GRADUATE EXHIBITION 46 GRAND PARADE CORK IN OUR MTU CRAWFORD GALLERY! OPENING 30 MAY UNTIL 3 JUNE!
YEAR 2 PROJECT MEND WITH KAUNAS FACULTY OF Vilnius Academy OF ARTS LITHUANIA! AND JOINING FULLTIME STUDENTS OF OUR CONTEMPORARY APPLIED ART DEGREE.
WE EXCHANGED FRAGMENTS IN THE AUTUMN FOR MENDING CREATIVELY WITH KAUNAS.
FRAGMENTS MENDED IN THE GALLERY FROM CORK AND KAUNAS AS PART OF THE EXHIBITION:
MEND ARTWORKS WERE ALSO EXHIBITED FROM ART TEXTILE, BA CONTEMPORARY APPLIED ART, AND SENT TO US FROM KAUNAS. HERE ARE THE ART TEXTILE CLASS SUBMISSIONS. SEVERAL ‘BODY’ PROJECT WORKS OF YEAR 1 WERE DEEMED VERY APPROPRIATE FOR MEND!:
SEMESTER 2.
In Semester two a garment form was explored that related in some way to the part of body so intensively researched in Semester one. This Garment research was further submitted to UCC, where the Theatre and Performative Practice students worked beyond MAKE 2021 to develop performance works based on these garment ideas. Here are the amazing GARMENT projects of Year 1 Semester 2 ART TEXTILE:
DEE CAFFERKEY. Uterus research led to this work called REMNANTS. It is a shell cast of cotton, steel wool (rusted), sheet steel (rusted and taken from a feeder on the farm), silk fibre. It contains a bandage carrying many silk knots marking the days of a pregnancy, lost.
ZELDA CUNNINGHAM. Heart research led her to ideas of containers, neck pieces, and structures in basketry. Here a felted heart is in dialogue with a pod form in willow. Zelda also created a tactile book of blood flow.
RAMONA FARRELLY. Fingerprint research explored identity, and in this semester moved into the digital identity we are forming constantly. This mask form caught in a matrix is called INTER/FACE, and uses beading to indicate 30,000 facial recognition dots, still forming.
MARY GOGGIN. Gut bacteria was her research focus in Semester 1, and a lab coat opens a window into the reality of our inner bacteria world. Pill packets cascade down the throat,. our exterior efforts to inhibit and control the inner world.
DEE HURLEY Creative Energy Conductor is a work designed for the head, like a radio antennae as a transmitter of energy. Dee explored our cranial fissure as a site of inner/outer transmission, and this work in silk, steel wool, and wood.references the past and the future.
RUTA IVANAUSKAITE looked at hands in Semester 1, and at hand rituals in Semester 2, particularly marriage and a family story. Here card and inkle-woven bands of Lithuanian tradition represent grandparents who became separated and never rejoined.
JUDY LAWLOR. Her vertebrae research led to a study of cloaks, and then to folklore around brambles, and ultimately this arched portal of eco-printed blackberry leaf pattern, and thorn-edged muslin, meant to be entered as a healing and protective space.
VERONICA SANTORUM. Brain neurons and their communication led to this focus on footprints as identity markers. Here her metallic-stitched and printed (with local clay and natural dyes) footprints flow over a wall in the street—called DIVERSITY
BODY PROJECT WITH UCC THEATRE AND PERFORMATIVE PRACTICE STUDENTS
Our initial Semester research sketchbooks explored chosen body parts. These sketchbooks were videoed and photographed, and each student taped a video explanation of research, for University College Cork responses in performance. Under Pamela Hardesty (CCAD) and Dr. Yvon Bonenfant (UCC) the project moved into GARMENT in Semester two. UCC and CCAD shared a TEAMS channel online for data and dialogue, and met in online conversations. The first outcome was for MAKE 2021 (OBJECTS/PERFORMANCE). Students in Vilnius Academy of Art in both Vilnius and Kaunas also participated through video works.
The Collages filled the upper semicircular windows. Underneath we featured BODY artworks from advanced CCAD students Lorraine Parker (Year 4) and graduate Jeni Ng (Graduate Resident in Textiles). We were also excited to feature Egle Bogdaniene and Monika Zalte of Lithuania, MAKE 2021 speakers and lecturers who shared the BODY focus with us!
ART TEXTILE CRAWFORD 