
Hollywood Becomes History’. His work has been exhibited both nationally
and internationally including group shows at the National Gallery of Kosovo
in Prishtina and Volume in New Cross, London. Last October he was
shortlisted for the Emergent photography prize in Lleida Spain and in March
was awarded funding for continuing projects in Morocco under the Thomas
Dammann Memorial Fund. In September he will begin an MA in Fine Art
Photography at the Royal College of Art, London.
Peter McMorris
Born in Tullamore Co.Offaly, McMorris graduated from the Crawford College of Art & Design in 2005. Currently based in cork city, he has exhibited nationally and internationally and has completed an number of public art commissions including Tihilly housing scheme Clontarf road, Tullamore. This piece is from a current body of work exploring our interaction with and the interconnectedness of the real and virtual worlds.
Michael Foy
Born 1986, Co. Galway, Ireland.
Michael graduated from Crawford College of Art and Design in 2010
with an Hons. Degree in Fine Art, where he specialized in performance
and video. Throughout his work he examines mis-information, futility
and absurdity. Through the utilization and incorporation of different
media he seeks to create a dialectic which informs, contradicts and
misinforms, toying with the familiar and mundane. Michael was a
recipient of the ArtTrail Graduate Award in 2010, and currently lives and
works in Japan.
David Upton
Cork based artist, David Upton, studied at the Crawford College of Art and
Design (2007-2011) graduating with a first class honours degree in Fine Art.
In this time he has also studied on an Erasmus scholarship at the Academy of
Fine Arts in Budapest, Hungary. This year David won a prestigious Thomas
Dammann Junior Memorial Trust Award, and will, in September, embark
a research trip to Russia, Turkey and Greece to study the use of time in
Orthodox religious icons and their links to contemporary video art. For his
recent degree show David was awarded the Cork Film Center Award for the
best use of the moving image, The Art Trail Graduate Award, The Crawford
College of Art and Designs Photography Internship Award and a C.I.T.
Purchase Prize.
Denise Kehoe
Denise Kehoe (born 1988, Co. Wexford) at present lives in Cork City.Denise
has been studying Fine Art for 5 years. Denise began her interest in art after
embarking on the Art,Craft and Design course in St. Johns Central College in
2006.She persued her studies in Fine Art at the Crawford College of Art and
Design. She has just finished her BA (Hons) degree in the Crawford College
of Art and design obtaining 1st Class honours in her studio practice. Denise
was awarded the the Art Trail Graduate award, a CIT purchase prize and the
CIT Presidents award for her degree show.
Richard Forrest
Born in south Korea and raised in Ireland Richard Forrest is a
bilingual Artist based in Cork city. Mr. Forrest has studied in Colaiste Steafoin
Noafa and Crawford College of Art and Design. Mr. Forrest divides his time
between his art in Cork and a weekend job in Glasgow.
Suzanne van der Lingen
BELMONT MILLS ARTISTS
Wendy Stephens
was born in Dublin in 1984, studied Textiles Design in
NCAD, and graduated in 2009. In 2010 Wendy spent five months in Bali
where she explored her life drawing practice. In March Wendy had her first
solo exhibition of drawings and acted as artist in residence in the gallery
drawing peoples’ portraits. Wendy was a recent Artist in Residence in
Belmont Mill Studios where she used portraiture as a tool to engage with
people in the community.
Linda Kelly
has been working as an artist in the heartlands of Offaly for over
10 years. Surrounded by natural bog lands and overlooked by the Slieve
Bloom mountains, Linda has no difficulty in drawing inspiration from her
beautiful surroundings.
Linda has been involved in many shows and exhibitions both locally and
nationally throughout the years and is one of the founding members of Offaly
Crafty as well as being a member of the Crafts Council of Ireland.
Linda returned to College in 2007 when she was accepted onto a 6 year
ACCS Degree course in Art and Design where she has just completed year
4 and looks forward to starting 5th year. Although Linda is well known for her
work with slate she is currently trying to create awareness around her fine art.
“I have always been fascinated about past generations and how a persons
legacy or memory can be lost so easily in a short space of time. Using old
Photographs as a starting point my work tries to communicate this sense of
a lost generation by concentrating on the persons gaze. I use many different
mediums from watercolours to acrylics, charcoal to pastels, whatever I feel is
required to get the painting to where I want it. This gives me a great sense of
freedom to experiment with different finishes and textures.”
John Cullen
is originally from London, but has been living in Ireland for 16
years. After working as a researcher for almost ten years, John studied Fine
Art at Sligo I T, graduating in 2009. John has just completed a two-month
residency in Belmont Mills Studios, and is currently based in the Model Art
Centre, Sligo.
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