Lace Inspired Exhibition, Kenmare, Co. Kerry

http://kenmarelacefestival.ie/

re:View - Textile Exhibition, Cork

re:View  at Town Hall Gallery, 
Macroom, Co. Cork

Friday 1st August to Saturday 23rd August 2014

A retrospective exhibition showing at the Town Hall Gallery Macroom will showcase the talent and diversity of fine art textile practitioners working throughout Ireland today.

The  exhibition, free to the public, will be on show  from Friday 1st August to Saturday 23rd August 2014.  The exhibition is open  from 10.30am to 5.30pm, Tuesday to Saturday. 

For more work by the Cork Textiles Network please view www.corktextiles.com

Stitching the Feminine

 

This collaborative work, was created with a community of individuals with an interest in stitch. It explores ideas of the feminine and the value of work created in the home.  Each participant will host a week long exhibition in their homes for their work, opening up the art object to a very specific audience and personal community, with each participant hosting a launch event for their individual work.  

Due to the exhibitions and launches taking place in private homes, these events are strictly on invitation from the hosts or can be arranged by contacting niamhlwhite@gmail.com 

As a member of the group, I will host a launch event for my work on Saturday June 30th which is open to the public and all are welcome from 2-9pm
Please see www.niamhwhite.com for further information. 

My Address:
'Homewood", Church Lane, Monart, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford.
http://maps.google.ie/maps?q=church+lane,+enniscorthy&hl=en&ll=52.530058,-6.618997&spn=0.000919,0.002411&sll=53.401034,-8.307638&sspn=7.379262,19.753418&t=h&hnear=Church+Ln,+Pullinstown+Big,+County+Wexford&z=19

This work was produced with support from the Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme administered by Create.

"Needle and Thread", an exhibition by Jane Enticknap, Dublin

 

 “Needle and Thread”

At The Helix, DCU, Dublin 

30th June – 26 July 2012

“Needle and Thread” is a solo exhibition by Jane Enticknap, a textile artist originally from Waterford. Jane is a full time secondary school art teacher teaching at St. Marks Community school, Tallaght. During her H.Dip year, 1986 she became very interested in Textiles. In 1998 she started a part time City and Guilds course part 1 and part 2 in Creative Embroidery, it took six years to complete. In 2004 the group who completed the course held an exhibition of their work and since then have exhibited biannually under the name of 04’ textile group.

This exhibition is a collection of her textile work form the very first piece she made, through to her more current work ‘Granny’s Apron’.

http://thehelix.ie/visualarts/future-exhibitions/jane-enticknap-textile-art/

http://www.jane-enticknap.com/

The Helix,

DCU,

Collins Avenue,

Glasnevin,

Dublin 9,

Ireland

T: +353 1 700 7000  

E: info@thehelix.ie

W: www.thehelix.ie

Louis Le Brocquy

 

Adam and Eve in the Garden, 1951-52
Aubusson tapestry, 140 x 275 cm
Atelier Tabard Frères et Soeurs, edition 9

Louis le Brocquy 

10 November 1916 – 25 April 2012

Today, one of Irelands greatest painters, printers, and tapestry designers passed away.

"It is remarkable that the considerable reputation acquired by Louis le Brocquy as a designer of tapestries was early on in his career based on seven small works ... yet it is held that no artist from these islands has shown a deeper understanding of this medium than Louis le Brocquy" Dawson Gallery, Dublin, 1966

"Le Brocquy's designs are among the best of their kind I have seen, not excepting those of Lurçat
Edward Sheehy, 'Paintings and Tapestries by Louis le Brocquy". The Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin Magazine (March 1952)

Garlanded Goat, 1950

Tapestry

"His decorative tapestry of a goat is the best I have seen produced by an English artist".
John Berger, The New Statesman (London, February 12, 1955)

Few artists anywhere have had as much experience in tapestry design. Along with his well-known predecessor Jean Lurçat, the artist has proved to be a master of the medium and a landmark figure in the revitalisation of this art form. His experience began in 1948, when Edinburgh Tapestry Weavers invited a number of painters working in London to design a first tapestry. His association with the medium further developed in the Fifties, upon his collaboration with the great 17th century firm Tabard Frères & Soeurs in Aubusson France. Today the artist's tapestries are woven in the same historic region by the Atelier René Duché, Meilleur Ouvrier de France. The tapestry designs include Travellers 1948, Garlanded Goat (1949-50), Allegory (1950), the Eden series (1951-52), the Inverted series (1948-99), the Tain series (1969-00), the Cúchulainn series (1973-1999), the Garden series (2000). Large-scale tapestry commissions include Brendan the Navigator (1963-64, UCD, Michael Smurfit School of Business, Dublin), The Hosting of the Táin (1969; Irish Museum of Modern Art), the Massing of the Armies (RTÉ, Dublin) and the monumental Triumph of Cúchulainn (National Gallery of Ireland, Millennium Wing).

taken from www.lebrocquy.com

 ''Through painting, tapestry and print Louis le Brocquy has provided us with individual works and collections that give the insight and response of an artist of genius to Irish history, culture and society".

An Táin

http://www.imma.ie 

 

Quotes from Louis le Brocquy

"To see is to transform. Art is a transformer".

"Contrary to a generally held view, I think that painting is not in any direct sense a means of communication or a means of self-expression. When you are painting you are trying to discover, to uncover, to reveal. I sometimes think of the activity of painting as a kind of archaeology - an archaeology of the spirit".

"Art is neither an instrument nor a convenience, but a secret logic of the imagination. It is another way of seeing, the whole sense and value of which lies in its autonomy, its distance from actuality, its otherness".

"I do not, myself, believe in artistic creation. In art as in science, I believe in discovery".