Meshworking: MA Art and Environment Graduate Exhibition

Monday 25 November – Saturday 21 December 2024
Meshworking: MA Art and Environment Graduate Exhibition | Monday 25 November – Saturday 21 December 2024 | Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre | Image: probably a photo of the storage tanks on Whiddy Island for our “strategic oil reserves”; brambly hedgerow in the foreground, two of these tanks behind, grey sky above (fifty people died on Whiddy when a cargo of oil exploded, in 1979)

Meshworking presents the work of seven emerging artists from various regions on the island of Ireland and the world, participating in the TU Dublin School of Art and Design Master’s programme in Art and Environment (2023 – 2024). Highlighting the relational dynamic between research processes and conceptual fabrication, organic and inorganic materials, Meshworking draws out the knotted systems that underlie our everyday lifelines through a diverse range of media. From sculpture to sound, virtual reality and installation, the exhibition at Uillinn showcases the work of the following TU Dublin graduates – Dianne Curtin, D. Martins, Terry Farnell, Hina Khan, Niamh Seana Meehan, Niamh Ní Chearbhaill and Fiona Hayes.

The MA Art and Environment (MAAE) uniquely combines post-studio art practice, interdisciplinary research, virtual teaching, island studies and community engagement. Taking contemporary art’s relationship with environments – ecological, spatial, political, economic – as its object of study, the MAAE instructs students in artistic practice shaped by ‘archipelagic thinking’ (a post-colonial spatial discourse that emphasises relationality, locality, and decolonisation) and by a pedagogy that is ‘world-centred’.

Located in the West Cork Archipelago and Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, the MAAE is supported by a team of artists, lecturers, and researchers based in the Dublin School of Art and Design (TU Dublin) and by an interdisciplinary, island-based and international, network of peers and colleagues. The focus is on environmental art practice and community art-related knowledge, and the participants led by Course Coordinator Dr. Glenn Loughran, are actively involved in contemporary culture as organisers, makers and commentators.

For more information see www.westcorkartscentre.com and www.art-environment.com

Monday 25 November – Saturday 21 December 2024
Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre
Skibbereen, Co Cork
Telephone: +353 28 22090
info@westcorkartscentre.com
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Monday to Saturday, 10am to 4:30pm
Admission / price: Free

 
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