2014-2016 Gallery

FINAL WORKS 2016 FROM THE FINE ART TEXTILES (NOW ART TEXTILE) CLASS!

MARTINA CARROLL

ANN COLLINS

FIONA COTTER

FIONA COTTER

ANN KEARNS

MAEMIE LANE

MEGAN MCCARTHY

SIOBHAN NEWPORT

MARY O’BRIEN

GRADUATES OF 2016! DETAILS OF FINAL ASSESSMENT WORKS! GRADUATE EXHIBITION 10 JUNE IN SULLIVAN’S QUAY (FORMER FAS BUILDING) CORK CITY!

MAEMIE LANE—SILK PAINTING WITH FIBRES/INKS/STITCH

MAEMIE LANE

ANN KEARNS–MACHINE STITCHED DRAWING ON SILK ORGANZA, QUILTED WITH WOOL FIBRE, WASHED

ANN KEARNS–SILK FRAGMENTS, MACHINE QUILTING, WASHING, DIGITAL IMAGERY

FIONA COTTER—SPUN SILK; PAPER; DYES; PIGMENTS

FIONA COTTER

FIONA COTTER —CLAMP RESIST DYEING/STITCH

MEGAN MCCARTHY—PRINT/STITCH/APPLIQUE/CONSTRUCTION

MARY O’BRIEN—MACHINE STITCH/HAND STITCH ON SYNTHETICS

MARY O’BRIEN

SIOBHAN NEWPORT—APPLIQUE/STITCH OF SYNTHETICS; PLEATING AND FORMING

ANN COLLINS—FOUND FABRICS/COLLAGE/STITCH

ANN COLLINS

IRISHNESS FINAL PROJECT WORKS MAY 2015!

MARTINA CARROLL tracked the decline of skill and subtlety in the patterning of Irish dancing costumes.

ANN COLLINS celebrated the land with an earthy and powerful use of felt and stitch.

FIONA COTTER used an imagery of bullet holes as breakthroughs of hope. Martyrs of the Rising individualise each section.

ANN KEARNS hand-knitted a floor work as an environment of domesticity and nature.

MARY LANE’s painterly evocation inspired by Yeats imagery of landscape and emotion.

FRIEDA MCCARTHY traced a family history through centuries of decline and diaspora.

LINDSAY MITCHELL’s small fragile boats explored themes of migration enhanced by shadows as memory.

SIOBHAN NEWPORT looked at perception using the format of a camera lens to ‘frame’ an iconic Lady Lavery.

MARY OBRIEN explored language, connecting illuminated manuscripts with contemporary web formatting and icons.

SARAH TREFFKORN explored protest across the centenary using shamrocks as a symbol of struggle.

IRISHNESS 2015

Crawford College of Art and Design Foyer March 2015—as part of the MAKE 2015 weekend events

100 years after the Celtic Revival, on the cusp of our centenary of independence, what does Irishness look like now?
Students were asked to choose iconic Irish objects for a collaborative table project. Each object sits on a placemat, adapted as
an appropriate ground for the object, to give it context and detail.

MARTINA CARROLL– Her mother’s traditional embroidery . from an Irish dancing costume. . . inspired an examination of a decline of both skill and traditional image, reflected in the placemat’s cheap lineage; its factory labels. . . .that she hand-embroidered as contrast

FIONA COTTER–Her father’s hand-written Gaelic letter becomes part of an ongoing flow. . . a line of language from an historical sweep of manuscript forms up into a scroll of documents. . . .speaking of community

ANN KEARNS—Her childhood hand-knitted cap, made with love by her mother— contrasts with the mass-produced tack of cheap tourist headgear!

MARY LANE– a sprig of heather recalls the imagery of Yeats, on a field of embellished colour and texture of nature.

MEG MCCARTHY—a coaster bearing the McCarthy coat of arms led to an historical exploration of the McCarthy story, including the famous burning of the castle stronghold

LINDSAY MITCHELL –a turf briquette is embedded into the depths of the placemat in layers of felting. . .rimmed with tourist images of a traditional Ireland. . .a ghostly briquette hovers over. . .

SIOBHAN NEWPORT—a gilt-framed painting of a stately home is seen through a screen of organic plant forms. . .and the ghostly pairing of Britannia and Cathleen ni Houlihan in digital print

MARY O’BRIEN—a vintage family Irish dictionary becomes an exploration of meaning and communication. . .contrasting the well-thumbed volume with the age of the smartphone. . .digitally printed, on a ground of maps

SARAH TREFFKORN—Her object: a broken figure of Mary she reconstructed as a sad portrait of a land undermined by money and bad politics. . .yet she holds a votive rosary

Not all of the class was able to participate but here is the brave group who enjoyed the fine weather! L-R: Lindsay Mitchell; Siobhan Newport; Martina Carroll; Fiona Cotter; Mary Lane; Ann Collins; Ann Kearns; Sarah Treffkorn; Pamela Hardesty

GUERRILLA TEXTILES PROJECT 2014 –Our new Fine Art Textiles (NOW ART TEXTILE) class ventured out into Cork city to add some textiles softness and colour into the streetscape. . . They had one day to walk the route for inspiration, then a few hours to make and install before we all walked the route again to see what had been created! This look at urban scale is part of our ‘World’ project series currently focusing on the space created by and within an artwork.

Fiona Cotter created a colourful textile language of soft fabric units to insert into the stone and metal of walls and posts all along the rout

Fiona Cotter

Sarah Treffkorn crocheted a magnificent hand impaled on a long railing. . . .strong sculptural presence. . .

Lindsay Mitchell’s fragmented poem was hard to capture in a photo. . .it followed river railings and offered passersby a series of text in fabric collage. . .