Opening Reception Friday 8 May at 7pm • the Vespertine Quintet will premier a new work by Justin Grounds at 7:30 pm

Tess Leak is a Baltimore-based artist who has just completed an Artist Residency at Uillinn: West Cork Art Centre.  Tess’s solo exhibition I shall make for my own castle is a culmination of work developed during her residency comprising large scale ‘emergency drawings’, sound collaborations and a collection of ’42 unfinished books that would be brilliant’.

Tess has also commissioned composer Justin Grounds to create a piece of music for strings, bassoon and the phono-fiddle that she recently inherited from her grand uncle, music hall performer Frank Clifton. The Vespertine Quintet, of which Tess is a member, will premier the work, also titled I shall make for my own castle, at the opening of this show on Friday 8^th May.

Tess graduated from the B.A. in Visual Art (Dublin Institute of Technology), Sherkin Island in 2009 and is currently working with Marie Brett on ‘Museum of Miniature: The Islands’, a touring art-work which involves the communities of the seven West Cork Islands along with other international off-shore Islands and is supported by Cork County Council and West Cork Arts Centre.